Examples Of Noncombatants

War, regardless of where or when it is always involves those who do not want to or can not fight. Those who do not fight in a conflict are known as noncombatants and they can take many different roles depending on the conflict and the individual noncombatant. Using the Merriam-Webster, definition of noncombatant, those who would be considered a noncombatant includes: civilians, scientists, chaplains and many others. This will be the case even though one could interpret a noncombatant as one who does not take part in a combat scenario at all. As one can see a noncombatant is able to [fill many roles], however an important subject on the place of a noncombatant is the way in which they can still contribute to a conflict or war effort and how
Doss was a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, combat medic and conscientious objector in the United States Military during World War II. What makes Doss a noncombatant, even though he was in the military, is that due to his religious beliefs he refused to kill or even carry a weapon into combat. Doss, for saving seventy-five men during the Battle of Okinawa, was awarded the Medal of Honor, being the first conscientious objector to obtain the medal. This shows that there is more to be valued in war than killing. As for the film’s depiction of events, it focuses on the heroism of Doss, going so far as to imply that without Doss’s actions his platoon would have been routed or
In the sense that the Israeli military uses lethal force on Palestine civilians, to the point that Israel holds the highest number of violations by the UN of any of its member nations. There are many reasons why the Israeli state can get away with this, the most prominent among them being the American support of Israel.
America’s support of Israel can be measured in many different ways, to the average of two to three billion dollars Israel receives each year from America, or the amount of times the US has vetoed UN decisions to punish Israel, or the bipartisan support of Israel shown by