Castellammarese War

The ones who are blessed to leave the battlefield are torn down physically and unstable mentally. They have no hopes, no dreams, no plans of the future, and no other way of life besides war. They return home and like a rock thrown in a pond, they spread what they have experienced; starting with those closest to them on to the rest of the people. The problem is one rock (child soldier) is not thrown into the pond (go home) at a time, multiple…

Although many states agree on having a universal law that does not mean that there will be no conflict, let alone no war between nations. The United Nations Charter…

The birthplace of modern western democracy endured decades upon decades of civil war, but this same civil war that savaged Britain for so long also spurred the growth of democracy. The Wars of the Roses helped shape the future of Britain and the wider the world, and it also helped form the basis for William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare lived in a time in British history only a century after the conclusion of this brutal conflict, and it had a powerful impact on his writing. Conflict over…

Unlike his contemporary warfare theorists, such as Clausewitz and Jomini who focused on explaining and understanding the principles of war, Napoleon Bonaparte’s instinctive natural perceptions guided him through the victories that led to his Empire over Europe. In 1769, the same year as Napoleon 's birth, the French defeated his homeland Corsica1. Growing up while experiencing his Corsican cultural identity disappearing under the influence of the French created resentment in the young Napoleon.…

War tends to be associated with heroism and glory of the males who fought in the battles. In the past few years there have been a “memory boom” in the historical field of war. Jay Winter defines the “memory war” through understand why there has been a need to write down more about history. The topic of women in warfare has not had many written works on it, but there needs to be because of how important it is to know about the missing gap in history about women and war. Without filling in the gap…

government has in place to combat these threats with the civilian population and private sectors, it also puts a line of defense in areas that domestic and international law cannot reach. Intrinsic in any security dilemma is a privacy trade off. In the war against terror, civil liberties have to be considered, no matter how catastrophic a threat may be. The fight against terrorism and the protection of civil and human rights must go hand in hand. In order to preserve civil liberties, civil…

the one thing that will always be true is war never changes. Both The Iliad and The Things They Carried, showed how human beings have a natural tendency towards superiority…

insights in the book, On War. From initial combat at the age of thirteen to chief of staff of the Prussian Army, Clausewitz developed his thoughts of war based on a variety of military experience. Two of Clausewitz’s tenets seem to stand out as profound and useful, and remarkably still relevant to the modern planner. Primacy of policy helps a planner avoid a strategy policy mismatch by aligning political and military objectives, and the calculus of effort can determine what kind of war they will…

These Christians would have raised the cross as a banner against Saddam, Hitler, or Mao. There are church members who wanted to use preventative war to stop communist china from making atomic weapons before they could use them to endanger the United States. They would also advocate landing marines in Iraq before the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) got a strong foothold. Such anticipatory actions are based on the notion that our cause is consistently good, while that of our enemies is…

declarations such as the French Declaration of the Right of Man and of the Citizen (1789) that was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) that was developed by the United Nations after World War II. The obligation to protect that is inherent in IHRL requires States to protect individuals and groups against human rights abuses at a domestic level. While both IHL and IHRL strive to protect the lives of others, the foundation and historical…