Comparative Essay

Introduction

In this essay we will compare the two essays, the Officers and Politicians: The origins of Army Politics in the United States before the Civil War by William B. Skelton and The Veracruz Expedition of 1847 by K. Jack Bauer.

This basic system has worked with various degrees of harmony and efficiency varies during the history of the United States, from 1607 until today. During the colonial period, since the landing of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts until the outbreak of the War of American Independence, we trusted, for the defense forces of the British Empire, supplemented by the militia provided by raising the various British colonies in North America.

Discussion

The articles which were analyzed describe the main problem confronting the army was how to expand the force. The civil war of the United States will one day be remembered as one of the biggest events of the nineteenth century is not only a war in fact, it is also a revolution. The principles it pits, the sacrifices it requires one of the most powerful nations of the world, the territory to which it grows, the problems it has raised and is required to solve, all rise above so many miserable conflicts which wear out of petty ambitions and interests outdated (Skelton p.22). We pride ourselves sometimes that liberal ideas make progress in the world, but it is a sad symptom of indifference or hostility in the face of crises through which the future of a nation as great minds liked to show us as more accurate than any other doctrines of true liberalism.

The Veracruz Expedition discusses the time is past, we will say, where the words liberty, equality, the hearts were beating with violence and trained the men, where in our country, public opinion, still led by the powerful breath ...