A standard way that the Emperors used their power was for military purposes. Because Rome was a large and thriving empire; a strong army was needed for equally attacking and defending against opposition. Emperors could effortlessly find new recruits for enlistment to the Roman legions. This would provide the advantage of larger numbers of soldiers in a battle. This benefit allowed tactics such as the ‘wedge’ to be executed as more soldiers could reinforce the wedge from behind, which would consequently break the enemies’ formation (Roman Empire.net 2012).
They fought in some of the bloodiest wars, just to gain power. Some scholars attribute this expansion to the greed and aggressiveness of people who were fond of war. It’s also said that fear drove Romans to expand the territories under their control in order to provide a buffer against attack. With allowing all these new citizens Rome had a bigger army, which was an advantage as they were conquering other territories. Rome also had the most advanced technology in the military department.
The Suez crisis caused great controversy within Britain and also did a lot to threaten Britain’s world relations, especially with the USA. The Crisis began as a result of Egypt’s Colonel Nasser failing to get funding from the USA for his high dam project which he believed would help Egypt to become a more powerful wealthy nation and bring its industry in line with that of other global powers. Nasser then turned to the Suez Canal for a source of national income. The canal was vital to Britain and France to allow for trade with many eastern countries. Britain had recently removed its troop from the area around the canal, so Nasser decided to nationalise the canal and impose a toll which he could use to fund the dam.
This would further enhance the policy of containment and would help to prevent the spread of communism into the west. The fact that Stalin was expanding communism into Eastern Europe forced the USA to increase its military spending in order to protect not only itself, but the rest of its western allies from communist threats. By expanding their military across Western Europe, the USA was gaining more and more power on a global scale. Again, the USSR would see this increase in military spending as an attack on communism and so in order to protect itself from yet another invasion, bearing in mind the fact that it had already been invaded twice in the last two years, they put forward ‘defensive’ measures towards the USA, for example the Berlin Blockade, which lead to the start of the Cold War. Moreover, by involving themselves in the Korean War, the USA was following through with its policy of containment by protecting South Korea from communist forces in the North.
In order for the United States to satisfy their need to maintain their spot as a world superpower, the desire for increasing the amount of military defense spending is at the top of the government’s list of priorities. One could argue that the United States’ extreme amount of military government spending is the result of the reputation of being the “peacekeeper” of the world or “the world’s police officer” due to the United States’ tendency of intervening with other nation’s problems or wars. Most if not all Americans would agree with the idea of being peacekeepers of the world; but none are aware of the real absurdity of the amount spent by the United States for the military. As of 2012, the amount for the Defense Spending Budget of the United States annually totaled almost 600 billion dollars. On a list of defense spending by country, the United States is ranked first or the highest amount spent.
The Cold War changed American culture in a number of important ways. Fear of communism greatly increased due to rising tensions with the Soviet Union. Politicians of both parties often tapped into that fear and ran for office based on how strong they would be against communists. And fighting communism always involved the threat of nuclear war since both the U.S. and Soviet Union had nuclear weapons trained on each other. President Dwight Eisenhower's military plan relied on nuclear stockpiles rather than land forces.
Western Civilization leads in categories of politics, economics, science and technology and in each category the West gained efficiency and effectiveness. It is seen by many people that Columbus used his power to conquer the people of the new world and commit genocide and slavery but at the same time Columbus brought knowledge to these people and enabled them to become as powerful as Western Civilization. Over time, Western Civilization has faced adversity but like Columbus, they have done whatever was necessary to keep expanding Western influence. The article also clarifies the debate over Columbus because it shows that Columbus cannot be looked at as good or bad; Columbus has to be looked at as an admiral, who took necessary action in the new world to keep Western Civilization on top. If Columbus had not taken the actions that he did, the people of the new world may have overthrown him and the western influence and that could have changed the world as we know it forever.
US wanted to focus on itself and the problems they faced within the country, never mind foreign problems. It would be a citizens surprise that the United States became a world superpower at one point and was becoming involved much more in global events and issues. Some believe that the United States shifted from isolationism to being involved in war for self-defense reasons while other say its a combination of economic reasons and self-defense. It began due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and ever since then the US has not been for isolationism. The country then feared the spread of communism which lead into more global involvement.
A terrorist threat/ attack and a nuclear threat are real attacks that still go on today in our country and our people are scared of. In my opinion both of them are alike. They make the government have to evaluate everything that is going on and it deters the economic growth in our community, on this causes the government to take advantage of their view of defense against an upcoming attack. A war and an attack such as 9/11 are two different types of attacks. And these are attacks that people will forever remember.
The declaration is authorized by a party of a national government in order to create a state of war between two or more states. As you will appreciate a declaration of war will have a large and immediate impact on the military services as they will begin to be deployed almost immediately to a particular battle zone, along with their resources and equipment. They will be fighting for an aim or set of aims specified by the government. The armed services exist as servants of the government and can only go into military action when ordered to do so by the government and they cannot pick where. The conclusion of this is that the services are far reaching as there is the ever present risk to the lives of serving for their country.