A main focus has moved to our defense budget. ... Because of these numbers, our current questioning asks, are cuts to the defense budget necessary? ... One of the most well known advocates of this idea is the highly decorated, former United States Presidential election front-runner, and current U.S. ... Ideally, active duty soldiers will be cut from its current size of 520,000 to 440,000. ... Currently, there are cuts in place in result of the Budget Control Act of 2011. ...

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Topic: Overpopulation II. History With over 6 billion people on earth, we must acknowledge and respect the problem of overpopulation. Moreover, we must recognize the consequences both from an environmental standpoint and through the loss of human life. It is a problem that is not as clear as w...

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Even those who were skeptical about the war were soon swept up in the current as well. ... After years of living a life where surviving the day is your only focus, Paul cannot even fathom a life in which one worries about the neighbors dog, or what is on sale at the market this week. ... While older soldiers had their homes and families to help keep them focused, younger soldiers had nothing to focus thoughts of the future. This lack of focus is what caused so many young soldiers to loose themselves in the war. ... "For Germans the focus of the war was directed toward the future"(Eksteins, 118...

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Also, the book itself and the entire series is focused around the idea of war. ... She is currently writing a new children's book based on the time when her father was fighting overseas. ... She currently lives in Newtown, Connecticut with her husband and two children....

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This generation is currently the majority of the population in the United States, and because of this fact, things are going to change. ... In conclusion, historians shouldn't focus on the bad or the good, but rather they should focus on the whole and see what this era created for the United States today. ...

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In Truman, David McCullough asks, "Was Harry Truman an ordinary provincial American sadly miscast in the presidency? Or was he a man of above average, even exceptional qualities and character, who had the makings of greatness?" I believe Harry Truman was a man of exceptional qualities and character,...

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Although the Cold War focused mainly on the two most powerful countries of that time, this event, lasting approximately four decades, shaped our humble country. ... Currently, there was a meeting between the Soviets, Britain, France and the United States on post-war peace. ...

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To try to help understand the current state of political culture, Jensen refers back to his favorite radical Americans Scott Nearing. ... The Cultural-Doves focused on understanding culture while ignoring debate about war and other crucial political issues. ...

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Government would consult current information to adjust their foreign strategies. ... Waltz has focused his study on the stability of the bipolar system, but neglects a detailed explanation of the unipolar system. ...

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The current conflicts revealed in this small city accurately reflect the post World War I society of England. ... One of Colonel Harris" hardest duties were reading and writing letters sent by families about the current conditions of his soldiers. ...

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Truman and others were not only focusing on the end of WWII but also on the future relations with the Soviet Union. ... This is very promising but if larger nuclear powers do not do their jobs at monitoring one another, the current trend could reverse itself. ...

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It is currently ineffective in solving international disputes; however, humanity cannot afford to abandon a valuable institution for its imperfections. ... Indeed, we are currently spending $750 billion a year on the instruments of death, and in the process opening up a new battlefield of social neglect. ...

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The FDR Years By William E. Leutchenburg FDR: A President to Remember Out of a Great War, into a Great Depression, and onto a great recovery. Our country was at its worst times then ever. What measures were needed to bring our nation back to economic success that was it was burgeoning into...

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As a result, the United States established a series of economic approvals designed to force Japan to reconsider their current and future actions. ... Because the British and United States suffered many losses in the Pacific, they decided to focus their attention and resources to a unified command called the ABDA (American,British, Dutch, and Australian unit). ...

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But because we [the United States] refused to accept our new role and instead focus on going back to "normalcy" (Nye and Welch 115), the world fell into yet another global war. ... China currently accounts for about 14.6 percent of world output, and its share of global commerce is at 14.3 percent which is higher than the United States' at the same stage of its rise (Kliman 2). ...

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The Washington Post talked to Dr Bob Brown, head of the intelligence division that is a part of the NATO anti-terrorist unit currently based at Hereford in the United Kingdom, about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. ...

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The great depression of the US not only affected people domestically, but internationally as well. It formed modern government in many countries, made drastic legislative changes, and even spurred a major war for many countries. The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "new deal" legislation, which changed the United States. The war had left Europe in shambles. ...

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The next chapter labeled "Tactics" and the next six that follow focus on putting ones army in a position to succeed. ... Even some current definitions of intelligence are based on statements made in this chapter. ...

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For decades, people have engaged in wars as a motive to bring about peace. However it has proven to do nothing but disturb and hurt the lives of millions of civilians around the world. It is an unjust and necessary evil into our society. Civil wars exist to end disputes over land, over throw religio...

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The region of Southeast Asia was chocked full of natural resources. Some of these natural resources included coffee, tea and spices. These resources are what originally brought western countries to the area. Many of the top countries in Europe and Asia wanted to conquer parts of this region. Lockard describes the perspective of colonialism from a world view; he states "it served primarily to link Southeast Asia more firmly to a world dominated by the West and to introduce Western ideas and technologies". 1 As Lockard is right in that instance, the conquest that came along with coloni...

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