Essays on War

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....

Introduction  The purpose of this paper is to analyze “Should Women be allowed in Military Combats?”. There have been concerns about women not being physically fit for such jobs. Although, women have shown that they can work in each field by performing and succeeding in...

It is said that “the share of women among the enlisted ranks has increased seven-fold from 2% to 14% and the share among commissioned officers has quadrupled from 4% to 16%” (Patten). In many countries throughout the years, women have served in the military and...

Are women too feminine to fight; do they not have the courage men have? Women are just as courageous as men (if not more) and also just as powerful. I think the real reason women haven’t been allowed in combat is because there are still...

Currently about 14% of active duty military is e and there has been a long debate about letting women to serve in combat MOS’s (Military Occupational Specialty); however, in 2014 it was decided that combat MOS’s would be opened up to women. While there are...

An autocratic government. A ruthless dictator that abused his people with biological warfare. A booming oil industry. These were all characteristics of the Middle Eastern country known as Iraq. The invasion began in early 2003, when the US deployed 130,000 troops to Southern Iraq in...

The Iraq war is arguably the most controversial event in modern history, the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and it sparked harsh criticism from anti-war groups and many countries as well. Those in power in Washington at the time had been accused of lying...

America’s repeated intervention in other countries is no secret, but the atrocities committed are often brushed aside. The Iraq War is one of those instances. Suspicious of Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq in 2003, ultimately killing 100,000 people,...

A subject which is still highly debated and discussed even today is the Iraq war. Many people were in favor of the Iraq war because of claims made by the U. S president George W, Busch. He claimed that in order to prevent another 9/11...

Over the years, Iraq, home to a diverse variety of ethnic groups, including the Kurds and Arabs, has been ruled by many different powers. However, once the monarchy was overthrown in 1958, following Iraq’s independence from the UK in 1932, the Iraqi Republic was controlled...

On March 20th, 2003 President George W. Bush and his administration, with fears of nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction had declared war on Suddam Hussein and his regime. The majority believe that the removal of Hussein was for the best, but the question...

In politics there was a topic in a democratic debate on how meaningful the war with Iraq was. This war started in 2003 and ended in 2011. It all started because Iraq was a threat, and they had possible ties with Al-Qaeda, etc. People are...

In a typical life each morning, we do our bed, eat breakfast and feed the puppy. In Iraq you’re lying in bed. Staring at the television. All of a sudden you hear guns, shouts, and fear! As you notice people running in catastrophe. Somebody assaults...

Conflict in the Middle East has existed for almost as long as the country of Iraq has been in existence. There has been conflict between various ethnic groups and conflict over the abundance of oil within the area. However, in the late 1970s changes were...

No one would have believed that the American Civil War would turn into the deadliest war in American history. It was certifiably not a war in which people expected, but it was a war with the Confederate States (South) and the Union (North). The Civil...