Homework 10; term 3

Compare/contrast the practices of the Iran Iraq War with the practices of WWI.

Iran/Iraq War:

-Religion was used to motivate soldiers.

-Iraq used poison gas.

-Aerial Bombing

-Naval Warfare (similarity)

-Develops into a stalemate/war of attrition! Similar to WWI

WWI:

-Also has Naval Warfare (similarity)

-Stalemate (similarity)

-Total War

-Use of civilians as shields

-Tear Gas

Thus, the naval warfare was a similarity between the two wars. Another similarity is that both wars developed into a stalemate or a war of attrition. Something that isn't completely the same, but the same idea is with the tear gas and poision gas which was used in both wars. Both of these were poisions/chemicals which affected the enemies, so it can be seen as somewhat of a similarity. However, a difference is that WWI was seen as a total war and the Iran Iraq war was not. Also, there was really no religious motivation for the soldiers in WWI like there was in the Iran Iraq War. In WWI, the soldiers used civilians as shields, but this never occured in the Iran Iraq war, and nothing this harsh seemed to be present in the Iran Iraq war either.