Bosnian War

21- 06 -1915 It is my 100th day away from you ‘my love’ and it hasn’t gotten any better. I thought the training in Egypt was hard but now I’m here I’m really struggling. War is nothing like what they told usit would be. Remember Arthur Baldwin he was only 17 I watched him die yesterday. The anxiety and fear I live with is terrible. I just would like to be home. The boys need me. I think of them every day. Give them kisses…

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win”(Tzu). Warriors that win first and then go to war spend months, maybe years, preparing for war. John Perry from the novel Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and Ender Wiggin from the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card both exemplify this prepare first mentality, which comes out in their battles. Perry practices patience before he attacks the Rraey by studying how to kill them, then uses…

There has been a lot of violence throughout time, but there never has been violence to where people cry of laughter. In the film of Monty Python there was an astounding scene which got the audience's complete attention. Who has ever heard of a limbless Black Knight who wanted to quarrel with King Arthur? Earlier towards the beginning of the film they had a scene where a man going town to town gathering dead people, dead or alive. During this medieval time the Bubonic Plague was growing intense…

11,000 child soldiers are serving with rebel groups, including the notorious White Army known for sending thousands of children into battles. 27% of child recruits during the Sierra Leone civil war who were interviewed by Theresa Betancourt’s research team had killed or injured others during the war. 77% saw stabbing and…

True Bravery in the Midst of Deception At the height of the Vietnam War, draft evaders refused to fight, the public continuously protested, and people were dying in great numbers, but one man possessed the courage to fight to delegitimatize a war that many opposed. This man’s name is Daniel Ellsberg. During this time period, Ellsberg was a special government analyst who worked on a paper titled U.S. Decision Making in Vietnam, better known as “The Pentagon Papers”, but Ellsberg described the…

population in Iraq, they were a government with a monopoly on state sanctioned violence. Ironically enough, the party had this monopoly on violence in order to cease violence among the people. When the party began to lose its’ monopoly following the Gulf War, people began lashing out at the violence of the state. State-sanctioned violence was only one factor that motivated insurgency in Iraq. Other factors that led to this insurgency were the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces and the…

Furthermore, Samuel examines how glorified soldiers for their service while Owen clarifies the desire for attention is not worth risking one’s life. The soldiers assume that war will be easy, so they picture themselves victorious. After they defeat the opponent they will arrive “arrive home from war, bronzed heros … submerged in golden seas of glory” (Twain). Being a “bronzed hero” conveys that the society places soldiers on a pedestal to flaunt them similarly to a trophy in a case -- the…

Henry sees that the Confederates had fled the battle and all the soldiers in his regiment is looking at him, especially the lieutenant. The lieutenant explains “By heavens, if I had ten thousand wild cats like you I could tear th' stomach outa this war in less'n a week!”…

mental trauma suffered during World War 1 results in the degradation of empathy and the neglect/denial of social issues. Septimus Warren Smith is a shell shocked veteran who criticizes the aloofness of modern persons to each other. He is incapable of communicating his troubles to those who are enthralled with modern culture. The repetition of the phrase “he could not remember it,” reiterates the inability of Septimus to express his very complex emotions (98). The war has gotten him so lost…

Joint warfare is heavily adopted in current complex environment. It requires a close inter-services cooperation while joint service amalgamates all the tri-service into one organisation with no service delineation. In modern warfare, wars are commonly won when the coordinated forces on land, in the air, and at sea are operating effectively toward a common goal. Joint service is not feasible because modern battlefield requires the tri-service expertise, ethos and functional structure to cultivate…