An expository essay on war

Recently, there was an expository essay which I wrote, which is about war. Please do feel free to comment below, and do enjoy reading it! Thanks!

War is a necessary evil

War. A single word which brings silence upon the hapless who suffer from it. A single word which conjures up images of destruction, death, and tears from families torn apart. Children crying on the streets, soldiers maimed, lives marred and changed. Brought to existence by greed and desire of fame and glory, the word of torment is inevitably the emissary of evil.

Calamity is brought upon and anguish overwhelms the country, as the Enola Gay, an American bomber aircraft, releases a steel plated slab of metal and it plummets onto the fields below. The atomic bomb, code-named “Little Boy”, was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused extensive destruction. As a nebulous mushroom cloud blossomed over the wrecked city of Hiroshima on August 6^th, 1945, the pilot of the Enola Gay exclaimed “My God, what have we done?”

The advent and onset of triumph in war was one of the key defining features of the 20^th Century. Many lives were lost during World War Two, when the Japanese endeavoured to occupy and conquer as many countries as they could by devious and cunning means, which no doubt sparked off misery and hatred. However, despite the undesirable consequences of war, most wars as such were necessary, because for uncompromising country leaders, violence is the only ‘language’ understood. As quoted from President Obama from the United States, we must begin by acknowledging the hard truth- we will not eradicate conflicts in our lifetimes.

However, many question, is war that irrevocable? Many martyrs in war believed that they died for a good cause. For instance, some martyrs in war even went to the extent of sacrificing themselves to cause harm to enemies. Such examples would be the Japanese Kamikaze pilots, who crashed their planes into enemy structures and died loyal to their country. Do they need to sacrifice themselves, just for the sake of winning a battle?

Muammar Gaddafi. The man whom many despise, the ruthless leader, infamous for his dictatorship over Libya. In early February 2011, there were major political demonstrations in Egypt and other parts of the Arab world, which soon led to a civil war. A series of peaceful protests were met with violent responses by the Gaddafi regime. Gaddafi had ordered his security forces to gun down protestors, which led to the intervention by the US and British forces. Many missiles, airstrikes, and other forms of artillery were used against the Libyan government to aid the rebels, in an attempt to resolve the Libyan civil war. Although many criticised US President Obama for intervening in Libya’s civil war, failure to have done so would have allowed Muammar Gaddafi to unleash his military on his own people and this would have signalled to the world that such violence would go unchallenged. President Obama mentioned that he refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.

Indubitably, war is a necessary evil. Although war leads to bloodshed and sorrow, it is unavoidable, as it would be for a better good, terminating more problems than if there were no action taken. Ultimately, as a whole, war is definitely essential, as without war, the whole world would be dominated by aggressive countries which occupy and conquer for the sake of glory.