Essays on War

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Tarried. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. This source contains a set of connected short pieces that tell the story of soldiers in the Alpha Company. The alpha company is a group of foot soldiers in Vietnam before, during and after the war. The stories captured in the...

In 1988, a dreaded terrorist by the name Osama Bin Laden formed a group by the name al-Qaeda. The primary focus of the group was to fight foreign interference in the Arab countries. After the invasion, the group realigned their goals into fighting against persons or states, which the members...

Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Ignored Issue of Slavery Ta-Nehisi Coates appears to ignore the issue of slavery but concentrates on issues such as the Jim Crow segregation. Considerably, it is important to note that with slavery, the white community used to execute it blatantly. In this case, when Africans were being...

'The Things They Carried' 'The Things They Carried' is a collection of twenty-two stories, all of which are based on the Alpha Company and the fate of the soldiers after their return to America from war. The soldiers carry along essential goods, and the war is isolating but exposes the truth...

In his book “Confederates”, Tony Horwitz gives his personal experiences of his fascination with Confederacy during the Civil War. Tony’s fascination began when he was at a very tender age in the New Haven Connecticut. He narrates to his reader his personal account as a child, how he read, wrote...

Wallenberg was most certainly one of the few men who deserve to be remembered for their bravery and extensive humanitarian actions towards the Jews during the last day of the third regime (Boland 2). He used various means (both dubious and legal) to save the lives of many Jews who...

I Abraham Lincoln, hereby proclaim that the war will be prosecuted to restore the constitutional relation between the United States and the citizens. From 1st January 1863 henceforth, all slaves in the ten states that are still in rebellion will be free and will be safeguarded by the executive government of...

Among the Jus ad Bellum principles, the most convincing doctrine is the one which classifies war as a last resort. Territories should engage in war when non-military sanctions, arbitrations, and all other forms of negotiations have failed to produce an amicable solution to differences. The principle embraces the preservation of...

The topic about war being natural has raised a lot of debates universally with some individuals arguing that war is natural and others disputing the fact that war is not natural. The absurdities related to war teach us to comprehend that war is not merely an ordinary measure of human...

World War II and the Atomic Bombings As World War II was drawing to a close, the US released two nuclear weapons upon the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombings took place on August 6 and 9, 1945 respectively. It happened right after the states obtained the consent of...

Fredrick Douglass' Early Life Fredrick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland in a slave family. According to him, he was not so sure of his exact year of birth as he was separated from his mother at birth. However, he knew it is between 1817 or 1818 because he must have...

American expansionism also regarded as westward expansion refers to the period of confederation when the USA was extending its borders to the west. The United States of America civil war was fought between 1861 and 1865. The war broke out in 1961 after the election of President Abraham Lincoln where...