War

Indochina war started in late 1940s, as France wanted to re-colonize Vietnam. French was supported by the US 80 percent of the cost of the war. In 1954, the French withdrew and the war had ended but, Vietnam divided into South and North Vietnam according to the Geneva agreement. In early 1965, US, took Gulf of Tonkin incident – later it was leaked through pentagon paper that it was manipulated by US – as opportunity, and invade outright by bombing the North Vietnam and this leaded to another war…

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.…

and ethical reasons. If you look at demographics for war and terrorism, along with the crime rate in nations across the world, it is clear that humanity is at its most violent in years. Nations across the world are pending more on nuclear weapons and other military action. With as many moral and religious differences that are globally prominent, seemingly peaceful protest can turn into violent revolt. Many compare violence to all out war, but that isn’t a fair assessment. All across the…

parts of the world, children are often surrounded by the ever growing obstacle of war. While in these situations, the concept of youth can become an imaginary idea. Most children are scouted into armies or placed into refugee camps where immediate maturity must be learned. “Since the mid-1990s, the world has watched in horror as hundreds of thousands of children and young teenagers have participated in nearly 50 wars, mostly in Africa and Asia” (Felton 1). Often times, these young ones never…

history of the Civil War has long interested Southerners across since it has impacted the South as it is known even today. However, similar to how Stewart brought social and environmental history together, military and environmental history can be used in unison to better tell the history of the war. In The Blue, The Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War, a book of articles edited by Brian Drake, one sees how the environment affected the Civil War. In Megan Kate…

The Face of War in the Seventeenth Century Jessica Michaca Western Civilizations Mrs. Haggerty September 23, 2016 To begin with, what is The Face of War in the Seventeenth Century? The Face of War in the Seventeenth Century was about wars crises and also rebellions. Also all the improvements that happen during this time, It has his good and bad effects also including the people. This time was an important time because major wars took place during this century and…

Just Wars: Wars Others Start There is no simple answer for the causes of war, but many would probably attribute the ferocity and frequency of war to religious zealotry, especially with our current “war on terror.” The Crusades and other wars are marked by unmerciful slaughter that, paradoxically, has often been followed by the conviction that “God is on our side” While religion has helped fuel many regional and local wars, it only played a minor role in most of the wars of the twentieth century,…

“The Art of War”, author Sun-Tzu focuses on the different demeanor of warfare and how they apply to military strategies and tactics. In “Medea”, Euripides focuses on a women’s battle against her unfaithful husband. For Sun-Tzu, a war is governed by various factors. From the terrain, you fight on to the knowledge you have about your enemy. For Euripides, a woman can go to any extent to take revenge from her treasonable husband. Despite her actions leading to tragic outcomes, using art of war as…

People don’t know how bad war is until they experience it for themselves. Some military people who went through war try to create different methods to protest war. Soldiers or people who went through war try to express how they feel. What tools can writers use to protest war? People who have seen war create many different methods to protest about war. A person who has seen war will try to use imagery like you are actually there. (Doc B) “The scene of gas as like a green sea suffocating a…

There is no doubt that war is bad. but they are part of our reality. They exist because humans have not been able, after thousands of years of supposed civilization, to agree on basic issues of coexistence. It is the greatest catastrophe that can occur to humans. It brings death and destruction, the slaughter without mercy and carnage, disease and hunger, poverty and ruin in its wake. One only has to think about the ravages that occurred in several countries not many years ago, in order to…