Ballistic missile

World War I saw the emergence of tanks and machine guns. The Second World War saw the prominent use of flame throwers and the introduction of long range guided ballistic missiles. The Cold War was a standoff centered on nuclear bombs. The Persian Gulf War was won through extensive bombing via stealth fighter-bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles. So what is the world’s newest way to wage or threaten war? The internet. As large nations—such as the United States and many of its allies—become ever…

One of the most trending topics in all of the media is Kim Jong-Un and North Korea. This is for good reason, as there are many ideas to report, like how Kim Jong-Un and North Korea’s government has made its country dystopian-like. When analyzing how the government of North Korea makes decisions that creates a dystopian society among their citizens, one can evaluate what changes Kim Jong-Un made that was so influencing and controlling that their country became dystopian, determine the specific…

The Cuban Missile Crisis as it came to be known as was the closest that the Cold War had come to an actual nuclear assault. Between October 16th and 28th 1962, the whole world collectively held its breath as the events played out. The Soviets insisted that the placement was a direct result of the United States deploying missiles in Italy and Turkey. Luckily cooler heads prevailed and after13 days of intense negations both sides agreed to remove their missiles and nuclear war was…

A transition from one administration at the end of an election prompts changes within the sphere of public administration. These changes are significantly amplified with the transition of the prevailing political ideology. President Trump’s Secretary of Defense, James Mattis is challenging the norms of foreign relations. In some instances, Mattis is denouncing these standard practices, and is ushering in a new wave for the Trump Administration’s actions globally. The Trump Administration has…

sulfur (what else would it be). These rockets were probably thrown into a fire and sent everywhere. These rockets were good for fun and games, but some genius, again nobody knows, realized that they could be strapped to arrows to create the first ballistic missile. After this rocketry spread to europe were a french guy, Jean Froissart, figured out that launching a rocket out of a tube increased its accuracy. A German by the name of Johann Schmidlap created the first multistage rocket. After this…

In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the main character states, “I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart” (201). Here, the ignorance rooted in the human heart is that towards good and truth. When a person is blinded by his own selfishness, he breaks away from the…

the space race. This historic moment could not have been accomplished without the work of one man: Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun, former head of the Nazi missile program and member of the SS. A man indirectly responsible for the death of 9,000 civilians and military…

called the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, or in short, the SALT. During these meetings, Nixon and Brezhnev signed a treaty. This treaty would be a five-year agreement which limited to 1972 levels the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have. Later, 33 other nations would join this agreement. After meeting with both Russia and China, tensions began to slowly drop, and the Cold War started to dissipate. In conclusion, I think it was a wise…

Historically, armed forces adapt tactics and invent new defensive and offensive equipment as a response to adversaries’ technology. The invention of the airplane illustrates this type of advance. Military forces responded to the airplane’s ability to conduct reconnaissance, bomb targets, attack air and ground targets, and perform sustainment operations by developing air defense technology. In World War I, the United States conducted air defense operations using three-inch anti-aircraft guns.…

The 1990-1991 Gulf War was the first true test of the modern US Army. The Army was armed and equipped with some of the best weapon systems in the world. After Vietnam the US Army underwent major changes in organization, structure, and philosophy. Following the Vietnam War, the Army went through significant changes in preparation to fight with the Soviet Union or Korea. The preparations for these conflicts led to the defeat of the fourth largest Army in the world in Operation Desert Storm.…