Military Essays

We all think of our our homes as the safest place to be, and they should rightly be so. However, there are many dangers of which we should be aware to ensure that our homes are indeed the safest place on earth. The kitchen is one of the more dangerous …

Historians have argued inconclusively for years over the prime reason for Confederate defeat in the Civil War. The book Why the North Won the Civil War outlines five of the most agreed upon causes of Southern defeat, each written by a highly esteemed American historian. The author of each essay …

War stories before Erich Maria Remarque’s times still leaned toward themes of glory, adventure, and honor. In presenting his realistic version of a soldier’s experience, Remarque stripped that from war novels in his antiwar novel, All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque accurately depicts both the physical and mental hardships …

The stage directions in Journey’s end at the beginning of the extract are of utmost importance because they use a lot of imagery and symbolism, which later is linked back to this extract, at eth end of the play, there is a candle on the table which gets blown out, …

The prison camps of the American Civil War were terrible due to the falling apart of prisoner exchange programs, the decline of paroles available for officers, and poor war strategies by both sides. Camps were scattered across the country in both the North and the South. The best known of …

Unification of Germany was made possible largely by Bismarck, as there were other factors prior to his policies that had able Germany to be unified as one. Firstly, the Crimean War has caused the collapsing of the Congress of Vienna, which in turn resulted, to having ‘freed’ individual small German …

Sadly the Civil War divided our young nation, this time we weren’t fighting another country for our freedom. We were fighting now fighting amongst ourselves–all Americans!!!! The potential to ruin our own nation from within was a distinct possibility. This was brother against brother-families divided. The Civil War lasted four …

A mysterious Chinese warrior philosopher compiled this book over 2,000 years ago. It was translated into English by an author named, Thomas Cleary, who holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He is the translator of various works in Buddhist, Taoist, and I Ching studies. …

The poem “Dead Man’s Dump” written by Isaac Rosenberg, a soldier in the first world war, has made a lasting impression on me. He originally enlisted in the army in October 1915. He was killed upon the western front in France on the first of April 1918. He was twenty …

Conscription crisis was a very big problem that happened in 1917. In which, the government was forcing men to go to war. Prime minister Borden asked to conscript soldiers, because of three main reasons. First, the number of casualties, which means the number of dead and missing people, was up. …