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Over the last 14 years, the United States has undergone the longest era of war in its history, yet that era of conflict has had little to no personal impact on the lives of average Americans (Zucchino). For countless cultures and millennia, military forces have served as something of a microcosm of society, with the gulf between military and civilian cultures sometimes seeming completely unnavigable. In recent years, however, the void between American military life and civilian America has been expanding

soldiers. Everyday kids younger the age of 10 are putting their lives on the line mostly by force. ¨Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.¨(Children In Conflict). A child soldier is a child with armed forces; they’re trained to fight, cook, be porters, messengers, informant spies, etc. Countries

quickly events were moving and how much control did he really have over them. He had his concerns about the military and if they really needed civilian leadership at this time or was he in the way? Or was he being paranoid? He had a sizeable military force heading his way from Pennsylvania which might be able to topple the current government. His own military was sizing up the situation, he really became aware of a change in the situation he saw several tanks moving down Pennsylvania Blvd towards the

War has been one of the major features of the twentieth century. An extensive percentage of people have been participants or victims of the interstate or civil wars. Nowadays wars still exist and large populations suffer from it. The book Why Nations Fight by Richard Ned Lebow analyzes war in the past and the motives for war in the future. This book is extremely interesting to me, because of the current civil war in Ukraine that has been going on for almost 2 years. Lebow uses different scholarly

THESIS: Gender inequality towards women in the service then and now Women have served in the armed forces from as early as the American Revolution to present. They have served selflessly with dedication towards their country in times of conflict. About two hundred years ago it wasn’t easy for a women to be in the service, they would disguise themselves as men. It was believed that women did not have the capability and were not strong enough to handle the situations that would arise in the daily

Comparative Book review John Lynn, Battle: A History of Combat and Culture (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2003) Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage, and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power (New York: Doubleday, 2001) Victor Davis Hanson is a former classics professor, an American military historian, a scholar of ancient warfare and a columnist. He graduated from Selma High School, he also received a BA from the University of California in 1975 and later got his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford

Resources, accurate innovation, political support, and privatized development are four crucial factors for enhancing military capability during peacetime innovation. Therefore, countries that effectively manage internal resources, and are funded through political support will often be at the forefront of military development. Moreover, accurate innovation is essential in ensuring that innovated technology aligns with the required capabilities to defend the nation. Therefore, countries with political

exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and could exploit oil and gas located in South China Sea basin. Beside that, the growing tension because of Taiwan’s independence in 1990 had significantly altered China focus to the South and modernization its military force. Geopolitical nature of the potential maritime conflict in the south had forced China to modernize its naval power (Storey 2008: 115). This could be considered as changing posture of China’s military capability from cumbersome continental power towards

Women have done incredible things within the history of the world. They have proven time and time again that they are equal in just about every way with the opposite gender. However now the question of whether they can or even should fight beside men in combat has come up. Many people think that because almost the whole world has recognized that each individual has all the same basic rights, regardless of their gender or race, that everyone can do the same job equally. This is simply not true and

Instruments of national power encompass all of the means available to a government in its pursuit of national objectives. It is expressed as diplomatic, economic, informational and military aspects. Of the four instruments of national power, the military instrument has had the most impact on the cycle of Western interaction with the rest of the world. Military strength generally determines the ability of one nation to impose its will upon another nation. Many military advancements allowed the West