Diplomatic mission

Mandelbaum believes that U.S foreign Policy has failed since the end of the cold war through different factors. Mandelbaum makes a strong case ideologically crusading into regime change, which invariably fails regardless of how virtuous the intent is. We first need to define what foreign policy and the cold war is in order to evaluate Mandelbaum and whether he thinks U.S. foreign policy has failed or not. He mentions that the years of 1991-2014 were very distinct from any previous period in…

of heavy weapons and ethnic considerations, the dropping of the atomic bombs during the Second World War should not be justified with the consideration of Japan’s weak power, the USA’s own national desires for “revenge” and the damages brought to diplomatic relations in the long…

name given to Western vessels arriving in Japan due to the belching black smoke from the funnels of the steamboats. On July 8, 1853, Commodore Perry and his squadron of steamboats and sailing vessels arrived at the shores of Japan to institute a diplomatic relationship between Japan and the U.S. Until that day, Japan was a self-isolated country for 214 years; after the Tokugawa Shogunate established the Edo Bakufu, segregating Japan from the rest of the world. With this self-isolated order,…

targeted bombing ran against the North Vietnamese in response to the Viet Cong attacks which was the Operation Flaming Dart. This campaign had given away to Operation Thunder, a more intensive program of aerial bombardment, by early March. All these missions took significant troop increases throughout all 1965. From late 1965 American battles strategies focused more in tactics like “search and destroy”. Troops would move into regions controlled by the enemy by hiking or the use of the…

Women in Combat In the United States, equality is strived for, but what happens when equality becomes more of a political standard that bleeds into the aspect of American society that is rightfully separated from their civilian counterparts for the greater good? What might be right for the American civilian may be devastating for the American warfighter. For instance, it is debated that women shouldn’t be present in combat. For women outside the military, it was acclaimed as a step toward true…

Iran’s nuclear program was not always seen as a controversial aspect of Iran’s domestic policy. As a matter of fact, the origins of the Iranian program began in the 1950’s with the support of the United States. Research and development of a nuclear program began once Tehran joined Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative and signed treaty No.4898. On December 8, 1953 during the 470th Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly the Atoms for Peace Program was launched by…

to the highest and then use the “brink” of war against the other country, most namely the USSR as a way to calm things down (LeFerber, 2005). ” Watry’s analysis is based on risktaking, or brinkmanship, a genre he subdivides into nuclear, covert, diplomatic, and economic brinkmanship” (Deighton, 2015). Eisenhower also was okay with the idea that the United States could use their atomic weapons on strategic positions that were scouted out before hand as a way to hurt the enemy. At the same time he…

The documents in the “Against Withdrawal” dossier provide a comprehensive and roughly chronological overview of the various arguments in favor of a sustained American military presence in Iraq. Tracking the evolution of the anti-withdrawal stance from 2006 through 2011, the articles present a united assessment of the situation on the ground that remains remarkably consistent over time. All of these authors contend, to some degree, that any apparent progress toward a secure Iraqi state and stable…

Machiavelli, he was a jack of all trades, being both a politician and a military tactician, but he was most known for his cruel nature. He was born in Florence, 1469, with a uneventful childhood, but soon joined a section of the military that went on diplomatic missions. Afterwards, he was tried for conspiracy, but was pardoned and went on to a life about literature. His contribution to the Renaissance was due to his book, "The Prince", which described a new way of leading the people through…

The collective narrative of the United States, albeit still being written, is fascinating. Nowhere in human history can one find another example of a nation being born purely out of ideology and belief. Margaret Thatcher effectively conveyed this reality with her iconic statement “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” The United States is not often viewed from this perspective, but the nation's experimental nature is undeniable after careful consideration. There are…