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38 Th Parallel Republic Of Korea
1,712 wordsBegun as a war between South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), after the North's invasion of the South, the conflict swiftly developed into a limited international war involving the U. S. and 19 other nations. From a general viewpoint, the Korean War was one of the by-products of the cold war, the global political and diplomatic struggle between the Communist and non-Communist systems following World War II. The motives behind North Korea's decisi...
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Air Power And The Gulf War
1,895 wordsAn acknowledged aerospace historian, Mr. Richard P. Hallion is an associate for the Smithsonian Institution employed in the research division. A former Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, Mr. Hallion has written or edited thirteen other books, including The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus (1978), Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight (1988), and The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911 - 1945 (1989), while professor at the Army War College. Mr. Hallion writes Storm ove...
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Divided Into Four U S Air
1,623 wordsOn June 26, 1948 the largest airlift began as the American and British forces began the Berlin Airlift. To understand how the airlift came to be, we have to look all the way back to the Yalta Conference. The Yalta Conference began in February 1945 in which the three superpowers, America, Russia and Britain, met to discuss the future of post war Europe. America and Russia were emerging as the two superpowers, and their deteriorating relationship would soon lead to many problems that would develop...
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Gulf War Syndrome President George Bush
1,097 words... to use air power with logistic and raiding strategies. The second and third phase was combat and raiding strategies that would use standoff air power, close-in power, ground artillery and naval artillery. The fourth phase used a combat and persisting strategy, which was set out to remove Iraqi forces. During all four phases the Coalition concentrated on the Iraqi weaknesses. The greatest weakness was their underestimation of the Coalitions capabilities. The Iraqi strategy was based on things...
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Persian Gulf War War On Iraq
2,620 words... al warfare agents. In the defense, integrating chemical weapons offered a solution to the masses of lightly armed Basic and Posdoran. Chemical weapons were singularly effective when used on troop assembly areas and supporting artillery. When conducting offensive operations, Iraq routinely supported the attacks with deep fires and integrated chemical fires on forward defenses, command posts, artillery positions, and logistical facilities. War Termination The Iran-Iraq war lasted nearly eight ...
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Weapons Of Mass Destruction Point Of View
1,609 wordsThe Iraq Conflict With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US inherited new political and economic opportunities as the worlds last superpower. Hence, public anxiety about the potential threat of world nuclear war has abated, but the US has inexorably been drawn into conflicts that threaten the long-term stability of regions strategic to its own interests. Thus, American forces led an international effort to repulse Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1991, and Nato's campaign against Yugoslavia in...
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War On Iraq Weapons Of Mass Destruction
2,147 wordsWar on Iraq War on Iraq With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US inherited new political and economic opportunities as the worlds last superpower. Hence, public anxiety about the potential threat of world nuclear war has abated, but the US has inexorably been drawn into conflicts that threaten the long-term stability of regions strategic to its own interests. Thus, American forces led an international effort to repulse Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1991, and Nato's campaign against Yugosla...
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U S Troops Ground Forces
920 wordsMake this field active and press CTRL-V Sending US troops to Bosnia is in my opinion a very questionable activity. While I do see the presidents point, I do not see the need for ground forces. I think that several other options should be explored. Ground troops are not necessary to establish a presents in the region. I feel that airpower is sufficient, after all it was air strikes that brought the Serbs to the to the negotiation table in the first place. It is apparent that the only thing the Se...
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Operation Desert Storm World War Iii
2,809 wordsHow much did the Gulf War cost the US How much did the US pay for the Gulf War above and beyond the yearly cost for supporting its military? The US Department of Defense estimated the incremental cost at $ 61 billion. This additional cost included deployment, construction and operations in the Gulf. However, $ 54 billion was offset by contributions of other members in the Coalition. Two-thirds of the $ 54 billion was provided by the Gulf States ($ 36 billion) with the remaining one-third mostly ...
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