Airstrike

Air power influenced each member of the Allies and Axis powers uniquely through the context in which they viewed the effects of air power in World War I (WWI), the development of theories and technology in the interwar years, and the geopolitical situation facing the nations at the outset of World War II (WWII). These situations and experiences created a perception of the capabilities of air power that drove the creation and employment of the nations’ air arm. In turn, each belligerents’…

presidential candidate is Hillary Clinton, and she has views on certain subjects that need to be mentioned. ISIS is a big concern for Hillary Clinton. She plans to step up the U.S. operation against ISIS. Clinton wants to send more troops, have more airstrikes, and add in a Syrian no-fly zone. Clinton claims that, “Our main goal…

to selectively report news stories in order to push an agenda. One instance of framing came after the development of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The ISIL started to receive attention leading up to and after President Obama authorized an airstrike. American news outlets often limit, themselves to cover only dramatic overseas events and this even was no exception from criticism. ISIS is even more extreme than other jihadist terrorist groups and the media has framed the ISIS threat…

The Cold War started in 1941 was fought on geopolitical tension after world war 2. There was two powers the Eastern Bloc which was the Soviet Union and its satellite states and the Western Bloc which was the United States and its NATO allies. The Eastern Bloc was supporting communism. The western bloc would be supporting capitalism. The Eastern Bloc would contain the countries such as Vietnam, Soviet Union, Korea, Cuba, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lao, and China. The Eastern Bloc was more communism this…

When you turn on the TV, we always see destroyed landscape from a bombing, or refugees fleeing their home, trying to start a new life with the scraps of it that they have left. We get told the obvious, that, there was an airstrike that destroyed a town! We get details on when it happened, by who, and what was destroyed. We feel a twinge of pain, some guilt for these people, but then move on with our day. We don’t feel bad for too long, because we don’t hear these people’s…

Bay of Pigs so that US trained Cuban exiles could land on the beach and take out the government outposts as they continued through Cuba. But in an attempt to keep their involvement out of the invasion, they cancelled some of the previously planned airstrikes on local airfields. Because of this, Castro’s supporters were able to completely hold back the rebels and the United State’s involvement in the invasion was revealed. Nearly a year later, Castro began installing Soviet nuclear warheads on…

A Powerful Government and Its Hopeless Citizens The struggling people of a country reflects the role of a totalitarian government. Syria has become a divided country because the president, Bashar al-Assad, has done little to nothing to unify and help his people. There has been an emergence of an ethnical divide to overthrow the government because the majority of the country—Sunnis—wants a democracy, while the opposing side—Shiites—is staying loyal to Bashar and the government. The downfall of…

World War II: The Four Freedoms Because the United States had been supporting isolationism and were creating and supporting non-interventionist groups, such as the America First Committee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt it was time for a change in America's stance on the involvement of war. To do so, he delivered the Four Freedoms Speech on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedom Speech had been addressed to Congress in effort to move the nation away from the foreign policy of neutrality.…

Today many consider the Cuban Missile Crisis to be the closest the Cold War ever got to escalating to an all-out nuclear war. In July of 1962 Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev responded to American Jupiter ballistic missiles placed in Italy and Turkey by placing nuclear missiles in Cuba just 90 miles off United States shores. Cuban leader Fidel Castro was eager to ally himself with the Soviet Union due to the previous failed American Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. President Kennedy discovered…

Torture is a commonly debated subject, some believing it is an appropriate means of receiving wanted information, while others believe it to be unjust and a completely cruel idea. Torture is not only severely damaging to the the prisoner, it is also extremely detrimental to the perpetrator as well. According to CNN’s report on the investigation into the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 's report on the CIA and its detention and interrogation program, of 119 detainees captured between…