Dumbledore's Army

Hair the Musical vs Church Church, although filled with strict restrictions, has, since its conception, been a place of solace, a place of peace and love, a place where individuals unified by religion can congregate. The Hair musical on the other hand is a lot more than just a musical. It has been described by some as a cultural and social phenomenon, an exultant proclamation of freedom, life and a rebellious cry against politicians and war. The musical, set in the late 60’s, tells the tale of a…

Cripple in smoke from factory chimney (1942) This artwork depicts a crippled figure walking away from what looks like a chimney. The figure looks to be created by the smoke as if they were a ghost or not real. The figure only has one leg and is using crutches. The figures head is surrounded by circles like a halo. The figure is staring at you while walking away from the chimney and the barbed wire fence behind it. This artwork is drawn with ink on paper. Boyd has used different thicknesses of…

Contra To The Strategic Thought : • Jomini Most often, Jomini is treated as the opposite opponent of Clausewitz, even military educators often give them the nickname "Jominian" and "Clausewitzian" to each other as if these single words somehow summed up the views and defects of their opponent's wrong world. Private character. In fact, Jomini and Clausewitz see many of the same things in war, but see them through very different eyes. Despite these similarities, their approach to military theory…

The normal theory of civil-military relations contends that politicians should declare a military operation’s objective and then step aside leaving the business of war to the military. In his book, “Supreme Command,” Eliot Cohen deviates from this normalcy theory by arguing that active statesmen make the best wartime leaders, pushing their military subordinates to succeed where they might have failed if left on their own. According to Cohen civilian intervention at both strategic and operational…

“Sniper”. The main character doesn’t have a name but it does say he is a Republican Sniper. The sniper was obviously in the army and was on duty. The conflict of the story was that the sniper was wounded by his opposed enemy. So, it was a hard for the Republican Sniper to kill his opposed enemy. So, he decided to trick…

The Things They Carried Log #1, Chapter 1, 08/19/15 Before reading this book, I had already formed my own biased opinion. War stories I can not help but find either completely and utterly boring, or excessively graphic. Not to say that I am not appreciative of what the men and women go through for the freedom of this country, I just prefer a different style of books. However, even with only reading the first chapter, my attention has been grabbed. I am getting the impression that this is not…

Carl Von Clausewitz describes in his book On War, that war will always have some level of savage passion, and thus if we strive to maintain a level of civility in war, we must teach ourselves intelligent ways to manage force. We must maintain an ethical nature. This poses the question, with the ever-present savage passion in war, how do we maintain an ethical way of war? This is by no means easy to answer. However, by looking at how commanders maintain an ethical command climate we can…

judgment." (p. 15). By the time the book ends, the reader understands why the training is so difficult as the book outlines an intense battle sequence in which three of the four Navy SEALS lost their live and on that same day eight SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers were killed from…

History of warfare aims to explain the rise to dominance of what its author, Geoffrey Parker, understands as “the western way of warfare.” This particular way of war is defined by certain key characteristics which emerged in Roman and especially Greek military, where the connection between technology, tactics, and social organization was the harbinger of the western military practice. This, Parker claims, explains the dominance of western culture, more than economic, intellectual and other…

Women are in the military but are they happy with the jobs they have? Combat jobs have been restricted from women because the armed forces think that men are the only ones capable due to strength, endurance, and knowledge. Women have as much right to be assigned combat jobs as much as men because it is their life they are putting at risk and if they think they are strong enough and smart enough they should be able to. Women should have a choice whether they want to have combat jobs or not.…