The Nature of War War is part of God's world-order. Within it unfold the noblest virtues of men, courage, and renunciation, loyalty to duty and readiness for sacrifice, at the hazard of one's life. War, plain and simple is an evil act, even though in some cases in may help a nation out, it shou...
The Vietnam War is one of the most debated topics of the twentieth century "this is reflected in the endless amount of books, articles, documentaries, and Hollywood productions that have emerged about the topic. ... Most general books and texts on the Vietnam War (including Moss' Vietnam, An American Ordeal, Fourth Edition) gloss over, if not skip entirely, the role of women in Vietnam. ... The lived together, ate together, celebrated holidays, and often wept together when the emotional strain of the war began to be too much to bear. ...
Symptoms of PTSD include flashbacks and nightmares of the trauma, loss of interest in life, and emotional numbing. ... Returning veterans weren't given the hero's welcome that World War 2 veterans had received, and the Korean War was the subject of few movies, books, and plays. ...
The things they carried. "The Things they carried-, the renowned author, Tim O'Brien, uses several literary devices to show the spiritual burden on the soldiers in the Vietnam War, by contrasting this burden with the actual physical load they have to carry. This burden has many aspects, and inclu...
"A nuclear-armed Iran is a threat to the United States and it's interests in the Middle East." While there is no arguing that a nuclear-armed Iran would certainly be a cause for concern, maybe the question we need to start asking is "Why?". From a realist's perspective, any state with a nuclear weapon is a threatens the "vital interest" of the United States. In context of the realist paradigm, Snow (2011) defines a vital interest as "properties and conditions on which states will not willingly compromise and which are thus too important to be submit...
