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was needed, he would ask Congress for an official declaration of war. This process is enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. A state of war was recognized before the President deployed troops and commenced his power as Commander-in-Chief. The controversy surrounding war has escalated as a result of United States involvement in foreign wars after World War II. In general, the President bypassed the…

The book does provide a good understanding of the United States foreign policy. It explains how Americans believed that Foreign policy believed that it started in 2003 in Iraq when Bush was presidents. He provides great short stories where he describes the 19 foreign governments that were overthrown by America. However he does provide a summary and does provide the key points of each era in order to get a better understanding. Personally I was unaware of the history of foreign policy, by reading…

alive to see JFK’s short lived presidency. More famous for his looks, Irish blood and religion than his short list of successes while in office, Kennedy had a chance at redemption (or eternal humiliation) following the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation. This opportunity came with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s important to note that the tension wasn’t as broad as the United States vs the USSR, but can be broken down to John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. With cooperation with NATO, the…

For this reason, military advantage is a very prominent benefit of controlling arctic lands. If a country were to launch a naval offensive from the Arctic, they would be able to invade multiple countries within hours. Most importantly, the Arctic contains many shipping lanes that could increase trade efficiency. In recent years, due to global warming, ice in the Arctic has…

NO. 1: Introduce the movie by stating that you’ve just seen this movie and would like to give an opinion about it. Mention a couple of details that might help the reader understand what type of movie you are talking about. In October of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union became embroiled in a confrontation that could easily have escalated into nuclear war. Many of the details of that confrontation, which is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, are brilliantly dramatized by the…

in Honolulu, Hawaii took no precautions to prevent this from happening because the warning did not reach them in time (Brinkley, 733). The surprise attack damaged the naval base and was destructive to America. Due to the event, eight battleships, three cruisers, four vessels, one hundred and eighty-eight airplanes, and additional naval equipment was demolished. Around two thousand American servicemen were killed amid the bombing; however, few lives of the Japanese were lost (Brinkley, 734). The…

Throughout the out the course of World War II there were many war tacgtics that were use. Tactics such as those of strategic bombing which refers to all aerial attacks between the years of 1949 and 1945. These bombings included the bombings of military forces, railways, harbors, cities (which included civilized areas), and industrial areas. However, the militaristic countries, Japan and Germany, whose aggression in war and war tactics can be compared during the course of WWII. Despites the fact…

explicitly vowed to help defend the kingdom against external threats,” even after September 11, 2001, and Operation Iraqi Freedom (Bronson, 3). As time passed, Soviet forces that assisted Egypt in piercing Saudi Arabian borders which American forces immediately backed Saudi Arabia…

The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, summed up his assessment of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) in the following statement: “With our “ends” fixed and our “means” declining, it is therefore imperative that we innovate within the “ways” we defend the Nation.” Strategic planning and transition to Joint Force 2020 (JF 2020) in a fiscally constrained environment affords DoD senior leaders the opportunity to be more innovative than ever before in assessing and…

In his 1945 biennial report to the U.S. Secretary of War, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall inscribed, “In good conscience this Nation can take little credit for its part in staving off disaster in those critical days. It is certain that the refusal of the […] Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization” (107). The resolve of the Russian people was tenacious and unequivocal; undeterred by the callousness, destructiveness…