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Deconstructing Terrorism: An Analysis of the Secular Premise of Suicide Bombings in the Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape This study on terrorism will define the primarily secular motivations for suicide bombers and other terrorists to strategically oppose foreign occupation of their country in the data collected in Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert Pape. Traditionally, the use of terrorism has been propagandized by western…

There was women’s rights advancement in WWI as women were granted to vote in Canada, but in New Zealand, Australia, Finland and Norway the gave the women the right to vote before WWI and Denmark, Iceland, Holland and Sweden all gave the women the right to vote during WWI, but they were not involved with it At the end of the war Russia, Germany and the U.S gave women the right to vote, but it took France and Italy until 1945 to grant that right The women’s peace party was formed during WWI. They…

Covert action is one of many foreign policy tools used by policymakers to advance national interests. Used in select international efforts, covert action encompasses a broad range of activities outside the operations of traditional intelligence collection. Sanctioned by the White House and overseen by Congress, covert action can provide results and otherwise unavailable information. "The term covert action was defined for the first time in statute to mean an activity or activities of the united…

before he became leader of Nazi-Germany when he would constantly do speeches at local Beer halls. “Hitler 's vitriolic beer-hall speeches began attracting regular audiences. Early followers included army captain Ernst Rohm, the head of the Nazi paramilitary organization”(S1 1). Due to Hitler’s speeches, and the hard times Germany was going through, He was able to attract people to his speeches and slowly people became more and more accustomed to his views. Not only did this grant Hitler a…

The Department of Homeland Security and the US Patriot Act where created and passed as a direct result of the terrorist attacks orchestrated on September 11, 2001. As a package, both work to preserve life and liberty to citizens of the United States, whether in the homeland or abroad. Therefore, the Department of Homeland Security, while utilizing the US Patriot Act, has partnered with local law enforcement in order to be on the front lines of detecting and preventing homeland terrorism. The…

many willing participants within the government to carry out the genocide, in fact it was Hutu militiamen, previously members of the government and supporters of the president who was killed in the plane crash caused by the RPF, and also outside paramilitaries that carried out the start of the…

borders of Nicaragua and Honduras. In the Nicaraguan revolution, Honduras was transformed into a staging ground for covert operations. The U.S. poured military aid and advisors into the Honduran army and set up base camps for the Contras—a right-wing paramilitary force cultivated by the U.S. to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The United States viewed Honduras as the logical point from which to intervene in these two conflicts. In the early 1980s, southern Honduras became a staging area…

Throughout history it has been a lot of movements in order to defeat injustice, and one of these movements was created back in the mid 1960’s in San Antonio. This book is divided into three different time-lapses and it tells us how the Mexican-American started to gain a place in the US with the Chicano movement. In the mid 1960’s San Antonio was ruled by the Anglo social and the high class. The Mexican-American motivated by the gang warfare, the seasonal flood, and the strike of the farm…

gangsters, free independent people and the Pancasila to take care of our problems independently.” Indonesia, or at least the area of Medan, seemed like a dystopian anarchic society: the government is an invisible entity and its largely the criminal and paramilitary organizations that exercise any real, albeit illegitimate, authority. If we were to compare the situation in our country to that of Indonesia in the context of the aforementioned paraphrased quote, the Philippines might fit the…

Conflict Background The Syrian Civil War is a multi-sided armed conflict in Syria. The war started in 2011 after President Bashar al-Assad’s government violently restrained protestors requesting his removal. Many countries including the US have tried to intervene. Since then the Syrian government has refused efforts to negotiate with these “terrorist groups.” There were 90,000 casualties by June 2013 and 250,000 as of April 2015. This war isn’t just a battle between those for and against the…