New Model Army

The Things They Carried Log #1, Chapter 1, 08/19/15 Before reading this book, I had already formed my own biased opinion. War stories I can not help but find either completely and utterly boring, or excessively graphic. Not to say that I am not appreciative of what the men and women go through for the freedom of this country, I just prefer a different style of books. However, even with only reading the first chapter, my attention has been grabbed. I am getting the impression that this is not…

ethical command climate. As units develop they will generally perceive the commander's positive aspects as the norms and use the negative aspects as the boundaries to shape its ethical nature. If a commander chooses a negative model to work with, then the unit can reject that model but still use its boundaries to fall back on in the future, or…

judgment." (p. 15). By the time the book ends, the reader understands why the training is so difficult as the book outlines an intense battle sequence in which three of the four Navy SEALS lost their live and on that same day eight SEALs and eight Army Night Stalkers were killed from…

“The age of massed infantry,” covers the period from 600BC to 300AD, with units on the genesis of infantry and the Roman way of warfare. Further, “The Age of Stone Fortifications” includes chapters on new weapons, advanced war tactics and the gunpowder revolution that started in China but eventually spread all across the world between 1300-1600 AD. The “Age of guns and sails” covers the period between 1500-1900 AD and finally, “The age of mechanized…

Every change made by one of the services in the jobs open to women becomes a news item met with praise or negativity. When one considers the many changes made in the last few years along with the current trend it seems we are getting to the point where we could become a fully integrated military with men and women doing the jobs…

Dwight Zimmerman and Wayne Vansant’s book: The Vietnam War: A Graphic History delivers an amusing account and perception on the Vietnam War in North and South Vietnam, as well as an account in America at this period in time. This book is an exceptional source to teachers, students, and war enthusiasts. The book answers the question of what it remained like to be a citizen living in America at the time of the Vietnam War and what it was like to be a shoulder fighting in this horrid war. Starting…

The Draft has been present in American history since the 1940’s when men were drafted during both periods of peacetime and periods of conflict in order to fill the vacancies within the United States Armed Forces that could not be filled through voluntary means. And though the draft was ended when the United States Armed Forces transitioned to an all-volunteer military force the possibility of the US bringing conscription back is overwhelmingly high. Although, it may be possible that in critical…

The Vietnam War was a very difficult time in history for many people. Many good soldiers were lost in the war and others that came home were traumatized by what they lived in the war. Many of the families of the soldiers were happy to see them back when the war was over. Other families were devastated because of their loss but, they remembered them as honorable veterans. The Vietnam War brought a great change in American society because it was the first war that was televised. Many people as…

Telling a true war story is very hard, most of the time people can't actually recall every detail of their time in the war. In Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, he goes over what it was like to fight on the front lines overseas in the Vietnam War. The physical and emotional stress and tension of being there, witnessing horrifically dramatic scenes made it very hard to physically remember what had happened there. Telling a war story is an art, you have to paint the images into the…

The Army life is one of service, not to one’s self, but to a nation and to their brothers and sisters in arms.It couldn’t be more perfectly stated, “Professional Soldiers are volunteers…bonded with comrades in a shared identity and culture of sacrifice and service” (pg. 4). This brings us right into the topic of the HR sergeant and their roles in the Army as a profession of arms. When most civilians think of the military they…