Quasi-War

11,000 child soldiers are serving with rebel groups, including the notorious White Army known for sending thousands of children into battles. 27% of child recruits during the Sierra Leone civil war who were interviewed by Theresa Betancourt’s research team had killed or injured others during the war. 77% saw stabbing and…

True Bravery in the Midst of Deception At the height of the Vietnam War, draft evaders refused to fight, the public continuously protested, and people were dying in great numbers, but one man possessed the courage to fight to delegitimatize a war that many opposed. This man’s name is Daniel Ellsberg. During this time period, Ellsberg was a special government analyst who worked on a paper titled U.S. Decision Making in Vietnam, better known as “The Pentagon Papers”, but Ellsberg described the…

population in Iraq, they were a government with a monopoly on state sanctioned violence. Ironically enough, the party had this monopoly on violence in order to cease violence among the people. When the party began to lose its’ monopoly following the Gulf War, people began lashing out at the violence of the state. State-sanctioned violence was only one factor that motivated insurgency in Iraq. Other factors that led to this insurgency were the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces and the…

Furthermore, Samuel examines how glorified soldiers for their service while Owen clarifies the desire for attention is not worth risking one’s life. The soldiers assume that war will be easy, so they picture themselves victorious. After they defeat the opponent they will arrive “arrive home from war, bronzed heros … submerged in golden seas of glory” (Twain). Being a “bronzed hero” conveys that the society places soldiers on a pedestal to flaunt them similarly to a trophy in a case -- the…

Henry sees that the Confederates had fled the battle and all the soldiers in his regiment is looking at him, especially the lieutenant. The lieutenant explains “By heavens, if I had ten thousand wild cats like you I could tear th' stomach outa this war in less'n a week!”…

mental trauma suffered during World War 1 results in the degradation of empathy and the neglect/denial of social issues. Septimus Warren Smith is a shell shocked veteran who criticizes the aloofness of modern persons to each other. He is incapable of communicating his troubles to those who are enthralled with modern culture. The repetition of the phrase “he could not remember it,” reiterates the inability of Septimus to express his very complex emotions (98). The war has gotten him so lost…

Joint warfare is heavily adopted in current complex environment. It requires a close inter-services cooperation while joint service amalgamates all the tri-service into one organisation with no service delineation. In modern warfare, wars are commonly won when the coordinated forces on land, in the air, and at sea are operating effectively toward a common goal. Joint service is not feasible because modern battlefield requires the tri-service expertise, ethos and functional structure to cultivate…

It was a dark, eerie night in the heart of Dublin where the sniper lay lonesome as he confidently watches over the roads. The streets were brimming with blood and corpses were mutilated and stacked on top of one another (Imagery). His rifle was hung perfectly to the right of him. Since the the barbarous assassin was not expecting any action, he conscientiously opened up a pack of cigarettes to help him relax. His cigarette was the only light that was visible in the dreary night sky that draped…

No one seemed to notice the war I was going through; the innocent dying, the clashing screams of murderous intent. A “children’s book” they all said. How ignorant they were... All they could think about was Magic Treehouse and The Babysitter’s Club. I had no one there to support me, no one. I was alone in this fight, I was alone to store away the gory words and brutal images. I was alone... But without him by my side, I was not. Of course I mean Harry Potter, but that isn’t the important part.…

Diplomacy is a learned skill Violence is, and always has been, a part of human nature. Children use violence to acquire the toy that they want from their friend, until they are stopped by an adult who teaches them how to ask nicely. Several grown adults will throw a punch the first moment they can when they are intoxicated. Looking at the film “2001- A Space Odyssey”, when the two tribes of monkeys are at the watering hole, they resort to violence to settle who wins the space. There is no…