Nicholas Meyer

Mrs. Thomas
UWRT 1103
24 March 2016

Annotated Bibliography

So far I think that I have been hitting most of the criteria for my AB. I think that is
because I have used the rubric as a check list before I finish. I go through and make
sure that I am hitting all the key points that I need too. What grade that I would give
myself is probably an 85. Mostly because I turned them in late but overall I think that I
did a thorough job going through my sources and I feel that I achieved everything that I
wanted too with them. Overall if I could do it all over again I would attempt to turn them
in on time as to not lose any points

Cunningham, Andrew, and Ole Peter Grell. The Red Horse: War, Weapons, and
Wounds. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in
Reformation Europe. Cambridge: U of Cambridge, 2000. 92-200. Print.
The Main idea of this book is to highlight how the biblical reference to the four
horsemen of apocalypse were a key factor in the reformation of Europe. The specific
section that I looked at was about the red horse, commonly known as war. It starts of by
explaining how it was around this time that the end of feudalism had come about and a
new system was going to need to be implemented to keep control. One of the factors
the authors point out is the increased population made it hard to keep the fragile system
afloat. The fact that warfare became such a dominant feature of early modern life post 1500 gives it a central role in the dramatic social and cultural changes which affected

life in Western Europe in this period. Among the most significant changes was the
growth in the size of the armies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries four
horsemen of the apocalypse: religion, war, famine and death in reformation Europe, p.
95.

I really thought that this book was interesting. It explained how this was the first
real show of major wars of huge groups of people. People had never taken up arms like
they did in this time period. But why? What made everyone suddenly pledge their
allegiance to a higher power and take up arms to defend what they thought was right.
Like we see in all wars you can clearly see that with technology, war also changes. Id
like to reference reformation Europe as the start of war as we know it today.
As far as the credibility of the authors both of these men are professors at the
University of Cambridge. So I have no doubt to their extensive research and knowledge

on the topic. This text was also very hard to read because it was extremely dry. Almost
every sentence was facts about names and places and events. I would quickly feel
myself getting overwhelmed with the information being processed from the reading.

Make Money, Not War

Fordham, Benjamin O. "Make Money, Not War." Int Studies Review International
Studies Review 10.2 (2008): 335-37. Web. 24 Mar. 2016.
Make Money, Not War. This article talks about the effects that war can have on
countries economics. It had many different opinions in this article about how war can be
beneficial and detrimental to a country. One commonly looked at example is World War
I. This war helped pull America out of the biggest depressions that it ever experienced.
On the other hand it explained how many countries that the wars are actually fought in
tend to not share in the economic boom that war can produce. In Europe in WWI
experienced major debt and decline during and after the war. The credibility of this
information seems to be very legit as the author has been featured in many economic
platforms such as forbes.com.
While this article was very interesting to see the economic effects that war can
have on countries it really raised more questions for me than it did answer them. It went
into a lot of detail on how the effects of war can be very good for the countries bank and
wealthy but not so good for the general people. I wonder why this is, could it lean
towards common greed or are there other factors in play. Another thing I thought was
interesting about this article was that it only referred to modern times of war. I wanted to

know more about the widespread effects war and money have had over centuries
instead of just focusing on the recent years. Overall I thought this article helped answer
my overall question of why do we go to war? Pretty efficiently. It basically says that the
people who run our country (IE the government, the banks, the wealthy) want to have
war because it is profitable for them at the cost of the other countries and the general
taxpayers.

Where Men Win Glory

Krakauer, Jon. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. New York:
Doubleday, 2009. Print.

The story of this book is that of Pat Tillman. Not many people know who Pat Tillman is
or what his story is. He was a very talented football player who played for Arizona State
University. After college he was drafted into the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals in 1998.
He was also a bright young man who graduated in 3 and a half years with a major in
marketing and a GPA of 3.85. After the terrorist attack on 9/11, Pat Tillman took it upon
himself to enlist in the Army. While this is a heroic deed for anyone to do, Pat turned
down a 9 Million dollar contract with the Arizona Cardinals too do this. While in
Afghanistan, Pat was killed in a friendly fire accident. The accident was covered up by
government as they were using him as a poster boy to get people to enlist also.
I personally dont know anyone with the sense of duty to turn down generational
money for my country to go serve my country. The sense of honor on this man was
astounding. I first learned about him and his story in high school when my teacher had
us do a paper on April 22, the day of his death. While friendly fire is bad and sometimes
happen the real problem here was that the government covered up his death for many
months in order to not make themselves look bad. I think that was great dishonor to who
he was a person and what he believed in. I think he is a great person to reference for

the glory part of my question as he shows what it means to put your country ahead of
yourself.

