Civilian control of the military

drone attack that killed 41 civilians, including 21 children. Not even half of that number was confirmed to be militants. The people in this country can only imagine what it is like to have death flying above them, but the innocents in the Middle-Eastern countries do not have to imagine. The number of innocents on the receiving end of drone attacks has only increased over the years, because the drones act on a program that cannot discern between militants and civilians. Drones create tension…

Respect for your subordinates, peers, seniors and officers are highly regarded. Respect begets respect… in the civilian world. But usually in the military, anyone who has a higher rank than what you are wearing, respect is expected, not that respect is not expected for you to give if they are of the same rank or a lower rank but because they have earned the rank and respect is due…

on Afghanistan. The counterterrorism and the counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan have transformed into a major campaign which includes the heavy presence of military forces in the country. The situation in Afghanistan is similar to the one of Libya. If the outcomes of the civil war are the same, the war will end in absolute control, and it is most unlikely that the country will enjoy a state of civil rest. Hypothesis The policies of the United States of America on counterterrorism and…

and, ultimately, the collateral damage that could result. In 2013, Congress considered putting restrictions and constraints on the drone program after accessing the feedback that shows that the drone strikes are creating more hatred for American military than ever…

said the continuation of the airstrikes caused “...anti-American protests in China”. Source D shows an anti-USA protest in Beijing in May 1999. The image shows angry civilians there burning an American flag. The NATO airstrike showed how NATO did not hold respect to what the U.N. had to day in respect to the attacks and tried to control international affairs themselves. In result, there were millions of dollars spend on weaponry and in damages, yet the core conflict of the ethnic divide between…

one could scope out any number of problems with integrating women into combat arms, one of the biggest would be the draft. As of current times, although the military is all voluntary, male citizens of voting age are required, by law, to register for the draft; this is done in the preparation for a need for a large flux of people into the military, especially combat arms positions, if the United States were to go to war on a large scale. As women are added to combat units, this raises the…

“lightning war” and is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. This strategy helped preserve lives and limit the expenditure of artillery. Adolf Hitler blamed the Jewish race as the source of the majority of problems in the world and started targeting the Jews. The resistance began to form in countries taken over by the Germany army due to the country’s previous military being relocated or…

tends to overlook an important detail: “civilian police often formed out of militia groups and military soldiers or, conversely, out of an acute fear of military control” (Kraska & Kappeler, 1997, p. 2). However, traditionally, the United States has attempted to keep the military and civilian law enforcement authority separate. Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated than in the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. Under this act, the use of the military (specified at the time as the…

Did you know that many teenagers go into the military before college and don’t come out till their mid or late twenties without the proper education? Also,some of these veterans are faced with so many challenges that in some cases, they end up not being able to pay for their houses and provide for their families. Veterans Inc. is an organization that is focused on helping veterans to gain control of their lives to end homelessness among veterans. In many cases this organization saves veterans'…

On March 19th, 2003, President George W. Bush announces to the world that the United States military would soon be conducting operations in Iraq to free its people. Only two years after the biggest terrorist attack on America, Americans no longer felt safe. President Bush stormed through Iraq in search of the alleged nuclear weapons Saddam’s regime was said to have only to come up empty-handed. He also accused the Iraqi government of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda. The War on Terror was still…