War can often occur with diminutive warning and result in vast destruction and excessive mortality. There are a variety causes for wars such as greed‚ power‚ and to improve the standard of living. Another cause of war is to protect the boundary of the country. In some countries such as Korea and Vietnam these boundaries define the different political views of the territories. Korea and Vietnam were divided between the Communist North and the Democratic South. This division of the countries led
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How effective were the Vietcong tactics of underground tunnels and booby traps in the Vietnam War? The Vietnam War was a war that started during the late 1950s and ended during the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended in the Vietcong victory over America. I believe that this was due to the underground ‘labyrinth’ of tunnels and the vast usage of guerrilla warfare used by the Vietcong. Their usage of the tunnels and booby traps were in my opinion ingenious. The variety of the booby traps that were
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Containment was a policy used by the Americans used stop the spread of Communism and communist expansion through military‚ political and economic means. Specifically in the Cold War era‚ the U.S. implemented this policy through the Truman Doctrine and the founding of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Another factor of the containment policy was the Soviet Union’s rejection of the Marhsall plan. Containment started in 1949 with the Truman Doctrine. The development of the Truman Doctrine
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other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective”. This is saying‚ that war is last resort‚ all safety precautions and tactics have been used and all ways to stop or prevent to war have been used‚ but have failed. The third is‚”there must be serious prospects of success”. This is saying that‚ you must have a legitimate chance to‚ win the war‚ defend yourself and people‚ stop the aggressor‚ and succeed in getting rid of the aggressor. The final one is‚”the
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At the time of my writing‚ the NATO war in Afghanistan has just become the longest war in U.S. history‚ a status it seems likely to retain for some time. It has been‚ and remains‚ a very strange war‚ all the stranger now that General Stanley McChrystal has been fired as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan following the lamest Douglas MacArthur impression on record. He has been replaced by General David Petraeus‚ the father and executor of the doctrine that lay behind the eventual U.S. military
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War Propaganda Used in American Wars War propaganda as a mass communication tool has been used to influence others since ancient times. Since the written word has been in existence‚ it has been in our human nature to try to influence others and try to gear them into thinking the same way that another person does. America is a relatively young nation‚ however the use of war propaganda has been used to sway opinions in every war we have been involved in. The use of propaganda for recruiting military
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keep growing‚ so does the threat of an extinction level event . The global impact that a nuclear war would bring comes with many consequences. T Nuclear bombs must be banned and stockpiles removed to ensure that the human population does not annihilate both itself and its mother- Earth. United States of America dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima civilian populations to hasten the end of World War two. On August 6th‚ an Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan. When the uranium gun type atomic
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The French and Indian War was fought in North America from 1754 to 1763 as a part of the global conflict known as the Seven Years War‚ which involved many Great Powers of the 18th Century. The War was fought principally between the British‚ supported by the American colonists‚ and the French‚ supported by the Indians‚ over control of territories in North America. By the mid-1700’s‚ both the French and the British established extensive colonies in North America to take advantage of the land’s rich
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There are numerous long term and short term events that caused the Civil War to occur. From the long term impacts of slavery and the Missouri Compromise to the short term effects of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Bleeding Kansas‚ the Civil War was caused mainly by one significant step. Although Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred Scott had an impact on the civil war‚ it was not as significant as the election of 1860. The election was the most important event because it lead to the secession of South Carolina and also
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truths‚ their differences are equally worthy of study because‚ it is in the differences where choices are made. Sun Tzu and Clausewitz agreed that war is chaos‚ military action is a tool for diplomatic goals and‚ as such‚ the results of warfare are not final. Their differences lie in how they advocate for waging war. The style and preparations for war contrast. This is where
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