Write 12 page essay on the topic Is war a waste of men.Download file to see previous pages... General consensus among world historians is that WWII by far is the most bloodiest and atrocious battle fo

Write 12 page essay on the topic Is war a waste of men.

General consensus among world historians is that WWII by far is the most bloodiest and atrocious battle fought ever which is marked by disastrous, blood-curdling, and inhumane tragedies like the Holocaust and atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While WWII continued for six long deadly years and consumed the lives of several million people, the civil war in contrast continued for four years, resulted in abolishment of slavery, and marked the beginning of the Reconstruction phase to restore the rights and status of the freed slaves who were guaranteed no kind of representation before. Horrors of war are repeatedly portrayed by the media and entertainment industry through documentaries and movies which popularly claim that war is a waste of men and potentially detrimental in nature. However, this essay attempts at arguing against the established claim that war is a waste of men by presenting and contemplating important evidence and ramifications associated with these two historical battles. Historical evidence suggests that prior to the civil war, the American South used to be considerably wealthy and a capitalist economic system ensured a broad range of competitive benefits like productions of prodigious amounts of crops which were highly demanded on international level. The Southern states’ ability to grow highly desirable crops on a large scale depended largely on the coercive labor advantage of slavery. Human trafficking was so abundant and such a booming business in those days that African blacks in a staggering number were smuggled all the way from Africa to America where they were later forced by their white masters to act in an involuntary and undesirable manner by performing arduous and laborious tasks under harsh conditions for no wages or monetary benefits of any kind. These people were made slaves and worked cruelly by the white people. They were forced to cultivate crops in bug-invested areas of many Southern states like Mississippi and Georgia. Without slavery and forced labor, the American South which later participated in the civil war as the Confederacy could not have become economically wealthy. “About three million soldiers served throughout the Civil war” (Blanton &amp. Cook, 2002, p. 205). Though the civil war is claimed to be one of the deadliest wars in that it resulted in the gigantic loss of almost 750 thousand lives among other civilian casualties, truth is that this war cannot be considered a waste of men because the men who sacrificed their lives to win this battle against the Confederates willed to participate in the battle for a noble cause and their sacrifices did not go wasted because the civil war marked the end of slavery and the beginning of the Reconstruction era. The soldiers who fought on the Union side and lost their lives in the process helped immensely in putting an end to societal practices indicative of abominable shame. Though the number of fatalities and casualties in the American civil war is shocking and gruesome, it is also an indisputable fact that this war was still not a waste of men because their efforts did not go in vain. Instead the soldiers willed to fight and lose their lives for a very productive and useful cause.