In the article, “Afghan War Veteran." written by David P. Straub, the article states that returning United States Soldiers are suffering from PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq and they are not getting the help they need. America launched Operation Enduring Freedom a month after the September 11th terrorist attack to overthrow the Taliban regime and destroy terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan. For about two years only about 15,000–20,000 military personnel remained in Afghanistan, but recently the number of soldiers in Afghanistan has increased. In May 2009 former President Barack Obama declared he will be increasing American troops in Afghanistan by 17,000. With the increase of soldiers in Afghanistan enemy forces have engaged…
While rather rare before the 1980s, the use of suicide terrorism steadily rose into the early 2000s, leading to increased attempts by political scientists to explain the rise in popularity. In his 2003 article “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism” published in The American Political Science Review, Robert A. Pape attempts to explain how, contrary to other explanations, the rise of suicide terrorism was due to its strategic effectiveness and not rising fanaticism or religious extremism. Pape uses a combination of realism and liberalism to explain the rise of suicide terrorism as one caused by its usefulness as a method of coercion and its effectiveness in achieving modest concessions from targeted democratic states, but includes some omitted…
Al Shabaab was the first terrorist organization to use an American citizen to conduct a suicide bombing mission more than five years ago. Since then, the group has consistently targeted civilians and non-combatants to achieve their goals and has continued to attract Americans and other foreigners to its ranks. The group controls a large swath of territory in southern and central Somalia which enables the group to train and operate freely without any real interference. It has managed to survive amid the array of other terrorist groups that come and go in the region and has grown from a regional threat to an international one. With elements of the Somali diaspora spread across the domestic landscape, al Shabaab is a legitimate threat to the United…
People with PTSD are more likely to commit suicide than others in the population (notecard study on suicide and ptsd). In another study, refugees from an active war zone both with and without depression had increased suicidal thoughts…
PTSD is a traumatic event that involves actual or threatened death, serious injury or other threat to the integrity of the person or others. PTSD involves intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Despite being an infrequent event, exposure to violence and trauma serve as potentially debilitating stressors for law enforcement personnel (Lanterman et al. 2010). Police Officers have the potential of exposure to numerous traumatic events such as the death of a young child, armed robbery, as well as, shooting someone in the line of duty. When I began my research I was focused on these moments and how some my experience PTSD and related symptoms and others do not.…
WHAT IS PTSD IN SOLDIERS Post-traumatic stress disorder or, as it’s commonly referred to PTSD, is a disorder that can affect someone after they have experienced traumatic events. This disease has been blamed for the several suicide deaths of active and former military members. Approximately 22 veterans take their life each day.…
“Whereas some studies suggest that suicide risk is higher among those who experienced trauma due to the symptoms of PTSD (8-10), others claim that suicide risk is higher in these…
Many things influence the public opinion of law enforcement including; job approval, officer demeanor, media, and the public 's contact with officers. The approval of the community is what gives officers their right to protect and serve them. Although some officers may not be upright and honorable people, many are forthright and honorable. When the media portrays officers of the law in any way, people in any community will assume that is what the law enforcement in their community is like even if the media took footage out of context and skewed the view. In today 's society everyone hates the police when they 're in trouble but they scrutinize officers when they are in need and the officer is not there at a moment 's notice…
PTSD has linked many other disorders to the one who suffers. disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and substance abuse. PTSD causes the mines become weaker making one more vulnerable for self-harm and even suicide. In my research, I found that those with PTSD are 6 times more likely to commit suicide than someone without it. PTSD is very dangerous for the mind because it causes one to lose their mind unquote.…
I became interested in researching whether there was a connection between mental illness and mass shootings mostly because of the amount of mass shootings that have occurred throughout the years. It always caught my attention because the individuals who have committed these mass shootings are said to have mental illness. I divided my research into three categories. The first one is on mental illness and I’ll explain what mental illness is. Secondly, I’ll explain mass shootings that have occurred and the individuals that carried out these attacks.…
PTSD has specific symptoms resulting from traumatic life threatening…
Victims have been seriously hurt, left with permanent disabilities and some killed. Not only are the victims affected by this act their families are affected. At times it may be hard to endure the emotional toll and stress they face as they attempt to understand why their love one was targeted and move on with their lives. In this paper, I will address…
The 1995 Oklahoma bombing federal bombing by an anti government Timothy McVeigh, 2009 Fort Hood Shooting by Nidal Malik Hasan an Army Psychiatrist that killed 13 people and the recent Boston marathon bombing in 2013 caused by the Chechen brothers are only few domestic terrorism attacks in the United States history. According to Lewis, “Domestic Terrorism involves groups or individuals who operate without foreign direction entirely within the United States and target elements of U.S. government and citizen” (p. 209). In different countries they also have a form of domestic terrorism of what we can also refer as homegrown terrorism. What are the possible ties that the domestic terrorism in the United States and abroad are relatively close?…
The article “Assault Weapons” (2016) discusses the idea of whether or not the states should implement restricting access to assault weapons. For example, supporters believe restricting access could prevent lives being lost. Additionally, supporters feel as if civilians have no real reason for owning assault weapons. However, opponents believe creating this new law violates the right of the second amendment. Furthermore, opponents believe assault weapons were not used for most shooting deaths therefore there is no need for them to be removed.…
In Dying to Win, Robert Pape explains the causal logic of suicide terrorism and why the phenomenon has become more frequent since its inception in the 1980’s. This is accomplished through dividing the logic into three categories: strategic, social, and individual. Throughout this explanation Pape argues that suicide campaigns are not primarily derived from religious fundamentalism, but nationalism. This would indicate that such tactics are also a form of insurgency. To assess the overall argument, other scholar’s works on terrorist strategy will be used along with examples of conventional insurgencies.…