U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery and airstrikes. The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and ...
Among the findings of research conducted through a Belgrade agency for domestic violence are an increase in the number of sons who commit violence against their mothers in wartime; an increase in the number of assaults involving weapons, including pistols, grenades, and other weapons from the war...
And in what might be considered thinly veiled ridicule of Trump's grasp of foreign affairs, he added: "In all likelihood, US experts probably need to explain the BRICS agenda in more detail to Mr Trump." The Kremlin in December said any US attempt to compel countries to...
Tennessee, the importance of maintaining Japan-US relations remains central to his life. As described in this chapter, he remained influential in the negotiations around Japan-US security arrangements during the 1990s. Originally the final chapter of the Japanese edition, the author provides...
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Commercial “war” games in a post-1989 setting are popular among a large audience. They offer players an enjoyable gameplay experience, while also referring to contemporary “war” scenarios. As such, they have been studied in several ways, e.g., concerning the “realistic” nature of how ...
provide necessary resources and absorb wastes given existing technologies and levels of demand for goods and services (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996) is a complex, multilevel phenomenon involving action across the public and private sectors (Elzen et al., 2004, Geels, 2005, Grin et al., 2010)....
Escalation of Violence (1980s - 1990s): During the 1980s, Hezbollah conducted guerrilla warfare against Israeli forces and their allies in Lebanon, notably bombing US and French barracks in 1983, causing significant casualties. By 1985, as Hezbollah's military strength increased, Israel withdrew ...
In late 1949, under the auspices of the UNCCP, their subsidiary Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East, headed by Gordon R. Clapp, recommended four development projects, involving the Wadi Zerqa basin in Jordan, the Wadi Qelt watershed and stream bed in Arab Palestine, the Litani River...
In July 1969 the “Nixon-Doctrine” was made public. It advocated U.S. military and economic assistance to nations around the world struggling against Communism, but no more Vietnam-style ground wars involving American troops. One month later Henry Kissinger conducted his first secret meeting in...