History

    Military activity has been a constant process over thousands of years. However, there is little agreement about when it began. Some believe it has always been with us; others stress the lack of clear evidence for it in our prehistoric past, and the fact that many peaceful, non-military societies have and still do exist. Military history is composed of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of conflict. This may range from a melee between two tribes to conflicts between propermilitaries to a world war affecting the majority of the human population. Military historians record (in writing or otherwise) the events of military history.

     There are a number of ways to categorize warfare. One categorization is conventional versus unconventional, where conventional warfare involves well-identified, armed forces fighting one another in a relatively open and straightforward way without weapons of mass destruction. "Unconventional" refers to other types of war which can involve raiding, guerrilla, insurgency, and terrorist tactics or alternatively can include nuclear, chemical, or biological warfare.

     Although many have sought to understand why wars occur, and thus to find peaceful solutions instead of armed conflicts leading to massive loss of life, wars have continued to plague humankind into the twenty-first century. Even when weapons capable of destroying all life on earth were invented, and placed in position ready for use, wars did not cease. No matter how many dead or injured return, or how many people say there should never be another war, another war has always erupted. The solution to the problem of war must be found deep within human nature. Only then will the possibility of a world of peace emerge.
by Michelle

  Reference:
    Sauerwein, D. (2011, February). Civil war history. Retrieved from http://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/   




                                                             March of Democracy
by: Luis Daniel Calo

Churchill, W. March of Democracy. Retrieve March 3, 2011 http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/march-of-democracy.html

                                         Cold War: Postwar Estrangement
by: Luis Daniel Calo

The Western democracies and the Soviet Union discussed the progress of World War II and the nature of the postwar settlement at conferences in Tehran (1943), Yalta (February 1945), and Potsdam (July-August 1945). After the war, disputes between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies, particularly over the Soviet takeover of East European states, led Winston Churchill to warn in 1946 that an "iron curtain" was descending through the middle of Europe. For his part, Joseph Stalin deepened the estrangement between the United States and the Soviet Union when he asserted in 1946 that World War II was an unavoidable and inevitable consequence of "capitalist imperialism" and implied that such a war might reoccur.


The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. There were real wars, sometimes called "proxy wars" because they were fought by Soviet allies rather than the USSR itself -- along with competition for influence in the Third World, and a major superpower arms race.


After Stalin's death, East-West relations went through phases of alternating relaxation and confrontation, including a cooperative phase during the 1960s and another, termed dtente, during the 1970s. A final phase during the late 1980s and early 1990s was hailed by President Mikhail Gorbachev, and especially by the president of the new post-Communist Russian republic, Boris Yeltsin, as well as by President George Bush, as beginning a partnership between the two states that could address many global problems.


Cold War: Postwar Entrangment.Retrieve february,17 2011.URL:http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html