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Quiet On The Western Front Trench Warfare
5,601 wordsAll Quiet on the Western Front Chapter Summary By: Jesse Cody All Quiet on the Western Front is an anti-war novel from the opening chapters. Many critics of the novel in the early days after the publication of the novel blamed Remarque for writing for shock value. They did not want to believe his novel represented the truth about World War I. In many ways, such people were like Paul's schoolmaster, Kantorek. They wanted to cling to classical, romantic notions of war. However, Remarque wrote his ...
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Prisoner Of War Prisoners Of War
1,448 wordsThe term war crime brings to mind a combination of horrific images, concentration camps, ethnic cleansing, execution of prisoners, rape, and bombardment of cities. These images correspond in many ways to the legal definitions of the term, but international law draws lines that do not in all ways match our sense of the most awful behavior. War crimes are those violations of the laws of war, or international humanitarian law (IHL) that deserve individual criminal responsibility. While limitations ...
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Center Of Gravity Sun Tzu
1,510 wordsClausewitz advocates attacking enemy schwerpunkt or centers of gravity. How does this compare with Sun Tzu's prioritization for attacking important elements of national power? Which theorist provides the most useful guidance for determining the object of a strategy or strategies? Introduction Clausewitz's attack of enemy centers of gravity and Sun Tzu's prioritization of attack of important elements of national power provide contrasting approaches to the development of effective strategy. These ...
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Unable To Cope Spheres Of Influence
2,088 wordsCold War My first inclination would be to answer the first question with a clear YES. But come to think of it, the causes of war really have not changed at all, or at least very little. Rather than changes, there has been a shift in the causes. The cause of war which has dominated the last 50 years was the cause of ideology. However, due to the recent end of the Cold War, this cause of war, has significantly declined and is almost trivial. The causes of war have shifted from mainly ideological o...
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Human Rights Violations World War Ii
4,837 wordsThe conflict in the Balkans is interesting because for years, reporters and politicians have touted it as being the result of ancient ethnic hatred but that isnt the case. The people of this region lived together peacefully for centuries and any conflicts that have arose among people were based not on ethnic origin but other things like class and ruling party. In fact, any problems that have arose in the former Yugoslavia have more to do with the issues raised by nationalism that developed durin...
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Nations Security Council United Nations Security
3,485 wordsThe term laws of war refers to the rules governing the actual conduct of armed conflict. This idea that there actually exists rules that govern war is a difficult concept to understand. The simple act of war in and of itself seems to be in violation of an almost universal law prohibiting one human being from killing another. But during times of war murder of the enemy is allowed, which leads one to the question, if murder is permissible then what possible laws of war could there be? The answer t...
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Armed Conflict Poor People
558 wordsThe Moral Imperative The persistence of hunger in a world of plenty is immoral. In a world of 5 billion people, more than 1 billion are desperately poor and face food insecurity. 800 million are chronically malnourished. Every day, 35, 000 children under age five (14 million a year) die of malnutrition and related preventable diseases. Millions more become blind, retarded or suffer other disabilities that impair functioning for lack of vitamins and minerals (micro-nutrients), robbing the human c...
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Armed Conflict United Methodist
437 wordsthe devastation of aids in africa A driving force behind the recent U. N. Resolution 1261 (1999) unanimously adopted by the U. N. Security Council on August 25, is Opera Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Armed Conflict to the United Nations. The resolutions which: condemns the targeting of children in situations of armed conflict including killing and maiming, sexual violence, abduction and forced displacement, recruitment and use of children in armed conflict in violati...
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Play An Important Role Schools Of Thought
1,108 wordsTo prevent and resolve violent conflict we must understand the sources and logic of war. Two schools of thought currently dominate thinking on the causes of contemporary conflict. The first sees violence as a response to a range of grievances including systematic discrimination and human rights violations, inequalities in wealth and political power, or a scarcity of resources, particularly where these fall along existing social cleavages such as ethnicity or religion. The second characterizes wa...
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