Quasi-War

bickering between two people at a swap meet. While there are a million prospective directions of where a settlement can go, one thing is certain that in politics and warfare is that there will either be peace or there will be war due to the nature of politics. The politics of peace and war…

The theme of violence to rule over a society has been explored in literature throughout history. Violence can take various forms including physical and psychological violence. Two such examples depicting the use of violence to control others are examined in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and 1984 by George Orwell. Responsibility for violence depends on the context, and the influences on the inflictor. The form of despotism is a factor in this responsibility: an autocracy or oligarchy.…

Imagine a young child being abducted and forced into war before they even hit puberty. Imagine the war zone; the screaming, crying, the blood. The little one being hurt, lost, and alone. If someone could bring them home, would it really matter how they did it? Sam Childers, the main character in the film Machine Gun Preacher, was a drug dealing, gun wielding criminal who left his old ways when he found God. Sam focused all of the energy and anger he had into helping the lost, scared, and abused…

Introduction of Immediate Action Drills A Basic Infantry movement is the immediate action drill. We will discuss the basic strategy, movement and tactic of IAD’s. IAD’s are used by reconnaissance, infantry and any dismounted patrols in combat. Any patrol can make contact with the enemy at any time. Contact also can happen through ground contact, overhead aircraft, any air attack, or ambush. Contact may be a visual contact only when the patrol sees the enemy but the patrol is not detected.…

The physical sacrifices of war lead to inner and outer turmoil within men impacted by the cruel intentions of military battle. Bloodshed leads to victory. However, this bloodshed arrives at the mercy of millions of men who war kills and wounds. These wounds are most often mental, yet physical wounds directly correlate with the inhumanity of war. Physical wounds of war strip man of his confidence in personal image and force him to place prior ideals of body composition above the reality of his…

Governments around the world today are using child soldiers as expendable, Frontline combatants in armed conflicts around the world. Every day in countries around the world, vicious warlords and military generals kidnap children from their homes and use them to further their own goals of national conquest. These children are made to kill hundreds of people and are manipulated into thinking that what they are doing is righteous. The use of child soldiers can be mitigated by supporting the…

How would you feel as a parent if your children were convinced to join the military through deception? This is what is happening throughout the United States where representatives from the armed forces come to talk to students about joining the armed forces. While this can be a positive thing, many parents including peace groups are against this because of the pure pressure it puts on the students among other things. In order to keep students from making a decision that they don’t truly believe…

desire for self-preservation. Initially, Henry Fleming, other wise known as “the youth”, has dreamed many times of the glory of war. “He had read of marches, sieges, conflicts, and he had longed to see it all.” The thought of becoming a coward does not even cross Henry's mind before he enlists. This is because he has always dreamed of…

about what he just did “The lust of battle died in him he was bitten by remorse”. After this event the sniper started to undergo a state of depression and hate “He began to gibber to himself cu The message the writer wrote during the peak of the civil war is man vs man because it is one man fighting against another man. Man Vs machine “He wanted to fire but he knew it was useless his bullets would never pierce the steele of the grey beast” Pg 437 line 33.And Man…

From the Cold War to more recent struggles with domestic guerrilla groups and drug cartels, Colombia has not had a time of peace since their country was created. Corruption within their own government has left Colombia with no authority; the citizens have nobody to trust, be helped by, or be defended by. Colombia has the potential to institute a stable and effective government, but it has some major complications holding it back. Colombia has been in constant war and armed conflict, domestic and…