Airstrike

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as “ISIS” or “ISIL”, is a militant extremist group that has been committing brutal war crimes, attacks against humanity, and acts of terror to put fear in the minds of many people all around the world. This group is known to be one of the most extreme groups of radicals that has ever existed. While many people are fearing ISIS, others are preparing for a war against them. Although there are many ideas of how and why they have come to be the biggest…

In a democratic system, there is no absolute leadership, no matter how powerful it is, the constitution provides always a check and balance with other authorities and institutions. In addition to check and balance, other factors like the advisory team, the lobbies, and the international institutions constraint the president’s ability to pursue his national security policy priorities. In this paper, I will argue that the congress with his constitutional power, and the president’s advisory team…

The book that I will be discussing is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. This historical fiction novel's central question is about how humans can do both the most beautiful and the most cruel of things. Therefore, this central question is, what are humans capable of? How are they capable of such great things, as well, as such horrible things? In this essay, I argue that The Book Thief has more than one important theme and all of them helped to advance the plot and influence the story. The Book…

has been in the media spotlight for an airstrike committed against a hospital in Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of at least 22 patients and staff. “U.S. President Barack Obama has apologized for the attack, and the commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, Gen. John F. Campbell, said…

experience as confusing, yet genuine especially through animation. Another example where imagination blends with reality is from a scene where some of Israeli soldiers are doing mundane tasks juxtaposed with traumatic war games; like surfing during an airstrike, drinking a beverage when tanks are getting bombed and frying an egg on burnt remains of a car. The question is how much of this reality actually happened. There are moments where the director even states that to fill the blanks he used…

All across the news the headlines are consistently referencing Syria. Pictures and stories show children in environments where they are being bombed and forced to leave their country. Witnessing pictures of children and women being killed by bombings makes me think, how can this be acceptable? How can we be letting this happen? The unjust events happening in Syria Thesis: The Syrian conflict in Aleppo violates the principles of Just War Theory and The UN Declaration of Human rights because of…

The United States Constitution is perhaps the most influential document in all of American history. The Constitution has various functions which serve to protect the citizens of the United States from tyranny and deprivation of the natural rights for which the patriots of the Revolutionary War fought so arduously to achieve. It introduces the separation of powers which divides the government into three branches. Each branch is provided with a set of checks and balances which help to prevent the…

Early Operations and Effects The coup and overthrow of Diem was the first major instance of U.S. covert involvement as the United States backed the coup but tried to maintain plausible deniability. This deception and desire for deniability would only grow as the U.S. began more covert operations in hopes of securing a safe future for Saigon. Early Operations in Vietnam The earliest covert operations in Vietnam had very broad goals and definitions. One simple definition describes covert action…

Triggering Factors B: Triggering factors are things that cause a conflict to break out. They are separated into four categories which include: Internal mass-level factors, external mass-level factors, external elite factors, and internal elite factors. All four of these categories have influenced the Yemen Civil war. Internal, Mass-level factors Internal mass-level factors manifest itself in the form of bad domestic problems. Yemen faced several domestic problems before the war had broken…

termination of the group to become that more complicated. However, staying within the Middle East proved to be a big mistake for Bin Ladin and the terrorist group. With armed forces stationed in the adjacent country of Afghanistan, operations and airstrikes became that much easier for the United States, Australia, and other ally countries. In fact, in the words of Riedel, “Without bases in Afghanistan, we would be able to put no pressure on Al Qaeda and Pakistan”…