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    Was the Civil War a Just War? The Vindication of Clement Vallandigham Clement Vallandigham believed the American Civil War was unjust and as a result he was “tried by court-martial‚ convicted‚ and sentenced to a term in a military prison during the continuance of the war” (234). Vallandigham’s loyalty was not to President Lincoln but to the principles that this country was supposed to stand for. The Declaration of Independence says the government is established by the people in order to protect

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    Is War Inevitable? How Does War Become Integral to Society? We have known violence since the story of Cain killing Habile‚ however war came later. Is war in the nature of human beings or did it come along with evolution? Many of the ancient cultures that still live till now know no violence and no concept of warfare. War became crucial in our lives because of our ancestors and the state of development they knew. The stories and the myth of our elders influenced our vision of war. Idan Barir

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    The Tensions behind the Civil War During 1783-1859‚ before the Civil War‚ the North and South were slowly drifting apart between their cultural‚ economic‚ political‚ and religious tensions which eventually lead to the American Civil War‚ but it was ultimately due to the single issue of slavery. Proof of these tensions can be found in many primary sources including: “Slavery a Positive Good” by John C. Calhoun‚ “The Church and Slavery” by Albert Barnes‚ “A Debate on Slavery” by Nathan Lewis Rice‚

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    THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR - the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) was perhaps the first national war in Europe - after Norman conquest England was a rising power‚ strong monarchy‚ no involvement in conflicts‚ - English knights began rob their continental neighbours; simply because they were more powerful - the fact that Edward III and Henry V had genealogical claims to the French throne was but an explanation for robbing - the war was not a result of dynastic ambitions but a national matter‚

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    The Persian Wars were wars that were fought by Greek States and Persia over almost half a century. The Persian Wars started from two conflicts that occurred between 490 and 479 B.C.E and set against the Persian Empire against the Greek city-states. The conflict began after Athens and Eretria helped the Ionians in their revolution against Persia. The first Persian War was the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. The Persians sailed down the coast of Greece and landed at the bay of Marathon‚ about

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    officer whom bears bad news about their sons. During the reconstruction‚ the sex ratio is off balance and many women do not have a full grasp on why they are lonely. In “War is Kind” by the famous poet Stephen Crane; he adopts sarcastic diction and syntax to display war as a destructive force. The author uses ironic diction to present war as a calamitous machine that of which yields to no one. The first words that arise from the work to the reader is “Do not weep” (Crane 1st stanza)‚ yet it does not comfort

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    1930’s through the 1970’s. The Football War‚ or the 100 Hours War‚ was a short four-day war between the Central American countries of El Salvador and Honduras. Though the war itself only lasted four days‚ the build up to the war was ongoing for many years. The Football War got its name from the fact that the war was eventually started because of a series of football games between the two countries. Though there were many factors that played into the war‚ the FIFA World Cup qualifiers were important

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    IMPACT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ON WARFARE - GULF WAR 1991 Appendices:- A Army Deployment Comparison. B Armament Used In Gulf War. C Satellites Used In Op"Desert Storm". D Anti - Tank Weapons Used In Op "Desert Sabre". INTRODUCTION 1. "On the battlefield of the future enemy forces will be located‚ tracked and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data-links‚ computer-assisted intelligence evaluation and automated fire control. With first-round

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    ENG102 The Great War The time was 1914. Europe was a thermometer with skyrocketing temperatures of tension. As countries began declaring war on each other in Europe‚ troops began to mobilize for what they thought would be a traditionally fought war: the British cavalry leading the Entente to a decisive victory. How were the European powers to know that this massive war would be fought entirely in the ground with surprise attacks and innovative technology that changed the meaning of “war” forever? World

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    consider to be the most controversial war in American history. Compared to St. Augustine’s Just War Theory‚ Americans have the right to question the purpose and intention of the Vietnam War. Jus ad bellum discusses the conditions under which a country is required to state before they are allowed the right to warfare. According to St. Augustine‚ a war must be declared by the political authority of a certain political system. The United States never declared war on the North Vietnamese or the Chinese

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