Analysis Of The Book ' Uncompromisingly Hard Line ' By Tim Weiner

During the World War II era, allegiances fluctuated depending on needs and circumstances. Although countries such as England, the United States, and Canada consistently fought with the Allies, the USSR initially signed a treaty with Germany. Only once Hitler moved against the USSR did it join the Allies. This kind of change in allegiance is similar to one that occurred in Orwell’s 1984. Initially citizens of Oceania were told that the enemy was Eastasia. In fact, Jones, Aaron, and Rutherford were accused of spying for Eastasia. Later in the novel, Oceania and Eastasia joined forces against Eurasia. Oceania even rewrote all of the newspapers, periodicals, textbooks, novels, and magazines so that history would show Eurasia as the enemy and Eastasia the ally. 1984 relates well to the Soviet Union’s position in World War II because of the continuous change of sides.

When you see the homeless what do you think about? Do you see them and feel disgust or are you someone who wonders how and why they are where they are, or maybe, you are one of the few who want to help and who are able to. In the U.S., more than 3.5 million people experience homelessness each year and that number is growing. They are families with little children, people who are trying to escape domestic violence, people with mental illness, veterans who have served our country, and many more. From what I read in Jonathan Kozol’s “Untouchables” city officials in various places are only coming up with short term solutions, that aren’t helping the homeless. City officials are just trying to get rid of the homeless from their cities or area. I think it’s time that more individuals and groups, really gets involved and figure out a way to help those who are already homeless, and stop future people from becoming homeless. We have to come up with ways to help the homeless readjust and get back into the world.

Published in 2008, The Forever War by Dexter Filkins compiles a series of vignettes that detail his encounters as a reporter in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Released a year after, director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker also examines a harrowing account of the conflicts in Iraq. Both works poignantly present the unbridled violence that plague the region, and the futility of a war embedded within a vicious cycle of retaliation. Nevertheless, the portrayal of vengeance as a major motivating force of the war, as well as the war’s isolating and demoralizing effect on its witnesses, are better achieved in The Forever War. Contrary to the sole perspective of an American Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team in The Hurt Locker, Filkins includes multiple angles to explore each of the elements portrayed, and ultimately offers a more profound, subtle, and enduring explication than the film.

Document-Based Question Early Cold War Conservative historians state that the United States of America used American containment to avert further expansion of communist power from the U.S.S.R, and in doing so, prevented a global communist revolution. The Cold War was a period of tension and hostility that developed between the U.S and Soviet Union post-World War II. The Cold War rooted from an ideological conflict between America’s capitalist government and the Soviet Union’s communist administration. Communism is a totalitarian system of governing in which a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic aspects of society, leading to absolute and total control held by just a few people in the central government. America

From after World War II, to the Cold War, to the creation of the atomic bomb, America’s fear grew stronger. Espionage played an important role in the paranoia of the country. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy in committing espionage because of the unwarranted paranoia of a nuclear attack by the Russians and the unjustified fear of the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

The book Leading From the Second Chair discusses what it is like to lead from the second chair. This was a semi-new concept for me. I have always heard of leadership and know that it is something special, however, I never thought of leading from the second chair. This phrase means being a leader but not the person in charge. This is something that is foreign to me. I have always though that a leader is in charge of their section and other leaders are in charge of their section and eventually they come together to put it all together. However, though going through the experience of my internship and going through this book and leadership class I have learned that this is not the case. When you lead from the second chair you are

Hispanics, mostly Mexicans, are not being treated equally because of their different culture and lifestyle and people need to treat them fairly and enforce laws against discrimination. In the book, Crossing the Wire, Hobbs displays what a Mexican has to go through when they are crossing the border to the United States for a good cause. Hispanics have been discriminated ever since the Mexicans gained independence in 1821 from Spain. In recent years African Americans have been receiving the most attention in America because of so much racial discrimination, but they are not the only big race being discriminated. Mexicans are getting just as much hate. This problem is going to continue because the Mexican population in the United States is rapidly growing. Humans need to figure out a solution to stop this hatred, so all races can unite with each other. If we unite we can try to agree with each other on things and make the earth a better place to live.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov was born on the 15th of February 1907. His files expose that he was a member of the Soviet Union’s secret services. Sources also indicate that his “intelligence role in Australia included decoding intelligence instructions from Moscow, creating an illegal network of Australian spies, organising surveillance of Soviet citizens and undermining anti-Soviet activities by infiltrating Russian emigrant and Soviet refugee groups1”

