Due to the semantic field of fear and terror running throughout the discourses of Bush and Blair their choice of lexis is crucial in conveying their political ideologies. The introduction of Bush’s speech was of dire importance. Antithesis is being used within the first sentence; Bush begins his discourse “… Our fellow citizens, our way of life…”, and then ends with “deadly terrorist acts”. Due to the contrasting image portrayed listeners feel their “way of life”, they, as individuals and citizens of America are at threat, of “deadly and deliberate terrorist attacks”. This further promotes the global normalisation of terrorism and the “War on terror”.
At the same time they tried to create a strong non-communist South Vietnam under the leadership of Diem. By the late 1950s, the communist rebels in South Vietnam declared a revolutionary struggle against Diem, so as to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. In turn, by the 1960s the USA became more and more alarmed at this prospect, leading to further intervention in Vietnam to stop this. When Kennedy was inaugurated he inherited many crises around the globe, the most pertinent was the loss of Cuba. After the well known Bay of Pigs fiasco, he felt he was advised that he needed a foreign policy success.
Political ends necessitate the need for military force (war) as a mean. It is the burden of theorist and military professionals to harness an understanding of military history as the context for current and future actions. This understanding is necessary because the theorist and the Soldier must understand that war’s ends, and thus there action, must be in line with the political objective. Clausewitz believes that this understanding of history is the “means of unlocking the great book”. Current military education shows deference to this assertion in its curriculum.
It can be determined that the fear of communism would greatly impact the capitalist nations, including Australia. It can be stated the key developments in Australia’s response to the threat of communism included Forward Defence Policy, the SEATO and ANZUS treaties (South East Asia Treaty Organisation and the Australia New Zealand United States) taking part in military wars including The Korean War, the Malayan Emergency and The Vietnam War. The Forward Defence Policy was based on the concept that it was in Australia’s best interest to meet any threats to Australia as far away from the mainland as possible. This policy would see Australia set up military bases overseas and
Public opinion also plays a statistical importance on the outlook on the wars and is also observed from an analytical position. The informative paper is meant to compare and contrast the difference in personality’s presidents’ share during a period of war. Cases studied are meant to guide and pave a road in understanding the rational of executive leaders and the
The workers of the world had to be “liberated” from bourgeois exploitation. As the principle communist nation of the world, Russia had a duty to spread the revolution begun in 1919 to the rest of Europe. The view of many Marxist scholars was that the proletariat had been brainwashed by the rich, and thus were not capable of instigating a workers’ revolution themselves – therefore Communism had to be introduced by force. Stalin realised that the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was a rare opportunity for Russia to act as this vanguard. Perhaps less importantly, though still a significant point in the domination of Eastern Europe, was the desire of Stalin to
In order to achieve his political and economic ideal of the communist system, Ho needed an independent states which he could turn into a communist nation, but with the French and Japanese blocking his path to this ideal, he needed to take on a nationalist mindset before paving the way for his communist goals. The fact that Ho “expressed his readiness to permit the French to maintain their economic position in Vietnam if they recognized Vietnamese independence” (Rotter, 2010), could lead to the conclusion that Ho was a nationalist first in that building a strong economy is one of the phases leading up to communism. I, however, think that this proposal was just a minor part of his long-run strategy to creating a communist Vietnam. I believe that his intentions were to allow the French to stay so that Vietnam would have extra military support against Japan, for example, until Vietnamese forces were strong enough to deal with their issues without external aid. I think before the Cold War, the Americans were much more willing to aid Ho despite
Source 9 written by Michael Lynch adopts both prospective of USSR expansionism and also US economic interests, however Lynch also emphasises misjudgement and misperceptions which contribute to the conflict conceived at Cold War. Collectively the three sources contributed factors which explain the developments of the cold war; throughout this essay you will find that soviet expansionism was a determining factor to the escalation at the Cold War. Wolfson (S7) takes a Russian expansionist prospective, which emphasis that confrontation was caused by Russian expansionist tendencies, placing an emphasis on the USSR, labelling them as an aggressive country, which had “ambitious aims of consolidating communist control”. Morris (S8) is in accordance with this Russian expansionist prospective as the aggressive tendencies contributed to the US taking a dollar imperialist stance to “prevent the spread of communism”. From this prospective Russian expansionism was a key factor in the developments of the cold war.
By displaying this collection of extensive research, the author hopes to communicate to the reader that the efforts of Halliburton are deleterious in a multitude of ways, and that its contract with the military needs to be stopped. Granted, with the help from Halliburton, the military enjoys some luxury of not having to directly provide essential needs for the soldiers. However, this book outlines the management corruption and overall excessive costs of contracting with Halliburton. Also in his book, Pratap Chatterjee discusses the relevance of the Global War on Terror and how it interrelates with the operations of Halliburton. In the last 20 years, Halliburton has been heavily involved in helping the military.
In 1918, this was all to change, with Leon Trotsky placed as the commissar for war. Trotsky moved to create a real fighting force, one that was able to challenge its aggressors and move to tackle foreign intervention, something that he greatly succeeded in doing. Whether or not his role was the single most important factor for the Red success is something that we must question alongside the other factors that contributed to both Red strength and White weakness. One key factor that contributed to the success of the Red’s during the civil war was the weaknesses that their opponents posted. The main issue with the regiments of the Whites were that they were completely independent and separate to one another; all fighting for different aims.