Religion and Warfare: Yesterday and Today A religious war is a war justified by religious differences. It can be the acceptable forces of one state that has a well-known religion against those of another state with either a different religion or a different section within the same religion, or, at the level below a state, it can be a faction motivated by religion attempting to spread its faith by violence either within the state or elsewhere. The French Wars of Religion, the Crusades, and the
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war was a mark in history that brought about major social, cultural, political, and economic change, and thier adverse side effects. During World War I, Germany was in the beginning of its prime, a great nation with sheer power and strength. Germany can be indentified as the nation that was at the core of the world war. DuringWorld War I, the German Empirewas one of the Central Powers. Gemany had the presence of a massive army and state of the art machineries that enhanced warfare activities, steereing
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way cyber terrorism revolutionized information warfare. There is no distinct definition of Cyber terrorism; however, its threat is as real as waging war but with weapons of automation. Terrorists have begun to exploit the availability of information with the malicious intent to sabotage; conversely, there are those who are not quite sure if information warfare - cyber terrorism is an actual threat. This research paper will briefly explore the history of cyber terrorism, the friend the internet has
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Napoleonic warfare were all present before Bonaparte’s first successful campaign in 1796.”[3] Napoleon was indeed a superb military commander, but he inherited, rather than created, the conditions and practices which enabled his success. Napoleonic warfare was dominated by large, mobile armies. Decisive battles were sought and the primacy of the offensive was encouraged. The destruction of the enemy’s forces took precedence over geographic aims and victory was to be pursued at all costs. Warfare under
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propaganda warfare was prompted by a number of reasons which ranged from economic, political, social and military factors. It is worth noting here that, the tempo and conduct of the war varied from one locality to the other depending on the terrain and proximity to strategical areas like borders, transport networks and close to government’s administrative offices. The study is presented in three chapters. The first chapter outlines the reasons for the introduction of propaganda warfare in Chilonga
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The war itself lasted around 20 years, however america was not in it from start to finish. The war is considered on of the most gruesome in history. The battlefield itself was mostly a thick dense jungle. It was very humid and rained a lot of the time. The Vietcong, communist people of South Vietnam who fought for the efforts of the north, where very crafty they would use several tactics that would eventually win the war. For starters they used the jungle for there advantage they would dig out cave
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The main issue with Afghanistan is that it disregards all Western customs of warfare. Alexander did conquer Afghanistan in the end and set up a more Western-style culture that held for quite some time. Alexander managed to achieve this by staging a massive invasion, annihilating about 10% of the native population, deporting another mass of people and scattering them around the Middle East and Central Asia, building and settling Greek cities throughout the region, appointing his senior tactical advisor
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In David La Vera’s (2007) book Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut’s Tomb he discusses the history of Spiro mounds in both ancient and modern times. Throughout his analysis of Spiro’s history La Vera describes the culture of Spiro’s ancient inhabitants, and the cultural clash that began at Spiro between professional archaeologists and grave robbers- or “pot hunters” as they were fondly called. Through these description La Vera is able to show how culture affects the relationships that are
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beneficial for a soldiers training but also harmful to the general public creating a false sense of reality. As ongoing improvement of technology as a whole has taken place, video games have recently become incredibly realistic. Day by day, makeshift warfare in people’s living rooms is turning into reality. With such new features as vibrating controllers, HD televisions, and surround sound speakers gamers are put right in the middle of the action. War-based games have seen much recent success and have
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When we were searching for a topic to research for National History Day, we discovered an article addressing the issue of how the Japanese had still not apologized for the horrendous experiments Unit 731 conducted on human beings. As we read the article, our interest for the subject piqued, and we began scouring the Internet for additional information about Unit 731. After discovering how Unit 731 impacted the world, we decided that it would serve as an interesting take on the NHD topic. Shirō Ishii
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