Most people’s perceptions of the Second World War leave little room for static, attritional fighting; instead, free-flowing manoeuvre warfare, such as Blitzkrieg, is seen as the norm. In reality, however, much of the terrain fought over in 1939-45 was unsuitable for such a war and, as a result, bloody attritional battles and trench fighting were common. Thus ordinary infantrymen spent the majority of their time at the front burrowing underground for protection. Although these trenches were never as fixed or elaborate as those on the Western Front a generation earlier, the men who served in Italy, Normandy, Holland and Germany, nonetheless shared an experience remarkably similar to that of their predecessors in Flanders, Picardy, Champagne and Artois. This is an area which has been largely neglected by scholars. While the first war produced a mountain of books on the experience of trench warfare, the same cannot be said of the second war. This thesis will attempt to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of static warfare in the Second World War from the point of view of British infantry morale. It draws widely on contemporary letters and diaries, psychiatric and medical reports and official documentation – not to mention personal narratives and accounts published after the war – and will attempt to interpret these sources in light of modern research and organise them into a logical framework. Ultimately it is hoped that this will provide fresh insight into a relatively under-researched area of twentieth century history.

L’étude de locutions de soldats, de La Jeune Parque de Valéry et de Calligrammes de Apollinaire manifeste une variété de fonctionnements psychiques durant la Première Guerre mondiale. La lecture utilise les instruments d’intelligibilité de la psychologie collective proposés par Freud. Collecté par Gaston Esnault, Le poilu tel qu’il se parle révèle les inventions des soldats pour supporter la guerre et la dénoncer. Le régime de terreur n’empêcha pas les soldats de fonctionner en collectifs démocratiques. Le réalisme et la décence de locutions en témoignent malgré l’horreur ou la détresse vécues : compromis entre la violence et sa dénonciation par l’humour. Paul Valéry a participé à l’idéologie patriotique : La Jeune Parque présenta aux classes sociales dominantes un miroir. La censure collective a refusé d’entendre la présence de la guerre dans ce poème. Certains mots, images suggérées, indices figurent la sujétion de Valéry au régime dominant. La lecture de vers en regard des événements éclaire des phrases obscures. Le référentiel de l’Antiquité masque la guerre. Dans Calligrammes, Apollinaire dit à ses lecteurs sa mélancolie, à l’œuvre dès avant son engagement dans la guerre, amplifiée au fur et à mesure qu’il agit la guerre, en revient blessé, puis se dégage des identifications collectives. Une lecture attentive du poème Il y a révèle sa fonction dans le recueil : un calligramme issu de la guerre et adressé à la femme aimée, figurant la guerre dans son horreur et ses angoisses. Apollinaire dénonce la censure collective. La langue commune offre aux locuteurs, même en temps de guerre, la possibilité de fonctionner en régime démocratique. / The study of the sayings of soldiers, of La Jeune Parque by Paul Valéry, and Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire demonstrates a variety of psychic functions during the First World War. The readings use the tools of the intelligibility of collective psychology put forward by Freud. Collected by Gaston Esnault, Le poilu tel qu'il se parle reveals the creative ways in which ordinary soldiers contrived to bear and denounce the war. The regime of terror imposed did not stop the troops functioning, wherever possible, in democratic collectives. The realism, the decency of certain sayings testifies to this, despite the horror and distress the troops experienced. Certain sayings remain coarse and constitute a compromise between violence and its denunciation by humour. Paul Valéry participated in the patriotic ideology : La Jeune Parque presented a mirror to the dominant social classes. Collective censorship has refused to see the presence of the war in this poem. Certain words, implicit images, sometimes clues reveal Valéry's subjection to the collective dominant regime. The reading of verses in light of events clarifies obscure phrases. The classical frame of reference masks the contemporary war. In Calligrammes, Apollinaire tells his readers of his melancholy, already present even before his engagement in the war, and which has been amplified proportionately by his participation in the war, coming back wounded, then disengaging himself from collective identifications. A close reading of the poem Il y a reveals its function in the collection : a 'calligramme' born of the war and addressed to the beloved, featuring the horror and anguish of the war. Apollinaire denounces collective censorship. Everyday language offers its speakers, even in wartime, the possibility of functioning in a democratic process.

