Battle Creek

Future armed conflict will be complex, in part, because threats, enemies, and adversaries are becoming increasingly capable and elusive. State and nonstate actors employ traditional, unconventional, and hybrid strategies that threaten U.S. security and vital interests. The complexity of future armed conflict is due to increasing momentum of human interaction, threats emanating from dense and weakly governed urban areas, the availability of lethal weapon systems, and the proliferation of CBRNE…

WARTIME ADAPTATION: AN EDGE OVER PEACETIME INNOVATION Do you know that, mere rodents beat the massive Dinosaurs into evolutionary dusts about 65 million years ago? Similarly, the strongest militaries will follow the Dinosaurs into oblivion if they fail to adapt to the changes. Though many scholars emphasize on innovations during peace, this paper argues that victory in the war depends more on wartime adaptation than peacetime innovation. Murray in his seminal book, “Military Adaptation in War:…

invades Britain and succeeds. There they reigned for more than 300 years. I wasn’t until the year of 44 BC that Julius Caesar war assassinated. That is when Marcus Anthony takes control of Rome. Julius’s nephew Octavian, defeats Marcus Anthony at the battle of Actium, where he became the first emperor of…

changer, but that did not last forever. The tank evolved into a more mobile and armored piece of machinery, tactics changed to account for these beasts of metal and fossil fuel, and the idea of warfare became even scarier for some. Eventually some battles were fought entirely around the idea of the tank, both sides scurrying about the battlefield, firing shell after shell. Time continued to pass and even more terrible weapons came,…

War Over Time War is a concept that changes over time. In combat, soldiers develope a different way of experiencing war as time moves on. This means that the soldiers have common experiences in war and over time they can either turn into an improved part of war, or a completely different aspect. As time passes by, soldiers have experienced a difference in war, from new forms of communication with loved ones to having near death experiences to having PTSD as a result. Men and women experience…

A young and developing boy has ample time to mature and become an adult, but when a boy is thrusted into a war, he is forced to mature very rapidly. War changes the very nature of how these boys behave and think as they experience the true horrors of war. These rookies have to adapt and transform into an unfeeling killing machine, or have to deal with the something far worse than dying, guilt. The necessity of rapid maturation is a necessity for new soldiers during times of war. In Stephen…

The Just War Theory is a method used to determine whether wars, battles, and other violent engagements a justified, and if so, what was the reason for the war. The reasons used in the Just War Theory are the following: just cause, last resort, legitimate authority, possessing right intention, reasonable chance of success…

The Buffalo Creek Disaster is a book by Gerald M Stern, about how the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal-mining company. The book … by Gerald M. Stern is about a disaster that happened in 1976 …The book was review by prominent persons search as the former President of the United States who termed it as “A shocking, timely book”. Also, The New York Times Book Review talked of the book as “a fascinating tale of how investigative lawyers…

The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland. This battle brought about America’s bloodiest day, the product of Confederate bravery and Union command failure. Shortly after routing the Union Army of Virginia under Major General John Pope, General Lee led his own Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac into Maryland. Reasons for this assault included taking strain off the Shenandoah Valley which was referred to as” The Breadbasket of…

day in American history. On this fateful day during the American Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers clashed in Sharpsburg, Maryland along the Antietam Creek. In total, approximately 23,000 American lives were lost on this gory day, including 12,400 Union soldiers and 10,300 Confederate soldiers. Although the Union claimed this battle as their victory, the Americans on both sides suffered great losses that changed the course of the Civil War and altered American history. In choosing to…