Beiyang Army

life, human and otherwise. A tank sits to the soliders left, poised aiming and ready to fire into jungle. Fighter planes soar overhead, waiting to drop the next air strike, to save the lives of our soliders while taking away the lives of the other army. The metal almost blending in against the smokey, blue-gray sky. Smog billows through the air, travels up the mountain side and obscures the landscape view. The jungle is sparse, with a mountian range towering over the canopys. The mountains are…

1. To begin with, war does not justify anything, nor does it solve anything. War just leads to tension, either between the countries that are fighting or between the country’s society. During the vietnam war, there were, “Young men all over the country burning their draft cards and resisting the war machine” (Myers 116). Then, there were the others that were willingly joining the war to fight for their country. America was torn between prideful men and fearful men. The fearful men were fleeing…

For a majority of a field grade Officer’s time in the United States Army, he or she will serve a majority time in either a leadership command position or a staff position. There is quite a mental shift that occurs when one transitions between the two positions. An Officer in the staff position is responsible for himself or a small staff only but, when an Officer assumes command, a mental trigger is turned on knowing one is responsible for everything the organization succeeds or fails to…

War is always a way for men to get what they want or in most cases to settle a disagreement they have with each other. War is never a good thing because many innocent people die at war, they have their own lives and are dragged into fight for something they were originally not a part of. In some cases, however, men are more than glad to go into war and fight for anything, some treat it as an honorable thing to do, while others do it for their pride. The poems Red Badge of Courage by Stephen…

“War is hell” (O’Brien 1154). That simple line enlightens so much about what war is and how it is portrayed throughout this short story. The author contradicts himself as he tells the story, to make the point that every contradiction has a story in its own. Three of the most memorable quotes are, “…war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty” (1155). “War makes you a man; war makes you dead” (1155). Lastly, “In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, … in…

In November of 1955, the United States of America entered the Vietnam War. What would follow for the next two decades was a gruesome, unchecked state of warfare, that would leave even the most resilient soldiers broken down and demented. Units were, for the most part, unchecked by any higher power, and were left to commit atrocities at their own discretion. Tim O’Brien was one of these drafted soldiers in the war, and he writes about his experiences in The Things They Carried, a work of fiction…

If normal everyday life can change and mold individuals; war surly those this abruptly. Any soldier coming back home will say war a horrible thing especially when their morality is tested, not to mention the mentally scaring situations they have to deal with even after the war. Ernest Hemingway make this point very clear in his short story about a young a soldier going home at the end of World War I titled “Soldier’s Home”. John J. Robert’s article “In Defense of Krebs” goes a little deeper and…

You won’t believe how badly this surprised the Germans! We captured Vimy Ridge within 3 days! I also find it amazing how we Canadians have won this battle despite the losses that the French and British armies suffered fighting this same one. Despite this I’ve still seen the unseeable: groups of badly injured men being transported to the hospital, which they would usually leave dead or without a limb. Also, to survive we have to eat food according to our…

Gracee Abeyta Mrs. Jacobson American Literature - Honors 2 Jan. 2018 The Validity of War The telling of a realistic war story cannot be successful unless it truly holds light to the extremely grueling physical and emotional battles that the average American soldier undergoes. Capturing these experiences is a feat that, if accomplished, should not go without honor and admiration for decades to come. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, published in 1988, is a novel that deserves this amount of…

confrontation. Nevertheless, it’s not the type of question that people are generally ready to answer, on a deep level. I aim to answer that question through this paper in order to help me reflect on my life as part of my pursuit in becoming a leader in the army. I will briefly discuss my background, my core values, and some the events that I believe have truly shaped me. I am currently in my final semester at West Point and preparing to serve in the infantry in the in my country. My interest and…