This question is one which has been debated for centuries and likely will remain unanswered for many more to come. Nonetheless, it is a question which is important to ask and attempt to answer, particularly as the world enters a very unique and delicate period in its history. I have been reading the...
Should the United States be Pulling its Troops out of Iraq?The answer to this question will have enormous ramifications not only for American politics, stability in Iraq and the Middle East, but also global affairs for decades to come. I believe that Barack Obama’s decision to remove troops from Iraq could prove to be one of the worst decisions ever made by...
Pearl Harbor - Japan Made The Right Decision To Attack“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” So goes the opening of the speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt the day after the Japanese launched their invasion...
Cortez Got Lucky…According to legend, Hernan Cortez took a small army, a handful of horses, a few cannons, and was able to virtually exterminate the oldest and most militaristic nation in the America’s. The Aztec nation was an extremely advanced (though barbaric) people who had established themselves in the Yucatan...
Why Not to Take a Slow and Unsupplied Army into the Middle of the DesertOn July 4th 1187, the forces of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem were almost entirely wiped out by a Muslim army at the battle of Hattin. This was one of the most crushing defeats for western forces during the Crusades, and highlighted the ignorance and arrogance which so often led to Christian forces...
