Category: Armed Hostilities 701

It is a tendency that China is expanding military power and could threaten the United States in military terms; this tendency is harmful because it diverts attention from the main threats  economic and cultural dominance of China in the world. It is possible to compare the current development of relations of China and the…

The USA PATRIOT Act was adopted on October 26, 2001, and bears the official name of Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The reason for its adoption was the act of terrorism New York faced on September 11 2001 when Islamic terrorists hijacked four jet airliners and…

Table of Contents Preamble The Acts Implications on US Citizens Conclusion References Preamble The USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, enacted by the hundredth and seventh United States Congress. Frank James Sensenbrenner introduced it in the House…

Introduction Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, the first and only atomic bombs to target enemy cities in a war, were created as an outcome of the Manhattan Project. The name was because the project depended on previous research (Atomic Bomb 3) done in New York. The chief scientist was Robert Oppenheimer, the fled German physics…

The United States and Japan were at conflict long before the attack of Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941. 1 In particular, there existed conditions that were multiple at different levels that merged to form potential rivalry between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s. The new world had undergone…

The bombings of the two cities bring to fore concerns of terrorism and its global effects on the security of the nationals of any given country in the world. Such occurrences have taken several cities by surprise.One such acts on innocent citizens include that of the city of London and Oklahoma. There are clear similarities…

Table of Contents A Review of the Literature Conclusion References Footnotes A Review of the Literature Reviewing the Japanese and United States political affairs history up to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the turning point came about after Japan won the war over Russia in 1905. From that period henceforth, American and…

Trumans decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was right under the prevailing conditions. Japan was engaged in an expansionist strategy using the means of violence. It was also being ruled by the army which was prepared to fight to the bitter end rather than surrender unconditionally. As a result, Japan used all means…

Introduction The topics of war and peace have been of considerable time to people from times immemorial (JCS, 2009). This paper considers and compares three scholarly articles concerned with this topic, and namely with the questions of why people start fighting, why they stop the fight, and how the peace can be prolonged. The articles…

The year was 1941, the Second World War was already in progress the Japanese army was in need of resources like oil and raw materials to continue its conquest and the western powers were anticipating military moves from the Japanese for the control of resource rich areas to continue fueling their aggression. It was a…