Proficiency of People Before and After War

Proficiency of people before and after war

The current civilization in most countries across the world has brought with it a number of challenges. The fact that most countries nowadays operate as sovereign states implies that there will always be some instances where these countries will strongly disagree on global issues affecting them (Abidi and Singh 12). As such, whether justified or not, there will always be wars and physical confrontations between disagreeing sovereign states. When such wars occur, affected countries usually divert their attention and useful resources to combating the enemy in the effort of protecting their sovereign pride. In doing so, they expose their citizens to post war consequences that greatly affect their lives. This paper hereby presents a case study on how people’s proficiency has been affected by two great historical wars; the gulf war and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The gulf war (also referred to as Persian Gulf War or Kuwait War) was a war involving military combat between Iraq and coalition forces led by United States (Hutchinson 19). Dubbed operation desert storm, the gulf war lasted from August 2, 1990 to February 28, 1991. It was one of the deadliest wars of the decade resulting into deaths of over 1,000 Kuwait civilians and 480 coalition forces. Even though the exact number of Iraq fatalities is not known, it is estimated that close to 35,000 Iraq civilians lost their lives in the war. Similarly, according to the official report commissioned by United States’ Air Force, the coalition forces killed over 12,000 Iraq military personnel through air combat and a further 10,000 through military confrontations on the ground (Hutchinson 39). Defense Alternatives Study on the other hand estimated ...

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...traumatic brain injuries that completely changed their lives. Unable to carry on with their normal lives, they went into depressions and moodiness. It was also reported that some soldiers developed chronic fatigue, sleeping problems and muscle and joint pains.

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