Posted: September 9th, 2022

War

War
War can be defined as a battle between political groups comprising of significant magnitude and duration. Conflicts involving military groups of powerful nations and powerless people are always referred to as military expeditions, explorations, or pacifications. Until recently, the conflict has been an essential topic of historical examination for its own sake and the sake of the steady history of politics. Reports of military war developed after the Middle Ages lacked symbolic and mythological qualities, became more analytic, and gained in precisions. War has existed since ancient times. However, in the old-time, there were no many killings and casualties reduced to a minimum level. Therefore, most of the deaths in the human species have occurred due to trained soldiers in war.
War is one of the main factors contributing to cultural change in the world. Its lethality and deadliness have significantly increased with the development of human minds, technology, and education. Warfare in primitive times was vastly ceremonial (Kearl, 1). That means the primitive humans always check their conflicts to minimize excess killing and reduce the casualties to a minimum possible level. Fighter in the older times were untrained young brave males. Primitive conflicts in gathering and hunting societies frequently involved just the demonstration of courage. Sometimes, the fighters may expropriate another community’s children, women, and food. Even though women, children, and other group members would be captured and used as slaves, the killings were minimal. Therefore, the massive murder was are experiencing in the current age is a result of the trained military at war.
Additionally, the training of soldiers removes mercy, forgiveness, and humanity from their hearts. During training, the soldiers are trained either to kill or to be killed while in battle. In the Army departments, no soldier ever won the war without killing (Grossman, 140). In war, the army would kill as many opponents as they can to win the battle. Just recently, young people in the army were taught to kill by spearing through the enemies’ hearts. Therefore, the training of soldiers makes them ruthless, heartless increasing the number of murder cases during battle. Currently, soldiers in war take killing as a sign of victory; thus, they consider it an everyday act. Therefore, the increase in the number of trained soldiers has significantly increased the killing rates during battle.
Additionally, modern military training primarily trains the soldiers to kill. In the traditional world, soldiers were trained using bulls-eye targets (Grossman, 140). However, in the modern world, trainers used human figures as targets starting from the Vietnam War. Dagger and spear practices became widespread. The trainers thought using obsolete weapons during training was building aggression against opponents, and they were not expecting its use during the war (Benz, 10). However, the instructors did the training to soothe the individual soldiers to killing. The impacts of obsolete weapon training had a significant impact on the battlefield. Due to the training, the soldiers in the Vietnam War were good at combat simulations, increasing killing rates during the battle.
Similarly, the change in the social organization led to a considerable increase in potential mass killings. Worriers were trained before the birth of Christ were numerous. As a result, there was whole human slaughter on different battlefields. For instance, people were slaughtered by the Scythians, Assyrians, and Huns in the Attila. During the 20th century, the Mongols developed a reign of fear in western and central Asia, whereby the whole groups of defeated regions were systematically slaughtered. Genghis Khan organized the massacre of approximately forty million Chinese people to create space in the northern part of the nation for nomadic herding. Also, with the initiation of a total of war, worriers used slaughter as a strategic goal. However, the vigilant worriers could still develop from the mass massacre, and the battle would continue between the victims and worriers (Owen, 23). Therefore, the training of soldiers in the olden era is the reason for the existence of mass killing in the world.
Besides, technological innovations and industrializations are also factors that significantly contributed to high rates of killings in the battle. During the United States civil war, efforts to integrate the Napoleonic strategies of attacking in mass formations with the current manufacturing killing machines led to the deaths of many Americans compared to Vietnam and Korean conflicts and the two world wars combined. The factory-manufactured machines, particularly breach loading rifles, hand-cranked Gatling guns, and landmines, caused massive deaths during the American civil war (Kearl, 3). The guns were impelling bullets ten times faster than those used by the troops of Napoleon. Similarly, during World War I, when the Europeans turned their machine guns against their opponents, fighters were decreased to an exchangeable, impersonal component of enormous industrialized killing equipment. No Hectors or Achilles could have gained the courage to encounter attacks commencing from thousands of meters in the air or many feet underwater. Thus, industrialization and technological advances greatly enhanced killings during wars.
In a nutshell, war is an intense conflict that started even before the birth of Christ. However, there were fewer killings in the primitive wars reduced, and casualties minimized. On the contrary, in the current conflicts, murders have increased due to trained soldiers incorporated in battles. Also, industrialization and technological advances have increased killing rates in the battles.

Works Cited
Benz, Stephen. “The Poet as Rhetor: A Reading of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”.” Journal of Modern Literature 41.3 (2018): 1-17.
Grossman, Dave. “Trained to kill.” Christianity Today 10 (1998): 137-144.
Kearl Michael, C. War. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (Vol.2) 2002.
Owen, Wilfred. The collected poems of Wilfred Owen. Vol. 210. New Directions Publishing, 1965.