Civilian control of the military

Guernica, a village in Spain, was bombed with sixty-six tons of bombs that killed between two hundred fifty and three hundred civilians; the bombing of the rural village had no military value (Manzanares). German fighters swarmed the village, gunning down citizens trying to escape from the burning city (“Bombing of Guernica”). Pablo Picasso, inspired by this tragedy, painted a large, eleven-foot-tall mural entitled Guernica. In the painting, Picasso represented the horror of being trapped and…

the world, which fed into the Cold War. The Soviet-Afghanistan War was a battlefield in which the Cold War super powers never faced each other but fought each other through different avenues like many other conflicts. Years earlier, the American military fought a counterinsurgency in Vietnam in which the Soviets helped the North Vietnamese fight the Americans. Even though the Americans won the major battles within the war, it never achieved true outright victory. The war was very unpopular…

effectively carry out such an act of mass violence? Hutu political and military elite fearing an imminent loss of absolute power utilized long standing ethnic tensions,…

Sir Julian Corbett’s Thoughts on U.S. Hegemony of Low Earth Orbit Satellites – manmade systems deliberately placed in Earth’s orbit – undeniably benefit humankind, from enhancing scientific understanding, communications, and situational awareness to expanding commerce and development. Correspondingly, low-Earth orbit (LEO) represents the point of entry for the security, economic, and informational benefits humans derive from space because almost every manmade object traveling through this…

include releasing the most dreadful weapon ever known. The dropping of the atomic bomb. Truman indicated that his decision to drop the bomb was chastely military. For Truman, the decision whether or not to use the atomic bomb was the grimmest decision of his life. American soldiers and citizens were tired from four years of war, yet the Japanese military was refusing to give up their battle. The primary pro is talks of peace were much easier to cultivate due to the fear the bomb dropping caused…

to be identical. With distinction never fully established, the Viet Cong’s pacification was unsuccessful, allowing them to take more control over parts of South Vietnam. Another flaw was that the American soldiers were ordered to search south Vietnamese homes, exposing them to the possibility of ambush. These ambushes, made the Americans cold hearted toward civilians, leading them to burn down villages in zippo raids and massacre many inhabitants of the villages. One of the most Infamous…

to VA Mental Health, which was created stigma due to the sharing of information with the greater VA (Blank, 2016). Since its inception, the Vet Center has overcome hurdles, but ultimately, flourished in providing quality mental health services, military sexual trauma counseling, and bereavement services to family members who were killed during active duty (Blank, 2016). The National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 extended the eligibility for VA readjustment…

The newly created National Military Establishment was rife with conflicts stemming from overlapping responsibility. The most notable of these was the rivalry between the Department of State and the new, massively larger, Department of Defense. Which of these two Departments gets…

bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After this women began to take a role in helpping the war effort after men enlisted in the military and rushed off to war. Many women started to loose their homemaker image and work outside the home. By 1945 one out of every four married women worked outside of the home. These women changed everyday women 's roles by working in industry, military, and the community around them. World War II changed the image of women 's roles in many areas; a major part of that…

"Their military parent signed on the dotted line; their children did not. Yet, they must deal with deployments, frequent moves and school transitions, and they do so with courage and grace" (Sanchez). Military children face situations that many children their age never have to face, such as their parents leaving in deployments, the constant three-year moves, separations from loved ones, and stress of the military. When people think of these military children, the first thing they think about is…