The subject of this thesis is the problematics of the military camps of Christian armies in the Central Europe between 1550-1650. We focus on the camps of the Habsburg Monarchy and German lands, yet some space is given to the situation in Poland and Hungary. The introductory chapters consist of a characterization of the source material and an overview of the present state of research. Furthermore, excursuses into several topics related to the military camps of the early modern period are made. Thus, characterizations of the crucial war conflicts of the period, contemporary strategies and tactics, principals, composition and equipment of the armies, of the ranks, and of the life of soldiers are provided. The core of this work is an interpretation and comparison of treatises written by military theorists, who dealt with the problematics of camps, namely of the works by Jan Tarnowski, Guillaume du Bellay, Leonhardt Fronsperger, Lazarus von Schwendi, Giorgio Basta, Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, and Raimondo Montecuccoli. Additionally, an analysis of the military orders of the Roman emperor Maximilian II and of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf is supplied, followed by memoirs and diaries of soldiers of that era, and contemporary literary fiction. Although the thesis includes brief characterizations of...

O presente estudo buscou analisar a participação política e engajamento na luta armada de militares dissidentes das Forças Armadas. No período anterior ao golpe civil militar de 1964 que derrubou o governo do presidente João Goulart, vivenciaram com grande intensidade uma contradição entre seu papel de militar, idealizado pelas instituições, de mantenedor da ordem social vigente, e as aspirações e lutas de sua classe de origem. Esses militares foram cassados ou deixaram as Forças Armadas após o golpe, outros permaneceram na ativa e foram presos por estarem ligados a grupos armados. Todos combateram o desenvolvimento econômico nacional baseado no sistema capitalista associado e dependente e vislumbraram, no sistema socialista, uma alternativa de organização mais justa e digna. O golpe militar teve um grande impacto destrutivo nas suas trajetórias de vida e eles encontraram, na luta armada, uma maneira de dar continuidade às suas atividades e aspirações políticas. Organizações de esquerda como o MNR e a VPR, principalmente pela capacidade de organização e aglutinação do sargento do Exército Onofre Pinto, representaram uma resistência concreta contra a dispersão desses agentes políticos, provocada pelos órgãos repressivos. / The present study looked to analyse the political participation and commitment in the armed combat of military dissidents of the Armed Strength. In the period previous to the civil military blow of 1964 that knocked down the government of president João Goulart, they survived with great intensity a contradiction between his soldier\'s paper, idealized by the institutions, of bread-winner of the social order in force and the aspirations and struggles of his class of origin. These soldiers were revoked or they left the Strength Armed after the blow, others remained in the active service and were imprisoned because of being tied to armed groups. They all fought the economical national development based on the capitalist associate and dependent system and glimpsed, in the socialist system, the most just alternative of organization and worthy. The military blow had a great destructive impact in his trajectories of life and they found, in the armed combat, a way of giving continuity to his activities and political aspirations. Left-wing organizations as the MNR and the VPR, principally for the capacity of organization and agglutination of the sergeant of the Army Onofre Pinto, represented a concrete resistance against the dispersal of these political agents, provoked by the repressive organs.

