In an evaluation of this film, an extraordinary impact will be presented on those who watched it and did not know much about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. For those who watch this film as their only information of the situation and do no further intelligence gathering on the matter, they are going to be very misinformed. The conflict portrayed in the film was the hunting of Osama as stated earlier in this paper and it was shown extremely poorly within the film. For example, a big discretion…
Osama Bin Laden claimed the support of thousands around the world while causing terror around the globe. The Al Qaeda leader was a supporter of all things violent and was guided by his Islamic beliefs. Osama Bin Laden’s assassination was the result of years of terrorization, oppression, and persecution that aggregated to overall justification of his death, however america has been criticized for the violation of civil rights and the vulgar celebration and assassination of a considered “figure…
Usama ibn Mohammed ibn Awad ibn Ladin, also known as Osama bin Laden, was the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on September 11th. Bin Laden was responsible for 2,977 overall 9/11 deaths that include the strike at the Pentagon and the airliner crash in Shanksville, Pa.” (McCoy). After a decade in hiding, Bin Laden was found and killed in his compound in Pakistan. While this execution was justified and necessary, many events leading up to it were not. Many individuals who were thought to…
The al-Qaeda received a huge blow on their faces a year ago when the US navy commandos also known as SEAL attacked and killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. Despite the death of their leader, the remnant Islamic terror group poses a huge threat to the entire world according to experts’ reports. Osama bin Laden was known to be the founder and spiritual leader of the terror group al-Qaeda although the chief strength of the group is that it has been molded to carry out its operation without a…
obstructing the flow of real time battlefield reconnaissance. The courageous special operators selected to carry out this task relied on their tactical, technical proficiency, and intestinal fortitude to accomplish the mission. Despite failures at upper echelons the men executing…
Battle of Balta A Mission Command Analysis Zachary Cook 11/26/2014 Battle of Balta During the commencement of Operation Barbossa, the codename for the invasion of the Soviet Union, the main German effort of Army Group South was able to drive through the initial Soviet defenses and reach as far as Odessa on the Ukrainian coast. However, the town of Balta in southwest Ukraine remained in Soviet hands. It was considered a strategically valuable target, as one of the major highways in…
Hagenbeck, Commander of the 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, New York. The mission intended to remove the remaining Taliban fighters from Shahi Khot Valley. In his memoirs, American soldier, former U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander General Tommy Franks, USA, (Ret.) portrayed Operation Anaconda, as an "absolute and unqualified success," a battle in which the original…
In a world where communication and sharing of thoughts across the globe is constant and near instantaneous, there is much insight towards human culture that can be extracted from what people say and write (Michel et al, 2010). Through analysis of the frequency of words contained in over five million books spanning hundreds of years, a culturomics study carried out by researchers from Harvard allowed the inspection of cultural trends in human history and gave us the ability to use those trends as…
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 government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad, where…
Additionally, they began to provide social services such as medical services, food, and fuel. ISIS also began to extend its outreach toward the next generation by publishing propaganda geared toward the younger set, and hosting child-friendly activities like Quranic recitation competitions and pie eating contests (Welsford, 2014, p.…