Comparison Of Civil War And World War I

While the War in the Pacific remained an overwhelming American War, the difference in the landscape between Europe and the Mediterranean were night and day. For enough American Soldiers, a draft was implemented once again. This was the third time in military history the military had to rely on a draft. Civil War and World War I. The second World War was much different from the first. The use of technology advanced weaponry was seen all through the war. With the introduction planes the capability to deliver powerful bombs played a huge role in the Second World War. Major improvements along with planes was armored vehicles and tanks, as well as better machine gun and artillery would change the way war was fought. The American way of

war depended on technological advances than manpower. The creation of the first atomic bomb and the use of two them on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan changed forever the way wars would be fought. World War II was by far the greatest and the most destructive war in history, and one that would ultimately cement the United States’ rise to global dominance. The allies of the United States during the war would not of and could not have won without the involvement of America, they could not lose either. (Allison 275)
The ending of the Second World war brought about the change in the American Way of War. With the Korean war it showed just how difficult it would be to achieve limited objectives in the fight against communism without the use of nuclear weapons, without a congressional declaration of war, and without full mobilization. It had also once a again exposed the delicate balance between military command in the field and civilian control of policy objectives, as well the difficulties of matching military objective with war aims. The NSC—68 beginnings had been put to the test.
What the NSC-68 was it was a 58-page top-secret policy paper that not a lot of people knew about that was issued by the United States National Security council on April 14th, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. It would be one of the most significant and important statements of American policy in the Cold war. The U.S foreign policy in the Cold war was largely shaped by the NSC-68 for the next 20 years, and would involve a decision to make containment against communist expansion a high priority. The strategy outlined in NSC-68 arguably achieved ultimate victory with the collapse of the Soviet Union