Le paroxysme atteint par la diffusion incontrôlée durant les années 1990 du phénomène des enfants soldats a obligé la communauté internationale à renforcer la protection des enfants et à instituer des garanties supplémentaires à l’égard des enfants touchés par les conflits armés. Les zones d’instabilité politique, les conflits, ainsi que l'impunité quasi généralisée en matière de violations graves des droits de l’homme ont été les principales sources de la montée en puissance du phénomène des enfants soldats. L’objectif qui consistait à mettre fin à l’implication illégale d'enfants dans les conflits armés a nécessité une coopération étroite entre tous les États concernés cependant que divers problèmes d’ordre juridique n’ont pas tardé à faire leur apparition. Par ailleurs, la diversité des ordres juridiques et la variété des approches doctrinales quant à la définition de la notion d’« enfant » ont rendu difficile une approche consensuelle. L’institution d'une responsabilité pénale internationale pour le recrutement des enfants, érigé en crime de guerre, n’était qu’un début. La question de la justice dans les pays sortis des conflits est toujours d'actualité et l’adoption d’autres formes de justice s’avère indispensable dans le processus de réconciliation et de réinsertion des enfants. La responsabilité pénale des enfants soldats est examinée sous son double aspect victime / bourreau, en abordant certaines affaires emblématiques. / The uncontrolled spread of the phenomenon of child soldiers culminated in such a point during the 1990s that the international community was forced to strengthen the protection of children by introducing additional safeguards for children affected by armed conflict. Some of the main explanations for the rise of the phenomenon of child soldiers have been: areas of political instability, conflicts and almost universal impunity in cases of serious human rights violations. The objective of putting an end to the illegal involvement of children in armed conflict required close cooperation between all states concerned. Yet, legal complications did not take long to appear. Moreover, the diversity of legal systems and the variety of doctrinal approaches to the definition of the term "child" made a consensual approach difficult. The international criminalization of recruiting children, defined as a war crime, was just the beginning. The issue of justice in countries emerging from conflict is still relevant today and the adoption of other forms of justice is essential in the process of reconciliation and reintegration of former child soldiers. The criminal accountability of child soldiers is examined in its dual aspect of victim/executioner, addressing some emblematic cases.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:22:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alberto Lopes de Oliveira Junior.pdf: 6485475 bytes, checksum: 99a03ebfb93c8a8d4c430e9c413801b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-16 / It is a legal research focused on the study of socio, political and economic development of Brazil. The development towards treated in this work has direct relation to the evolution of the people, in an inclusive and fraternal, enabling all, without exception, the right to participation and enjoyment of the product of this development. Development here is exposed as a complex network formed by another complex elements, which, when united, form a system. This system should protect economic growth, ensuring social and political evolution. The Inter-American System of Human Rights is considered as a complementary channel to the Brazilian legal system, available to citizens, to guarantee and protect human rights, which is a presupposition to the development. As an experiment for the application of the Inter-American System of Human Rights in Brazil's development, we will analyze the situation of the Rubber Soldiers, lived in northern of the Brazil. Rubber Soldiers were men recruited in the opportunity of the Government of Getúlio Vargas, as the Allied war effort, the United States, at the time of the second world war. These men left their lands in the Northeast and were induced to move their lives to the north of the country, hoping to aid the motherland and better quality of life. However, they were treated as slaves and never received any honors as Soldiers. Treatment that differentiates them from "Excombatants", a class that had been treated as a priori similar. The reasoning method and approach of this work is outlined by means of induction (inductive), which analyzes data from a particular case to verify a general reality. It is a systematic analytical study / Trata-se de uma pesquisa jurídica, voltada ao estudo do desenvolvimento sócio, político e econômico do Brasil. O desenvolvimento na perspectiva tratada nesse trabalho tem direta relação à evolução do povo, de forma inclusiva e fraternal, propiciando a todos, sem exclusão, o direito de participação e gozo do produto desse desenvolvimento. Desenvolvimento aqui é tratado como uma rede complexa, formada por elementos também complexos, que, ao se unirem, formam um sistema. Esse sistema deve tutelar o crescimento econômico, garantindo a evolução social e política. O Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos, por sua vez, é analisado como via complementar ao ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, disponibilizado ao cidadão, para garantia e proteção dos direitos humanos, que é um pressuposto imbricado no desenvolvimento. Como experimento para aplicação do Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos no desenvolvimento do Brasil, será analisada a situação dos Soldados da Borracha, vivenciada na região norte do Brasil. Soldados da Borracha foram homens recrutados na oportunidade do Governo de Getúlio Vargas, como um esforço de guerra ao aliado, Estados Unidos, no momento da segunda guerra mundial. Esses homens deixaram as suas terras no nordeste do país e foram induzidos a moverem suas vidas à região norte do país, na esperança de auxílio à pátria e melhor qualidade de vida. Porém, foram tratados como escravos e jamais receberam qualquer menção honrosa como Soldados. Tratamento que os diferencia dos Ex-combatentes , uma classe que a priori fora tratada como semelhante. O método de raciocínio e abordagem deste trabalho é delineado por meios de indução (método indutivo), o qual analisa dados de um caso particular para projetar uma realidade geral, num esforço analítico sistemático

The 1990’s did not only see the end of the Cold War, it experienced several man-made humanitarian crises, an emerging debate on the responsibility to protect, and an increased number of sanctions. All at the same time. How does these relate to each other? International economic sanctions can be seen as having the purposes of both punishing and making others comply with certain norms (Galtung, 1967:379). I believe that both of these purposes are visible when imposing sanctions as reactions to violations of international humanitarian law. Because of this, I argue that violations of IHL are likely to be met with sanctions. In this thesis, I study whether or not this hypothesis holds true. Specifically, I test the probability of receiving sanctions after the following IHL rules have been violated: the prohibition of child soldiers, torture, use of terror, one-sided violence and sexual violence. Most research on economic sanctions focuses either on their effect on armed conflict, or exclusively on one international institution. This thesis contributes to the research field by presenting a quantitative study on the effect violations of international humanitarian law can have on the imposition of economic sanctions, and whether there is a difference in how different violations are being reacted to.

