Military, International Conflicts & Security Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (392) essays
Military & International Conflicts & Security essays:
Government's missile defense.
... of the cold war was the arms race. Mutually assured destruction was the philosophy that both nations had the power to destroy each other completely in the event of an attack. The invention and perfection of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was the beginning of this philosophy ...
This paper was written about the US Army Special Forces Branch. It was written for a military science class. A-.
... Special Forces units. On 21 September 1961 the 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces, which would eventually be charged with the conduct of all Special Forces operations in Vietnam, was activated at Fort Bragg. It was at this point, in the fall of 1961, that President Kennedy began to ...
Gun control.
... to defend themselves from an intruder, when actually the gun is 22 times more likely to be used to kill somebody you know than to kill in self defense, according to a 1998 study by the New England Journal of Medicine. Some statistics you may be surprised to know are; 43% of ...
Sovereignty: Does it Exist?
... and to promote the values of its members (Damrosch, et al)." This was evident during the cold war. If a state is truly independent and militarily and economically supreme to all other states then the consequences that it faces are minuscule. The United States pulled out of the ...
Water Conflict in the Jordan River Basin
... the riparian states. In 1953 United States special envoy to the Middle East , Ambassador Eric Johnston, proposed an allocation scheme based on the previous proposals. Johnston's Jordan Valley Plan is the product of his negotiating with representatives of Israel, Lebanon, Syria and ...
The Threat of Nuclear Smuggling
... to a report from Istanbul, six kilograms of enriched uranium entered Turkey through the Aralik border gate in Kars Province. Although confirmation of neither the incident nor the degree of the uranium's enrichment was forthcoming, It raised fears that Chechen 'Mafia' groups had obtained access to ...
My Perception of the Military Organization. American military power suffers continual trade-offs during fiscal tightening.
... and the policies through which we "manage" our forces. The actual tactical composition of the future Army, be it the "medium brigade" or something else, is almost irrelevant to the issue. Regardless of the name, we are leaning toward smaller units ...
Conflicting Narratives: The 1995 Peru-Ecuador Conflict Nationalism Gone Awry?
... the exacerbation and persistence of the conflict. In a post-Cold War international environment, and mainly due to decreased concern over inter-American conflicts, the United States had begun to stop its long tradition of subsidizing Latin American militaries. The US was not affected by the ...
Could war with Iraq be Vietnam II? In this paper you find out the similarities between the situation the United States faces now compared to the situation they faced in Vietnam.
... of the war. S. Vietnam had our support way before they ever put up a defense against N. Vietnam. They felt that being on the United States side, because of our great power would in fact end the war quicker then trying to become Communist and having to fight the United States over this violation of ...
Area 51
... and will do all kinds of things to keep you from seeing their face if you manage to get close enough. My favorites are pulling down the sun visor of their Jeep, or casually covering part of ...