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War over Kosovo in Comparison to Keegan's Book: A History of Warfare Many people around the world are beginning to wonder if humans are aggressive by nature.... If the answer is yes, then this will be the reason why there has been so much war in this world.... hellip; War itself has always been a dirty and intrigue-filled affair....
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Essay
It is too complex to be adequately reflected by a simple functional definition or institutional characteristics of the state.... Weber addressed this special form of legitimacy of the state's monopoly as 'rational-legal' legitimacy which relies on impersonal rules that constrain the power of state elites.... For example, failure of the state to have a total monopoly over 'the means of legitimate physical violence over a definite territory' or absence of any reasons for addressing the legitimacy of such monopoly as rational-legal does not necessarily mean that the state represents another form of political organization....
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Achieving decisive victory in war is much more difficult today.... In the past, countries or nations will use all of their resources to destroy another country's or nation's capability to wage war.... hellip; Achieving decisive victory in war is much more difficult today.... In the past, countries or nations will use all of their resources to destroy another country's or nation's capability to wage war....
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Various recent events, most particularly the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in April, 1995, and the racially motivated murders of two civilians by active-duty United States Army personnel in Fayetteville, North Carolina in December, 1995, have focused the attention and suspicion of both military and civilian authorities on the possibility that extremist and potentially terroristic elements have established themselves within the Armed Forces of our country....
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When those implementing political power lose their popular support and the entire political regime loses a whole, its legitimacy no longer take pleasure in acceptance and trust of population and the state's organizations are considered inappropriate upon bringing the legitimacy of armed forces into question.... It is known the armed forces of a state are not longer neutral than state itself.... The challenging assertion reviews the fact that armed forces like any institution of state get their legitimacy from state itself and established political regime (Kuhlmann 20)....
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Research Paper
This paper "Relation between Domestic Terrorism and the US Armed Forces in the Mid-90s" reviews historical and contemporary trends of domestic terrorism within the US as a means of establishing the similarities that exist between domestic extremist groups, the ways in which military personnel may be influenced....
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Case Study
With the advancement of the race, the issues of religion and safeguarding the rights and privileges of a community also became predominant factor for war.... However gruesome, disillusioned… Various diplomats and political persons view the war in different light and their definition or purpose of executing such an activity is also different from To some, it is an act of glory while for others the same activity appears as a gory to them....
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Essay
The paper "The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin" highlights that the story is very short but yet it has great depth and meaning portraying the innermost feelings of a simple human being who was denied what was rightfully hers, just because she was married.... hellip; Kate Chopin's work reflects upon her life and her stories which are an extension of her own experiences and the desires that arose for freedom, due to the events that shaped her own destiny....
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Research Proposal