The Case Of Warfare As The Soldier

For example, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face.”(Sunwon 214) This means that he killed his brother without knowing until he saw the face because of the war. Also, the sniper would not rest until he killed the enemy. This shows that the war will not let people rest until they have killed the enemy not matter who it is. Finally, the sniper can rest, but knowing his brother is dead, especially that he was the one who killed him. This shows that war doesn’t care if you have to kill a family member or not they just want you to kill the enemy.

Don’t leave me here alone.’ The narrator simply shakes him off and moves on. The soldiers have been trained like beasts and they have been dehumanised; they have been taught that no life is to be spared. Death is now the norm and they have been desensitized to it. The narrator relates an incident where he volunteers for a raid on the German trenches. He experiences much trauma; he kills a soldier, Karl. Karl’s death is terrible- the bayonet is trapped in Karl and eventually the narrator has to shoot him. When he returns to the trenches with two German prisoners he tries to suppress what has happened: ‘It is better not to think’. The narrator knows that he would indubitably go insane if he thinks about his action. Karl’s death epitomizes the fact that soldiers on both sides are killed in horrific way for no discernible reason. There is definitely nothing glorious or heroic about war.

First off, some people call veterans baby killers, which is a very absurd and rude title, especially for people that have sacrificed their lives. People call them baby killers because they might have destroyed a neighborhood out of anger, or they might have just been acting on orders, but orders would never tell them to kill babies. Next people convince them of slaughtering innocents, which is also completely absurd and false. The military tries to save as many ally and civilian casualties as possible, as it is wrong to kill innocents. In 1945, America was deep into a raging world war that included Japan. In efforts to end the war, America dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, killing millions. America did this not only to stop the flow of dead warriors and civilians, but also to end the war in general, as the major spark of World War II, Nazi Germany, was taken down already. After the bombs, Japan surrendered, and the war ended, and so did the killing. That was the only time America has intentionally killed innocent people during a war at such a mass

Have you heard about Korean War, which occurred in June, 25, 1950? The conflict between ideologies caused this war with tens of millions killed, millions of families separated, the country reduced to rubble, and a huge permanent scar on Korea’s culture. Then, Vietnam War, Gulf War, or Iraq war can sound familiar to you. Let’s change point to the number of dead bodies from wars themselves. Can you guess how many people got killed during all of those war periods? Only for Vietnam War, the true civilians of Vietnam War were two millions in the north, and another two millions in the south, and military causalities were 1.1 million killed and six hundreds thousand wounded during war. To finish a war, how many innocent people and soldiers have

A universal and unavoidable product of war is that soldiers get killed. Most people accept these killings as a necessary evil and that the ends justify the means. If the war is “justifiable”,the killing of enemy soldiers is deemed as a necessary triumph of what is right. If the war is unjustified, it is seen as honorable to fight for one's country, whether you agree with them or not. But antiwar pacifists do not take the lives of soldiers for granted. Everyone has a right to life and killing on the battlefield is a direct violation of that right. In a standard interpretation of basic rights, it is never morally justifiable to violate a right in order to produce some good. In war, the argument goes, kill or be killed, and that type of killing is killing in self-defense. But, according to anti-war pacifists, killing in the name of self-defense during times of war cannot be justified unless a) they had no other way to protect their

Morality's meaning skews from what is moral versus immoral throughout the war through death. Death in war differs from death in civilian life. In war guns, grenades and violence are commonplace. Guns or grenades are usually what kills a soldier during battle; however, people are the ones controlling the guns and grenades. It is commonplace for soldiers to die at the hands of others. In civilian life, if someone decides to kill, they will be put in prison. In

The morality of soldiers and the purpose of war are tied also to the truth the soldiers must tell themselves in order to participate in the gruesome and random killing which is falsely justified

The general argument made by Robert Muller in his article “Death Becomes Us: The Psychological Trauma of Killing” is that veterans who experience killing develop trauma based on their ability to humanize their victim. He explains how the “cost of war” is measured by damage in money amounts, such as the number of casualties.

The soldier is one who is greatly respected. The warrior is known for his or her bravery on the battlefront. Sometimes people even wish to be able to live the life of a soldier. However, people often do not understand the price of such an honorable position. The fear and suffering comes as a lifetime result of true service to the nation. The product of war does not remain just on the battlefront but also, with that person for the rest his or her life. Although war can be seen as honorable and heroic, the battles can leave a soldier wounded psychologically.

Soldiers in the army are treated as pawns to the higher ups in the government and are willingly sacrificed for the success of the mission. Generals, Dictators, Presidents, and other leaders will do anything to accomplish their goals even if they have to sacrifice the men and women who courageously fight for their leader. To the leader as long as the war has reached their goal, then the ends justify the means. This view on war being successful does not include the deaths and pain that has come with it, but simply is focused on the other side surrendering or admitting defeat. The movie’s, Flags of our fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima are littered with examples of this mistreatment of soldiers. From the higher ups sacrificing, disrespecting, and lying to their own troops.

The debate begins with the weight if it is okay to kill in war. In the opening article the author of the book lays out a a huge question of what it means when you kill in war. He begins by clarifying board understandings and views that many people hold to be true. For example, that no matter what killing is wrong and only excusable in self-defense. He goes in more depth when the labels innocent and guilty are brought up, nothing when dealing with moral issues will be as blunt or simple as the good and the bad leaving one okay to kill and the other to let live. Either side of the war both view the other as the one who might be killing them and no matter the causes or reasons you are still killing a person who more than liking is going into survivor

As a citizen of the United States, I am part of an institution that has been, and is currently, killing people. Whether or not all or some of these killings are ethically defensible is a difficult question to answer and most people simply never confront the issue. I will evaluate literature on the topic, identify the different justifications for killing in time of war and decide if they legitimize our actions. After describing some compelling arguments, I will defend my own position that pacifism is the only ideal which mankind should embrace.

The New York Times Bestseller We Were Soldiers Once... And Young was authored by Lt. General Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. In November 1965, Lt. Colonel Harold Moore commanded the 1st Battalion, 7th cavalry at the Ia Drang Valley-one of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam. He eventually retired from the Army in 1977 after thirty-two years of service. After his military career, Lieutenant General Moore resided as executive vice president for four years at a Colorado ski resort before founding a computer software company. Harold Moore currently lives in Auburn, Alabama and Crested Butte, Colorado.

The Experience Of War Many authors have written about war themes, some extracts of the stories and poems that I have read and researched are The Upturned Face by Steven Crane .It is about a fictional war being fought in an imaginary Europe. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell describes his senses and feeling of getting shot in the neck during battle. Exposure by Wilfred Owen,describes the horrors and reality of being in the trenches of the First World War. And The Making of Me by Robert Westall is about a shell-shocked grandfather who has the responsibility of looking after his grandchild.

War is many things. It may be many different things depending on each individual. Many soldiers get trained so their mentality is to characterize their opponents as less than human, so their lives lose all worth. Some soldiers however, are not prepared for this, even though they have been trained. One thing is training for it, another thing is actually killing a human being. As they kill more people, it becomes normalized for them. All they have seen changes their mind, while all of their dreams get swept aside by bloody hands of the hypnotized while they carry the cross of homicide. But why kill other strangers? What’s in it for the soldiers? War feeds the rich while it buries the poor. Rich people are power hungry, selling soldiers in human grocery store, using them as their little puppets who obey their master, making them go around killing each other in order to determine who is right, but in the end, war determines who is left. “The Man I Killed” by Tim O’Brien shows how soldiers who commit violence become traumatized and how that changes over time.