Airstrike

He has laid out a plan to confront the vexing problem of ISIS. His four-point plan includes amping up airstrikes, strengthening troops, preventing terror, and protecting civilians. "The United States of America will continue to do what we must do to protect our people," he said, "We will be vigilant, and we will be relentless." Obama vowed to expand the air…

attack injured civilians instead of the intended group, specifically injuring 19 women and 38 children. This terrorist attack was also an attack on Germany, but it was aimed at the USA. The Taliban stated, “the attack was retaliation for recent airstrikes in the northern city of Kunduz.” (Rahim) This shows that a terrorist attack spreads a wave of…

Heading into the 1970’s, the United States was in an gasoline consuming mania. With the formation of the National Highway Association, more people were travelling across the country, commuting longer to work, and owning more than one car per household. During the 1950’s alone, oil consumption by Americans rose over fifty percent (Verrastro and Caruso). Moving into the 1970’s, crude oil production was big, but the demand was even larger. Following the start of the Yom Kippur war in the Middle…

United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis On October 15 1962, the United States learned that the Soviet Union was secretly constructing nuclear weapons bases and lied about supplying missiles to Cuba (Larson, 1986). The Soviet Union used the presence of nuclear missiles in Cuba as a deterrent from other possible U.S. invasions. Furthermore, Russia did not see a problem with this action because the U.S. had strategically placed nuclear missiles in Turkey as a deterrent to them. The…

does not want another Communist country like North Korea. During the Vietnam War there was a district called the Củ Chi district, it was a stronghold for the North Vietnamese. They built tunnels under the district to hide from American forces and airstrikes. The tunnels were small, very dangerous and caused the death of many Americans. The Củ Chi tunnels were important to the Vietnam War because it provided the North Vietnamese an advantage during the war with their mischievous tunnels and…

While the campaigns in Cambodia were immensely successful for the United States’ effort in the Vietnam War, it resulted in huge controversy and detrimental losses for the indigenous people. Bombings that would later escalate into an invasion served to destroy enemy sanctuaries hiding in Cambodia. In the tedious and fruitless conflict, Nixon described the invasion as “the most successful military operation of the entire Vietnam War" (qtd. In History.com Staff). Using the domino theory to justify…

December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by Japanese airstrikes. These airstrikes were meticulously planned out by the Japanese and came as a complete surprise. Even though the attacks didn 't happen until December 7th the Japanese aircraft left November 26th, 1941. On the day of the attack U.S. radars had picked up…

Terrorism has been a terrible act of hate and violence against multiple groups that people have been fighting for decades to eradicate. ISIS is just one of the many extremist organizations that Iraq and many other countries have been trying to dismantle over the course of numerous years. Currently, a fight in Iraq is taking place for the anti-ISIS forces to take over one of the largest cities under the control of the terrorist group. About one million residents of the Mosul fled their city when…

acknowledged by other countries (Standford University). In September of 2014, the US began supporting the Iraqi army by carrying out airstrikes against ISIS, eventually forming an international Anti-ISIS coalition with NATO allies such as Canada, Germany, and Italy, among others (Nicks). This coalition continues to fight ISIS to this day, by carrying out airstrikes against ISIS, training ground troops fighting in Iraq and Syria, and by providing aid to those affected by the conflict (U.S.…

in every available air support to help a unit that was being overrun. He called this in on Day 2 on November 15th. He and his men witnessed napalm spreading all around them. Only a certain amount of United States soldiers survived this horrific airstrike, including Lt.Col.…