Argumentative Essay : Saving Private Ryan

The war of 1812 is one of the bloodiest wars in us history. This war having around 19,465 us casualties and less than a third of that of British casualty this is one of the worst wars the US has ever been in. But this number of casualty was not for nothing as they fought for a good cause. There efforts made America what it is today.

Catch-22 was definitely a catch! This “law” was the main metaphor of how crazy war really was and of the military authority. Joseph Heller used this catch in a humorous way, basically making it a loophole preventing any soldier from leaving the war. “Insane or not, the young men are indirectly forced to engage in combat and fight for a war they do not know about” (http://epubl.itu.se). He uses much black humor throughout the book, to relieve the horrors of war, death, and so on. He also uses so many unique techniques which can get so confusing, that the reader is distracted from the true terror and agony that people face in war. There are 3 specific examples of black humor in the book. For example, Heller makes the army unable to

The civil war started when the nation became divided over cultural and economic differences. This lead to the succession of the south who relied on the slaves they owned to keep their economy running. However Lincoln would not stand for this and so started the war in attempt to bring the union back together. The war lasted from 1861 to 1865 with nearly 620,000 deaths.

During the 1970s a man named Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was leading Islamic fundamentalists to oppose the pro-American Iranian government that was in charge by Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. Protests were more often as time went on, but on February 14, 1979 Ayatollah took it to an extreme when armed Iranians took siege of a United States embassy. 102 Americans were taken hostage during the event and would stay there for a while.

“Now do you believe we need a draft?”, says Charles and Paul, two writers from Washington monthly. War is a big thing that is always going on in the world and are always needing people ready and trained to go out in combat or to even work on something dealing with the military. Percentages have been brought up from a few years back of people that have no interest for the war or would never even think about signing up compared to the amount of people wanting to sign up would and the numbers are not to good. People are all worried about dying but never think of what the people could be doing for our country and If it would be great help for the military. People always

The Battle of Gettysburg was the major turning point of the Civil War. The confederate army was led by General Robert E. Lee, an experienced, educated, and extremely successful career military officer. He was second in his class at WestPoint, as well as a valuable asset during the Mexican War. When Virginia seceded from the Union, Abraham Lincoln initially asked General Lee to lead the Union Army. General Lee declined the position offered by Lincoln due to his loyalty to him home state1. General Lee was appointed as the General of the Confederate Army by Jefferson Davis following the death Joseph E Johnston. General Lee‘s expertise in war strategy and tactics enable the south to become extremely victorious during battle and led to the

The Battle of D-Day was a very hard battle to win. But despite the death toll and the dangerous maneuvers the allies took, together they won. D-Day was a very important battle to win. But to win D-Day, the allies had to do lot’s of planning before the battle. D-Day also greatly impacted the allies. But most importantly, D-Day was fought for an important cause.

We should have declared war on Vietnam because more Americans were killed during the police action than during the revolutionary war, and like any other war Vietnam sparked economic, scientific and medical growth in the country. We may not have declared war on Vietnam, but it still fits all the parameters in any other war, we can't change the past but we can still change Vietnam to its title that should be the Vietnam War. Wars should not be wars just because we declared war on the country or area in question, wars should have larger parameters. If a police action induces large economic or social growth it should be changed to a war.

Should the military funds be cut? Yes, military funds should be cut for many reasons. One reason is we have used more money in 2014 than the next seven largest militaries combined. Also, we can spend less money to other countries and the U.S. can’t cut the budgets too much. Finally, we can’t cut the funds to much.

Moreover, the conscription legislation 1964 introduced by the Menzies became a focus of the anti-war movement, which challenged many Australian citizens traditional values as well as the returning soldiers. The conscription was also called the 'National Service' for males reaching their 20th birthday. Nashos’ as they were popularly known, were chosen by a lottery involving marbles with birth dates on them being picked from a barrel. The ones selected were to serve for the country for a period of two years and the consequence for those who refused to be conscripted was a two-year jail sentence. However Anger over conscription was rapidly turning into disillusionment with the nature of the war in Vietnam. Many protest organisations such as Youth Against Conscription and Save Our Sons were formed in 1964.

The Vietnam War was considered America’s longest war lasting approximately 15 years. The war began in 1954 as a result in an arising conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The North were communists fighting to take back their country from under the rule of the South. The United States troops entered into the war in 1961 to support the South. The battle was a long, drawn out, costly war which merely left America with less population and the reason was not well justified nor in the best interest of the American people.

On December 1st 2009, Obama said, “Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.” He then requested for more troops to help his commanders in Afghanistan. After a few years, he started pulling out troops from Afghanistan while the war was going on, as he once did to the war in Iraq. He kept on sending and pulling back troops out of countries that we are at war with and not at war with. He can’t come to a closing decision on what he want and that’s one of the worse quality a president can have. A president should be able to come to an agreement and stick to the choice that he has made. If there was a conflict or war that was between America and another country, America should propose a compromise that

Bang. Bang. Bang. Another crazed gunman shooting down innocent people. According to the Washington post.In paris on november 13th terrorists interrupted a Eagles of Death concert. They killed 90 concert-goers and injured many more. France has a very strict policy when it comes to gun control. Eagles of Deaths lead singer says “Until no one has guns, everybody has to have them.”

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Have you ever thought about joining the U.S. Military? I think you should join the military. The military is why we are a free country. Did you know that we fight other countries wars? We also provide aid for those in need.