Essays on Soldiers

During the reading, the primary purpose of the article “Faces of War,” by Caroline Alexander focuses on the devastating events that the Great War had caused. We see when the world entered into the 20th century we also came into a new type of age...

Gender and economics were no less intertwined during the eighteenth century than they are today. In the world of emerging paper currency and capitalism, many issues were coming to light for the first time, and so it comes as little surprise that the literature of...

Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after World War Two ended and spent 29 years in the jungle has died aged 91 in Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda remained in the jungle on Lubang Island near Luzon, in the Philippines, until 1974 because he...

Witold Pilecki was a man who infiltrated Auschwitz because of conspiracies that the germans had gas chambers and morges in there executing the jews. Witold wanted to go inside to see what they were doing but he could not get the mission signed off but...

The purpose of writing this essay is to inform the reader on what military and professional bearing consists of and its significance in the United States military. Military bearing is all about learning “time and place”, and being fully aware of your surroundings. I think...

By the late 18th century, tensions in Colonial America were running high. Despite colonists coming to America to start anew and to escape from under British rule, the British Parliament still maintained a strong foothold over the colonies through various taxes and rules the colonists...

Chinese sources list the total number of military and non-military casualties, both dead and wounded, at 35 million. Most Western historians believed that the total number of casualties was at least 20 million. Operation Sook Ching was a Japanese military operation aimed at purging or...

This is story about one ex-soldier; Mr. Krebs is the one that is focused at here. The story talks about this ex-soldier’s experience in the war zone during the First World War. It gives the situation at his hometown after coming back from war. This...

Image, your entire family, killed, your town in rubble, nowhere to go, you go to seek shelter at the any place where protection is given, you then get forced into killing, and a life of fighting, when rescued, people treat you like a monster and...

The Importance of Following Orders Following orders is of the utmost importance in the army. Obedience is what allows the military to operate in an organized and effective manner that is clearly very important during difficult military situations. While an individual can question the notion...

Since her independence in 1958, the republic of Niger is a country that has had four military regimes amidst her struggles for democracy. This has led to several changes in the structure of the army while leaving a more malleable framework in terms of specific...

Soldiers in World War I experienced horrible living conditions, vicious forms of punishments, and endured weaponry the world had not seen. Trench warfare dominated World War I, the form of combat in which groups of soldiers would build underground structures stretching long distances to defend...

Leadership competencies are leadership skills and behaviors that contribute to superior leader performance. Are leaders born or made? A leader can be made, not born. This does not mean that someone that is not in a leadership posotion cannot be taught to become a great...

Leader Development is an important attribute that makes the Army function properly. Leader Development keeps your leadership sharp in a constantly changing organization. Leader Development is not just for your Team Leaders and above, it starts with the individual making themselves more beneficial to the...

Training of the army is regarded both as an art and a science (Army Unit Training Management). It, therefore, requires a brief mix of activities and processes that are suitable for imparting the best knowledge and skillset to those enrolled in training. The army unit training unit details the army’s training management processes that...