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  • Military And Ruse
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    Looking into this question I wonder about several things. I respect the merit of the question but also see the discrepancy in the importance. I think that posing this question through the context of the military cuts the question short in my eyes. Living in a country where military service is optional and considered a career I can't see them guaranteeing any rights to soldiers. I don't understand why anyone would join the service, and if they did why they would expect any rights or guarantees of...
  • Life Of A Spartan Male
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    It's hard for textbooks to say anything nice about the Spartans. one may find that the Spartans described as 'an armed camp,' 'brutal,' 'culturally stagnant,' 'economically stagnant,' 'politically stagnant,' and other fun things. The reality, of course, lies somewhere behind the value judgements. In 725, the oligarchy of Sparta needed land to feed a dramatically growing population, so the Spartans went over the Taygetus mountains and took over Messenia, where a fertile plain was enough to suppor...
  • Indonesia's Purchase Of Military Aircraft From Russia
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    I INTRODUCTION A. Background Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri signed a little-publicized deal at the end of April to purchase four Russia fighter jets and two helicopters as part of a much larger potential order. The decision to buy from Russia was a subject to a United States ban on military purchases; this marks a small but significant shift from Indonesia's current dependence on United States' military hardware. The Indonesian military is suffering from acute lack of supplies and pa...
  • U.S. Military
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    According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States military now maintains a force of around 1.4 million active duty personnel. In times of relative peace, this is sufficient to protect U.S. interests at home and abroad. But when the United States engages in a larger scale operation, the military may need to call up reserve forces. In a major conflict, the United States may even institute the draft, drawing soldiers from the general civilian population. The idea of a military draft, a...
  • Its Military Strength During The Cold War
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    Cold War vs. United States The Cold War ended in 1991 after the Soviet Union fell apart. Since then, Russia's economy paralyzed, and the United States is three trillion dollars in debt, and both counties were weakened by the Cold War because of military spending. To have world peace does not mean that United States should increase its military strength. The Realist theory would argue that military strength is important to maintain peace both domestically and internationally. Even though the Unit...
  • Weakness Of Internal Coalitions In Military Governments
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    Military Governments Charles Aquino Political Science 1/14/97 Military governments have been around since the days of feudalism. Itis the oldest and most common political state. According to Shively, a military government is one in which a group of officers use their troops to take over the governmental apparatus and run it themselves. Military governments are usually weak in appeasing the masses for they are known to be brutal and power hungry and are also rather fragile, both internally and ex...
  • Military State And The Industrial State
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    LIBERALISM: HERBERT SPENCER. The most extreme reflection of nineteenth-century individualism is to be found in the encyclopedic system of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were of a long English and French nonconformists, dissenters and rebels, and Spencer traces in his 'Autobiography' his 'conspicuous disregard' of political, religious, and social authority to the tradition of independence and dissent so long cherished by his family. Spencer's education was i...
  • Decline Of The Spartan Economy
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    Explain the main features of the Spartan Economy. [25 Marks] In Sparta, the economy meant two things: the system of wealth creation and the state of the countrys prosperity. The economy has four essential features, natural resources, economic objectives (military state), distribution of land and the roles of Perioikoi and Helots. These features are inter-related and work together in order to achieve the economic objective, which was to maintain a military dominance. This priority of maintaining ...

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