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Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia Invasions by the Soviet Union and the Reaction of the United States

year war that has often been referred to as the "Soviet Unions Vietnam." In general, the U.S.S.R. invasion has proven to have bee...

Democracy, Work, and Women

In a research paper consisting of eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares Afghanistan and Sweden in order to detect a relat...

Leonid Brezhnev's Policies and the Afghanistan Invasion by the Soviet Union

In ten pages this paper examines the Brezhnev Doctrine and the factors that culminated in the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanist...

Americans Held Captive in Foreign Lands

the student was prosecuted to the fullest extent of their laws. The others left the country quietly. This seems to be a frequent t...

Pakistan and Afghanistan Islamic Fundamentalism

nature, in order to accomplish the goals of fundamentalist sects requires firm control of the political and social apparatus of a ...

ISAF and British Involvement

demonstrate support for the USA, it was also an acknowledgement that the al-Qaeda network was operating in Europe and that the fig...

Terrorism and U.S. Military Retaliation

halt the terrorist behavior of bin Laden. Clearly, President Clinton ordered the bombing as a means by which to send a message to...

Cold War Ideological Separation of the United States and the Soviet Union

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

Afghanistan and the Negative Effects of Humanitarian Aid

The reasons for the failure of the intervention is, in fact, related to the interrelationships of these contributors and the greed...

Principles of Machiavellian Theory

This paper examines whether or not Machiavelli's political theories set forth in The Prince can be applied to political situations...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

War Reporting and a Media Utilitarian Approach

In eight pages this paper examines war reporting with the emphasis upon Afghanistan terrorism in a consideration of how the media ...

An Exploration of Authoritarianism

where people are bestowed no natural rights or ability to pursue their desires. The student will readily note that there is littl...

WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

defeating Al-Qaeda (Council on Foreign Relations n.d.). But there are critics who believe that the window for securing Afghanistan...

Assessment of a Brigade

indicated by Major Foldberg, the intensity of the workload is interfering with the goal of offering soldiers and officers the chan...

Why the West Is Losing the Wars in the Middle East

(Parker, 2005, p. 2). The result was that technological innovation "and the equally vital ability to respond to it, soon became an...

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, ...

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...

How Did the Government Structures in Afghanistan Impact on the Successful Implementation of Aid Programs?

This paper is a research proposal for the identification and assessment of governmental factors which impact on the success of aid...

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...

Addressing World Wrongs with Blood and Iron

votes are simply insufficient to address our problems today and they were just as insufficient in Bismarcks time. Bismarck ...

Bad Intelligence Equals Losing Battles

gone by in the war in Afghanistan, and the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and its allies have developed only a marginal...

Narcotics Trade Funding Insurgency in Afghanistan

country of Afghanistan has become a synonym for the "narco-state and the spread of crime and illegality" (Felbab-Brown, 2009, p. 1...

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...

More Troops to Afghanistan

power in the region (Obama, 2009). Unfortunately, as U.S. attention turned to Iraq (which Obama opposed from the outset), b...

Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

Clausewitz and Modern Warfare in Afghanistan

bring him to the point that he is no longer a threat. The country with the best resources, i.e. the country that has structured i...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Kaliban's Violations of Women's Human Rights in Afghanistan

that took over the country in 1994.) Ready? Here we go. Introduction What are human rights? In the western world we often dont...

Afghanistan Women and Their Treatment

This paper consists of twelve pages and examines how Afghani women are treated in an assessment of pros and cons. Four sources ar...