Examine views of warfare and battle throughout the ages and provide an interpretation that

explains the evolution of the faceless war..

I would have to start off by saying that we have changed our ways of warfare dramatically
in the last 50 years, if we just compare World War I and World II to the modern wars we are
fighting nowadays in the middle east, a war which I personally was a part of while in service.
Nowadays we have sophisticated weapons that can not only be launched from a ship somewhere
out at sea, but we also have long range weapons that can be launched from a completely
different continent. Which perfectly describes the terminology of a faceless war, because it allows
us to ultimately fight without having to even put any troops on land, we have all heard of the
drones that are being controlled all the way back from the continental United States and used to
strike targets overseas.

If you compare this to battles that took place in the past it is almost no comparison, granted in
both world wars we still used land troops, but nothing in comparison to the battles that our
forefathers fought for us during the Civil War for example. Back then it was head to head combat,
and this usually lead to more casualties, you had people literally lining up facing each other, with
each army looking each other dead in their enemies eyes and just waiting for the signal to fire
their muskets. Unfortunately this is how many battles were fought and many lives were lost, if
you think those people would have thought we would be fighting wars as we do today they would
have never believed you, yes they had cannons and artillery but it is nothing in comparison to
what we have in modern times.

The other aspect of our world historys battles is that they sometimes lasted years for the simple
fact that entire armies would march across entire continents to reach their enemies, in
comparison to being flown with airplanes and helicopters as we do today. This was also very
dangerous as you can imagine these armies had to rest as well, constantly fearing that they may
be attacked or raided throughout the night. The other factor that lead to a massive amount of

deaths during those times where the disease that plagued back then, they did not have the
medical advances we have today on the modern battlefield. Many soldiers have died because
they were losing too much blood, or because of unsanitary conditions their wounds were getting
infected to the point that they would die of something that is nowadays treated with anti-bacterial
gauze, although they had morphine in World War II it would sometimes lead to an addiction or
overdose.

You may have also heard of the drugs Nazi soldiers were giving to boost their efficiency in
combat, you may have head of a drug called Pervitin it was basically a stimulant commonly
known today as speed which only lead to addictions. Nazi soldiers were also giving
methamphetamine pills which gave them almost superhuman performance compared to an allied
soldier, no one cared for side effects like drug addiction the goal was to be victorious no matter
the cost. Just imagine being able to command an military that is completely drugged and high
spirited making them able to defeat ordinary things like exhaustion and even make them able to
resist pain.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a354606.html

The Nazi Death Machine: Hitler's Drugged Soldiers - SPIEGEL ONLINE. (n.d.).
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