The terrifying fear of living with the constant threat of instant annihilation from artillery shells and the soul-shaking noise and thunderous impacts of nearby strikes sent many veterans of trench warfare home with what was then called "shell shock" and which was so severe that some veterans suffered severe lifelong symptoms of what we refer to today as post traumatic stress disorder. Remarque also explores the theme of the tendency of trench war survivors to experience survivor's guilt and a general disillusionment with life after witnessing how quickly and easily the lives of so many of their comrades were snuffed out by explosive artillery, often without any trace of their existence besides a fine red mist. Remarque also relates the difficulty that returning combat veterans had readapting to the normal peacetime psychological orientation of ordinary civilian life after their wartime experiences. Meanwhile, Isaac Babel's short story My first Goose relates other aspects of the psychological toll of the individual soldier in warfare. The protagonist is so desperate for the approval and acceptance of his fellow soldiers that he finds himself horribly mistreating...
Initially, he is an entirely different type of person than the hardened soldiers he comes to admire. Because of the nature of war and the way that the constant fear of death makes mutual dependence on fellow soldiers a necessity, the protagonist finds himself identifying with and emulating the callousness of battle-hardened soldiers and abandoning his previous morality and human sensitivity. Ultimately, both works illustrate the horrific physical and psychological toll of modern warfare on the individual soldier.
World War II in the Context of History and Modern Warfare The 20th Century was simultaneously a Century of exceptional advancement and unsurpassed violence. Why was this a Century of incomparable violence? The quick answer is that we, as a human race, used many of our advancements to become far more efficient killers; where advancements of prior centuries allowed armies to kill tens of thousands, the advancements of the 20th Century
World War I is fundamentally similar to warfare as it is practiced today. This paper reviews the relevant literature to provide evidence in support of the argument that World War I is fundamentally similar to warfare as it is practiced today. Major and Supporting Points of Evidence There were numerous innovations in military ordnance and munitions that took place during and following the U.S. Civil War, but the purpose of the warfare
This has allowed for the U.S. To fight effectively in the guerilla type fighting that is occurring overseas near civilian populations. The future warfare will undoubtedly continue to be changed by technology developments. One arena that has just begun to be explored is space. Many have expressed the idea that space is "perhaps the battlefield of the future" (Roland, 2009). In reality, it is already happening, thanks to changes in
Better transportation methods helped farmers reach a global market, but they also helped increase the cost of food, and helped more farmers give up agriculture as their employment, too. Technology helped farms become more efficient, but it also helped develop large, factory farms that ran small, independent farmers out of business because they could not compete financially. Many other innovations that we take for granted today also changed the face
Technology can both customize education to the individual and promote community learning. Which is the more important benefit? Do the two goals conflict with each other? Community is an aggregation of individuals and therefore I see the one as containing and including the other with neither possessing primary importance. To see that this is the case both concepts need to be defined and delineated upon and we also have to specify the
S. Department of Defense (DOD) uses over two million computers and more than ten thousand local area networks, most of which are linked to, and vulnerable to attack from, users of the larger Internet. (2008, p. 276) These increasing threats correspond to the growing reliance on information systems to manage the entire spectrum of modern commerce and energy resources, making the disruption of a single element in the integrated system a
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