Airstrike

Drones, An Issue Of Democracy? Military drones are an amazing piece of technology that allow the U.S. to battle combatants that it would otherwise be unable to target due to hostility of the combatants and the distance of the combat zone. The military’s advancement in drone technology has increased exponentially in the last decade, and continues to seek improvements. They’ve only recently researched into problems that can arise from implementing the technology into current U.S. military…

History has shown that liberalists have failed at morally intervening in times of humanitarian crisis. In the case of Kosovo Marxist and Social Constructivist argue that the multilateral intervention was unsuccessful. The question is why humanitarian intervention in Kosovo and not Cambodia or Libya and not Iraq? What made Kosovo the exception? Humanitarian intervention is carried out by an multilateral force under international organizations like the UN (Kouchner, 4). The Kosovo precedent is key…

Ever wondered what it is that is really happening to the Syrian people that is causing them so much grief as we see in the news? It is more than just bombs being dropped in the country of Syria, killing thousands of people. Even though many citizens are dying in Syria due to the war, a lot of them still remain there with almost no health assistance, food resources, and no education for the children because they are not given a place for safety resettlement. In the news, we only see that these…

In the early 19th century Europe was distraught, World War 1 had started and ended, and the nations in Europe were still on edge. The war had created sides and feuds between countries, these included the main powers of the world (the allies): the USA, Britain, and France, vs, Germany and its lesser allies (Austria and some other small countries). However lost somewhere in the middle of this chaos was Spain. During the early 19th century and before Spain had been a largely successful monarchy,…

ever ask again, ‘who will come to help,’ you’ll know the answer—the NATO alliance, including the armed forces of the United States of America.” Yet Putin has shown no signs of retreat, just recently carrying out flyovers in Turkish airspace and airstrikes in competition with a U.S campaign in Syria. While strong rhetoric has increased from the U.S along with harsh sanctions, the EU has shown no real desire to cut off trade with a major monetary partner. That inability to produce meaningful…

'The imperial presidency ' is a term first used in 1973 by Professor Arthur Schlesinger to describe a trend that had developed since the USA had entered the Second World War and subsequently entered the Cold War. Following the attack on Pearl Harbour, the constitutional restrictions specifying congressional checks on the President 's powers regarding foreign policy were seemingly relaxed in the following decades. For example, in 1950, President Truman sent troops to South Korea without…

Role of Muammar Gaddafi in History Muammar Gaddafi is the colonel who ruled Libya for the longest time. He is considered one of the most unpredictable and appallingly intriguing leaders in Africa and in the Arab world. He presided over Libya, a desert republic with massive oil deposits and a total population of about six million people. Gaddafi had a poor family background. He was born 1942 in a rural area outside the town of Sire in the seats in western Libya. He had three sisters, and he was…

I. Introduction : the underlying factors that led to the crisis The Cuban missile crisis, was the instance known to all, where the world was the closest to a nuclear warfare between 2 of the most powerful countries at the time. This crisis involved 2 superpowers, the United States, The Soviet Union and the Island of Cuba. Cuba is a small island that is located 160 km from the coast of Florida (USA), it was a US ally that had US businesses and a US military base in Guantanamo. A revolution that…

enemy movement… All night long, they just smoke those mountains… Around dawn, things finally get quiet… and the mountains are absolutely dead-flat silent. (71-72, O’Brien)” The stress of being forced to shut up pushed them to wasting an entire airstrike against an empty area, and when questioned about it, they do exactly what they were told to do: shut up. Another flashback via story was about Fossie’s girlfriend, as he snuck her into the battlefield. It wasn’t regulation, and nobody believed…

Syria may not be the most known country, but over the last couple of years it has received a lot of attention around the world. Presumably unknown to the vast majority, there has been countless human rights violations occurring within Syria over the span of the last four years. Three violations that spark up concern to Syrian citizens would be the immeasurable murders executed by armed forces in the war, the rebel and ISIS factions recruiting children to be soldiers, and the millions of people…