write a debate on topic "preparing for war " (for)
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The history of mankind has had many landmarks. Unfortunately some of these landmarks and turning events have been full of violence brought by fights, battles and wars. Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi and many other great men have been teaching the world to practice non-violence and pursue peace. They did succeed to a certain extent as well, however, some people, in their mission to achieve success and power, have used force and war. It appears that the violence runs in the very blood of men because it is the survival of the fittest and the weak will have to succumb to and suffer at the hands of the one who is strong.
Our grizzled mentors, old salts who cut their teeth in Vietnam, stressed to my 1985 cohort of lieutenants that there are only two things Marines do––fight and get ready to fight. In Preparing for War, J.P. Clark emphasizes the latter. In fact, as military historians and national security scholars have long established, nations also ask their military forces to perform other important missions such as exploring untamed wilderness, developing and applying emerging technologies, and coup-proofing a regime. Moreover, only in professional militaries, those that enjoy the luxury to train independent of intrusive political control, do officers of all ranks get to sort out a nation’s preferred ways and means of war.[1] U.S. forces have mostly enjoyed the relative autonomy necessary to figure out what must be done to prepare for combat. Clark’s study confirms that verdict, and illustrates the contentious, but ultimately effective, evolution of the U.S. Army’s doctrine, ]training, and education regimens in the century that separated the end of the War of 1812 and America’s entry into World War I.