Afghan National Army

The AFOSI website is organized just like any other official Air Force website. There are tabs at the top for Photos, New, Library, Units, Questions, and such. There is also a latest new box with articles relating to Air Force topics such as Happy 68th Birthday Air Force and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. There is a box with just AFOSI Highlights that have to deal with specifically AFOSI like joining AFOSI and an anonymous tip line. The tip line brings you to a form you can fill out with all the tip information and a terms and conditions box. All the information seems very useful and could assist with research but in traditional Air Force manner there is a lot of public relations fluff. A huge section of the website is Top Air Force Stories and Senior Leader Priorities that have almost nothing to do with AFOSI. I would say approximately 40% of the site in non-AFOSI information. There are tons of links that lead you to AFOSI publications and the AFOSI’s official FaceBook and Twitter sites that can be very useful. I really enjoy the site because of all the useful information it provides. Anything you could want to know about AFOSI can be found. I do not like the great amount of useless information. The site could really do without…

Manhua Journey to the West, a graphic novel by Zhang Guangyu in 1945, is a nod to the Chinese classic Journey to the Wets by Wu Cheng'en written in the year 1592. It is written around the reign of the KMT and during the second Sino-Japanese War. From which Zhang uses the style in which Journey to the West was written to "implicate" poke fun of the government and their policies. How does Zhang Guang use the classic Journey to the west to explain the events around 1945 circa China? Why does he…

It all started as a typically cool mid-winter day. *******Insert more details here about this day – touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight******* Little did I know that by the end of this day, my life would be drastically changed forever. This was going to be the day I would be Called to Arms. I enlisted in the Florida Army National Guard in October of ’97 as a Fire Support Specialist. This job mostly entailed being on the front lines with the Infantry, calling in fire support and suppression of…

Global south due to their high levels of poverty. Many of these people are stricken economically and find socialism as an escape from poverty as well as promise of security. Despite the democratic victory of the cold war, many socialist groups still exist today including: the Zapatistas, the Nepali Communists, and FARC. These groups, respectively from Mexico, Nepal, and Colombia, despite having different goals and agendas, all revolve around the idea of socialism. Thus, the agendas of these…

There are approaches that go beyond the framework of the NSMs, mainly by saying that there are even newer formations of movements. Much of this idea comes from the fact that NSM theory does not actually encompass all modern social movements (Day 722) and yet is the predominant theory for the categorizing modern movements. This idea of an alternative framework for modern social movements that was produced by from Richard Day. He laid out the problems with the NSM theory such as how most NSMs are…

The uprising of the Zapatistas has brought global attention to the social inequalities within Mexico. Barry states, "The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) let it be known that the plight of the peasantry could not be ignored… Don 't forget us, the rebels were saying, you depend on us for your political and economic stability” (Barry 1995, 3). A form of revolution: tierra o muerte, a more aggressive violent confrontation against neoliberal reforms, which means land or death. The agrarian…

On January 1, 1994 the Zapatista uprising took place in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) had been organizing long before 1994, but the New Year’s Day uprising is very significant to their beginnings as it propelled them onto a national and international spotlight. Rooted in their cause was anti-neoliberalism as it related to the indigenous struggle. The date of the revolution was not random, but chosen because it was the day that the North American Free Trade…

While the agreement appeared promising, it was all but the opposite. The agreement led to Mexican land owners to be stripped of their land or have their land be repurposed to harvest certain crops. The people of Mexico formed rebellions in order to fight off this agreement. On January 1st 1994, a primarily indigenous rebel group, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or EZLN, declared war on the Mexican government. The EZLN discussed demands amongst their people and the Mexican government,…

evident in the Zapatista movement. Considering the Zapitista uprising took place in the 1990s (Klein, 2015), the access to mobile technologies was hugely limited, but in some ways methods were similar. The Zapatista movement sought to target people that they believed would be interested in fighting for the cause, with people in the villages essentially being shoulder tapped and from there the movement grew and grew, this can be seen as similar to the ways that ISIS have troops on the ground…

Armando Navarro’s path to social service, as told by him, began with serving in the US Army for 8 years beginning in 1960. Navarro aspired to become an officer in the military and by 1967 when he was to be promoted to Captain, he quit after becoming aware of the contradictions of our foreign policy and his disapproval with the war on Vietnam. Navarro enrolled in college and continued his education until 1974 when he earned his Political Science doctorate degree at University of California,…