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the types of people who commit terrorist acts. Terrorism generates psychological fear beyond the immediate act. Terrorist acts are a powerful medium because they undermine the rules of the state and international society. This essay will define terrorism…

last June of 2003. Have a good time reading it! ^^* ------------------------------------------- The article that the diplomat, Timothy Carney, from the Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitation Assistance (ORHA) on the Washington Post's…

by war and its consequences, might suggest conflict to be both ubiquitous and perpetual. The costs incurred, disruption caused and horrors endured have led man throughout time to theorise on the causes of war. What makes rational people or nations…

far-reaching shift in American foreign policy for more than fifty years,' President George Bush summed up the US perception of the current strategic situation in the post 9-11 world, "We cannot put our faith in the word of tyrants, who solemnly…

sailors that I knew. I was also not happy to see this day come. This was the day we were leaving for our six month deployment. Going on a deployment isn't all bad, but it is nowhere close to all good. With most things you take the bad with the good,…

of Defense Base Closures In its most basic element, economist David Colander explains that economics examines how producers and consumers use scarce resources in an attempt to satisfy their unlimited wants (Colander, 2004). Over the past decade,…

did not speak, for I am not a gypsy. When they came for the Jews, I did not speak, because I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I did not speak, for I am not a Catholic. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak." -On…

very hot topic today around the globe. It seems as if everyone has something to say about the Bush administration, weather it be good or bad. Many people seem to think that America should pull out of Iraq since it is not the United States place to be…

that an accidental nuclear war could be the result. With more and more of the superpowers defences being controlled by complex computers, the chance of a malfunction increases as well. Add this to normal human error and governmental mistakes…

the United States, but especially for the last 100 years, the ethos of the U.S. military has been oriented toward the requirement to win the nation's wars. If you randomly survey military personal on what the warrior ethos is, you will get many different…