http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/recruitment Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:52:09 -0400 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:52:09 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/408/combat-motivation-during-the-first-world-war By Craig Stewart-Hunter - This paper considers the combat motivations of British men during the First World War; why did men fight, and once in the trenches, continue to figh? The paper focuses on British forces, due to the amount of available material regarding Britain and their continued recruitment and combat activity during the conflict, as well as briefly examining how propaganda might have influenced the minds of the male population into fighting in this conflict. This is done by examining historian’s arguments as to why these men continued to fight and how propaganda drove these men to volunteer and once... Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:53 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/408/combat-motivation-during-the-first-world-war