How Has War Changed Over The Last 100 Years

The war brings enormous damages to humanity. People who survive war suffer from psychological problems. In the excerpt from, A Long Way Gone, a boy who managed to stay alive through war suffers from the past memories that are even in his dreams, “I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away” (Beah). This quote makes it clear that people who went through war suffer mentally from unwillingly dreaming of war and memories that suddenly come to their heads. The image “In Times of War” also shows that humanity suffers from war. In the cartoon picture, there are people lying

We have all seen or read about the political and social upheavals caused by war. Some may have even experienced it first-hand. Throughout history war has had negative psychological implications on those effected. However, there is no greater negative impact of war than the psychological and emotional turmoil that it causes individual soldiers.

Technology greatly affected the way in which wars were fought, especially in World War I. The inventions of the repeating machine gun, the development of poison gas, and the introduction of the first tanks caused armies to fight using the bunkering method. This allowed men to huddle in trenches along what are called skirmish lines and throw, lob, and fire by other means weapons to cause damage while men were protected by about 4 to 5 feet deep earth. This caused men to fight in rear or echelon columns behind tanks can basically caused defensive fighting tactics resulting in drawn out protracted battles.

Warfare methods had been the altered in regards of weaponry. During World War I, soldiers would fight from trenches and would use artillery, machine guns, early airplanes, and poisonous gas . There was little mobility during that time period. On the contrary, World War II fought using nuclear power and missiles . During this time period, many special operations were put into affect. An example of a special operation would be Operation Foxley, where the British military planned to assassinate Adolf Hitler (which was not really put into affect). In addition, submarines and tanks were also more heavily used and secret communication, or “code,” became more difficult to figure out, which benefitted them so that others would not understand their plan of attack, their location, etc. Radios were invented which were heavily used during WWII, while there were only landline phones in WWI .

During the Revolutionary War, 2/3 of the soldiers fight died from diseases like Dysentery, Influenza, Typhon, ect. Many soldiers starved and some, marched barefoot. In many wars soldiers got killed by friendly fire even. Some soldiers saw so much on the battle field they went crazy, suffering mental scars that led to psychotic breaks which may eventually led to suicide. As most of you already know, many veterans don't come back from the war, but some do, and those that do are usually never the same as they were before. Many people have made jokes about war flashbacks and it is actually very serious, in fact, studies show that recent veterans have a very high suicide rate compared to those who has never served in the military. But let's not

For many, warfare lead to their unfortunate demise. For the survivors, warfare leads to PTSD due to the sickening experiences they were forced to endure. Looking back through human history, we can see the sheer lethalness of warfare, and the intense damage it can do. By reading our popular literature, we are able to envision to traumatic experiences soldiers witnessed, and yet still carried on doing their job. Modern day soldiers and veterans help us understand just how heavily those type of experiences can affect someone. For many, those war experiences will evolve into mental health disorders such as PTSD, and they will carry that around with them for the rest of their lives. Warfare is no friend to man. It picks at everything good in the hearts of soldiers and fills their heads with evil. In war, many will die, many will see things that they would do anything to unsee,

War causes death, poverty, diseases, destruction, and many more devastating and unavoidable consequences. The government drafted men into military service, giving them no choice but to separate them from their daily lives, friends, and families. Soldiers fight in wars while putting their lives on the line and are only rewarded with physical or psychological injuries. Countries wage war against one another in order to resolve disputes and disagreements between them. Individuals, such as nurses, soldiers, and civilians undergo traumatic events when they are caught in the middle of a war. Although some may argue that war does not impact the self the most, based on the informational text, “War Escalates” by Paul Boye, the short story, “Where

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein). War can be a drastic change for the life of a person as war can ultimately morph them into a slave of the battlefield. In the book The Things They Carried, Tim O’ Brien describes the experiences of people in the Vietnam War and how they have become changed individuals from their past lives before combat. War pummels you with things that transcend your typical escapades and the more you try to understand them, the more you get sucked into the void of combat. The increased time the characters are in the battlefield, the more they have to think about it, thus shaping who they are. Only time can determine how much war can affect you.

The war does not only leaves physical lifetime scars on a soldier but also mental scars which could remain with him for lifetime. We can say that the person who suffers the most is the soldier because he is the one who goes through continuous pain. After seeing so much destruction the soldiers go insane, they go through mental illness and psychological trauma, they try to attempt suicide, they get flashbacks of those disastrous events that stops them to live a normal life after. “We’re all strange, Robert thought. Everyone is strange in a war I guess. Ordinary is a myth" (Findley 101). As the wars are so anxious soldiers fight for days, weeks and months without sleeping, eating, bathing; they lack basic nessecties of life. As Robert states, "All he [Robert] wanted was a dream. Escape. But nobody dreams on a battlefield. There isn't any sleep that long. Dreams and distances are the same" ( Findley 102) a soldier cannot fall asleep because of the terror and stressful conditions but if he does he could get killed. they do not live a regular routine life which

Weapons can change war in a matter of seconds . New military technology allows missions to be more efficient and safer. Weapons like the railgun, sonic rifle, and a self-guided bullet. Help ing by giving the advantage at the best of times. The new is coming and that means others might be advanced but behind at the same time.

War can be defined as armed conflict between nations or states or even different groups within a nation or state. All these wars, approximately 14,000 in the past 5,000 years, take innocent civilians away from their family, home, what they know for months or even years at a time. Often times the conditions these individuals are living in while at war are far from the normal life they previously lived. Vets often see and have to do certain task that no human being should be required to do. Leaving behind a lot of mental repairing to do once back home. Once a war comes to an end, these civilians are thrown back into a culture they have been away from for months, even years with little to no direction on where to start to build their lives again.

War in Our Times         As World War II ended and paranoia struck across the U.S. that communism was going to spread, the Cold War began. As the planes crashed into the twin towers and 2,996 lives were lost, the war on terror began. Terrorism has spread worldwide more and more after 9/11 occurred. Both of these events changed the course of America forever; it changed how everybody views everyone and everything. The Cold War and the war on terror had and have a major impact on the history of the United States and vary in how they are similar and diverse.

Technology skyrocketed during and after The Great War. The war gave people new ideas to create and use technology for the military. “Virtually all military advances since 1918 have been incremental technical improvements to the efficiency of the conceptual model of the Modern Style of Warfare.”(3) Technology that was improved was a vast arrangement of different kinds of weapons, for example the flamethrower, machine guns, and rifles, new military uniforms, new automobiles, and the introduction of two crucial war machines, the tank and the airplane, which changed the field of battle and forever forcing countries to develop new strategies on military tactics. As a result of this, the US gained much

Nothing can impact society like war. War can be viewed as noble and just, or cruel and inhuman, as well as everything in between. War affects everyone in society whether they are fighting in a foreign country or waiting at home for a loved one to return. War is an indispensable part of civilization; found at every chapter of human history. It is the culmination of the basic survival instinct when provoked. As has the technique of battle; society's view on war has changed as well. Today the act of war has become almost shameful, whereas in earlier eras war was glorified and heroic. American society's view on war has changed also. Our history, even as a young country has seen a great deal

War makes all its soldiers its victims. It strips them of their innocence; all had dreams for their future. Their future will become a lost life or a life full of memories that will continue to haunt them. The memories of killing, friends being killed, almosts, etc. War contains many horrors like these.