War Never Changes

All the works I have read throughout the quarter have lead up to a more fulfilling understanding of war. I was introduced to war this quarter though agency and learned how there are two sides contributing to it. One where the belief is that our fate is predetermined and gods provide us with help and intervention and another where we have free will and our actions have effects. This transitioned to learning of the memorial and why they are designed a certain way such as the Vietnam Memorial and all the way to strategies of war. Throughout wars in time the technology has changed, back then they were fought through swords and shields and we have reached a point where we don’t even have passengers in the bombing airplanes and instead use UAV’s. Because of all the advances in technology we were forced to expand our techniques in combat such as trench warfare and submarines. Despite the technological advances and polished techniques, the texts have changed and shaped the world. Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” and Machiavelli’s “The Prince” have been read and used in many occasions and created history. Even now in our modern society do we look back and read the texts and they still appeal to us and we can insert them into our daily lives effortlessly. Not only do we find that these texts are relevant, but the conflicts that follow and precede them are still occurring today. We constantly see the same headlines and conflicts that we saw years and even centuries ago. War never changes, it only evolves.

Works Cited

• Coddington, Ronald S. Faces of Civil War. 2009. Picture. Http://www.facesofwar.com/visualizations_faces_civil_war.htm.