Military Revolution

In the dramatic poem “Danny Deever” by Rudyard Kipling, the soldiers face two duties and hardships throughout the poem. One hardship is that Files-on-Parade was good friends with Danny Deever. A duty is that the higher ranked members have to lie to the newer soldiers and not tell them the horrors that they may face. Colour-Sergeant cannot tell Files-on-Parade why the men “breathe so ‘ard” or why the “man fall down” (Kipling 9, 11). The hardship of seeing Danny Deever, Files-on-Parade’s best…

war, even though they were close enough to the firing lines to see the true monstrosities of war. It was reported that there were about 9,000 women volunteering in the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), 13,124 female nurses in the Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) (QAIMNS(r)), about 500 women that were part of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), and 82,857 in the women's Voluntary Aid Detachment's (VADs). These women saw indescribable horrors that one cannot even begin to…

1. There are many social changes happening within the military and some affect us more than others. As armed forces military members there is one particular issue that will affect us in the near future, if it has not already. The topic being, should men and women meet the same physical standards in the military? As one the most recent items in discussion it is important to have a solid understanding of the pros and cons of either adjusting or not adjusting the physical standards for women.…

Tuskegee Airmen opened doors that promoted achievement and prevented poverty, inequality and fear. General Colin Powell credits the Tuskegee Airmen with his saying, “they made my rise in the military possible. I stood on their shoulders. They made America better for all of us.” In addition to a full military career, General Powell served as national security advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state (Brief). The Tuskegee Airmen fought one war in Europe and another war…

John Ordway and Hannah Morse. I was one of 10 children. Imagine how busy my parents were. I was brought up in a prosperous family. Little is know about my life until I enlisted into the military. I was well educated, and that helped me a great deal when it came to joining the Continental Army. I had most of my military training their and was later stationed at Fort Kaskaskia under Captain Russell Bissell. I later was transferred to Camp Dubois in Missouri where I, at the time, was in charge of…

The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, summed up his assessment of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) in the following statement: “With our “ends” fixed and our “means” declining, it is therefore imperative that we innovate within the “ways” we defend the Nation.” Strategic planning and transition to Joint Force 2020 (JF 2020) in a fiscally constrained environment affords DoD senior leaders the opportunity to be more innovative than ever before in assessing and…

Children At War! Paragraph 1:Lincoln Denies to let boys who disobey their parents in the civil war but boys on both sides enlisted into the war. Paragraph 2:Enlistment ages were different for both sides. Paragraph 3:Kids lie about their age to recruitment officers and ministers would recruit boys. Paragraph 4:Teachers in schools send students to war. Paragraph 5:Dad’s recruits sons to come with them in the war unless young kids run away they won’t go after them. Paragraph 6:kids would…

Introduction The military is a very complex and diverse place of work in the United States. The Code of Conduct in the military is one of the most important documents that an armed forces member whether it be civilian or military has to read and follow. In this essay there will be a discussion on the armed forces’ Code of Conduct. Morals and ethics in the military will also be discussed in this essay. As Dr. Jim Tonor states (2000), “ethics is not for sissies.” In the military individuals…

the next four days) of what our fellow JPME I classmates are familiar with. Six hours of lectures and discussion on broad stroke: National Security Strategy (NSS), Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), Capstone Concept for Joint Operations, National Military Strategy (NMS), Unified Command Plan (UCP), Guidance for Force Employment (GEF), Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP), JPP, JP 3-0, & JP 5-0 to name a few. One thing became clear and…

responsibility in asking them to go to war and ‘defend’ our so-called ‘rights’, to the minerals, oil and to defining the rights of other people in their countries. We as a society need to look at what we have become as a nation, that treats it’s military like a police force, but one that meets the wants of the governments American ideals and consumerism of the people. We are not defending our country when we go off to war, we are not being threatened; we are projecting our idea of what the world…