While functional combatant commands operate all over the world across geographic boundaries, geographic combatant commands have a regional military focus and work in clearly delineated responsibility areas. When operating, geographic combatant commanders regularly face various challenges that make it harder for them to perform their responsibilities. At the same time,...
Holocaust is the title for the process of pursuing and massive annihilation of Jew, who resided in Germany, in its and its alliance partners’ territories during World War II. It appears to be one of the most well-known examples of genocide in the 20th century. The coverage of this historical...
Adolf Hitler was one of the most arrogant and feared dictators in the world. He was the leader responsible for the beginning of World War II. Due to the pending unsettled issues since World War I, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland despite Germany and the Soviet Union’s agreement to share Poland....
Germany, Britain, and the USA contributed significantly to the amplification of World War I. The conflict was sparked by disagreements between the countries, with the USA supporting Britain, Italy, and Japan against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey on one hand. When the war broke out first in 1915, the USA was...
Nazi death camps were designed for the mass extermination of people. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as prisons and penal servitude, death camps (also called extermination camps) were exclusive “death factories.” Operation Reinhard was named after the main organizer of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, Reinhard Heydrich,...
The use of atomic weapons to end World War II and the tragic events associated with Hiroshima and Nagasaki are famous episodes in history. While the successful development of the US nuclear bomb probably escalated the Cold War, it also helped to avoid massive casualties. On the one hand, under...
Introduction An unprecedentedly huge wave of refugees from the Middle East who has been arriving in European countries in the last several years caused the migrant crisis that attracts the particular attention of people and authorities across the globe. Triggered by the Arab Spring in 2010 and leaders’ overthrown in...
The emergence of terrorist organizations in the 1980s and 1990s, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), respectively, initiated global fear of Islam. After the formation of Al-Qaeda, the leader of this extremist organization, Osama bin Laden, declared the commencement of the holy war, jihad, against...
Radical American Right-Wing Groups Radical American right-wing groups are one of the groups within one political spectrum which step outside any settled boundaries of the already existing electoral politics. The brightest representatives of these groups are numerous revolutionary Right, neo-fascists, militant racial supremacists, and several religious extremists. The major point...
This interview provides Rosemary Lane’s comprehensive account of her experiences during the Second World War in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Lane was born on September 8, 1921, in Holy Cross, Iowa. She was taken to a small Catholic school there, and when she was 18, she went to pursue nursing in...