Maneuver warfare

Soldiers face many things throughout the war, not just the fighting; terrible sights, agonizing pain, hunger, fatigue, and they also face a battle with their own mind. Each war brings its own conflicts. The similarities in the hardships that soldiers faced in the Vietnam war and World War I is immense. The two wars differentiae as well. They faced many of the same struggles; harsh weather conditions, scarce amounts of foods, protection, and post-war distress symptoms. The soldiers face constant…

It’s quite logical: who would survive a biological terrorist attack? Those in places that are airtight, climate controlled, battery packed, and otherwise hermetically sealed centers. In Cory Doctorow’s When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, Felix and his sysadmin coworkers do what they do best in a post-apocalyptic world after a bioweapon puts an end to their society. They are quarantined in their data center with dwindling supplies and the looming realization that everyone they know is dead. Doctorow…

Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War tells the story of a man’s demoralization during the Vietnam war and how it is associated with a refusal to any direct guilt for his own actions in that war. Throughout the book, you can sense the murderousness that comes from Caputo due to several reasons. Although, at the end of the book, he does not confess this murderousness urge that he experienced during his time in Vietnam. Overall, I believe that Philip Caputo was able to prove that he is not guilty and…

“The Man I Killed” O’Brien explains a Viet Cong soldier whom of which he has killed. He felt stuck in time remembering what the man he just killed may have been like before the war. O’Brien is describing the history of the dead Vietnamese man while his American troops continue to move forward. He is in shock from killing the man, meanwhile the rest of the world is moving around him, all in speech and imagination. There is no way that O’Brien knows everything about the fallen soldier playing…

George S. McGovern once said “I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” McGovern is stating that the “old men”, the government use the young men of a specific country to fight the wars they initiate. War is most of the time seen as a sense of pride and tribute for one’s country, but many don’t realize the savagery battlefields hold. Just like George McGovern, the poet, Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier in World War One and died in that Great War wrote many…

Truman and the Atomic Bomb Tommy Rogers Kilgore College Author Note Tommy Rogers, Government 2305, Kilgore College Questions concerning the information in this paper should go to Tommy Rogers, Government 2305, Kilgore College, 1100 Broadway Blvd, Kilgore, TX 75662 Contact: Rogetomm9920@go.kilgore.edu Abstract In this essay, I will discuss the world altering decision newly-sworn-in President Harry S. Truman had to face and how he had to attack his issue. This essay explains and uses…

World War I was a war of the future. Armies on both sides used newly developed chemical agents and automatic weapons, leading to great devastation. This war was the culmination of the two centuries of rapid scientific and technological development preceding it, fought during a cultural period of opulence and extravagance. Thus, it may come as a surprise to find a poet like Alan Seeger. Modernity dissatisfied Seeger; he doubted it was conducive to a meaningful life or to medieval values he held…

Peace is one of the most important concepts that many people around the world long for. However, during World War I, propaganda in Britain and other countries meant that many soldiers were ecstatic to join the war and serve their countries. After gaining first-hand experience himself, Wilfred Owen’s “Disabled” exposes the calamity of war, by contrasting a generic disabled soldier who is young and naive before the Great War, when he was “whole”, and after losing his legs (and possibly arms) in…

Throughout history, few conflicts have been that horrific like the First World War. Being one of its combatants, the English poet Wilfred Owen was one of the first to question military propaganda which defended the old Latin proverb: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori”; meaning ‘it is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country’. With nothing else than words, he created a distinguished and innovative masterpiece that condemned the grandeur of war by picturing how cruel and deranged the…

In the ¨Drummer Boy of Shiloh¨ written by Ray Bradbury, a 14 year old boy named Joby is in the military and is the Drummer during the civil war. In the beginning, Joby and the soldiers are at a camp just waiting for the next day. There is going to be a battle on the next day that all of them are traumatized over. Joby is scared the most because he is the youngest and he cannot defend himself like the soldiers. He feels very insignificant. He only has a drum and drumsticks and they have guns. The…