War in Afghanistan

Taoism started to influence people in China, writers such as Sun Tzu who was a general in the Wu dynasty began to use Lao Tzu ideas on spontaneously and abjuring high ambitions to come up with a book called the Art of War. Sun Tzu’s book the Art of War was a step by step way to win a war without even fighting or using minimal troops to accomplish the same task. These ideas helped small unit tactics and was adopted by a man Mao Tse-Tung.…

War has found itself home in each generation that has walked this earth. Whether the age group yearned for their parents to return safely or they themselves set foot to fight, age groups continue to find connections to militaristic conflict. My uncle, Nathan Gregg, was one of the many who found himself sacrificing his life for the country he called home. Nate has completed four tours and is currently serving his fifth. Since 2004, he has traveled to Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Iraq. He joined…

of America’s war loving behavior. But people respond to the rewards and punishments of any particular system, and if our system rewards greed and self-interest that is the way we will behave in the world. My theory of why America goes to war can be narrowed down to four words: America’s brand of capitalism. The America focused on power, wealth, and privilege is hooked on war, because without war it can no longer function correctly, or in other words, yield the desired profits. Wars are a…

In Iraq and Afghanistan they have many precautions for friendly fire. These two countries have different systems that they use to make sure friendly fire does not happen. For example, “airplanes talk to each other using a system known as Identification Friend or Foe, a…

Notice that all of these countries are poor and falling apart at the seams, having barely any funding for their military. Many people would take advantage of this governmental confusion and use children as weapons of war, not thinking twice about the child’s life or their possibly future. This torture may seem medieval, but it is not. The subject of child soldiers is not old news. These kids are being used to this day for things like labor, sex, and, of course, as soldiers…

aspects of the economy, politics and culture, etc. However, it does not to be equal that the world is safer. There is no doubt that the world has seen various battles on, a small scale or a grand scale, a short-time battle or a sustained war. Moreover, except the wars, there are others unsafe things that have happened in the world: such as hegemonism, power politics,…

tremendous families loosing a loved one due to war. Some of those incidences that occur to soldiers at war, tend to be harsh and unforgettable. In the book, Zinky boys, by Svetlana Alexievich, the author shows how her project of gathering interviews from people that lost a loved one at war, made it possible for her to express the idea of loss in different aspects from people’s voices. Alexievich was from Belarus, who wrote in Russia how the voices from the Afghanistan and Soviet soldiers…

to be just like them. He enlisted in the military in 1995. He was enlisted and was not an officer. He was in the military for about 15 years. His highest ranks sergeant 1st class. He served in the army. He was a soldier. He went to Afghanistan. This is Charles…

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…

shipped off to war. Marlantes implies that boot camp should not be accessible at the age of 18 and rather, soldiers should be more experienced and older in order to enlist. The minds of the young kids, at the beginning of their deployment, were convinced by demonizing used in propaganda that the North Vietnamese were evil and worth killing. (Shah). However, the posters never taught the young men how to deal with the guilt of killing. Therefore, as they returned home, many soldiers had similar…