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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"military action"”.
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Words of War: Presidential Rationales for Military Action From World War II to Iraq
This study analyzes rationales for war, focusing on three questions: What rationales have U.S. presidents used to justify war and to what extent have they relied on these rationales?; To what extent have television news media echoed these rationales?; Do rationales for war present in news coverage …
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Making the Case for War: The War Rhetoric of Presidents George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush
… methods to convince the public to support military action. An examination of three distinct examples (Panama 1989, Kosovo 1999 and Afghanistan 2001) and the presidents that ordered them (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush) shows a clear pattern of “war propaganda” in their …
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Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana
… toward homosexuals, (2) attitudes toward violent military action, (3) interest in purchasing a vehicle identified as highly masculine compared to one identified as gender neutral, and (4) change in masculine identity responses. The data analysis does not support the research hypotheses that rural …
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Masculine Overcompensation: Rural Men in Montana
… toward homosexuals, (2) attitudes toward violent military action, (3) interest in purchasing a vehicle identified as highly masculine compared to one identified as gender neutral, and (4) change in masculine identity responses. The data analysis does not support the research hypotheses that rural …
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The 1998 SADC intervention in Lesotho: international law perspectives
… Lesotho, Pakalitha Mosisili, filed a request for military assistance to the Southern African Development Community. Since the Second World War there have been numerous instances of troops being sent to another state allegedly upon invitation of the government. As in virtually all instances of …
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Winning or losing media support for regime change: A comparative analysis of UK government media agenda building during the Suez 1956 and Iraq 2003 conflicts
… the support of the media in advance of taking military action in two separate conflicts in which regime change was the main government agenda and to which there was substantial internal domestic opposition. This opposition led to the necessity of winning the support of the media in order to …
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The Cold War, the New World Order, and the War on Terror : U.S. presidents' use of Orwell's big brother myth
… the myth as a means to garner support for military action against terrorists and the Axis of Evil.
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
… regarded as unacceptable justifications for military action, the fumes of imperialistic rhetoric that surround military intervention to this day are not so easily dispersed. The post-9/11 age of the War on Terror has reinscribed a worldview steeped in the omnipresence of ill-defined enemies, …
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The deterrence of nuclear terrorism through an attribution capability
… deterrent policies where severe and credible military action is threatened against would be nuclear sponsors. However, such threats only have meaning if the sponsors are convinced that their participation could be detected. Therefore there is a need for a credible means to determine the source …
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The Discursive Construction of National Security Threats from 2001-2018
… a wider audience, which intentionally provoke reactions from the nation to garner consensus towards executive decision-making. Presidents apply frames from prior administrations as well as new frames to define adverse states, organizations, groups of people, etc., and to justify disciplinary …
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Dual Intransigence: An Assessment of the US-Iran Conflict and Prospects for Rapprochement
… this study states that the growing consensus of military intervention in the US and Israeli defense community must be curbed: military action against Iran would produce more negative than positive outcomes. Despite recent claims from President Obama, diplomacy has not been exhausted. Therefore …
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The Final Ambush : An Adapted Battlefield Analysis of the U-576 Attack Upon Allied Convoy KS-520 off Cape Hatteras During the Second World War
… was the longest, largest, and most complex military action of the Second World War. The battle involved Allied, Axis, and neutral nations, resulting in both military and civilian casualties. At various times throughout the battle certain areas became centers of activity. One such focal point …
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Heroes on the home front : heroism and virtue in post-9/11 American cinema /
… male hero in mainstream American war and action films post September 11, 2001 . The thesis investigates how these heroes' behaviour echoes a patriotic, conservative construction of the modern American as created through speeches given by George W. Bush in the wake of the events of …
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The Significance of Nationalism for the Spread of Communism to Vietnam and Cuba
… by foreign policy makers when pursuing military action or nation-building abroad. The research shows that nationalism played a significant role in bringing communism to Vietnam and Cuba, yet due to the difficulty in measuring a core human feeling like nationalism, other factors cannot be …
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An analysis of humanitarian intervention in action
… order to measure the success or otherwise of any military action undertaken to stop mass atrocities and to save endangered civilians. My findings suggest that, even judged by those standards, NATO’s actions in Bosnia and Kosovo fell well short of success. Far more could have been achieved had …
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The cornered bear : the August 2008 war in Georgia as the culmination of Russia’s western security dilemma
… While several analyses have pointed to separate actions by NATO and the West as having influenced the 2008 war, this paper endeavors to show that the combined actions of the West and NATO since the fall of the Soviet Union created a security dilemma for Russia. Because the West refused to …
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The influence of regional conflicts and military reform on the 2010 and 2014 Military Doctrines of the Russian Federation: an analysis of the development and current force posture of the Russian conventional ground forces
The 2010 and 2014 Military Doctrines of the Russian Federation, as planning documents for the armed forces, have been influenced and guided, both directly and indirectly, by the recent regional conflicts in Georgia and Crimea, as well as by the ongoing ‘New Look’ military reforms. The perceived …
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Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment
… included the British Parliament; various British military and government officials; the Virginia Convention of 1775; the various Virginia military units, both regular and volunteer; and the white population of Virginia as a whole. However, primary emphasis is placed upon the efforts and actions of …
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Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage
… and economic development; conflict: violence and military action; and politics and policy: USA, Afghanistan, and NATO) received the most coverage on Afghanistan. The purpose of this study was to examine focal points in media coverage on Afghanistan. The findings of the study indicated that the …
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Sentinel palydovinių duomenų analizės taikymas karo poveikiui aplinkai tirti /
Russia's military actions in Ukraine are destroying not only Ukrainian cities and villages, but also the country's ecosystem and its components. One of these components is Ukraine's agro-cultural fields. The destruction and loss of agri-fields affects not only the Ukrainian economy, but also the …
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