Black Guerrilla Family

Treatment By Media Source 3:CBS/ABC News Threlkeld, Richard. “Vietnam War, 1970: CBS Camera Rolls as platoon comes under fire.” CBS , Mar. 1970. The CBS video begins with the American soldiers hiking through the jungles looking for a “elusive enemy”. The video continues telling how each of the soldiers plans for the future and how this war has effected them. “Blue didn't want to come to Vietnam and he much rather be a business man than a soldier” helps to show that this war was not something…

where people are willing to do anything for money. Massacres were also committed during the war. This is especially shown as an American soldier indiscriminately guns down Vietnamese civilians in the film. Though the Vietnam War was fought using guerrilla warfare, this scene is still unsettling. These are forms of atrocities committed by the Americans during the Vietnam War which were overlooked in America’s media in order to promote a positive narrative. The film Full Metal Jacket serves as a…

“During war much reliance must be placed on propaganda to promote economy of food, textiles, fuel, and other commodities, and to stimulate recruiting, employment in war industries, service in relief work, and in the purchase of bonds. By far the most potent role of propaganda is to mob the animosity of the community against the enemy and to maintain friendly relations with neutrals and allies, to arouse the neutrals against the enemy, and to break up the wall of enemy antagonism. In short, it is…

people dead. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, and the Colombian government signed a peace deal that ended the longest civil war in the Western Hemisphere. After four years of negotiations, an estimated 7,000 guerrilla fighters pledged to give up their weapons, restart their lives as civilians, and re-brand themselves as a peaceful political group. This large-scale conflict demonstrates the five core ideas about social conflicts: social conflicts are universal…

through the meaning behind his writing, figurative language, and the structure of the poem. The meaning in this poem is to show the impact the Vietnam War had on the soldiers and the family and friends of the soldiers. Komunyakaa describes himself looking into the memorial and seeing his face “Hiding inside the black granite” (2). He then continues looking at the memorial and is nearly brought to tears. “I said I wouldn’t/ dammit; No tears/ I’m stone, I’m flesh” (3-5). His choice of using the…

The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, tells the story of a platoon in the Vietnam War. O’Brien uses many literary devices to help him portray the overall theme including repetition, details, and through emphasizing the reasons the soldiers are a part of the war. All of these combined portray the anti-war argument and illustrate the idea that when young men go into war, they carry many burdens, but the emotional burdens are the heaviest ones that they are never able to put this down.…

Introduction The failure of the Iraq and Afghanistan War has triggered an immense increase in the number of academic literature regarding asymmetrical warfare. It is generally assumed that the power disparity between a strong state and a weaker non-state opponent would permit the stronger adversary to win. However, history illustrates a different picture, since weak non-state actors have been the side reaping victory. This paper will limit its scope by examining why strong counterinsurgent…

A hybrid threat is a combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and criminal elements. Hybrid threats may be nation-state actors such as conventional core state armies or non-state actors such as terrorist organizations. These forces and organizations may work together, either purposefully or not, to achieve mutually beneficial effects on the battlefield. Defeating a hybrid threat requires adaptiveness, and the ability to react quickly. Hybrid threats are highly adaptive adversaries…

As Wayne E. Lee points out in his book Waging War, modern warfare revolves around insurgencies. Due to the asymmetry of weaponry in these conflicts, insurgencies aim to make warfare as protracted as possible. As seen in the 1966 movie The Battle of Algiers, the insurgencies in Algeria use their limited capacity for conflict to their advantage, and fight the French descriptive instead of head on. The French army failed to deal with the insurgency effectively and thus public opinion in France…

where our enemies resorted to irregular warfare. Irregular warfare is defined as a violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over a specific population. Irregular threats include actors who employ methods such as guerrilla warfare, terrorism, sabotage, subversion, criminal activities, and insurgency. In Iraq, we faced insurgents using irregular warfare tactics such as using IED as roadside bombs. Years of war gaming and planning could not prepare military…