Trench warfare

European battlefields of World War One, “armored units” or “panzers” have broken the deadlock of trench warfare and forced other ground-based elements to adapt to and utilize its implementation. It wasn’t until the Second World War that Panzers were fully utilized on the battlefield, primarily by the German Wehrmacht and SS. The Germans themselves were some of the fiercest combatants of modern warfare and implemented the use of panzers with specialized infantry resulting in combined arms…

up through the ranks until he becomes an officer. He fought hard, was impressed only by soldiers’ bravery and in the end won an award for his efforts. His first person narrative painfully depicts the harsh realities of war and the horrors of trench warfare that I was perhaps not ready to come to terms with as my fiancee, who lost his life at the hands of the war, was in Jünger’s position only fighting for the allied side. Jünger’s narrative ends after the German…

lives of many young soldiers, by being carried in the slow movements of clouds, that released these gases on the soldiers as they passed over. Prior to World War I, this form of weaponry was considered to be uncivilized, but with the stalemates of trench warfare, countries began searching for a new mass weapon, and poison gas became an ideal choice. The French were believed to be the first users of tear-gas grenades on Germans, during the first months of World War I. Though, it wasn't until the…

WWI was a bloody war that although was primarily fought with trench warfare. Chemical warfare was used, often killing the soldiers in brutal ways. Sandburg displays this brutality by narrating, “Ten thousand men and boys twist their bodies in a red soak along a river edge” (11-13). Also WWI had around 38 million casualties making…

First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of the trench and gas warfare he started doing poetry to tell the stories of the trenches he also was heavily both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke . his poetry gave such a detailed view on the war he described the life in the trenches and the horrors of gas warfare. From his works Dulce et Decorum est, Insensibility, Anthem…

In 1983, the Cold War was in a heightened stated. Early in the year, Ronald Reagan gave his famous Evil Empire speech as justification for deploying NATO nuclear-armed missiles. The SDI or “Star Wars” plan was a sign of heightening tensions between the NATO countries and the Warsaw Pact ones. Other events, like the Soviet downing of Korean Airlines 007, Massive Nuclear Protests in Europe and the Able Archer exercises, were further signs of rising Cold War tensions. It was in this atmosphere that…

The Things they carried O’Brien’s story depicts a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War. The soldiers carry equipment, rations, weapons and personal items with them. Some of those items are a necessity such as the P-38 can openers, heat tabs, dog tags, ammunition, C-rations, guns and cigarettes. These are physical objects with a real measurable weight. O’Brien narrates the events and paints a picture of the burdens we do not see. Those invisible burdens the characters carry, are the…

Codenamed the “Manhattan Project,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 was the single-biggest military construction project in history (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). Responsible for approximately 200,000 casualties, the atomic bomb left a path of total destruction and devastation in these two major Japanese cities (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). It was the only time nuclear weapons had been used on civilization, which gave us a true idea of what the effects…

Nuclear weapons have come into existence within the last decade. They have changed the way wars are fought as they could lead to the total extermination of humanity. These weapons can lead to mutual destruction of nations, which really have caused humans to reevaluate the way they conduct foreign affairs. Eric Schlosser’s article “Today’s nuclear dilemma” is about the nuclear weapons that countries control and what should be done with them. Schlosser argues that the current nuclear weapons…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…