Warfare by type

War I was the Western Front. This was home to fighting soldiers from Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Australia. This battle eventually resulted in trench warfare with 700 kilometres of zig zag trenches spread from the “Swiss Frontier to the English Channel, cutting across northern France and into southern Belgium.” This trench warfare started a stalemate and was home to some of the most gruesome suffering and horrible conditions that soldiers have ever been faced with. Construction of the…

Rules of engagement for the Unites States in the Vietnam War were a framework put into place by military authorities to define the limitations and circumstances that combat will be initiated or continue with enemy forces. (Georgia Tech College , n.d.). The rules are put into place to be compliant with international law for conducting war, minimize friendly fire accidents, and protect civilians. All of these regulations also had political motivation and each level of rank within the army from…

A civilization is any complex society composed of people, social order, and communication; can be symbolic, verbal, or writing. Each civilization has their own unique perspective, and people in the civilization usually share the same common goal. People in one civilization behave different from people in another civilization, so there is not a” normal” way to behave. Civilizations’ custom vary through their situation, environment, and resources. If there was a “normal” society it would probably…

Not only were the soldiers not received warmly, but they were expected to return to their everyday lives, as if they hadn’t just endured months of war and culture shock. There was no government support for them, no debrief, no time to decompress. Unlike World War II, where soldiers came back by boat and had weeks to work through the trauma they had experienced, GIs from Vietnam were back in America within a day or two. “Not uncommonly, a soldier...[will] travel fifteen hours...arrive on a base…

Today marks the end of my first month in the trenches. The things I have seen in the trenches are unbelievable. There are hordes of rats. There are at least two types, the brown and the black. They’re the almost the size of my cat back home. Lately as its grow colder I’ve noticed them gnawing at my fallen trench mates. On top of all that, they’ve been spreading disease rampantly. They’re impossible to get rid of. We’ve tried shooting them out multiple times but they always come back to no avail.…

Other considerations In democratic state, the public opinion can influence the course of action of the authorities (Mack, 1975: 188). Therefore, Mack blamed that the nature of the polity of the metropolitan contribute to the defeat of the war (Mack, 1975: 189). Domestic constrain in a free society is more influential than other kinds of polity like totalitarian or dictatorship (Mack, 1975: 193). In democracy, the free media can affect the attitude of the population towards the war. The New York…

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 Germans…

It’s interesting to see the progression of weapons from the early beginnings to now. Most people believe that chemical warfare agents were first introduced during the World Wars. Interestingly enough, the concepts of these agents were developed as early as 600 B.C. They weren’t known as chemical warfare agents however; the techniques that were used mimic the action of these agents that are being used today. During the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, the Spartan army used a mixture…

Undoubtedly, the part of the article that grabbed my attention the most would have to be the one describing the types of food they ate. Unlike America, food is not always in abundance there and when it was it was nothing like McDonald’s. The majority of the food that is available is usually very low quality, and in many cases, sometimes unidentifiable. Being both…

despite large Confederate losses, were signs of superiority to the populous and heightened hopes of foreign intervention over the North. As the Northern Navy’s blockade began to effect supplies, Lee himself answered the question of guerrilla warfare. This type war would have caused the lawlessness within in the Confederacy and the forfeiture of property “slaves” in order for it to survive, thus giving illegitimacy to a country once based on lofty goals (Gallagher…