Enemy combatant

I would have panicked and rushed forward to complete my objectives. I would have sprinted to the nearest trenches and tried to eliminate any enemies. But I would have also known that this plan was now doomed and I was just running towards what seemed like certain death. We were not prepared for an engagement like this. We were not expert soldiers, we did not know how to handle counter fire in…

In Mark E. Neely, Jr.’s book, Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War, he offers his readers two notable as well as important contributions to the study of the American Civil War. These contributions consist of the attempt to compare and examine the constitutionality of the acts that were committed by both the Union and the Confederacy, the other contribution is that of the “nationalistic” interpretation of Civil War Constitutionalism that is…

There have been many historic battles over the years. Many of these battles have resulted in Golden Ages in the land of the victor. One of these battles was the Battle of Salamis. In the previous battles – Marathon and Thermopylae – Greece had been fighting to keep the Persians out of their land. They were highly outnumbered and should not have even made it past the first battle. However their luck held and thanks to Greek strategy, they were able to turn the tables on the mighty Persian empire.…

(Magagna 09/06). Human motivation can lead to non compliance and non compliance. Third, is that there is always a variability about whether people will obey authority. Habituation training may induce a willingness to coerce others but not oneself. Combatants may get over their initial fear of shooting someone but they will be very less likely to be trained to hurt themselves (Magagna…

there are still ongoing aggression on both sides. Fortna hypothesizes that both factions are unable to monitor their own agreements effectively because suspicion of the enemy persists. In order to have a successful peace building there needs to be someone who is monitoring the agreements and fostering trust between combatants. The main objective is to prevent abuse of political agreements and armed conflicts. Fortna study also demonstrates evidence to show that “having a peacekeeping mission…

from the perspective of Lieutenant William Calley, he had seen the inside of a helicopter full of body parts of his dead soldiers and that unquestionably instilled him with “a deeper sense of hatred for the enemy.” Unfortunately, hatred for the enemy and an inability to identify the enemy, resulted in a hatred for all of Vietnam regardless of their side. Each of these events that took place before the My Lai massacre, resulted in dehumanization, distrust, and hatred of the Vietnamese, which…

Quran as justification for their terrorist violence, the Ku Klux Klan did not so much directly use the bible, rather than use their faith as a whole in the excuse that it is simple better than Catholicism or Judaism and that those religions were the enemy. Leonard Moore’s book Citizen Klansmen highlights this use of Protestant faith by the Ku Klux Klan as political motivation to assert their religious dominance throughout America, by establishing that, ”many recruitment pamphlets…with warnings…

This work illustrates how the mark affects even our perceived enemies. Kien is the enemy of the Americans and yet because of war, has become a ghost. He struggled with just as much as any American did and perhaps even more. Kien creates for himself this intense need to finish his book. He discusses how it is divine will…

Some scholars suggest that that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be considered illegal acts of war that violated international humanitarian law by attacking civilian populations and causing unnecessary suffering to combatants (VanRhyn and Mikaberidze). Also, many people have insisted that the lasting effects of the atomic bombings has been quite detrimental to the health of the civilians of Japan. A recent study, that has been published in the journal Genetics, has claimed…

the Central Powers, included Germany and Austria-Hungary. The equity of the two alliances prolonged the war over several years and exhausted the resources, human and matériel, of the nations involved. On account of the colonial empires of the combatants, the conflict became a global conflict, which the people at that time called the World War or the Great War. The United States remained neutral throughout much of…