2006-11-19 01:44:45 · 17 answers · asked by skyy 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
You could spend a few minutes learning about this subject. Or you could spend a lifetime. "War through the ages" gives a pretty good rundown though.
2006-11-19 01:53:07 · answer #1 · answered by togetheradecade 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you did not say which war so let me pick one I know very well, WW2. I am 8 years old when my world collapses for the next 5 years. I live in Belgium, the Germans came in and took over in a few weeks. The freedom is gone. The Nazi flag goes up. You do not walk outside after cerfew or you get shot. Your father is a cop, he loses his weapons but stays as a figure people are used to without much authority. The bombing starts, I go to school not knowing if I will see my parents again or if they will be dead and my house gone. The food supply starts to dwindle, there is no coffee, no chocolate, no citrus fruits, no bananas soon all else is rationed.. SOmeone comes into your house and takes what they want, like all the copper, brass, silver objects so they can make bullets. Your house is being searched in the middle of the night for whatever reason. Hunger becomes part of life, fear is your constant companion. A friend , age 12, is shot because his father is American. On my birthday 21 people get shot in the village because someone hid a British man. My two best friends in school are taken away never to be seen again because they have a different religion than I. No school in winter because we have no coal for the classroom. Five years later my house has half a roof and no windows anymore, we are borded by lumber and live with unwelcome rats. My saviours are the GI's they bring us some food and blankets on the sly. We never fergot these guys. Just 2 days ago I got a phone call that one of them had left this world, These guys were welcome in my war. Enough said.
2006-11-19 10:05:27 · answer #2 · answered by antiekmama 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler. Deals with politcal and economic aspects of war in a modern context . Sun Tze and Von Clauesewitz deal mainly with strategy and tactics though they also touch on the political and economic.
2006-11-19 10:49:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In times of peace, nothing so becomes a man as modesty and humility. But when the blast of war blows in your ear then imitate the action of the tiger, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with rage, and lend the eye a terrible aspect"- Shakespear
2006-11-19 09:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by bigbadwolf 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people say war is never the answer. And that is true. War is not the answer, war is the question. And the answer to that question is yes.
2006-11-19 09:49:30 · answer #5 · answered by jerry 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You don't have to buy "The Art of War"
It's a >>>>>>>>>> FrEe DoWnLoAd<<<<<<<<<<<<<
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/mirror/classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html
All kinds of
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>free classic WAR books <<<<<<<<<<<
here:
Go to Title Word(s) and put in the word war.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
2006-11-19 09:57:49 · answer #6 · answered by $Sun King$ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try the book War, by a Mr Freedman - it was quite good.
2006-11-19 09:58:58 · answer #7 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buy a copy of "the art of war" by Sun Tzu c. 514 BCE most modern warfare is based on this book...
2006-11-19 09:51:05 · answer #8 · answered by graeme a 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read the History of World War I & II and you will know
what war is all about. WAR IS HELL ON EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-11-19 10:22:02 · answer #9 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People die, and war should NEVER be waged unless it is in self defense. Pre-emptive wars like we're invovled in now are the worst possible scenario.
2006-11-19 09:53:52 · answer #10 · answered by carpediem 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