French Military Ports Adaptation to Naval Warfare
Text commentary - 7 pages - Modern history
Théophile Aube's 1882 article discusses adapting French military ports to strategic upheavals in naval warfare, referencing great powers' models like Germany, Russia, and the UK.
Justifying Military Intervention for Sustainable Development
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
This document explores the concept of military interventionism as a means to protect the environment and ensure sustainable development, drawing parallels with humanitarian intervention and human rights.
Tarnished: Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military - George E. Reed (2015) - Toxic Management & Leadership
Text commentary - 5 pages - Management
The book written by Reed (2015) reports the challenges of the American Army in terms of leadership. At first, soldiers have all the notions required to act like a perfect leader (Ibid). However, each leader develops a style of leadership according to his/her personality and his/her environment...
Theories and Critiques Against Military Revolution
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
The term military revolution refers to theories that try to explain a series of drastic changes in the military over a period of time. It led to many changes that lasted for a long time in the politics and society in Europe. Michael Robert was the introducer of this theory in the...
Anatomy of the Russian disinformation campaign: understanding the complexity of a covert network as part of state policy and a military tool against Europe
Tutorials/exercises - 73 pages - Journalism
About two decades ago, it was impossible to imagine that foreign disinformation could actually affect the policy decision making or disturb social cohesion and solidarity in European countries. Back then, media outlets such as television, radio stations and newspapers enjoyed munificent funding...
The persecutions: The political and military commitment
Case study - 4 pages - Ancient history
In 1738, the region came under the control of the Afghan leader Nadir Shah of Iran .It return to hostilities, that Sikhs call ghalughara (Holocaust). In 1762 he destroyed Amritsar, seen as a symbol of the complete victory of Islam. This is the Wadde Ghalughara (second Holocaust). However it...
Military Turn Overs / Check List Use
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Turnover checklists are documents used to verify payrolls, proceeds and income statements against the restrictions defined by the checklist itself. This proposal's purpose is to develop the checklists currently in use. Evidently, this process can at times be difficult following to the complicity...
Civil-military relations in Kosovo - the stakes of the European involvement
Essay - 4 pages - European union
In 2003, after the outbreak of European divisions over the question of Iraq, the European Council adopted the European Strategy developed by Javier Solana in a document, 'A secure Europe in a Better World', stating that 'Europe should be ready to share in the responsibility for global...
Analysis of Women in the Military
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
For a long time recruitment of women in the military was kept at minimal. However, in the present era the face of military has taken a drastic change as more and more women join the armed forces. Currently, women make up 14 percent of US forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq...
The relationship between the military and civilian leadership in the United States
Case study - 6 pages - Political science
The civil-military leadership involves the interaction between the uniformed military and the civilians. Attitudes and actions of both civilians and military shape this relationship (Leonard, par. 1). -America has had tension between the military (both in the office...
Understanding military downsizing
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
On October 21st, 2011, President Obama held a press conference, one of many actually, where he stated “virtually all U.S. troops will come home from Iraq by the end of the year -- at which point he can declare an end to America's long and costly war in that Middle Eastern nation.”...
The recent use of private military companies (PMCS) in war zones
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
The use of mercenaries is not a new phenomenon. Such combatants exist since antiquity, selling their force to princes and states, and so are sometimes called the world's second oldest profession. In the Chapter XII of its famous book “The Prince”, Machiavelli already discuss the...
The French return to NATO's military command structure: Anything beyond great expectations?
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
The official announcement of France's return to NATO's military command structure triggered a many-fold debate on both the futures of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Would France's leanings towards NATO enable the European...
Understanding the tendencies in the use of private military and security companies in international security management
Case study - 8 pages - Management
The recent war in Iraq reveals the growing importance of the phenomenon of privatization of security and defense activities. It has been estimated that more than 20,000 private contractors were hired in Iraq to carry out military and security related activities. These new soldiers are not...
Samurai - Class of military nobility in pre-industrial Japan
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Samurai were members of a class of military nobility in pre-industrial Japan. They were bound by a code of honor known as “Bushido.” When roughly translated, “Bushido” means “the way of the warrior.” The Bushido was a moral code that all samurai were...
Why will political advisors become indispensable during military functions?
