Vietnam War era and now

 Brian Turner’s and Yusef Komenyaka’s poetry are both depicting their views of war what has happened to them and stories of their war. Both poets write in a detailed fashion, really getting the reader to feel like they are in the situation the poets are writing about. Komenyaka wrote about the tactics of Vietnam war, camouflaging ones weapons , equipment, fighting position and self. He describes how they are setting up the classic L -shape ambush one of the first things infantrymen learn to do, one of the most effective ways to destroy the enemy. While Turner’s poem 2000 lbs is about a enemy bomb going off and the aftermath that ensues on both soldiers and civilians. As for how war has changed since Vietnam, I really don’t think it has changed much. Yes technology has changed making it more efficient to complete a mission, but on a soldiers level the missions are very similar, at least earlier on in Iraq and Afghanistan. I think the change in tactics have a lot to do with the actual geography of the wars a dense jungle vs a desert with modern cities in Iraq and Afghanistan has quite a few different landscapes depending on your location, varying from desert, modern cities to the daughter chain of maintains of the himalayas, the kush mountains were I was. The tactics of Guerrilla warfare being used by the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan is very similar to the ones used by the Viet Cong in Vietnam. hat has really changed is the is the location. The VC were able to sneak in and out of the jungle while this is not an option for in Iraq or Afghanistan so the enemy adapted to tactics that work in their location.