United States Armed Forces

INTRODUCTION The United States had emerged from the Second World War as a relatively unified, powerful and confident nation. Victory gave Americans a deep pride in the powers of their armed forces, in the productivity of their economy and in the strength of their ideals. America, Churchill said, «stands at this moment at the summit of the world». The US entered the postwar era as a creditor nation producing almost half of the world's manufactured goods with every indication of continuing technological

Michael Nagenborg / Giugelmo Tamburinni (eds.): Ethics and Robotics. Deutscher Akademieverlag (in preparation) Abstract Killing with robots is no more a future scenario but became a reality in the first decade of the 21st century. The U.S. and Israel forces are using uninhabited combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) in their so-called wars on terror, especially for targeted killing missions in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan as well as in Lebanon and the Palestinian occupied territories (for example in Israel’s

increase in levels of violence carried out by both Jewish and Arab militant groups intent on the creation of a Jewish state and the removal of Jews from the area respectively.  On May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was proclaimed as a result of a United Nations Partition Plan. The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 – referred to as the ‘War of Independence’ by Israelis and ‘The Catastrophe’ by Arabs broke out immediately with Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi, and Yemeni troops invading the

white southern leaders to the abolition of slavery and the humiliation of the civil war (1861-1865). After 1865 follow a period of reconstruction. During reconstruction, the federal government took measures to protect Black people but the southern states did not accept it. They were determined to “put the Black man in his place” with Jim Crow laws, segregation laws which were meant to preserve what they called “white supremacy”. * The Ante-bellum South Slavery was qualified as a “positive

courte synthèse du document.] | International relations theory REALISM Realism is the conservative theory of international relations that has maintained its place throughout the development of modern political science. Its premise is that all states are rational actors and their main goal is to attain power to survive. There are five basic assumptions that explain the realist theory. The first one is the anarchy. The world is anarchic, meaning that there is no global government. A government

National Security Strategy document et le second National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction document. Voici le premier document: "[T]o forestall or prevent […] hostile attacks by our adversaries, the United States, will, if necessary, act preemptively. […], the United States cannot remain idle while dangers gather.“ National Security Strategy document (2002) Ici il est évident que déclarer prendre des mesures preventives et ne pas attendre le moment où le danger s´accumule, signifie

Introduction The history of racial segregation after the Civil war (Before the case Brown v. Board of Education) The racial segregation was always a big question in the history of human rights in United States. Before the civil war, slavery was popular in the southern states; blacks were just as property of the white owners. But there were no more slaves after the civil war (1865), millions of formerly enslaved African Americans hoped to join the larger society as full and equal citizens

The women in the US armed forces The US armed Forces are the 2nd largest military in the world with 1 400 000 people on active duty, split into five departments: the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force and the Coast Guard. The majority of the military is used to be made up of men, though women have also been involved for a long time in the safety of their country. Today, they are present in each department and they represent 15% of the American strength. However women have been prohibited

MONUC MRND Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire Liberation Army of Rwanda Committee of Co-ordination for the Resistance Committee for the Defence of the Republic National Congress for the Defence of the People Democratic Republic of Congo Academy for Non-Commissioned Officers Congolese Armed Forces Rwandese Armed Forces Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (After 2003) Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda-Fighting Forces International Criminal Tribunal

conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party[5] (more commonly known as the Conservative Party) is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in its present form during the early 19th century, it has since been the principal centre-right party in the UK. The Conservative Party is descended from the old Tory Party, founded in 1678, and is still often referred to as the Tory Party and its politicians, members and supporters as Tories. It added the byname Unionist in the early