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General Franks and his planners experienced substantial weaknesses in the pre-invasion planning for the operational approach of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In the extreme, SECDEF Rumsfeld’s directive leadership style, determination to conduct combat operations on an accelerated timeline, and unwillingness to accept expert military advice regarding force development, inhibited General Frank’s joint planning efforts seizing the initiative. Seizing the initiative (Phase II) requires JFC’s application…

The promise of America has always been that it would be a government by the people, for the people. However, gerrymandering is and ever-looming threat to American ideals, and is potentially one of the biggest threats to equal representation for Americans.By further understanding what this phenomenon is and how the nature of undermined representation manifests itself though the gerrymandering of congressional districts, it can be deduced how basic American values are potentially compromised…

Angels by Walter Dean Myers.” IIT Chicago-Kent Law Library Blog, 1 Oct. 2015, blogs.kentlaw.iit.edu/library/2015/09/banned-books-week-fallen-angels/. Feller, Thomas R. "Walter Dean Myers." Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition, January 2003, p. 1. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lfh&AN=103331CWA25999810003334&site=lrc-live. Morton-Mollo, Sherry L. "Fallen Angels." Masterplots II: African American Literature, Revised Edition, December 2008, pp. 1-2.…

Clash of Civilizations In 1993, Samuel P. Huntington, an influential American conservative political scientist, adviser and academic, published an article in the Foreign Affairs – “Clash of Civilizations?”, which was subsequently published as a book in 1996, discussing a theory that in the post-Cold War world, people’s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict. Huntington begins the article stating that the world politics is entering a new phase, he means that, in…

supported it in congress faced a political backlash. The president received authorization from Congress to declare war on Iraq due to their alleged involvement in the Sep 11 attack and their alleged possession of Weapons of Mass Destructions. On May 19, 2003, President George W. Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office announcing the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The U.S invasion begin with a Shock and Awe campaign. The Haditha Dam located over the Euphrates River,…

Our Future America To introduce myself I am Hayes Johnson and I am here to talk about concerns that I have with our future country run by Donald Trump. First off I want to say that I am very pleased to have Mr.Trump as our future president. One concern that I have is that because of “the wall” that Trump will supposedly build, I think that with future presidents of Mexico there may be conflict between the U.S. and Mexico. I fear that this will happen because maybe the next president of…

real issue faced today and many have struggled to find common ground on this problem. On the 6th of August 1990, the international community, imposed total financial and economic sanctions against the Iraqi Republic. This embargo lasted until May of 2003 when Saddam Hussein was forced out of power. In the beginning, the sanctions were to force Iraq out of Kuwait, (which they had invaded days prior to the agreement) to disclose the location of any weapons of mass destruction they may have…

Essay about Isis- Alon Pardo- my fixed version Cronin (2015) claims that the best strategy to combat Isis is offensive containment: "a combination of limited military tactics and a broad diplomatic strategy to halt Isis expansion, isolate the group, and degrade its capabilities". In this essay I will explain my opinion regarding the preferred strategy to fight Isis. In my opinion, what may work for the benefit the US foreign policy is not necessarily good for the security of the state of Israel.…

In the United States both the media and public opinion are entrenched in the overarching direction of American foreign policy. These two entities have a symbiotic relationship. The media shapes public opinion and vice versa. Either one can sway the other in the opposite direction. Historically, the media is either the primary cheerleader or main critic of foreign policy, or it has been both at different points in time depending on public opinion or outcome of the policy. A prime example…

Just like most, if not all, political figures that have made a significant impact on the world, Saddam Hussein emerged as a part of the Ba’athist party established in 1932 and was nurtured through this political influence. Ba’athists are essentially a group of Arabs that encourage the co-operation between all Arab countries under the desire to become unified through socialism and the idea of freedom. In order to accomplish this, the Ba’thist ideology stood for the eradication of Western…