Essays on Military Strength

POLITICS AND WARFARE

The world wars and especially the First World War was one that took the world with a shock, it is was unprecedented. Never I the history of the world had there been so many nations forming allies and fighting each other in a bid to gain military strength and help protect national interests(Beckett 225). To say that the growing tensions that lead to the occurrence of this war had been foreseen as something that could lead to a potentially catastrophic world war would be tantamount to rhetoric, however, there were subtle cues and several instances that when keenly ...

Colonization is the process whereby one powerful country invades and takes control of another foreign territory. The occupying country, then subjects the inhabitants of the captured territory and places them under its dominion. They can as well get treated as slaves working under very tough conditions with limited or no pay at all. The colonizers on the other hand freely utilize and extract resources with no restriction.

The German empire

In the late 19th century Germany was a growing industrial and economic power. By that time, they had made massive gains in their processing and manufacturing industries. As a result, the country’ ...

The Paris Peace Talk Negotiations

The Paris negotiations were long and involved many parties. There were the United States, the Soviet Union, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam. The aim of the negotiations was to end a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, which had been in existence for a very long time. My main role was negotiating for the North Vietnam side. The negotiation process was intense with each side putting its demands on the table. Our negotiation team laid out the following demands as was expected of us as representatives of North Vietnam. First, we agreed that it was important to keep ...

Abstract

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an agency that deals with foreign related matters. It is mandated to conduct missions and other covert duties under the directions of the president. The Agency is a foreign civilian agency tasked with the gathering and analyzing national security intelligence from all over the world. CIA has a very limited domestic role so unless it is related to the overall national security. With new threats to the national security like terrorism and cyber-attacks, the agency has expanded its functions so as to combat these new threats (Lowenthal, M., 2015, p.45). The agency is ...

Introduction

The Vietnam War will always be remembered throughout much of the history of the United States (US) as a mighty assertion by the nation of its status as a reckonable political and moral influence in the international community. Democracy has since been the driving force of the US in its pursuance of goals in the Asia-Pacific region – an area the nation sought to contain against communism by the former Soviet Union (USSR). Indochina, geopolitically adjacent to communist-led China through its location in mainland Asia, stands as perhaps the area in the Asia-Pacific region that is most affected by communism. Under the ...

Introduction:

Security refers to the protection of life from any force or factor that is threatening to it. Traditionally, security has been viewed from militaristic approaches that are related to the avoidance of conflicts between States and Nations of the world (BRAUCH, 2003). The traditional approach to this issue has majorly focused on studying the threats in our world and using or controlling military forces to address the issue. Since the cold war ended, there has been a distinct shift from security studies and international relations in addressing security approaches. The world super powers are no longer the sole determinants of ...

Art reflects the society that creates it. Sculpture as one component of art is very valuable for it can supply information on the development of a societies’ culture. Sculpture can assist in describing social life of a particular community by physical representation of ideals and ideas of civilization. Through their sculpture, pottery and temples Greeks art emphasized the accomplishment and importance of human beings. Mostly Greek art was created in honor of gods which were created in human images for example the statue of Apollo belvedere. The Roman art concentrated on decoration of personages who were crowned heroes in various ...

Introduction

Background and his family Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in the year 1526 in Matsudaira Takechiyo. He was son of Lord Matsudaira Hirotada of province of Mikawa. During civil war which was a violent between territorials lords which lasted for almost a century. In the year 1550 his family split one side sought to be a vassals of Imagawa clan while the other side ought Oda clan. The murder of Matsudaira who was Ieyasu paternal grandfather was due to family hostility (BBC, 2013). Oda clan invaded Mikawa in the year 1548. At the age of four he was sent as a hostage ...

Being the world’s superpower, a country ought to have a good economy, strong military capability, high per capita growth, science and technologies, and influence in the global community. One of the things that had aided China’s phenomenal economic growth is international trade and foreign direct investment (Sigurdson 37). These two policies helped China in gaining international financial earnings such as the dollar, which helps in making the country independent. In addition, China is known for undervaluing its currency in order to export more of their goods and services to the international market (Gifford 87). This shows that the China has ...

Empire and Domestic Politics in Japan

The Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854 signaled the end of Japan’s isolationist policy and the start of modernization. Japan’s democratization process also began to take place during this period. Democratization is a process “whereby liberal democratic values, institutions, and practices are harmonized with indigenous political values, institutions, and practices to create a new political system in which the government is directed by and held accountable to its polity. Education was highly prioritized and Japanese learned science and technology from the west and this was done by recruiting Western experts and sending Japanese students to study abroad. Once they graduate, ...

The greatest hallmark of the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg. It was fought between the first and third of July, 1863, in the tiny market town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On the first of July the Potomac Army led by Major General George Meade and the Northern Virginia Army led by General Robert Lee met at Gettysburg. The battle involved forces of the Union and Confederate States. Motivated by the losses they had suffered in the West, the Confederate Army sought to salvage their control over the East at the very least. Their western front spread through ...

ANSWERS ON ESSAY QUESTIONS REGARDING HISTORY

FURTHER LOOK AT HISTORY

Religious Diversity in the Indian Society

C.N. Venugopal, Religion and Indian Society (New Delhi, India: Gyan Publishing House, 1998), p. 30.

G.S. Ramesh, Philosophy of Indian Society (New Delhi, India: Global Vision Publishing House, 2005), p. 14.

India is considered to be of many religious belief systems around the world. Besides, most of the major religions throughout human history originated from Indian culture. Nevertheless, as with the case of other religious beliefs, these diverse religions are based on either the political, cultural, or social perspectives of their founder(s).

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Introduction

The Chinese Armed Forces, the largest armed forces in the world and the second strongest military force next to the U.S., has experienced tremendous expansions in size and advancement in terms of military technology in the past five to ten years. China’s recent military developments raised tensions not only in the South and East Asian regions but also in the far Western regions such as the Caspian Sea Regions and U.S. Federal Regions. One of most recent Chinese military development is their acquisition of a refurbished Soviet Air Craft Carrier formerly named Varyag. Although the said Aircraft carrier ...

The role of the citizen soldier and the professional military throughout American History

The whole concept on citizen soldier can be associated with the fact that American citizens have full obligation of arming themselves for the purposes of protecting families and their nation from foreign encroachments as well as domestic tyrants (Weigley, 1997). However, the idea of allowing citizen-soldier establishment enabled direct involvement of the people’s will power in the preservation of liberties and rights within the society. The concept became popular in America during the times of colonial militia before Revolutionary War. The citizen-soldier serves from different perspective contrary to professional soldier whose vocation was clearly known to be war. ...