Military Discipline Essay

Identification and Evaluation of Sources The purpose of this investigation is to answer the question: To what extent did the military tactics and empire-building strategies of Alexander the Great influence the culture and later rulers of Europe? This source is a video about Alexander the Great from Youtube, a video sharing website, that is part of the Crash Course World History video series. It was produced by author John Green and written by historian Raoul Mayer. Since the script is written…

Abraham Lincoln and his Generals With all of his greatest, Abraham Lincoln has one major flaw, he sucked at choosing those to who led the American Army. His flaws lay in the fact that due to his inexperience military wise, he was not sure what it took for a general to command an army of that size. Most of the generals that he chose were men who thought the war rested solely on their shoulders, or worse men who knew that they were not ready for such a job, but still took it. The men who were…

Conflicts, they can either make someone or they can break someone. The book A Long Way Gone, Ishmael, the main character, is in a modern waring state in Africa. Throughout the book Ishmael faces hard times in the hot plains of Africa and has some large amounts of adversity on his journey. Some examples of adversity that he is going to face is being all by himself in the jungle for a month, and another is watching his family all get killed just before he find them again. It’s always difficult…

“They [Incas] traveled with great pomp…. long poles of the finest wood and adorned with gold and silver….” (Strayer pg. 606). Pedro de Cieza de Léon praised the Incan empire. Even though Cieza came from the more "sophisticated" Spain. Why did Cieza publish his experiences in the Americas, on his return to "Spain in 1550" despite his "limited education" (Strayer pg. 605)? The Incan Empire ruled “2,500 miles along the Andes and contained 10 million subjects” (Strayer pg. 590). The Incas did not…

November 11, 1993 –a date typically dissociated with the remembrance of America’s involvement in Vietnam. On this day, the female Vietnam Veteran memorial was dedicated in honor of unspoken heroes, ones whose experiences are unparalleled to the soldiers who partook in the physical fight and incomprehensible to the public’s mind. These brave women, some married, engaged, or mothers, held the burden of a war with undefined intentions both physically and mentally, during combat and upon returning…

gear you weigh in at roughly two hundred and twenty-five pounds. Given your choice of squad member, who would you prefer drag you to a safe location? Women serving in the U.S. military, in direct ground combat roles lower the effectiveness of a combat unit. This isn’t to say that women should not serve in the military or even in support of combat operations.…

Transitioning Veterans into Civilian Life Veterans transitioning from military life into civilian life might have a hard time adjusting to their new lives when they get back. According to Demers (2010) there are three main themes that veterans might identify with when they return home. These themes are; time travelers, no one understands us, and crisis of identity (p.169). I will further explain these three themes. Demers (2010) explains that this feeling of being a “Time Traveler” is…

Although bulletproof vests as we know are a modern invention, the search for protection against enemy attacks has existed since the beginning of times and man-to-man combat. The origins of the first bulletproof vest are controversial, who was first and to invent it, and when is unknown. However, the fact is that anywhere in the world, and anytime new guns were created, defense mechanisms against it were developed. For example, Persian soldiers led by Darius used straw vests against enemy…

make a lot of money. For example, a doctor, being in the military, and being a firefighter are three examples of things I could be. I want to go to West Point to be in the military. Going to West Point is important because it has an army simulation program,their physical team sports ,and they have a military science program. There are a lot of reasons why I want to be in the military.on the webpage “The Military Wallet.com” it says, “The military provides advanced technical training in a…

the police, I cannot advocate a bill which requires military service men and women to subject themselves to the authority of civilian police. A university may be dubbed an institution, but the military itself is a part of the federal government. The two should not be placed on the same level. The fault with the proposed bill stems from the inadequate research done on how sexual assault is handled in the military. The bill would require military officials to report sexual assault cases to…