Essays on War

Introduction Since the birth of the military setups there has been an idea that there are certain rules or fundamentals which usually are going to be implemented to conduct and assess a war. These guidelines or fundamentals are known as the Principles of War. There...

Introduction Images always seem to make arguments to either narrow down to a specific idea or ideas or even point of views to be able to influence others that may be viewing, whether it’d be through a mural, photograph, or even a propaganda. For instance,...

As one of the world’s longest ongoing disputes, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been one of the most devastating disagreements of modern human history. In the early 1900s, the region that is the eastern Mediterranean — present day Israel and Palestine — was ruled by the...

In this essay, I will be critically discussing how Palestine and Israel had been at war for over a decade. These two countries had been in conflict for over 52 years, many individuals believe the conflict between the two abrupted because of two groups fighting...

Hillel Cohen’s ‘Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict’ is a conscious effort in discussing the riots that took place in Jerusalem in 1929 from a non-biased perspective. Cohen explores the riots through the different perspectives of the Jews and the Arabs. An Israeli professor specialising...

The Allied strategic bombing is a controversial subject, when discussing its importance. It’s hard to say whether it achieved the plans of those who were overlooking it. While it did destroy German morale, it didn’t completely, but what it did do was open doors to...

Many conversations within the idea of alternative history range from the insane to a possible result if the variables fell in the exact time and place. Used as a source of entertainment in literature, games, and moving pictures, certain topics will get the treatment but...

The constant battle between Israel and the Arab Nation has stemmed for thousands of years, a conflict that originates so far back to the point that Islam didn’t exist. Most of the conflict was not based on the theological reasonings within the religious differences between...

The Israeli-Palestinian clash faced the continuous battle among Israelis and Palestinians that started in the early 20th century. The assertion is wide-going and still present today. The savagery resulting from the conflict has incited global activities, just as other security and human rights concerns, both...

The Six Day War of 1967 was a turning point for Arab-Israeli relations. The war was a bloody, yet brief conflict fought between Israel and the Arabic states of Syria, Jordan and Egypt. After years of diplomatic disagreement and discontent, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...

In 1861, eleven states in the south of The United States of America ceded from the Union and war broke out between the Union and the Confederacy in April 1861 at the battle of Fort Sumter. The main reason of the divide between the northern...

Within the Middle Ages there were countless wars to be found. There was however, one war in particular which would remain in the World’s history books as one of the bloodiest wars of the Middle Ages. England and France have never had any sort of...

If an average nuclear weapon was detonated over a city, everything within a fifty mile radius of the blast would be flattened. With this being said, there are about 13,890 nuclear warheads in the world. Russia owns about 6,500 of them and the United States...

Allied strategic bombing played an undeniably significant role in the defeat of Germany in WW2, however did not fully achieve its aims until towards the end of the war in 1944. Although immoral, allied strategic bombing terrorised civilian populations, achieving its aim of damaging morale....

On June 3, 1864, the Union and Confederate armies met on a battlefield in Cold Harbor, Virginia. The Confederates were well entrenched and prepared to mount a defensive stand. The Union soldiers on the other side of the lines were preparing for an attack that...

Robert Edward Lee, born on January 18th, 1807 and died on October 12th, 1870, is regarded as one of the most successful generals of the Civil War era. Lee enrolled to the “…United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1825 in which...

Many consider Robert E. Lee a great general and while some do not support the cause he was fighting for they must give credit where credit is due. Lee was a natural leader who took control and led the southern army to great successes during...

Eli Whitney transformed the South with his invention. It is hard when no one knows the solution to a question or when someone holds a different view on a question. An opinion is a view or perspective made about something, which does not have to...

Throughout all of mankind’s history, we see men fighting in wars, and it should stay like that, for the most part, which is something which will be talked about at a later time, but why is this? Well, there is a tremendous amount of biological....