Prisoners of war

grown-up had happened to me before. This was something Grandma Tilly couldn't understand—how war promises a boy it can make a man out of him.” (Peck, 152) The River Between Us by Richard Peck is the story of Howard Leland Hutchings who is on his way to visit family in Grand Tower, Illinois. There, his grandmother Tilly takes the story, retelling the family's experiences in the first year of the Civil War. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a novel about Liesel Meminger, a young German girl…

the glories of war. He enrolls in the Union armed forces and rapidly finds sides of himself he never knew existed. Him joining the army was a result of his mother telling him that he should never run from battle. “‘I don’t know what else to tell you, Henry, except that you must never avoid your duty, child. If a time comes when you have to be killed or do a bad thing, Henry, don’t think of anything except what’s right.’” (page 4) The trepidation, boredom, and maltreatment of war draw out the…

military organizations confronted the problem of not only adapting to technological changes in peace time, but also the fact that war itself has inevitably turned up the speed of technological change”. The first Gulf War constitutes a turning point in the history of modern conflicts essentially because of the integration of technology into all levels of military operations. War was always been a declaration of hostility between two opposing groups clashed over a battlefield in a duel with the…

The Capitalist Project War is an art form and a science, and an innovative one at that. For it to persist at its utmost peak, Adam Smith declared that “...it is necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens.” (Way 1) Historiographically speaking, what has been written and studied about war is, for the most part, information in regards to combat, and the wars themselves. How soldiers thrived throughout The Seven Years’ War appears to have…

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,…

didn’t quite understand what made its existence possible. We, as a species, have seen the consequences of this technology, but have we learned from our most obvious mistakes in its use? Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the article Atomic War or Peace, Albert Einstein himself writes, “The public, having been warned of the horrible nature of atomic warfare, has done nothing about it, and to a large extent has dismissed the warning from its consciousness” (par. 4). Einstein was extremely…

War is a term that immediately indicates an issue; the one that reflects the political miscommunication between political parties. But when war is mentioned is this the only concern that comes to mind? The battlefield doesn’t only symbolize the issues of the government, but the struggles of the people. The reality is, no matter how strong we might be and how hard we might try to avoid its influence, none is able to escape the battlefield and its staggering moments. Whether you’re a child or an…

Conflict in the International Arena through the three images lens Man, the State and War canalizes causes of conflicts in the international arena through the lenses of the three images. The three images are philosophical, psychological and theoretical approaches to understand the reasons of conflict and the eruption of wars in the international field. The first image tries to explain the reasons of war by focusing on the relevance of human nature or human-tendencies as the main instigator of…

War changes a soldier’s perspective of life, whether it is an optimistic or pessimistic view. Some soldiers will enlist thinking that they are taking part in the war because of the nationalism and pride they have for their country. It encourages them to fight knowing that they are protecting the rights and freedom for the future generation. The soldiers often go to war with little to no knowledge of why the government incited the war. Most of the time, they fight knowing only the propaganda the…

theme of ¨The Sniper¨ is that war reduces human beings to mere objects. To futher explain it is that they have no bnames, no face. That they are just targets and nothing more, to be shot at from a distance. The theme of ¨Cranes¨ is that no war, not even civil war can overcome friendship. The two stories ¨The Sniper¨ and ¨Cranes¨ have many differences and many similarites related to theme. ¨The Sniper¨ is a short story about a sniper who is fighting in the civil war in Ireland.…