Attrition warfare

In regards to the significance in maintaining citizens safe and the environment clean, why do Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un choose to provoke each other knowing the disastrous consequences of nuclear war? In the past, country leaders have discussed nuclear war and the problematic effects that ensue from nuclear bombs, and the possible loss of a significant portion of the population and the impacts it has on the environment. In order to avoid nuclear war and its impacts, it is necessary for Donald…

Envision yourself being a soldier in the Civil War. You get shot in the leg and it is absolutely impossible for you to be able to survive without help. In the midst of a battle that rages on, often senseless, a woman works relentless to help the wounded and dying. The woman bends to treat another wounded soldier when a stray bullet passes through her sleeve and slaughters the soldier. The nurse was Clara Barton; a woman who works on, undaunted. For taking these actions, she is a heroic and stout…

Che Guevara had the confidence that communism would save the disadvantaged people of Latin America in the Cuban Revolution in 1956-1959, and continued to be a guerrilla leader in South America. Since his execution by the Bolivian army in 1967, he has been considered a legendary political figure and an icon of radicalism and anti-imperialism because he exemplifies the core characteristics of what it takes to be a leader (Besancenot, Lowy, & Membrez). According to Warren Bennis, an American…

"The Prisoners of War,” a relatively short poem by Tom Disch, written in 1972, is riddled with imagery and deeper meaning. Even in the opening line, Disch cuts to the point. “Their language disappeared a year or so after the landscape: so what can they do now but point?” (line 1-3). Here it does not take much to get an interpretation. He is saying that our society has lost something. We have lost our “language,” meaning our ability to have intimate face-to- face conversations. That…

The concept of amphibious warfare seemed impractical and generally absurd to naval powers, which led to the ideas being ignored for an extended period of time. The main deterrent from utilizing amphibious forces was Great Britain’s attempted landing at Gallipoli in 1915, which ended in a horrible failure due to poor planning and execution. However, the idea of using Marines to fulfill an amphibious role for the United States gained traction and set the tone for many beach landings that would…

Though the use of chemical weapons was ostensibly banned in the international community by the Geneva Protocol in 1925, the research and development of biological and chemical weapons was permissible until the Protocols were amended in 1975. However, a lack of enforceability by any international governing body allowed a nation like South Africa to secretly create its own such program, one that operated unchecked and actively employed its toxins and agents throughout the 1980s. With apartheid as…

European battlefields of World War One, “armored units” or “panzers” have broken the deadlock of trench warfare and forced other ground-based elements to adapt to and utilize its implementation. It wasn’t until the Second World War that Panzers were fully utilized on the battlefield, primarily by the German Wehrmacht and SS. The Germans themselves were some of the fiercest combatants of modern warfare and implemented the use of panzers with specialized infantry resulting in combined arms…

Over a decade has passed since the infamous 9/11 attacks halted the greatest nation on earth, leaving a wake of fear, questions, and uncertainties. International security in the twenty-first century has been marked by the diffusion of technological and ideological weaponry, bringing along with it new risks that were inconceivable a mere generation ago. The most fearsome of all, is the risk that an extremist terrorist group, rather than a nation-state, could trigger the first nuclear war in…

Feldman and Sigelman, in their study “The Political Impact of Prime-Time Television: The Day After”, attempted to answer the question, “[w]hat effects did watching The Day After have?” (557) Moreover, the authors attempted to determine the effects of prime-time television on political opinion (557). Previous research communicated varied results, with some media affecting individual opinion, such as The Right Stuff, while other media failed to empower any substantive modification to political…

“It may be said that Douhet was the theorist of the air power, Mitchell the publicist and catalytic agent, and Trenchard the organizational genius.” -Harry H. Ransom. Air power generates a new revolution in thought, making way for air power theorist like Giulio Douhet, Hugh Trenchard, and Billy Mitchell, and they established the basics of strategic, operational, and tactical employment that will generate influences until our time. The airpower theorists over emphasized the long range…