During the American Civil War, an approximate 200,000 Irish-born soldiers, and an even greater number of subsequent generation descended soldiers, fought for the Union and Confederate causes. Their experience, opinions, military actions and attitudes of their families were the subject of American Civil War songs, with songwriters penning numerous ballads about them. The conflict witnessed the mass production of wartime ballad culture, with over 11,000 pieces written and composed between 1861 and 1865 alone. An estimated 150 were by and about the Irish American wartime experience specifically. This thesis focuses on these Irish American Civil War songs and analyses the sentiments they expressed. Overall, the main topic written onto songsheet pages and in songbooks was the battlefield actions of Irish-born and descended soldiers. This study explores how military history was reported through song, following traditional oral practice patterns of using balladry to sing war reports. In particular, attention will be drawn to the proliferation of lyrical dedication and focus on specific Irish-dominated units such as the Union Army's Irish Brigade and 69th New York State Militia, and how their actions, along with other Irish soldiering units, came to dominate Irish American Civil War articulations and history. Within this lyrical attention the figures of Irish-born commanding officers, namely Generals Michael Corcoran and Thomas Francis Meagher, come to the fore. This study also analyses how their own wartime experiences and articulations corresponded with song lyrics. Beyond the battlefield focus, this thesis explores the way in which song lyrics sang about Irish loyalty and devotion to the American Union - and in a few examples Confederate nation - and particularly adopted symbols of the American nation, such as the Star Spangled Banner, as embodiments of the causes and ideals fought for by soldiers. Alongside this were lyrics that referred to symbols of Irish cultural heritage, language and a history of foreign military service. Irish identity can be seen on the surface of some songs, including references to Irish nationalism and the desire to gain Irish independence one day. Yet, as this thesis will argue, Irish American Civil War song lyrics reveal complicated support and sympathy for the Irish nationalist cause in the United States during the 1860s. Running through the songs of this study is a pervading sense and sentiment of American identity - that the Irish fighting and living through the war were stressing to society through song that they were committed to the United States as Americans first and foremost. In addition to assessing wartime views of Civil War politics and military actions, this thesis will also explore the way Irish song played a critical part in the formation of American musical culture, with traditional Irish music forming the foundation for American tunes, and blending Irish culture into the American wartime zeitgeist. This thesis will demonstrate the way in which Irish songs were written, published and disseminated through American society and crucially circulated beyond the confines of the Irish diaspora. Traditional and wartime Irish songs became a fundamental part of American culture because they were American cultural outputs. Thus this thesis will demonstrate the important evidential role Irish American Civil War songs play in singing an unexplored areas of mid-nineteenth century Irish American transnational history.

This thesis is an analysis of the World War II television drama COMBAT!, which ran from 1962 to 1967, and how this program dealt with and addressed the national memory of the Second World War. The way in which the “Good War” is remembered has changed over time. In the years of the conflict and immediately following its conclusion, there was a sense of zealous patriotism surrounding the war, but as our culture changed, a more critical approach was taken. This paper examines the way in which the show deals with its two main subjects – the American forces and the Germans which opposed them. This depiction is analyzed and deconstructed through the lens of historical or collective memory, a concept which deals with how a group of people view their past. Particularly, COMBAT! uses an air of complexity and nuance in how the combatants are treated that was not found in many earlier depictions of the war. It is important for the reader to understand the thinking behind the way in which this program deals with the memory of World War II. This thesis dissects the intended messages that arise from the show’s portrayal. The paper concludes with an examination of how this more critical view can be applied to the portions of the war outside of COMBAT’s scope. Attention is also paid to the way in which this attitude of remembrance has continued on into future works that deal with both World War II and the wars that followed.

This thesis is an annotated and edited typescript of a primary source, the handwritten diary of Chriss A. Bell, of the Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry state militia. The diary concerns the events of Oregon's National Guard state militia in the Spanish-American war in the Philippines, and the Philippine Insurrection that followed. The period of time concerned is from the beginning of May, 1898 to the end of June, 1899.