Saturday, June 9, 2007

Change of conflict

As our century and society has pressed forward, we have noted a new era of war. In previous century war was fought with pride and honor, and never focused on the killing of the general public. Now we see almost every country of the world target civilians as a new war tactic. Where this cruel new tactic originated from was during WWII where the USA and other fighting forces bombed the German coast, killing many civilian, in order to secure some land to move forward with. This tactic has proven to be very successful causing the destruction and chaos of society to reflect on the victim’s military to preform.
Now the question comes, what is the difference between targeting civilians, guerrilla warfare and genocide? In my opinion the three have morphed together. Targeting a specific countries people group, is classified as the killing of a certain nationality or origin, which is most defiantly genocide. So now has war turned into genocide? The answer is probably, in some cases. Now the next question is how does guerrilla warfare fit it? Gorilla warfare is know for it inhumane cruelty, but take examples like “ agent orange” which was a chemical drop on Vietnamese people by the US during war. Looking at some of the picture to the side, you can see the cruel effect it had on the civilian. So is that not an act of gorilla warfare, using chemicals to cause extreme and painful abnormality within the Vietnamese culture? I think so
I personally believe that the old and distinct line between war, genocide, and gorilla war, was become very fine, and almost undetectable. This is a very scary thought for the future.

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