Essays on War

The Japanese Internment Camps is one of the biggest events in U.S. history during the 20th century. With the relocation of the Japanese in the Pacific Coast of the United States, one of ten Internment camps, where they would spend the next 2 years trying...

When we think of the relationship the United States has with Japan today, our first thoughts usually go to their cuisine, technology, pop culture such as anime, and traditions that could be considered the exact opposite of our own. Many of those things have managed...

World War II began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, which resulted in France and Britain declaring war on Germany. Initially, the United States wished to remain isolated from the war, but the United States officially entered World War II in 1941 after the Pearl...

When the Soviet Union successfully obtained functioning nuclear weapon technology in 1949, the people of the world were forced to face the prospect of their potential annihilation should the US and USSR come into direct conflict. During the Cold War, the resurgence of domestic religious...

The Union North had superior political, social, and economic factors that contributed to its victory against the Confederate South during the American Civil War. The industrial revolution began in America in 1850. The North adapted to become a more industrial and urban economy while the...

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....