Essays on War

The Second World War took place between 1939 and 1945, a time during which many reforms occurred. The nations that directly engaged in the war had to focus on aircraft as a high-performance combat weapon. However, the conclusion of the war in 1945 brought a number of positive improvements to…

Al-Qaeda is one of the world’s Islamic activist organizations. Osama Bin Laden founded the international Sunni Muslim organization in 1988 as a terrorist group. The group was solemnly established to prevent the Soviet Union’s invasion in Afghanistan with the support of Abdullah Azam and other Muslim volunteers. Since then, the…

The Restoration period followed the Civil War and aimed at reuniting Union and Confederate states, which had divided the nation in two. Deep disputes over Restoration policies helped to further polarize both factions. The Southern states, mainly affiliated with the Confederacy, had been severely defeated and damaged by the North-aligned…

Herman Melville wrote the story Benito Cereno. It is a fictitious account of the Spanish slave ship revolt led by Don Benito Cereno (Melville). The novel was originally published in three parts but was later expanded to incorporate a short story. The narrator makes an oblique statement on contemporary views…

In order to become a superpower, the Soviet Union tried to extend its reach. During the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union became great competitors and each side actively sought to control the world in search of publicity. In the Eastern Bloc, Cuba, Vietnam, and Korea, the…

Military coordination between China and the United States has effectively contributed to the war against foreign terrorism typically brought on by al Qaeda-led violent extremist organizations (VEOs), which threaten trans-regional stability in parts of North Africa and the Middle East (Joint Chiefs of States 3). Joint military collaboration has avoided…

Flight logging systems were created in order to identify the causes of air accidents, which are nearly invariably fatal. David Warren, an inventor with the Aeronautic Research Laboratories in Melbourne, Australia, invented the flight recording systems that are still in use today in the 1960s. Flight recording instruments are usually…

The following article examines monuments of historical depictions of fallen heroes. The ‘National War Memorial’ in Canada and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in the United States were selected to demonstrate how landmarks have been used to commemorate fallen veterans. Vernon March planned the ‘National War Memorial,’ which is located in…

The ethnography The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman outlines two stages of a story centered on Lia Lee and her family, who are trying to heal her epilepsy but are having difficulty reconciling what they believed. Following the Vietnam wars, in which they partnered with…

There are parallels between the War on Terror and the Cold War. Fighting terrorism is dependent on ideas, and the Cold War is characterized as a clash of ideas. During the Cold War, opposing states did not agree to settle their differences, and the same remains so in the War…

As a philosophy, it is fair to say that insurgency has sparked a lot of curiosity in today’s conflicts. Despite ranges from asymmetrical violence, irregular warfare, and moves that question the writ of various states for political reasons, insurgency remains an undefined term. In relation to this article, South Asia…

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. That was also the moment that the two world powers were on the verge of a nuclear war. It was exceptional in a variety of respects, including miscalculations and measurements, as…