On War

The Korean war highlighted the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States as the Cold war raged on in the early 1950s. The Red Army, which was part of the Soviet Armed Forces, attacked and conquered many different countries around the 1940s(ushistory.org). After these nations were conquered, they became a part of the Soviet Union and Stalin, who led the Soviet Union, established communist rule in the countries. By conquering nations around the world, the Soviet Union had the ability…

use of force has accomplished more for the human race than other endeavor.” Societies wage wars for any number of reason but the scale and scope of conflict is determined by ultimate end state of the conflict. This endstate is tied to development of instrument ( the army), national will, and resources mobilization. Limited war is characterized by the restrained use of weapons and military options while Total war is a conflict of unlimited scope in which a belligerent engages in a mobilization…

The Korean War was a war between North and South, the US had a UN force that fought for South Korea, and China fought for North Korea, who was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The Korean War was three different conflicts from the perspective of the disparate groups who fought in it. For North and South Korea, the conflict was a civil war, a struggle with no possible compromise between two competing visions for Korea’s future. To the North was a coalition led by three dictators Josef Stalin,…

The Cold War The battle developed due to the fact of the relationship between USA and the USSR after World War two was called The Cold War. The Cold War in spherically was a military conflict between the two countries where if a direct contact had occurred War World III will had taken place. The conflict was over political, military and economic issues. Communism and Capitalism also played significant factors into this war. This name, The Cold War, was giving because each side never fought each…

actually happened during the past. A true rumination of history and war creates an unbalanced idea of the past and its “factual” concepts. The concept of historical evidence may display the false reality about the contextual evidence of the historical knowledge that mankind knows today. Based off of the ideas and patterns we see across history, mankind's current knowledge about the past may be an unknown reality…

Korean War (Forgotten War) The end of the Second World War meant peace and prosperity for the Americans and many others around the world. This was certainly not the case for the Korean people, this meant struggle and difficulty. As many Korean people thought this would be the end of Japanese control, and a chance to become unified. Due in part because Korea was part of the Japanese Empire from 1905 until 1945. This quickly led to a great deal of tension between the Soviet Union and the United…

The Cold War which started in 1946 to 1991 was a global military, political, economic, ideological struggle between the U.S. and Britain, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). The Cold War was not only a struggle between two nations, but what the nations represented or stood for: Democracy and Communism. This led to a series of wars, most memorably the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. In 1945, Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe was defeated by the joint efforts of then…

duty in war and why it is necessary to perform one 's duty despite the cost. However this raises the question of whether the war in the Gita was justified. The god Krishna who performs the role of charioteer for Arjuna believes that the war is just and convinces him to fight. There is a theory known as the “just war theory” which details the legitimacy beginning a conflict and proper actions during the conflict. This theory consists of two major parts (Jus Ad Bellum the right to go to war, and…

I believe the Trojan war was just that, a war. There are a few reasons I think this, first, it is called a war all throughout the book and throughout history, there is definitely a deeper meaning but at the end of the day, it was just a war. Second, Merriam Webster defines war as “a situation in which people or groups compete with or fight against each other”, which is exactly what it was, the Trojans and the Greeks fighting over Helen. Finally, what else would you call this happening? You could…

far-reaching news cycle, decisions to engage in war are of paramount concern to a state. Given this greater accountability, there is perhaps an even stronger emphasis for states to have sound moral reasoning in its actions leading to and during war. Some would argue that there is no room for justice in war. According to realists, wars are fought on the basis of power and security issues; “the pursuit of lesser national interests rarely justifies war” (Morkevičius 2015, p. 20). Pacifists, on the…