They planned to combine in attacking Commander Prittwitz"z German eighth army. Rennenkampf would make a frontal attack while Samsonov attacked from the rear. ... Francois rejected Ludendorff's order for attack. He argued that his infantry and artillery was nowhere near to being ready for an attack. He had no intention of attacking with out artillery support. ...
However the direction in which matters are moving today there could very well be another World War with the latest horrifying terrorist attacks on America. ... Its primary function was that if a fellow member were attacked, the rest of the members would strike back at the hostile nation- collective security. ... NATO's policy of defending a fellow member if attacked still stands today though it has not being used, although it is might be used if there is a war, America's and the rest of the world waging war against terrorism. ... By the terms of NATO, the USA took the lion's sha...
Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...
It took one hundred years, from the time it was first recognized as a syndrome among hysterical women in the late 1800s to its inclusion in 1980 as a diagnosis in the manual of the American Psychiatric Association, for posttraumatic stress disorder to be recognized as a legitimate illness. (Herman ...
Not only did his work attack religion and morality, but it also presented the idea of a "ubermensch," or the "superman:" I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the out of the dark cloud man. ...
After the Sussex, a French channel streamer was sunk, killing 80 civilians, some American, Wilson declared that if these attacks did not stop the United States would have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations5 with Germany. ... Wilsons' real heart was in peace. ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
