Enemy combatant

viewpoint of the enemy. The FSB was “on a hill, but in a saddle with hills around it on three sides. To the west, and east across the river, there were hills that were higher, and the ridgeline on which the firebase was built extended to higher elevations towards the north” . This placed the FSB in a saddle, which was not a good defensible location. This failure to visualize from a viewpoint other than their own allowed the enemy to establish over watch of the FSB. This in turn allowed the enemy…

“Cruelty and power are our life’s strengths, and only in their weakness is there love”. The main theme in this book is Spy. Many at times, it is the women who are used as spies during militarism These women often get entrusted by the enemy and in turn help them to fulfil their mission. Pompey accomplished her mission as a Spy in Germany. The Girls of Slender Means. Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. The characters in the book, The…

policy of regime preservation at all costs.” (Document F) This quote lists the foreign countries and what policy they sides with. Also in Document F, it has a table that shows which foreign countries and main combatant groups are friends and which are enemies. This is why having five main combatant groups and six foreign nations is another reason of the ongoing violence in Syria, they cause more…

the narrator talks about his dead enemy and his lover that would be mortally hurt. This poem has a negative view of death. The soldiers went back to where the killed the enemy. On the place where the call it the “nightmare ground.” The narrator used the word sprawling to describe the soldier’s position when the enemy died and left there decomposing under the sun. His tone in this stanza is grim. In (Stanza 2, Line 2) "We" is the narrator and his fellow combatants. The narrator talks about the…

States of America should stop drone strikes abroad because it kills large numbers of civilians and traumatizes local populations, it is secretive, lacks sufficient legal oversight, and it targets individuals who may not even be terrorists or enemy combatants. Unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise…

stop shooting and reload or put another magazine in the gun. Stoppages are what can end up getting a soldier killed in combat. Allison mentions “Because every time a stoppage happens with a weapon, it means a lost opportunity to neutralize an enemy combatant. But the even bigger issue is that a stoppage can put the warfighter at risk and even lead to loss of life.” Stoppages are just one problem there are many factors that play into if a magazine is good are…

A major way the text illustrates the importance of remaining connected to one’s humanity is through the contrast of Reinhard and the other combatants in the war. Those deeply entrenched in the war exhibit a lack of feeling and compassion and seem to be wholly consumed by the war. Paul Neumarkt, author of the text “The Orgy of Self-Renunciation an Analysis of the Motif of War in Modern Literature,” writes in depth about self-renunciation in war time settings. Neumarkt analyzes three different…

THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGIME: IS IT REALLY EFFICACIOUS OR IS IT TIME FOR RETOOLING? “Wars, undertaken to maintain national honor, should be conducted upon the principles of moderation” – Hugo Grotius The history pertaining to the prisoner of war is as old as the history of warfare and throughout the course of such history we have always worshipped the victor and the loser is often erased from our memories. As the search for legal protection…

Vietnam War is one of the wars that United States of America was a part of during the cold war to fight against the communism. Frdrick Dowes throghout his book says that this war was a surprise to him and he didnt expect so much brutality to happen. The war lasted for more than 20 years from 1954-1975 according to encyclopeadia britanicca and was one of the biggest indochina wars.The war itself had many casualties that even caused uprisings in the homefront. There are still veterans who have not…

Would you like to know what's stopping millions of americans from losing their lives? Or who puts an end to the plots? Well the gruesome truth is that what's stopping these attacks is torture. Torture is defined by, to inflict severe pain on, what hundreds of people believe, is doing what's necessary to save lives. Many people disagree with the thought of torture and believe it's inhumane and unconstitutional, but the reality is that it is what’s preventing another severe attack like 9/11. The…