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Afghanistan, Iraq and the Western Way of War

gain battles, but it is a great element of success."3 That is, while armament increases a commanders chances of winning a battle, ...

A Field Manual Delineating the Needs Presented by Counterinsurgency

The "U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual" is the result of decades of military experience but, most...

Mass Media's Influence

This essay uses the Civil Rights movement and the invasion of Iraq as examples of how the influence of the mass media has had a se...

NATO Just War Against Serbs

There are several issues discussed in this essay. Examples are given of cruel treatment of prisoners of war, how the Bush Doctrine...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

The U.S. Should Withdraw from Iraq Immediately

the people have "done nothing to liberate themselves" (Moore). We might reasonably object that Hussein would have had insurgents a...

Iraq War Was Not Justified

have remained either the same as before Saddam was removed from power or further deteriorated. Suicide bombings killing innocent ...

Threats Against “Four Effects” in Iraq That Could Delay Transition

be an emerging Kurdish state in northern Iraq (Russell, 2007). In addition, the "armed Peshmerga today police the borders of the n...

The Foreign Policy Priorities of the Obama Administration

day in office he would instruct military commanders to this effect. Obama stated that the war in Iraq should never have been start...

Argumentative Essay Opposing the Iraq War

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

Kant, the Categorical Imperative and the Invasion of Iraq

everyone else acting in the same way" (The categorical imperative). The question then becomes, do we want the law of pre-emptive...

Palka, Galgano, and Corson's Operation Iraqi Freedom

and resources for Iraqis, and helping the Iraqi people create the conditions necessary for a rapid transition to representative se...

Staying the Course

body of all-source reporting indicates that activists identifying themselves as jihadists, although a small percentage of Muslims,...

Private Security is No Security

in Colombia" (CSC/DynCorp). They were called "Colombias Coke-Bustin Broncos" by Soldier of Fortune Magazine, the bible for mercena...

Killing the Truth in Iraq

accusing Basras police force of "being infiltrated by Shiite militiamen" ("American Journalist Found Shot Dead in Basra"). He quot...

A Comparison of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

aged and has some experience under his belt as well. In respect to the economy, Obama highlights that fact that the free market e...

Argument: Under International Law, the Iraq War is Legal

94). The U.S. and the U.K., in making their legal case for war, "did not base the legality of their attack against Iraq on a self...

Salient Factors Of Modern Nation-State Formation

According to David Gompert, author of Helping a Palestinian State Succeed: Key Findings, Palestine can well establish itself as an...

Sun Tzu and the War in Iraq

in Iraq is not meeting these objectives. First, a majority of Americans are now solidly against the war, meaning that Bush no lon...

International Law And The War In Iraq

42 that give the Security Council the authority to determine if there is cause to use acts of aggression (Dorf, 2003). These Artic...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Response to Security Council Statement that US War in Iraq is Illegal

treaties such that an "affected party" can take action. The U.S. argued that it was specially affected because it was quite likely...

KOSOVO AND IRAQ: THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

using the conflict as a stepping stone to promote democracy in the Middle East and destroying any weapons of mass destruction (Enc...

Iraq: The Wrong War

to any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. If terrorism was Bushs war objective, al-Qaida and not Saddam should have ...

British Imperialism in the Middle East in the Early 20th Century

were "formidable obstacles" that "blocked the road to peaceful progress and promoted wars and rumors of wars."3 Also playing a la...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Is the War in Iraq Worth It?

"The war in Iraq has been the top issue each time Gallup has asked this question going back to April 2006" (Carroll, 2007). Howeve...

The Effect of Saddam Hussein's Execution

Echo is relayed as followed: "The danger now is that his final moments will be remembered for his undoubted dignity in the face of...

Should the U.S. Be in Iraq without an Exit Strategy?

hard slog," while another says that "timetables for troop withdrawal should be avoided but adds that victory in Iraq is still obta...

Emerson and Thoreau and the War in Iraq

personality was bolder and more action-oriented than Emersons. He was far more progressive and activist than Emerson on the anti-s...