Enemy combatant

A feminist perspective on conflict and war in Sierra Leone’s Eleven Year Civil War is useful because its sheds some light onto the hardships and struggles that both old and young women went through during certain times when war and conflict played a major role in their lives. A gendered view on war shows that during times of conflict most of the women take on roles of “male” and “female” when forced into combat. Women’s experiences in this war troubled country show to what extend women are…

In the latter half of the ninth century AD, a tribal confederation from the Asian steppes began a migration into eastern and central Europe. Initially staying on the fringes of Christendom, these peoples soon came head-to-head with the established power of central Europe, the kingdom of the Eastern Franks. In the opening years of the conflict, the Magyars, as they were known (later known as the Hungarians) created a crisis which threatened the survival of the Eastern Frankish kingdom. The…

to “finish off the rest.” Sergeant Mitchell was acquitted in Fort Hood, Texas on November 20th of intent to murder 30 South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai (Bowman 172). Defence attorney George Latimer cites “superior orders” as a reason why non-combatants were killed. Some other reasons include poor training of the platoon, rage from seeing friends killed, and the expectation of fierce resistance. George Latimer also stated that the whole episode was seen by higher commanders on both the ground…

jihadi terrorists. No matter the end result torture is never the answer. This can be supported by Bellamy in the essay “Against Torture.” Bellamy claims that “torture is wrong precisely the same reason as terrorism: because it involves harming non-combatants” (Bellamy 140). However, with a purely deontological approach it may be…

Prologue The enemy was right in front of her. Quick, intelligent, and powerful, she felt as if she were fighting a copy of herself, similar to facing against your own reflection or shadow. It felt like every muscle in her body was going to pop, yet she pushed harder, ignoring the painful strain in her left arm. She would win this match: she felt the confidence flowing through her veins. A jab at the left. She ducked out of the way of the incoming attack and threw a roundhouse kick as her…

Throughout human history, civilisations have been influenced by the representations of aspects of the world around them, from the ancient sagas and oral traditions to the establishment of religious doctrine and canonical law. As the mindsets of societies evolve over the centuries, several issues remained until the last few centuries. The inequity of gender across Civilisations globally and the homogenous societies and dehumanisation over other ethnicities. As these matters were prevalent during…

along with O’Brien, were finding out that they would soon be forced to leave their home, their family and their futures to go to a foreign land where they might leave their lives on a battlefield. They knew that they would see both their comrades and enemies die before their eyes. They knew that death was a probable outcome, and if they were fortunate enough to come back, they would be changed and haunted by the experience. Yet these soldiers had no choice. They could not say “no” even if they…

is hard to pull it out of something without harming the people any further. Barbed wire did create jobs in wartimes and is used in other buildings in war times. War prisons and other government outposts are covered in barbed wire to make sure the enemy cannot get in the prison or outposts. The U.S. government used it to protect buildings and equipment during the Spanish-American War and the two world wars. “In 1914, the American Steel & Wire Division of United States Steel Corporation and many…

Manning the flight controls, you guide the aircraft into hostile airspace over your predestined target. You pull the trigger and launch an explosive projectile into a building housing suspected terrorist affiliates, annihilating it into a pile of rubble. Seconds later, your vehicle is struck by an anti-aircraft missile and crashes violently into the ground. You get up and leisurely stroll away from the scene without a single scratch. The entire time, you were staring at a computer screen while…

quick to point out however that there are allowable exceptions in natural law theory. The first is the principle of forfeiture, which states that if someone threatens the life of another their life is forfeited. If the case were that it is an enemy combatant, an argument could be made that they had forfeited their right to life and another could take it. This leaves a nasty taste, is it really permissible to kill soldier after the fighting has ceased, because he tried to kill you in battle?…