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Essay / Wars improve our vocabulary - 1172
Wars bring new words and expressions to the public's attention. World War I taught the world camouflage, World War II brought Blitzkrieg and Kamikaze, while the Cold War brought us containment and deterrence. The “war on terror,” which began in the aftermath of September 11, has given new importance to words and phrases such as public diplomacy. It is when these methods of propaganda coerce the public into allying themselves with the promoters of such slogans that we see the exact nature and extremes that governments will go to ensure total control over the population. Looking at Western affairs over the past 15 years, 12 of those 15 years can be described as an interwar period. Public diplomacy is a critical element that highlights the changes that the United States and much of Europe experienced while engaged in conflicts in the East. This is the era that has been described as the “unnamed” period we call the post-Cold War era. Only until the explosive events of September 11, 2001, where a new era of public diplomacy was born and many of the policies resurrected from the Cold War played a vital role. Public diplomacy is, in its essence, the product of American activity in the midst of an armed race against the Russian government for the rise of power. All of this took place in the midst of the prelude years of the Cold War and during its culmination period in determining the world's next superpower. Since the Cold War dialogues took place, relations between the United States and Russia have been very sensitive, so much so that relations between the United States and Russia have been very sensitive. the global communications environment has chosen their alliances in particular. “The dominant contextual fact of war for the United States over the past 15 years has of course been geopolitical. The sudden disappearance...... middle of paper ......ad, had the idea of destabilizing the American monopoly on nuclear energy and research. Mr. Giruad was part of the French Atomic Energy Commission, otherwise known as CEA. Throughout the years leading up to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Giruad led systematic attacks on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's monopolistic position in enrichment, and also built bureaucratic circles of international trade to deter further progress under American control. It was Giruad who floated the idea of forming a special club of uranium suppliers intended to break the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) control of uranium prices (The Nuclear Barons, Pringle & Spigelman p337). changing character of the dominant form of terrorism since the end of the Cold War.