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    offered a new name for the War Department—The Department of Defense. Truman’s new logo and new cabinet title, however, paled in comparison to the Marshal Plan’s contribution toward peace and stability for war-ravaged, Western Europe. Under the Marshal Plan, $12 billion in aid and a constabulary force created the conditions necessary to deter expansion of the Russian conventional threat and secure the victory. Despite winning the war, or perhaps, because of winning the war, President Truman…

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    Informative Speech

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    because they are both from different perspective child’s situation but are similar as it contrays the same meaning which has the same message on how war can affect children. Which is that children have also been affected by war throughout history such as world war two, holocaust, Wars in Africa and Afghanistan, etc. And which are also still happening now. War does not only affect the child mentally but also affects the child’s future, dreams and hope. Today, I will be talking about my two texts…

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    Operational Failure Essay

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    Since 2001, the United States with its coalition partners have not enjoyed operational or strategic success in wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. There have been tactical successes, but often those successes have been a contributing factor to operational failure as military leaders ignore their counterinsurgency doctrine, striving to conduct major combat actions. A key contributor in Western failure has been the lack of integration of operations and intelligence in conventional forces. Intelligence…

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    considered new. The notion of a “rise of asymmetric warfare” may be loaded with assumptions related to Western imperialism and industrialization, whereby the “rise” refers to a pattern of increasing conflicts that were “irregular” because they were wars that could not be won by Western military…

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    Fighting War Is Not Loving Our Country Directed by famous director Clint Eastwood with six Oscar nominations, the film “American Sniper (2014)” is based on a book “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2012)” by Kyle Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. Kyle Kyle starred by Bradley Cooper is the main character who sniped over 160 enemy combatants, which is officially confirmed by the Department of Defence, overriding Navy Seals sniper record…

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    Essay On Just War

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    of “just war” is a war that morally and religiously justifiable. The War in Afghanistan performed by the American military is considered a “just war.” The war was declared after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This is considered a “just war,” because the United States government ordered the attack, the al-Qaeda attacked the United States first, and most people had the right intention when fighting. The War in Afghanistan is not considered sinful. The first reason that the War in…

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    horrifying attack are said to have attacked the freedom of the people of the United States. Which led to President George W. Bush declaring worldwide war on Iraq and Afghanistan known as the “war on terror”. The war on terror drove the Taliban from power, helped Afghans recover from Taliban’s reign of terror, helped form an interim government in Afghanistan that represented everyone- including women and was necessary to disarm Iraq. The Taliban were a group that helped fight…

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    Negative Effects Of 9/11

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    loves life. That is the difference between us two.” – Osama Bin Laden. The words of the terrorist who planned the devastating September 11 attacks on the world trade center in the United States. The initiation of the war in Afghanistan was the corrupt government and the civil war. The Taliban, one of the controversial sides blamed the U.S. for their problems, and they had much hatred stored for America and were prepared to do something about it. On September 11, 2001, America was shocked with…

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    Iraq War Analysis

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    interests and international influence are a great concern of U.S. Wars can be a tool to achieve goals. Afghanistan and The Iraq war were considered as these two strategic cards of U.S. The United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a response to 9/11 event – an action that was suspected by U.S is of terrorist group Al-Qaeda in order to prevent other security threat to U.S (BBC, 2016). Iraq war was launched in 2003 as a pre-emptive war because of the claim that Saddam Hussein government…

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    Violence In America Essay

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    about losing our throne atop the world. For millions upon millions of years animals have been competing and fighting over the best resources and territories. Human beings of the modern era are not much different. The whole of ancient Greece went to war over one woman, Helen, when the Trojans kidnapped her.…

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