The biggest issue our military is facing while engaging in conflict with terrorist groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is that these groups are not abiding by the Laws of Armed Conflict and the Rules of Engagement. These terrorist groups are using tactics that are not discriminate and are not proportional to the military advantage gained. For example, the use of IEDs can be characterized as an act by the terrorist group that is indiscriminate. The purpose of these IEDs is to inhibit the movement of the American forces but the IEDs are put in random places along routes and could kill civilians instead of soldiers. The enemy’s main mission is to kill the U.S soldiers and any other organizations that go against their belief system. They will employ any tactic they see necessary in order to accomplish their goal, such as attacking innocent civilians, who are not taking part in the conflict. This action taken by these terrorist organizations can make it difficult for officers to encourage their soldiers to abide by the rules and …show more content…
When soldiers are deployed and fighting in conflict, they do not know which day could potentially be there last and will invest many emotions into what they are doing and the people that surround them. These emotions create strong bonds between soldiers and can also lead to toxic environments if the soldier’s emotions are targeted in a negative way. Every day that a unit is deployed they are engaging the enemy through direct contact or indirect fires that are coming from an unspecified location. The book Black Hearts perfectly describes how emotional a platoon of soldiers become while watching their leaders and friends die due to terrorist attacks. The men feel that every mission they go on is a death sentence and that their higher chain of command does not
Dehumanization obviously has negative effects on a soldier’s mind and psyche, a fact that the military almost always ignores. A neuropsychiatric disorder known as “combat fatigue” often plagues soldiers in the line of an “unprecedented amount of indirect fire” but is almost never recognized. Many saw soldiers with the disorder as lesser, and “the Marine Corps official history failed to mention combat fatigue, even though it constituted 10 percent of the casualties and had a very negative effect on the fighting.” The trend of refusing to acknowledge that human soldiers also had human brains and hearts and feelings became accepted more and more as the war dragged on.
This not only weighs on their psyches during the war, it lingers to haunt them further. All off this starts to add up, the mind becomes overloaded. It further dissolves the barriers between reality and the imagined, it further jeopardizes the focus of these soldiers, it further risks their
Being in war is definitely one of the most life changing events a person will ever have whether it be for the better or for the worst. Soldiers will witness events that are impossible to forget or see back at home in the states. Some soldiers may have even seen one of their best friends that they’ve known for forever get blown up into pieces right next to them, or they might even get one of their own limbs blown off of their own bodies, becoming handicapped for life. As a result of seeing something so intense like that, most soldiers are usually traumatized. In matter of fact, a great amount of soldiers are traumatized from the very beginning of being in war. It’s without a doubt difficult to deal with this but there are some ways where
The soldiers are so tired by this point that they become rather careless in crucial times. They start making decisions such as celebrating and relaxing because life is short. They have priorities that seem weird to people reading it who don’t understand. They make food and rest and shelter their priorities, rather than immediate safety. Even when Albert gets shot he keeps running through the bombs and guns and explosions instead of stopping in a shell hole to see if he was alright. There is a certain urgency to be back where they feel like they belong. As Paul expresses, no matter how injured a soldier is, he will make it to the ‘right side’ before even stopping to see what the damage was. Their fear of the enemy and of death completely overtakes
The wartime lives of the soldiers who fought in the war were in a state of mind of mixed feelings. Happiness and devastating are two adjectives that can describe the soldier’s feelings in the war because at one second they can be happy that they succeeded on a mission, but on the other hand, it can be very devastating because one of their own soldiers could have been killed during the war. Aside from physical danger losing one of your own soldiers or having your family worry about you every day and night are some negatives and unpleasant parts about fighting in a war. For example, soldiers loved ones worried each day, and hoped that they would not get a knock on their door by someone who was going to tell them that their fathers, husbands, sons, or brothers have died in the war.
The military members who are deployed to war zones, especially in the Middle East countries experience very high levels of PTSD and emotional distress. These members, both who have been on active duty and reserve component once they experience combat, they get exposed to very high levels of traumatic stress. Consequently, they develop adverse health effects such as PTSD. PTSD is considered as a long term reaction to battle field exposure, which can last short term, or long term that is, a few minutes, days, weeks, months or even a lifetime. PTSD is characterized with symptoms such as anxiety, emotional numbing, depression, and feelings of guilt. If the condition is not treated and it turns chronic, then the individual may experience functional
Intermittent Explosive Disorder, or IED, is an inability to resist aggressive urges, classified as such if the aggressive episodes are not better accounted for by another mental disorder (such as antisocial personality disorder or borderline personality disorder) and are not due to the physiological effects of a general medical condition (such as head trauma or Alzheimer's disease), prescribed medication, or a drug of abuse.
