What types of ideas were used to get people to join the war effort?
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To take this further, i've often wondered of those who joined the war effort, the highest percentage of those who volunteered (per capita) were American Indians. \n\nFrom the American Indian perspective, war is viewed as a major disruption of the natural order of life and of the universe. Native American peoples conceptualize no separation between mind, body, spirit, and "religion," while the western society world-view (that of the U.S. majority) embraces a reductionistic/separatist conceptualization of a mind, body, and spirit. Thus, a more holistic paradigm of self, spirit, and nature is embraced by American Indian and Alaska Native peoples. Warriors are viewed as people who are placed not only in physical danger, but also in spiritual danger by their participation in war. All tribes see the warrior as sacrificing self (purposefully exposing oneself to trauma or even death) on behalf of the people; it is a role and an undertaking worthy of the highest respect. Thus, only the most serious reasons legitimize war. Veterans are held in the highest respect in each Tribe. The warrior tradition explains part of it, but defending one's home and way of life has always caused us to volunteer, even if its oversees.
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1. Read the Prince and the Discourses\n2. Read the Art of War use the Asian point of View.\n3. Determine who is to Your Left and Who is to Your Right. It is a sliding scale. you may or may not hold the Party line.\n4. Listen to Talk Radio NPR for socialist thought. Rush and others for Capitalist Roaders.\n5. Read the Communist Mannifesto and understand Why it has never worked,\n6. Draw inspiration from the Bible.\n7.Forget Mein Kampf but in saying that understand Fascisim. That is who we are fighting in Iraq.\n8. Read Drudge Report\n9. Read political blogs\n10 Avoid at all costs conspirational literature. Read only if you can PROVE the Conspiacy.\nHope I have helped, Bye!
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Stop sitting at home and speculating war tactics.\n\nGo enlist and fight in the war, if you really got guts
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Well you could start by serving your country, that is aim for what the people want and putting your own personal wants aside. For example if the population wants the soldiers in Iraq out of their, then get them out, even if you feel they should stay. Also, do something great, like free up debt in a poor country, so they can feed their children. But you have to make sure the money goes to the poor people though and not to a corrupt dictator.
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1.  Most large wars involve rationing and all involve propaganda.  People were asked to stop using wheat (so the soldiers could have it) and start using corn flour.  The propaganda machine has never really changed; only the technology has.  Look at http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/ for more info on some WWI propaganda.  Look at http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm to see how rationing and propaganda were put together.  Look at the bottom for the rationing poster and how it relates to loyalty.\n\n2. Read this: http://www.around.ntl.sympatico.ca/~toby/independ.html\n\n3.  You may find your answers at http://canadaonline.about.com/od/canadaww1/, http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rosenede/WWI.html, and for more personal accounts look at http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/letters.images/collection.pages/WWI.htm.\n\n4.  I don't have the answer.  When I searched all I found was antiwar hate speech.  Sorry.
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Recruiting through the internet. I thing that will be a nice topic for a project. You can find loads of information through the internet.
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i think civic participation works if you can get past the egoes & work for the common good of the people. but civic, backed by military on one side, IS force, & is neither civic, nor civil.
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Hmm, think hard_then speak has an interesting one, although the answer is reasonably well known.\n\nFollowing the WWII I'd interview Werner Heisenberg in 1944 to see if he was really NOT trying to build an A-bomb for Nazi Germany, or if that is just what he said after the war. (And after he learned he was going about it in the wrong way.)
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You might look to the "DOD banner" for inspiration.  This is put into place as a reminder of the kind of use the system is intended for that the gov't uses on all of it's classified machines.  I would start there.
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Maybe we should start the draft before we start a THIRD WAR!  Maybe we can just call up the cub scouts, since everybody is already deployed.
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It is possible it could work, but forging a new government of the people, by the people and for the people should have worked too. Unfortunately these different sects are so used to blowing each other up they don't know any better.
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Propaganda used to help us and could help us a lot with radial terrorists, but with the internet, media and liberals spreading their left wing fairy tales, propaganda can't work, so more boys die in war. It was a tool to save lives, but no more.
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i think the only way to bring about change in a short period of time is by war, peace takes so long because you have to annoy the crap out of the people you want to change.  war gets peoples attention, there are peacefull demonstrations every day most people just ignore them because they cant get enough people involved.  Like with gas prices 200 people standing on the corner protesting is not going to change anything.  I also don't think a war needs to be fought with guns there are other ways of going about it the only problem is we can not get enough people behind one cause to make it worth wild to fight
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Except for WW II, the US has never had a long line of young men (and later women) eager to go to war. Washington complained frequently about how hard it was to keep his army together. Of course, it doesn't help that the US, even befoe it's inception, never paid its military very well and welched on promises made to entice people to enlist. And God forbid you were not injured badly enough to die, because the US has never willingly spent enough money on medical care for disabled vets.
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thats a good question. try these,\nhttp://scotthortonshow.com/\nmoney,\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/griffin_stream.html\neducation,\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/taylor_stream.html\nhttp://www.philipdru.com/gatto_stream.html\nworld wars\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=88\ngovernment explained simply,\nhttp://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=98\nhttp://thestressblog.com\nhttp://www.kaos959.com\nhttp://www.antiwar.com
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I think that the IDEA of making or increasing peace is attractive to everybody, but people have different ideas about how it can be done.\n\nA lot of people feel that the reason for the failure of wars like Vietnam or Iraq, is that insufficient troops were applied at an early stage. It's pretty frustrating, when they see such an obvious route to success, to hear all sorts of politicians shilly-shallying about the options. Some citizens will see even the 'hawks' in the government as indecisive and weak, so the idea of 'peaceniks' is just from a different planet!\n\nWorld War Two involved the commitment of ALL forces, and the active support of the ENTIRE population, and plenty of people are nostalgic about those days and about the feelings of national unity that existed. (The usual interpretation of WW2 is that the Allies won; in fact, many historians say that the Axis lost; mainly by disastrously attempting to invade Russia)\n\nThere is also a trend in modern society, to think of 'being duped' as more of a crime than cheating or bullying is. This idea ('don't be a mug!') has always been around, but is becoming more dominant at the moment (for example, new gameshows often focus on 'creative dishonesty' as the route to success). To anybody who supports military intervention, the idea that 'being weak' and 'saying please' can be more effective than applying strong compulsion, can be seen as deeply insulting.\n\nIn the US (with its Pioneer history, and conflict with Britain, and role in the Cold War) sensitivity about 'naive' methods of solving problems can be easy to trigger. Colt used to make a revolver called 'The Peacemaker'.\n\nIn families, disagreements over these kinds of principled matters can last for generations, and are very difficult to resolve. There may not be a solution that does not involve one side 'giving in' to the other's argument. Even if this happened, the 'victorious' side can still harbour a suspicion that the 'defeated' party is shamming.\n\nIt may be that all you can do is keep talking to them, and bearing their lack of grace, in the hope that a message of family unity may be slowly getting through.
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Northerners weren't gung-ho about going to war and especially about being drafted. In New York City, a riot of draft resisters broke out at Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan. Bloody mess. Also most northerners didn't know how to use firearms because they never hunted for wild game. It was new to them. Also the North couldn't find a military leader. They changed them like shirts until U.S. Grant took over. To get soliders the north recruited from Ireland and Germany.