Naval warfare

It is with deep concern that I, as the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), need to engage you in a serious foreign affairs situation so early in your new presidency. You are fully aware of the overall concerns in Cuba from your security briefings, but I need to bring to your attention our uneasiness over Cuba and Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s forceful move towards communism. First, you know we were never pleased at Castro’s rise to power. Yet, although we were suspicious of his intentions,…

Willing, witty, and wild would be words to describe Chris Kyle, in the intriguing film American Sniper. Directed by not only an incredible actor but director as well, Clint Eastwood explains the ascending and descending rollercoaster of a life Chris Kyle is living. Eastwood exemplifies the difficulties veterans face when they are getting ready to, are in, and come back from serving. Not only do they have to prepare from being away from loved ones, born or yet to be born, but, they have to also…

The Italian General Douhet claimed that air forces would become the primary means for the conduction of warfare and armies and naval forces would be marginalized if not even superfluous. He believed, that a war could be quickly won through the utilization of bomber forces in a strategic campaign against the adversary’s territory. Furthermore, he argued, that aerial bombardment…

In the clips prior to Lone Survivor Navy SEALS trainees ring a bell three times and place their helmets on the ground when they want to voluntarily fail SEALS training. By the end of the clips there’s a line of helmets showing that there is a limited number of sailors that passed. Sailors are exposed to extreme conditions in the training such as drowning and cold, yet they don’t go through these challenges alone as they are surrounded by their fellow trainees. This brotherhood in the face of…

when deaths after the initial bombing was taken into account. Clearly, the atomic bombs imposed on Japan display the sheer ferocity of nuclear warfare, and highlight its danger to humanity. Though effective, atomic bombs are simply too destructive and there are perhaps safer and less severe alternatives. Given the extensive consequences of atomic warfare and the dangers and anxieties it imposes on humanity, all nuclear weapons should banned from existence. As explained…

SEALs do things that most people find unthinkable on a daily basis. They persevered through every by believing that nobody goes it alone, and no man will be left behind. Service A Navy Seal at War followed this theme in my opinion. Throughout the book Marcus and numerous other SEALs fearlessly stayed together as a team. The paragraphs following are examples of how a few servicemen saved not only their teammates, but American lives as well by working as a team, and never leaving a man to go it…

retain the skills honed from fifteen years of combined arms and irregular warfare, but shift their focus back to amphibious assault in contrast to a protracted role of a standing army. The advantages of an extensive maritime global commons presence enable a power projection and influence ashore. The disadvantages encompass the reality that seventy-one percent of the earth’s surface is water, but even with the largest naval fleet in the world the tyranny of distance and the expanse of time to…

versatile and flexible of the various elements of military power. These concepts, coupled with landpower’s recognized interdependency on the other elements of military power, explain the extraordinary jointness of the American way of conducting land warfare. This interdependence and jointness are the keys to understanding what landpower is both well suited for, and ill-suited to accomplish. It also informs not only how the U.S. Army and Marines organized to fight in the Pacific during WWII, but…

used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.” (Truman, 212) Though this was decades ago, the people of the United States still find themselves today debating…

In society today, several movies have a certain description of how men and women should portray themselves, as well as what roles each one of them is supposed to fill within society. Ladies are seen as the caregivers of the children and dependent on the male figures in their life, but the males are seen as in control and the protector of the family. I have chosen to do a rhetorical analysis on the movie, “The Pacifier”, from a female point of view. This movie was published by Walt Disney and is…