Asymmetric warfare

There has been great tension between the US and North Korea, mainly between Donald trump and Kim Jong Un. There has been many words thrown back and forth between both of these high powering officials. Kim made a television statement saying that Donald Trump was “mentally deranged,” and in response Trump said that “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!” Now, there is even more tension between both…

Before the arrival of the airplane, warfare was conducted almost entirely by a country's infantry and navy. Up to this time in history, aerial warfare had played no significant role in military strategy. Balloons had been used for observation and propaganda distribution during the Napoleonic wars and the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870-1871 (Balloons in the Military). The airplane had also been used in a limited role for bombardment missions during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912 (Wilkin).…

War devastates anyone, the damage is emotional and psychological as well as physical. Everything we see in the news, in the newspapers, or hear on the radio is about battles, shots, weapons, and deaths. In the First World War, nobody really knew how destructive this dispute was going to be, no country in Europe was prepared for what was coming. The propaganda recruited the necessary soldiers and the only thing that was known was that the troops of the United States, France, England, and Russia…

Ebola can have a fatality rate of up to ninety percent. In his novel, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston describes Ebola as, “a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.” The virus spreads through all bodily fluids, including blood, vomit, feces, saliva and sweat. Male patients who have recovered from the virus can even pass it on through their semen up to seven weeks after recovery (Elliot). The current outbreak in West Africa has…

(The Trenches of WWI) The trenches of World War I helped the army stay protected from enemy fire, but they had to deal with dead bodies, rats, cold water and minimum food. Most dealt with trench foot and many lost feet and toes. For food they had tea and dog biscuits and not much meat except for rats. History thinks that the war was wasteful, but it was really a thought out system. Exhaustion, low reserves, and huge loss of life on both sides made both them realize the defensiveness…

I know your cabinet is extremely busy with other issues going on in the world and even own country, but I believe with the recent activity occurring in North Korea that it should be a higher priority for the United States to consider. I understand that we have tried to negotiate with Kim Jong-un multiple times, but he has kept his country isolated for multiple generations, which is very identical to Oceania in 1984. North Korea just like Oceania wipes out all outside communication from the…

Bethesda Softworks, a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media company, released their video game Fallout 4 in November 2015 resulting in over $750 million of sales within days of its release (Bethesda Softworks, 2015). The title is the latest installment of their successful anthology that explores an alternate reality where humans commercialized nuclear technology ushering in an atomic age. The player, cryogenically frozen in a fallout shelter as bombs drop on the United States, awakens 200 years later to a…

Introduction Alfred Thayer Mahan recognized the existence of the intermediate field of study and practice between naval policy, strategy and tactics. His theories created a foundation for modern operational art and operational warfare while analyzing contributing factors of politics, social and economic conditions while keeping maritime interests at the forefront of his beliefs. As classical naval theoretician, he shaped the service culture and military doctrine for a multiplicity of navies on a…

We learn about the horrors of Holocaust and World War II so that we can ensure that the mistakes and the prejudice of the past are not repeated. We learn about the causes leading to the war and the Holocaust so that we know what led to the deaths of thousands of people and the fear behind the victims of the Holocaust, thus bringing us one step closer to being able to prevent it from ever happening again, which makes learning about these events essential to peace amongst many countries. The…

No other nation prospered during the cold war more that Japan. When all other countries were in political tension with each other the Japan focused all their time and effort to an impossible the reinvention of their nation. There is no other state which could have pulled that off and for the second time in the history reinvent themselves from the scratch. Nd with both reinventions did so much impact to the global world. But with the help and funding of The United States the current Japan is…