Alternatively, the Petrov Affair can be used as a stepping stone to explore ASIO’s covert role and dubious motives during the Cold War period, and their obsessive hunting down of suspected communists. David Horner former military officer turned historian through his work was desirous in rectifying the convoluted and distorted image of ASIO’s that had existed in people’s minds. The Petrov Affair was exploited by ASIO as being a triumph and a justification for their existence, proving to its Western intelligence services allies that it can maintain and defend national security. After the Petrov affair, Menzies on the bequest of Charles Spry, head of ASIO, passed a bill securing ASIO’s existence, subsequently granting it statutory authority, and thus giving it broader powers in the

The game was at a tie, both teams were at 21 points. Luke, the quarterback, was being watched by scouts who were looking for the best players to play for them. It was the final quarter, Lukes team had the ball, and there was 30 seconds left on the game clock. The play started, Luke passes it to Joe, their best player for getting touchdowns. When Joe got the ball, he was off, no matter what the defence tried, their was no way they were going to catch him. Joe had scored the game winning touchdown, the crowd goes wild with excitement. After the game, all of Luke’s friends Joe, Bob, and Bruce, decided to go out to celebrate the game victory. Outside of the stadium, a scout came up to them, and talks to them about

They were under the cover of being representatives, but both were Soviet spies: Vladimir and his wife, Evdokia. Vladimir Petrov was a soviet spy in Australia, trying to gain Australian political intelligence. His role was to spy on Soviet citizens and to penetrate and undermine anti-Soviet communities in Australia. On the 3rd of April, 1954 Vladimir Petrov defected to Australia after realising he was in danger. He informed the ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation), with information about the communist spy rings in Australia, their identities and information about the Soviet Union.

He starts the book off talking about the three primary missions of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): collecting secrets clandestinely, conducting all-source analysis for the president and his senior advisors, and undertaking actions covertly to further US foreign policy objectives. With this being the agency’s mission statement so to speak, I was very surprised to read how it was a competition within the agency although the entire agency is suppose to be working toward one common cause, one common goal. Alec Station, arguably one of the most important CIA operational units at the time was led by an officer who was not a trained operations officer. I agreed with Morell when he basically said that he found that to be strange. Why wouldn’t the CIA have put an experienced trained operations office as lead on this particular operational unit? After all, it was created to follow Bin Ladin. Another question that I had was, again, here we have an operational unit whose sole job is to follow Bin Ladin but the agency does not give the support that is needed by Alec Station to conduct its job properly.

In 1994, Hanssen expressed interest in a transfer to the new National Counterintelligence Center. Three years later, convicted FBI mole Earl Edwin Pitts told the Bureau that he suspected Hanssen due to the Mislock incident. Pitts was the second FBI agent to mention Hanssen by name as a possible mole, but the FBI simply wrote this off as a reference to the Mislock incident.

The term “Covert Action” brings with it a connotation of shadowy figures wrapped in secrecy and intrigue. It also brings with it a substantial amount of moral questions as to “what is right.” The use of covert action has been widely publicized since the early seventies, but trying to find out the truth to these events has been difficult to say the least. What is even more difficult, is historically recording these events into categories of successes or failures. These operations are difficult to dissect because of their secrecy and although events have been recorded, some facts simply aren’t apparent. This paper will seek to identify the complex issues associated with covert operations.

When first approaching Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Plot for Global Revolution, readers may be drawn in by the wordy, descriptive title. The connotative meanings to words like “plot”, “thwarted”, and “Russian Roulette” give the reader a grim set of expectations before even opening the book. Giles Milton does not disappoint; in the prologue, describing Lenin’s return from exile, there is a definite sense of foreboding. Through the eyes of three Englishmen, Milton foreshadows Lenin’s rise to power, and the global repercussions of his political agenda. To quote William Gibson, one of the trio at the train station, “There was something sinister, terrifying, in the air, and yet one felt drawn towards [Lenin]”(4). This suspenseful