WORLD WAR II VS WAR ON TERROR

World War II Vs War on Terror

World War II Vs War on Terror

Introduction

The United States waged its great wars in the past on every relevant front: military, economic, political, and ideational. During World War II, the United States mobilized its diplomatic and economic power, as well as its military power, to defeat the Axis powers. It also waged a forceful propaganda war to bring the world to its side, even using the talent of Hollywood.3 And it put large effort into postwar programs aimed at bringing former enemy societies to a soft landing. During the cold war, the United States again used economic power (through the Marshall Plan, the Alliance for Progress, and other efforts), waged an intense war of ideas through the U.S. Information Agency and other activities, and mobilized great American military power.(Barnouw, 2008:89)

The U.S. war against al Qaeda should likewise be waged on every relevant front with all needed resources. Other policies should be oriented to serve this effort and be judged in part on their contribution to it. Distractions and schism should be avoided. (Goldstein 2000 :358)The United States should do this because al Qaeda is the greatest threat that the United States now faces, and failure to defeat it could bring immense calamity.

What significances would follow from the democratization of the power to destroy? Human history displays that the placement of power forms politics among states and groups. When the placement of power is benign, there is peace. When it is malignant, aggression persists. They create fears and temptations that erase the veneer of civilization.(Judith Goldstein 2000 :358)For example, before 1914, the governments of Europe believed that conquest was easy. This belief led them to think their countries were insecure and that aggressive policies could remedy this insecurity. Hence, they pursued highly aggressive policies toward one another. That war stemmed in large part from perceptions of the arrangement of power.(Kiersey, 2009: 114) The democratization of the power to destroy will create a far more dangerous arrangement of power than the arrangements that led to the two world wars. It will represent conundrums to which students of security have no conspicuous remedies. The danger of WMD terror will substantially expand.(Goldstein 2000 :358)

Dagmar Barnouw' article

In Germany 1945, an written test of akin taking photos of postwar Germany, Dagmar Barnouw demonstrated one of the means by which the victors searched to enforce the problem of blame for World conflict II and the Holocaust on the German people as a whole. (Goldstein 2000 :358)Now, in The War in the Empty Air, she demonstrates how profoundly that narrative took contain and the silence it enforced. In Germany, the reemergence of recollections of wartime pain is being contacted with intense public debate.In the joined States, the latest translation and publication of Crabwalk by Günter lawn and The Natural annals of Destruction by W. G. Sebald offer evidence that these submerged recollections are surfacing. (Sjoberg, 2008: 472)Taking account of these expansion, Barnouw examines this argument about the validity ...