How long has war been recurring in history, leaving only its pure trail of bloodshed and destruction, but what drives these coalitions to fight, to kill one another? War is the most complex topic with the human drive and its various reasons to drive people to fight and kill. To prove this, two major sources that appear in many global conflicts that drive the urge to kill are ego impacting the desire for power, dominance, and the destroyed image. As well as the secondary epidemic nature of war, escalating conflict and impacting regions far beyond its origin. Barbara Ehrenreich's work, The Roots of War, makes her arguments about war and its negative impacts and her reasons why it shouldn't be an option in ending issues, arguing it only causes more. I agree with Ehrenreich using history to back her idea that war never solves issues with the 3 major conflicts caused by
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War is a complicated topic with many roots, however, ego has been a large benefactor of war with humans since the beginning. The ego of humanity is a persuasive emotion that is addicting and has been seen throughout human history. Still, on a larger political scale, Ego can be defined as the U.S. Truman Doctrine, which states the fight against communism to those under threat by it. This doctrine made the belief that warfare against communism was the nation's national pride and security shown by the Cold War which the Truman Doctrine ignited. The Cold War, shown by geopolitical and ideological tensions and the various proxy wars, along with intervention in regions such as Korea and Vietnam, shows the impact of ego on war. The ignition of the Korean War by the Soviets back North and the UN back South had led to mass death in the war that inevitably ended in stalemate. The rivalry for Korea was not out of concern for
War is a complicated topic with many roots, however, ego has been a large benefactor of war with humans since the beginning. The ego of humanity is a persuasive emotion that is addicting and has been seen throughout human history. Still, on a larger political scale, Ego can be defined as the U.S. Truman Doctrine, which states the fight against communism to those under threat by it. This doctrine made the belief that warfare against communism was the nation's national pride and security shown by the Cold War which the Truman Doctrine ignited. The Cold War, shown by geopolitical and ideological tensions and the various proxy wars, along with intervention in regions such as Korea and Vietnam, shows the impact of ego on war. The ignition of the Korean War by the Soviets back North and the UN back South had led to mass death in the war that inevitably ended in stalemate. The rivalry for Korea was not out of concern for