Savage Fight of the Vietnam War, written by Robert Maras with the assistance of Charles W. Sasser, tells the story of Maras, a Vietnam veteran, and his experiences during the war. From his combat landing on Red Beach, to his departure from the Demilitarized Zone, also known as the DMZ, Robert Maras describes in great detail the joys and sorrows of his time in Vietnam. The book
are the lot of the warrior. Set in the monsoon season of 1969, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War covers three months in the life of Bravo Company, a company of Marine infantry operating in the highlands of Vietnam just south of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). Fresh from an Ivy League education, where he graduated second in his class, Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas commands one of the company’s three platoons. After they are ordered to abandon the hilltop stronghold known as Matterhorn, that Mellas
The term DMZ (demilitarized zone) in the computer world refers to a buffer zone that separates the Internet and your private network or LAN. The DMZ is considered more trusted than the Internet but less trusted than the internal network. Many commercial routers use the term DMZ when they are simply bypassing their filters and NAT protection and forwarding all traffic to a specific host. This setup is not a true DMZ although can serve the purpose of one. One way to create a DMZ is with a machine
My initial reason to enter the Air Force was a great way to pay for college which turned into a call of duty and a service commitment which has actively allowed me to contribute to the Air Force mission. Thus far I have led a joint force search and rescue effort and a multinational exercise to preserve freedom. As an F-15E instructor WSO and combat mission ready WSO I actively contribute to ensure our freedoms are preserved and the attacks of September 11, 2001 will never happen again. My Air Force
Theory III: Clash of Civilizations Thirdly, the Clash of Civilizations is a theory by Samuel Huntington, which shows that the conflicts that North Korea and South Korea faces in the modern era are caused by differences. On one hand, the war was considered the clash of civilizations at one of two levels: the micro-level. It is when adjacent groups along the fault lines between civilizations struggle violently, over the control of territory and each other. It is clear that North and South Korea fought
The Korean wave is regarded by the author as a regionally specific phenomenon that does not have many modern comparisons other than the American culture spread. It is bringing on new global transformations and has the effect of blurring the boundaries between cultures, which could be considered very effective cultural globalization. A South Korean student is quoted as saying, "we feel like we can live like them in a few years,” which is in reference to the American’s and their rather unique, consumer
Korea, located on the Korean Peninsula in North-East Asia, consists of two separate states – North Korea and South Korea. What makes it a peninsula is the fact that it has the Yellow Sea on its western coast, the East China Sea on it southern coast, and the Sea of Japan on its eastern coast. Its neighbors, and only land access, are China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. Occupying a land mass of over 84,000 square miles, Korea has a mixture of plains, mountains, and coastlines. The combination
Our world is full of hundreds of cultures, scattered all over the place, but when we can’t travel to every country on earth, how can we find out about these cultures. We can learn a tremendous amount about a culture, just through studying their literature. First of all, we can learn a great amount about their basic culture; their everyday life. We can also learn what kind of society they live in now, and what kind they did live in hundreds of years ago. And finally we can learn about their history
The land of the morning calm, this was what Korea was called many years ago. Unfortunately, circumstances have changed. Korea is now no longer a single country but has been split into two parts; North Korea and South Korea. Korea had been united as one country for many years. Japan took control of Korea and made it part of its empire. After World War II, Japan was defeated and its empire fell. Korea was left without a leader or a system of government. This provoked the United States troops to occupy
Culture, what is culture? Scholars around the world have been trying to define culture for thousands of years. The dictionary definition of culture is “the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.” One might also say that technology, economy, government, and other information that can make a distinction of one group of people from another. Cultures have developed very differently across the world since the birth of civilization. These unique differences are
Since the end of the Korean War, the United States has enacted policies to isolate and undermine the Kim Dynasty in North Korea. A key development took place in the past several decades where North Korea broke away from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop their own nuclear weapons and while lacking launch capabilities, they have been successful in their development. During this process, the United States took active policies to deter the North Koreans in pursuit of their goals. It is easy
Cranes, 38th Parallel, and Reconciliation While reading this short story by Hwang Sunwon, it really opened my eyes to the reality of the conflict between North and South Korea. Being that I live in the US, a lot of my initial view on the separation of the Koreas was fairly oriented to see the way that the US did. A lot of the opinions I was surrounded by growing up favored the US as the “heroes” of the Korean War. But from the perspective presented in this short story, the US was not the hero
Economic sanctions, however, have not demonstrate in the past to be a powerful tool. US economic approbation have never led to system change—even in the cause of Cuba where sanctions have supreme forty-five years. Even effective authority, moreover, would not be fast-acting enough to keep the North Korean regime from procure nuclear weapons. Since the United States already has virtually no trade with North Korea, unilateral ratify on the part of the U.S. will have no effect. Effective sanctions,
The Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Culture Center defines culture as a “dynamic social system,” containing the values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms of a specific group, organization, society or other collective that is learned, shared, and internalized by members of that society (Watson, 2010). Culture forms the basis of how people interpret, understand, and respond to everything around them. There are many definitions of culture used by the United States military. The overarching
The Politicization of Intelligence in the Korean War The role of intelligence in policy making has always been an ambiguous one. On the one hand, the intelligence community must be independent from policymakers, so the intelligence community can do its job objectively and unbiased. On the other hand, policy depends on intelligence for providing relevant information usable for policy production and implementation (Gookins, 2008). Betts (2002) states that because of this paradox, politicization of
Alex Ripp Mrs. Potter English 10 7 May 2014 “Cranes” Hwang Sun-won One line along the 38th parallel called the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) is all that separates two countries with very different views. North Korea on one side which is ruled by a communist type of view and the South which is more of a democratic view. This is one thing that happens in the story “Cranes” by Hwang Sun-won. Sun-won includes information about life in Korea and the tension between the North and the South. Many things happened
On June 25th, 1950, North Korean forces crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded the Republic of Korea (South Korea). This was a battle between democracy and communism, where the United Nations supported the South Democrats while the Soviet Union in cooperation with China supported the North Communists. Most Canadians knew nothing about Korea during the 1950s. Despite that, the Canadian army still sent an entire brigade group to military operations there. Besides the two world wars, the Korean War
dispute the security of North Asia and United States interests in the region. With little or no warning, even with its aging equipment, it still retains the capability to inflict significant damage, especially in the region from the De-militarized Zone (DMZ) to Seoul
North Korea Famine Abstract Famine is the one of the biggest problems in the world. More than 800 million people are suffering from hunger. The people of North Korea suffer from hunger on the level of the notorious Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia famines. They just suffer in silence behind the world media. There are several facts about the North Korea famine. One of the main factors for the North Korea famine is political problems: The North Korean government ignores s people’s everyday lives
Joint Security Area (JSA) is a South Korean film which deals with the relationship between North Korea and South Korea. In the film, two North Korean soldiers are murdered near the border. Sophie, an officer from the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, investigates the incident. With evidence and information, she tries to find the truth of the incident. In JSA, the incident takes a place in 1999. North Korea and South Korea have been divided after the Korean War ends in 1953. Although around