The Art of War

Sunzi, and Samuel B. Griffith. The Art of War. London: Oxford UP, 1971. Print.

This book was written by Sun Tzu thousands of years ago. It talks about more
than just war but more about beating your opponent. Appear weak when you are
strong, and strong when you are weak. The whole idea of besting someone through the
acts of just being smarter. Most chapters in this book are effective military strategies
that can be used for war. But the ideas behind those strategies can be transcended into
modern times. Overall this will be a good example for a broad look at war and why we
fight it since he was one of the first documented military commanders.

I read this book awhile back and thought it would be perfect for this project.
When I first read I was told that this book was a great way to think about your
opponents in life no matter what they might be. Whether it be for a job interview or a
sports game. There are ways to look at situations that sun Tzu points out. While the
credibility of his ideas are kind of hard to place since he was a successful Chinese
officer. But we do not live in ancient china so the teachings in his book are more
figurative than literal.

Suicide in the Trenches

Sassoon, Siegfried. "Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches." Suicide in the
Trenches. N.p., 1918. Web. 02 Apr. 2016.
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark
And whistled early with the lark
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray youll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
This poem was written by Siegfried Sassoon in 1918 about WWI. The meaning of the
poem is that of a very antiwar sentiment. That many people would cheer for their

soldiers with a sense of patriotism but wished to not know the real horrors that
they had to experience.
My favorite part of the poem is on line 7 where it says He put a bullet through his
brain. This surprised me and made me sad at the same time. The true terrors
that the men of past wars had to fight must have been unimaginable. A common
problem even today is the rehabilitation of veterans. While America today is very
patriotic and supportive of its troops that wasnt always the case. It used to be that
people's anti-war sentiments would transfer unto the troops even when they had
no control over being drafted.
Veterans still have to go through the struggle of reentering society after being
exposed to such horrendous experiences.

Paths of Glory

Nevinson, Christopher. Paths Of Glory. 1917. Imperial War Museum, Imperial War
Museum, London, England.

This painting was painted by Christopher Nevinson in 1917. He volunteered as

an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the beginning of World War I. After his
time in the military he painted the Paths of Glory. The title comes from a line in a poem
by Thomas Gray called Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; the paths of glory lead
but to the grave. The painting depicts two dead British soldiers.

I chose this painting as a source because I thought I had used enough of the
writing material. This painting is very sad when I look at it and I see the dead soldiers. It
makes whatever they were fighting over seem so pointless. I would like to use this as a
good depiction in my work as it is physical. When people read over peer reviewed
articles and books they can get a little dull and unexciting, but when you put the actual
war and death in front of them and give it a face, people will be intrigued. I liked this
painting and I found the more I looked at it the better I felt about it. I could tell this would
be a powerful tool to explain the paths to glory that men go for when they die in war.

The War for Chechen Oil

Shermatova, Sanobar. "The War for Chechen Oil." Capitalism Nature Socialism 14.1
(2003): 113-23. Web.
The Chech republic of Ichkeria had a major supply of oil and Russia wanted it. Russia
sent troops into Chechnya when they were not complying with Russia. The first
fight for the city of Grozny was expected to be over in hours took two months to
complete. They commenced guerrilla warfare. The reason for this conflict was
that the oil that came from Chechnya was known to be better than other oil which
made it more desirable. However, the sweet

Chechen oil is of a much higher quality than oil from many other places.
I liked this article because it talked about Russia. The stuff that Russia is doing to
Chechnya is currently going on in Ukraine. The hostile takeover stuff that Russia
is doing is interesting coming from their long long history of war. With such a
violent history I think Russia would be a great example of war. Everyone has
heard the Motherland comments. These comments surround the national identity
that the overall country is more important than the individual. This is a contrasting
idea than we have in America as most people consider their own personal rights
more important than the rights of everyone.