Differences In All Quiet On The Western Front And A Warrior's Moral?

Often times, a soldier with a superior ranking will have nearly full control of the inferior ranked soldiers. Absolute control over inferior ranked soldier’s often causes difficulties and confusion between the soldier and his officer because their morals in war may contain different beliefs. Radical beliefs that are forced upon the lower leveled soldiers by the senior position frequently causes soldiers to face obstacles that they are unprepared for. While the positions and experiences that these soldier's face are very different, All Quiet on the Western Front, and "A Warrior's Moral Dilemma" display similar perceptions of how a righteous war created by harmful senior leadership caused soldier's to feel betrayal which led to unethical decisions.
Demagogic leaders allow for unjust situations to occur, which cause unbalanced tactics. Inadequate strategy generates situations to become difficult to control, and creates a chaotic region. Disorder in the camps allow soldiers to be irrational and unreasonable where one cares more about their rank rather than their morals. Soldiers in this state “allow [themselves] to be persuaded, otherwise [they] would have been ostracized” (Remarque 11). This exemplifies how soldiers’ appearances start to exceed the importance of their achievements . Furthermore, nationalism seems to play a larger role here, as the fear of being called a coward is what induces some soldiers to enlist. Once deployed, a superior leader is capable of turning a cowardly soldier into an animalistic being, even to the point “when [an] enemy [would] appear, it [is] hard to sort out combatant from civilian, or child” (Wood). This exemplifies how corrupt war leaders brainwashed soldiers to believe that certain gruesome acts are acceptable during time in
Being emotionally prepared for war includes having an intentional purpose for why one would be fighting for their country. Leaders in this war felt that this war was completely necessary while “at home, the rest of America gradually decided to oppose the wars as wrong and justified” (Wood). Many of the soldier’s felt this same feeling where one was unsure if joining and fighting in the war was the appropriate decision. As a result, many soldiers were persuaded into joining the war where they felt lied to and later developed post traumatic stress disorder. To cope with many of the horrors seen in war, many soldiers "learned to drink in the army" and took multitudes of different kinds of drugs (Remarque 164). Drinking and using drugs allows for soldier’s to distract themselves from dealing with their current difficulties. Even though the hallowing experiences that soldier’s are introduced to in war are horrific, soldier’s could be more prepared had there been an improvement in