War is like humans, evolving over time

War has been evolving throughout its entire existence. It has evolved because the evolution of war directly coincides with the evolution of humanity. My visual represents a twisted version of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Many of us recognize the classic ape converting into a human over time visual, but now with that conversion, the artist also includes weapons of war during specific periods of time. There have been many wars over the period of the existence of the United States, one of the most famous being the civil war. In this war the most common weapon was the musket, a pretty inefficient and also ineffective rifle compared to today’s technology. Due to its inaccuracy of the guns, the battles were fought in very close proximity to the enemy mostly in open fields. This was outlined in the film Glory, a film about the first black regiment in the civil war. In the film they show a battle where the soldiers line up and fire weapons at the enemy who is a matter of yards away from them. The battles led to a lot of dead and wounded, due to the proximity of the two sides. Jump forward in time to the jungles of Vietnam. This is a different era than the civil war, there is a new type of fighting, guerrilla warfare. Because of the advancement of technology, the fighting no longer had to be done face to face, instead it was done by “humping”, which is patrolling through the jungle trying to find the enemy. While it seems less bloody than the times of close proximity fighting, there is a new fear factor that is involved. Fear of ambush, booby traps, and sniper fire were all part of the war. Because of this, soldiers had to be trained in guerrilla warfare, such as how to fight at night and amongst dense forest. It was a completely different form of war. Now travel all the way to the front of the evolutionary chart, the nuclear warhead figure. In the modern wars, such as the Iraq wars, technology had become much more advanced and battles were sometimes fought from a computer controlling a drone. This progression of war has directly come from humanity's progression. We can look at any war in history and it will tell us so much about that certain point in time. A good example of this was the massacre of the Native Americans during the age of the frontier. This was partly during the civil war, and today many Americans look back at this event and wonder how the Americans could have believed that what they were doing was morally right. That is because it is not just the technology and methods in which war is fought that changes throughout time, it is also human ideology in war that changes.

"Pitch Evolution of War.,." Cartoon Movement. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.