Bowden accomplished a great perspective on both sides of the war, allowing his readers to perceive how war affects a country’s population in different ways. One predominant example readers see in this particular book is the negative impact on their emotions. Possible high level of stress due to a traumatic event can affect a soldier. Specifically, an extreme related emotional problem during a battle is the emotional attachment soldiers have with each other and the pain that each and every death brings them (Anderson). In connection to teenagers in MUSD, they have to
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When a soldier enlists into the military forces they know they are going in to fight for their country and freedom for everyone. They spend months training and preparing for the war and what to come. They learn to fight, shoot, and kill enemies, but what they do not learn is how to cope with the after math of the war. Soldiers in war every year come home with many post traumatic effects from what they had witnessed. During world war two this was known as shell shock; however what can be concluded is that world war two impacted the soldiers emotionally and physiologically from the time they entered to post war.
There is guns banging and bombs blazing the U.S. military are fighting for their lives and then an IED (a IED is a in ground bomb) and a man is down and that man is John Huit. He is in the marines and he was blown up three times and he was sent home after the third time. He has PTSD ( it is a syndrome from war) it is not bad but it could be better he sometimes has flash backs. He is a wounded warier that has a purple heart. He is one of the few people that came back from where he was at. I believe that this guy is very special in our lives because if people didn’t fight for us then we the people of the united states would be still the British law. The America I believe in is free and has been punished in the past years. The United States
As a new presidential team enters the White House, the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is an important issue that will require changes in strategy if American foreign policy hopes to successfully eliminate the threat of ISIS in the Mideast and beyond. The current policy of the United States on dealing with terrorism through military action emphasizes: utilizing allies, keeping American ground troops out of Iraq and Syria, and direct action through military strikes. This strategy has been relatively successful in the past in keeping ISIS in check, but the recent rising power of the radical state suggests this policy is failing to achieve the ultimate goal of eliminating the threat entirely. In order to reach the American
The US needs to approach this problem through promoting democracy in the Middle East and attacking the ideologies of ISIS rather than their soldiers. Violent extremist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda did not exist until the US invasion of 2003 left a power vacuum that these groups were able to step in and fill (Kirk: Losing Iraq). This problem was caused by military intervention, and by leaving Iraq at the hands of an inexperienced Prime Minister who reverted back to sectarianism, and it would be naïve to think it will be solved in the same way . If at all the US is going to intervene, one has to turn its funding away from the military, and instead concentrate on supporting and helping to build a democratic government in Iraq and Syria that is representative of all of the people of different religious affinities. This plurality in the government will start to heal the rift between the Sunnis and Shias and will not crumble and pave the way for another extremist government to take over. Apart from US military force destabilizing the country, Atrocities committed by US troops at places like the Abhu Ghraib prison are being used by ISIS as recruiting propaganda to justify their brutal atrocities. (Khatib). Trying to bring more military force to the region will only create more extremists willing to join ISIS cause against what they see as western imperialism. The US needs to counteract the radical ideas that ISIS is perpetuating against the US by using the Internet and social media, as astutely as ISIS does, to promote democracy, and shed light on the atrocities that ISIS forces are committing. Without doing so, ISIS would be able to continue to propagate and spread their dogmatic ideology and further strengthen their cause. Fighting the ideologies of ISIS would open up a world of democratic education and show the people affected by the spread of ISIS that extremism is
In what has quickly evolved into a post-Al Qaeda era in the Middle East, a new threat has emerged from the ashes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and later in the 2011 war in Syria. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) has rapidly become the most pressing foreign policy concern in the Middle East for the United States. In the last four years, Daesh has gathered swaths of territory in both Iraq and Syria, although it has been driven back thanks to coalition efforts to counter the group. The coalition in place to combat ISIS has allowed the US to take a supporting role through the use of airstrikes, military advising and intelligence sharing to the local forces on the ground. However, major shortcomings
“When you are in the military you see combat. You may have been on missions that exposed you to horrible and life-threatening experiences. These types of events can lead to PTSD” (Class notes, Lecture 2). The soldiers that are protecting and defending national securities, give up their whole freedom when on duty and even when they come back home. After they have served their time, their freedom is is still gone, some feel like they are trapped. Most experience PTSD, which