War has been a part of society since the beginning of time. Wars have been won. Wars have been lost. People have died. Countries have tasted the spoils of victory as well as the agony of defeat. Where some countries have stood to gain much from the art of war, others have fallen by the wayside, in terms of economic development and human security.

¡§To ensure the peaceful development of nations, free from coercion the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations¡¨. ~ Harry S. Truman

This quote from Harry Truman gave life to the beginning of the Cold War, which from 1945-1991 pitted the U.S. against the Soviet Communist nations. The Marshall Plan, which is what Truman is referring to in the above quote, was the catalyst, which set the stage for over 45 years of ¡§cold¡¨ war. The plan was to give $400 million U.S. dollars in aid to Turkey and Greece with which to set up respective governments. This was just the beginning in the chain of events, which illustrates the actual impact of war.

From the day when North Koreans attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950 to the day of the armistice on July 27, 1953, the even

9:28 AM. when both towers of the World Trade Center had already been hit, flight controllers in Cleveland overheard some commotion from flight 93's cockpit. The flight controllers tried to contact the pilot and received no reply. At 9:35 AM the flight reversed direction and began flying eastwards at a low altitude. Shortly before 10 AM the plane again changed direction, this time southeast towards Washington. It crashed into a reclaimed coal-mining area near Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 AM. Other accounts give 10:06 and 10:10 AM as the time of impact. It landed at an estimated speed of 575 miles per hour and left a crater about 35 metres deep. There were no survivors.

Phase 3 began in April of 1951. The beginning of this phase was marked by a sort of "see-saw" fighting along the thirty-eighth parallel with neither unit really advancing beyond the parallel. By summer of 1951, talks for an armistice began. By June 1953, the basic agreement over the POW issue was settled. Both sides agreed to release their POW¡¦s. By June 17, agreement on the final truce line became finalized. There was however, one final attack in which 7,400 Koreans were killed and U.S. forces were threatened. The United States agreed to take responsibility in enforcing the agreement of the armistice. The armistice was finally signed on July 27, 1953.

On March 19, 2003, the U.S. military began an all out attack on Irag for the second time in just over a decade. U.S. Stealth bombers and Tomahawk Cruise Missiles struck "leadership targets" in and around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to begin the second major war between a United States-led Coalition and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Soon thereafter, air attacks began against Iraqi targets in southern Iraq, followed by missile attacks from Iraq toward U.S. military positions in the Kuwaiti desert. The stated goals of the Coalition were the disarmament of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and his Baath political party.

ts of the Korean War revealed the mass destruction, pain, and suffering Koreans had to endure. At the end of the war, more than 3 million Koreans died while millions of refugees remained homeless and displaced. About 1 million Chinese died in this battle and American casualties numbered 54,246 people. The Korean War can be divided into three phases.

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