Bush Doctrine

the country's progress and security. The Administration handled conflicts in the Middle East with countries such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through diplomacy and force in an effort to bring an end to the “War on Terrorism”. The Obama Doctrine highlights the importance…

the approval of Congress. Most American presidents have served as politicians who set out to make their place in history through achievements in domestic policy. In 2002, for example, foreign policy was the centerpiece of the Bush administration’s agenda. The “Bush Doctrine” consisted…

Security is defined in a variety of ways based on culture, historical conflict, and what people are truly afraid of. To go even further, security can focus more on the individual or it can take into consideration the the community, state, or nation as a whole. In the world we live in today, there are many technological and cultural challenges that affect how we respond to security such as terrorism, nuclear and biological warfare, and even advancements in technology that include aspects of…

After the events that occurred in the United States in September of 2001, its government started to mobilize in order to fight terrorism and be able to give its citizens the security they expected. In order to do so, Bush’s administration, after a series of negotiations with Iraq and the UN, decided to invade the Middle East country in an effort to end terrorism and make the world, and mostly America, a safe place. However, it has been broadly discussed whether this war was in the best interest…

those that were preventive. The suspicion, or conviction that a nation had ties with terrorism was enough for the US to take action. This can be seen in the war against Iraq that launched in 2003: it began long before any actual fighting when President Bush told the UN that it was believed Iraq had access to weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorism. The UN passed a resolution that Iraq agreed with; they sent weapons inspectors to Iraq, and over a course of time it was reported that no…

How lightly do you take the loss of three thousand innocent lives? Many people believe that 9/11 was the beginning of the War on terror, which could be justified as true, however, many tensions had lead to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the beginning of the war on terror. Most are aware of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and likeminded groups and their associations with terrorism and their attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City, New York, USA. Since 1996 the Taliban had governmental…

If it is true that tragedies come in threes, then the death of American democracy is surely inevitable. The trio is affecting this nation is evangelical, paternalistic and sentimental nihilism; a toxic combination of institutionalized practices and behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism and imperialism. The threads of nihilism were woven into the fabric of America since the values of the nation were conceived in the Constitution. The architects of this paramount document set a precedence for…

“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o 'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits,” said Johnny Depp about the Vietnam War. History has a funny way of repeating itself, and people have the funny habit of staying stuck in the past. Many people believe the Vietnam War and the current War on Terrorism is a reflection of this. Some people believe that both of the wars are…

operational, and tactical planning to accomplish the mission. As part of National Security Directive 54, President George H.W. Bush states the pertinent United Nations Security Council resolutions condemning Iraqi aggression in Kuwait and authorizing sanctions and any force necessary to remove Iraqi forces from…

Soldiers in the U.S. military can be separated into two specific categories. First are conventional armed forces that are used to fight an opposing nation’s military. Two examples would be U.S. conventional forces fighting the Iraqi Army in both the Gulf War in 1990 and the early stage of the War on Iraq in 2003. The second category is Special Operations Forces or SOF who are used to fight an unconventional enemy such as insurgencies. Some examples would be SOF battling insurgent groups in the…