When a Good Man Goes to War

In the article “Time to Restrict the President’s Power to Wage Nuclear War,” by Jeffrey Bader and Jonathan Pollack, who have used several rhetorical devices to successfully support their claim. Ethos and Pathos have been recognized overwhelmingly in the article, proving that outraging war might have extensive consequences affecting the citizens, which must not be left as a decision for a single person rather being collective.

Army Doctrine Reference Publication 1-0 states, “living by and upholding the moral principles of the Army Ethic” is the foundation to our profession. An organization cannot survive if there are no foundation for morals. The organization will internally implode. This is a critical fact for the Army. Individuals that do not have a foundation that aligns with the Army’s foundation is detrimental to the organization. The purpose for this short paper is to explore the fundamentals of our profession; examine the need for structure; how to return to basics of the profession; who needs to enforce standards; finally, implementing a culture change within the Army. Army leaders have categorized the four problems that currently plague the Army

I am inspired to write this book review about “Soldiering on in a Dying War” by William J. Shkurti. This is an incredibly written and thorough account of the soldiering on in a dying war movement and how it shaped the United States culture and politics for decades and cites a set of events that take place during the Vietnam war. This book covers far more than just FSB Pace, but almost all the Army in Vietnam in 1970-1972. I like the author attests to the multitude how they became POWs, and MIAs also how the enemy sees them. This script is very interesting and more enlightening read that happen in the Vietnam War. The way he interrupters I felt issue much more genuine and personal than anything I've read before.

The first thing that war probably destroys the fastest is innocence. In the book “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brien, these young men go into combat innocent, then they change. They witnessed death and they are faced with the choice of either kill or be killed. The short story “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” is about a young girl, Mary Anne Bell, and how her boyfriend

In “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, the main protagonist of the tale takes the reader on a captivating and riveting journey. A journey that is filled with guts, gore, and love. O’Brien demonstrates how war can be complex and a paradox in itself. Through O’Brien’s eyes the reader captivates what it is like to be present in a battlefield, and endure the hardships of war. The point of the story is gradually unveiled before the reader’s eyes, as O’Brien guides his audience through a forest of mysticism and doubt.

Hedges argues that war is both a deadly addiction—a drug that offers an unmatchable intoxication, the thrill of being released from the moral strictures of everyday life—and a unifying force that provides a sense of meaning, purpose, and self-sacrifice that can wash away life's trivial concerns. But the meaningfulness of combat, Hedges suggests, depends upon the myth of war. In reality, no matter what grand cause it is supposed to support, war is simply the basest form of aggression: "organized murder." Once war begins, the moral universe collapses and every manner of atrocity can be justified in the eyes of those who wage it, because the cause is just, the enemy is inhuman, and only war can restore balance to the world. Hedges reveals the

Tim O’Brien’s short story “How to Tell a True War Story” details memories from O’Brien’s time in the vietnam war. It explores the concept of truth, and challenges its definition by asserting that there are certain truths about war which are more important than the actual facts and details of the event. O’Brien tells the story of his friend Bob “Rat” Kiley witnessing the death of their friend Curt Lemon. He also shares the story told to him by his friend Mitchell Sanders about a group of listening post soldiers that grow hysteric listening to the vietnamese jungle. He uses these war stories as examples to show how even when the exact facts are misconstrued, they are still true stories because

The mind is the most complex but fascinating feature of human beings. Although our minds are the primary source of love, care, and goodness, our minds are also capable of perpetuating hate, abuse, and evil towards others. Abu Ghraib, a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, is notoriously known for the horrific incidents of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers in 2004. Although the events happened 10 years ago, the events continue to ponder our minds as we question, "How were they capable of doing those things?" There are many theories in regards to the cause of the Abu Ghraib incident. After analyzing the arguments, theories, and explanations of Robert Tolmach Lakoff, Dianne Benscoter, Tara Mcklevy, and Phillip

As James Geary once said; “Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.” In H.G. Wells’s book The War of the World’s the narrator does not show this trait of heroism. All throughout War of the World’s the narrator makes many unheroic choices and actions. The narrator has many examples as being unheroic such as not helping people in danger and leaving others to die. The narrator is not a traditional hero because he is selfish, inhumane, and also ignorant.

A just war is defined as a war that is deemed as morally or theologically justifiable. One individual who shares this view is St. Thomas Aquinas, a man of theology studies, and someone with his own conditions on just war. Aquinas believes that there are three conditions that need to be met for a war to be justified. First, someone who has authority must wage war. Second, those who are attacked must be deserving of this war. Lastly, a war is only justified if it benefits the citizens. In my opinion, the U.S involvement in dealing with ISIS meets the criteria of a just war.

At 5pm eastern standard time on a Friday in late October, 2010, an independent website publisher named wikilieaks.org released documents alleging government and corporate misconduct as told by soldiers in the United States Army. This marked the single largest classified documentation leak that the United States government has ever encountered. This leak included 391,832 classified documents that covered a span of five years, from 2004-2009. I would like to take a second to dive deep into the five ethical examinations that our textbook covers including the utilitarian perspective, rights perspective, fairness or justice perspective, common good perspective and virtuous perspective.

As a leader in the combat zone, there will be time when he or she is required to decide on what the right action is and how the order will be carried out in an effective and honorable manner. The “Three-way Moral Problem” studied in the lesson “Honor on the Battlefield” explained the importance in a well-balance of the three moral basis, the value of the mission, the risk of the troops, and the risk to non-combatant civilians. However, not all actions are justified equally, since the view of the results can be different depending on which side of the fence the judge is on. For instance, a terrorist cell leader may approach a problem differently than an Ensign in the U.S. Navy or Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marines Corps, since their views

The men who fought in the “War to end all Wars” were some of the bravest men and women to serve the United States Armed Services. I have the honor of being related to one of those men. My great-great uncle served with the 73rd tank battalion, C Company that landed on Omaha beach June 6, 1944. I conducted an interview with my father who sat down with him to do a similar project. This is what I learned.

To be an effective leader, one must reach the person or people in a way that reflects compassion for their values. The article that I read was titled, Do teachers’ attitudes and behaviors, as well as students’ behaviors, relate to one another?, written by James R. Necessary and Thomas S. Parish. The authors conducted a study that would focus on the relationship between a teachers actions and attitudes towards their students, and the students actions and attitudes in response. According to Parish’s (1991) study, the results reasonably suggest that positiveness promotes positiveness both in individuals’ actions and their attitudes. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had the same mission, shared the same passion, and fought for the same cause. An individuals’ passion for the cause could result in

In World War 2 over 65 million people lost their lives. The emotional toll on the families of the lost soldiers soon followed. Throughout World War 2 we gained many allies, but because of all the destruction that the was caused, for example, peoples homes and all their precious materials being stolen or destroyed, we lost a vast majority of those them. The taking of so many lives and destroying of countries can cause a lot of hate on the nations that inflicted this destruction. This can cause young kids to grow up hating other nations and that is when conflict can start. The lives that are lost during wartime are undeniably one of the biggest causes of death. One thing that every country has in common is the death toll that they face in war. Conflict arises no matter what the cause. The way to grow as a world is to control these conflicts with verbal communication instead of using war as an option.