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Guerilla Warfare Essays and Term Papers
Clandestine/ Unconventional/ Guerilla WarfareClandestine/ Unconventional/ Guerilla Warfare
The Spanish word guerrilla meaning “little war”, originated in the early 19th century during the Peninsular war, after the defeat of Spain’s army and civilians rose up against the French forces that were occupying the area. This type of ...
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Warfare TechnologyIn today’s world war plays a very important role in people’s lives. Some of these wars date as far back as the Roman Empire and Alexander the Great, while others are just being born and brought to the doorstep of the world. In 1939 this world was introduced to World War II. Although this war ...
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Guerilla WarfareThe term guerrilla (Spanish, “little war”) originated in the early 19th century during the Peninsular war when, after the defeat of Spain’s regular forces, Spanish irregulars and civilians rose up against the French occupying forces. The practice of guerrilla warfare, however, dates from ...
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Inside The IRA“This morning, another IRA kills 1 and injures 40.” This statement is all too familiar in the news of Britain and Northern Ireland. The IRA, or Irish Republican Army, is a terrorist paramilitary group that opposes the connection between Northern Ireland and Great Britain and refuses to recognize ...
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Breaker MorantIn the film, , Harry Morant uttered the statement: “that is what comes of empire-building. He says this right before his execution. The building of empires was very critical for Europe during the period of industrial growth. The British would sacrifice anybody or anything for the well being of its ...
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The World Anti-Communist League: "Inside The League"by Scott Anderson, and Jon Lee Anderson
"Inside The League: The Shocking Expose Of How Terrorists, Nazis, And
Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated The World Anti-Communist
League." Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson. Dodd Mead, New York, 1986.
352 pages. $19.95 hardcover. ISBN 0- ...
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The Speech of Moses Bon Saam“The Speech of Moses Bon Saam” is a revolutionary speech addressed to enslaved natives of the West Indies. Throughout the speech, Moses intends to invoke a sense of pride, purpose, and identity among a group of revolted slaves. Three prominent themes are omnipresent throughout his speech – the ...
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Cuban And Chinese Revolution CIn A Dictionary of Sociology, Gordon Marshall defines rebellion/revolution as "Relatively rare but historically important events in which an entire social and political order is overturned, usually by violent means." He continues to say that while a rebellion is only the replacement of one ruling ...
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ChechnyaE-mail: dinipettyshow@hotmail.com
The Chechens always despised being ruled by the Russians, likewise, Russia loathed them ranked them among the most ruthless and severe criminals of the former Soviet Union (Roskin 285). Stalin deported the Chechens to Kazakhstan in 1944, claiming they were ...
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Cuban RevolutionAlmost every nation in the world has experienced a revolution. A revolution can be simply defined as "a change." When a country undergoes a revolution, its ideals that it once believed in are being modified. Sometimes revolutionaries act intellectually, yet others may respond physically through ...
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JamaicaThe island of is the third largest Caribbean island. It is in
a group of islands called the greater antilles. It has an area of 10 991
km squared or 4 244 sq. miles. spans 230 km east to west and from
80-36 from north to south. It is third only to Cuba, which is the largest,
and Hispaniola ...
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Medieval Battle TacticsMedieval tactics were essential for an attack or siege of a castle. Many tactics and strategies helped develop much-improved version of an attacking artifact, like weapons and sieging machinery. The knights of Medieval England which were the cavalry, improved as the years went by, but never ...
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MaroonsThroughout the Americas, African slaves would escape from the plantations on which they were forced to work. These people known to the Spanish as Cimarrones from the Spanish word "maron," meaning fierce and from the Spanish term for wild cattle. To the French they were known as Marrons, a term ...
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Medieval Battle TacticsMedieval tactics were essential for an attack or siege of a castle. Many tactics and strategies helped develop much-improved version of an attacking artifact, like weapons and sieging machinery. The knights of Medieval England which were the cavalry, improved as the years went by, but never ...
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Chemical Warfareis war fought with chemicals. The development of chemical weapons and defenses against these weapons are usually considered together in military training. These weapons can be designed to kill large numbers of people, disable them for a while, or destroy their food supplies. The weapons are ...
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Human Rights In TibetIn 1949, newly communist China sent 35,000 troops to invade Tibet (Tibet Support Group UK 1). The year after that a treaty was made. The treaty acknowledged sovereignty over Tibet, but recognized the Tibetan government’s autonomy with respect to internal affairs. The Chinese violated the treaty ...
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U.S. Involvement In KosovoWar has been waged in the Balkans for thousands of years. Yugoslavia has been divided, reunited, divided again, undergone wars and been through depressions. Each country within the Yugoslavia region has experienced hardships due to a failing economy, poor leadership, and civil wars. In the past ...
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Kosovo And US InvolvementU.S. Involvement in the Kosovo War has been waged in the Balkans for thousands of years. Yugoslavia has been divided, reunited, divided again, undergone wars and been through depressions. Each country within the Yugoslavia region has experienced hard times due to a failing economy, poor ...
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Conflict In VietnamDuring the late nineteenth century the French concouquered Vietnam and made it a protectorate and in 1941 the league for the independence of Vietnam (Viet Minh) was formed to fight for independence from the French and on Sept. 2nd .1945. Ho chi Minh proclaimed it independent from France. The ...
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The French And Indian Warwas also known as the Seven Years War in Europe. It was a war between the British and the allied forces of the French and various Indian tribes. The majority of Indians fought with the French, but one tribe called the Iroquois fought with the British.
was mostly caused due to colonial rivalries ...
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