Masters of War

El Salvador finally has peace after twelve years of civil war. During recent years, violence and poverty have plagued the country due to over-population and class struggles which, caused discontent with social inequalities, a poor economy, and the repressive measures of dictatorship. One of the most violent and bloody chapters of El Salvador’s history has ended in January 16, 1992 that has changed the life for everybody in the country after twelve years of unstoppable wave of murders of…

and Simon Reich, author and publisher of the Foreign Policy website, “Child soldiers are cheap and efficient weapons in war. Accounts from the field tell of soldiers who are near free to recruit, cheap to feed, and quick to follow orders” (1). This states that child soldiers are more efficient and easier to deal with than adult soldiers, and this is important when it comes to war. They also learn simply, when they are being taught to deadly missions. In fact, child soldiers take down targets…

People do not really realise how war can take a toll on people and the environment around it.War and romance are the two main points talked about in the book. You realise how each one takes a turn on everyone and how each person is affected in the story. This story is meant to be about war but you realise that it focuses on other things, like the love between some of the couples in the story; so one sees that the story leaves its main focus a lot which is the war and talks about other things…

His article War, Madness, and Death: The Paradox of Honor in Hobbes’s Leviathan goes in depth about the reflections that Hobbe had toward fear, honor, and how those relate to the human character. The author begins with “The Worst part of life during wartime, which…

Quote Collector Copy evidence from articles that support each topic, you will use these quotes later to create evidence sentences for your essay. Violence: Violence spread across the young nation like wildfire, displacing 413,000 civilians in just the first month of conflict. Tens of thousands of civilians rushed to seek refuge in U.N. bases that were subsequently turned into makeshift displacement camps. The scale of sexual violence is particularly shocking: in five months last year, from…

Introduction Colombia is a country situated in the northwestern part of South America. It is a republic sharing borders with Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru (World Factbook, 2015). Colombia is a diverse country in terms of ethnicity, linguistic differences and geographic features. Colombia has a history of armed conflict since the 19th century which has caused a severe damage to the country in every prospect. However, the armed conflicts had decreased drastically since the government…

Hobbes argues that the sovereign’s power has no limit, as they are responsible for the security and defense of their subjects at whatever cost deemed necessary. He advocated for the monarchy being reinstituted as an absolute authority; it would be the guiding head, or “artificial soul”, of the “artificial man” composed of the commonwealth that is “of greater stature and strength than the natural [man]”. This Leviathan is crucial for the maintenance of peace. Man’s “natural condition” is equal…

pretense, we can see that many have tried to use violence to further justice. When the Senate assassinated Julius Caesar, they did it “for the Republic”: to ensure that Rome would never fall to a dictator. In the 1200’s, English lords fought a series of wars against King John, eventually forcing him to sign the first ever declaration of human rights: the Magna Carta. These examples directly conflict with the adage we are constantly…

he exhaled he grinned and smirked at the dead bodies lying around. His gun, a sniper, rested on the wall next to him. The cold blooded murderer sat there innocently. His cigarette butt had been the only light in the sky, as if the termination of war was the only light in Dublin (Simile). He put out the ashes of his cigarette on the face of a Republican without hesitation. He returned to the…

all our services together plus the industrial efforts of our Nation to win any major war”. 6 Joint Warfare is the integration of military’s different services into one unified command for the purpose of successful warfare. The first modern major joint operations started in the late stage of World War I, where field armies supported by guns, mortars and tanks; as well as airplanes were employed. During World War II, majority of the operations were conducted on land but naval and air services…