Internship report - 4 pages - Political science
It is widely accepted that in almost all military decisions, the political factor has to be taken into account. To that extent is a political advisor or “polad” needed in the military institutions as well as on the field? The face of warfare has irrevocably changed, as...
The Case for Federal Courts: Why suspected terrorists should not be tried in military commissions
Thesis - 6 pages - Constitutional law
Federal courts are a time-tested, constitutionally sound, and internationally approved system for prosecuting designated “enemy combatants.” The United States Constitution is intended not to grant rights, but to protect those rights in the face of the power of the federal government....
The Emergence of Private Military Companies: An economical and political dimension, and a major strategic issue.
Dissertation - 10 pages - Political science
Private Military Company, the association of these three words seems surprising. It is indeed generally accepted that military operations is public and is a matter of state, which has the monopole of physical violence, according to Max Weber. Moreover reference to a company,...
To what extent was the air campaign in operation Iraqi freedom a military success but a public relations failure?
Thesis - 15 pages - International relations
The relationship between the US and Iraq in the post-Cold War era has been marked by a shift in US foreign policy, which has culminated in two wars, namely Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The focus of this paper is to critically evaluate the tactical position of the USA in...
Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb: A satire that says a lot about the military and political system in the 1960's
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
In this term paper, I analyze the themes of Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; what Screenwriter/Director Stanley Kubrick was trying to say in this film. Then I compare the themes to the topics of the 1960's and to the present. The film is a satire of the Cold...
Conflict management: case of a young officer in the Military
Case study - 8 pages - Human resources
Conflict is a state of discord which is caused through the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests or against something or between someone or more aptly, between two or more parties who are not in agreement on a particular subject. The army is under a state of constant...
New military technologies and the future of warfare
Dissertation - 24 pages - International relations
New military technologies are primarily a question of power, before the technological issue. It is important to see that in this case, the only actors studied are the State and the Departments of the State (Defence, research and development). It is for this reason that the main sources of...
Can the military be a-political? Should it be? - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The world has been stunned since 1989 by the speed with which the countries of Eastern Europe abandoned four decades of Marxist-Leninist rule and moved into Western-style democracy and capitalism. Although the process of transition was, of course, delicate, it seems that very often economic and...
How an EU military could affect world peace through international law
Thesis - 12 pages - International law
There is no greater motivation for European unification than the desire for peace. Just like the UN, the EU wants to avoid the “scourge of war” for its future generations. In times of peace, the world forgets that the EU is not an economic coalition, but is instead a peaceful, foreign...
"In the last resort, states with classical military forces prevail": How does the realist theory contribute to foreign policy? - publié le 17/05/2009
Thesis - 6 pages - International relations
The theory is mainly a tool for the study of International Relations. It allows for the building of a conceptual framework upon which the events of world politics are analyzed. Theory provides with models that help unravel the mechanisms at work in the international system. Each theory is like a...
Military force is a blunt and ineffectual instrument of power in the international system: do you agree?
Essay - 8 pages - International relations
Since its presupposed apparition with the Thucydide's narration of the Peloponnesian war, the study of International Relations has, focused on the military force. It is an element omnipresent in the international system since the apparition of the Westphalian order, and even before the...
Civil - military relations in Israel - publié le 12/01/2009
Thesis - 5 pages - Other law subjects
Israel is a democratic republic and operates under the parliamentary system. Executive power is exercised by the prime minister and the government. It was founded in 1948.The Israeli defence forces, Tsahal, were also created in 1948, with the professionalisation of several paramilitary...
Military Efforts to Meet Soldiers Needs Faster
Essay - 5 pages - Management
The following essay compares the Lean Six Sigma and Uniformed Army Scientists and Engineers (UAS&E) transformation efforts of the United States military. This analysis will identify key factors which led to the transformation as well as, policies which were enacted in order to effect this...
Japanese military independence
Essay - 7 pages - Political science
The Japanese Self-Defense Force (SDF) was developed as a provisionary force during the Cold War and is restricted under Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. The SDF has been under much scrutiny over the most recent decade. Debates regarding the amendment or abolition of Article 9 itself,...
Can the military be a-political? Should it be?
Essay - 4 pages - Political science
The world has been stunned since 1989 by the speed with which the countries of Eastern Europe abandoned four decades of Marxist-Leninist rule and moved into Western-style democracy and capitalism. Although the process of transition was, of course, delicate, it seems that very often economic and...
