Captain Cota is enthusiastically recommended for the award of the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious service while serving as the Marine Raider Regiment Surgeon and Force Surgeon of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) from July 2011 to June 2015. His performance of these duties has been consistently marked by exemplary leadership, efficient management, exceptional professional expertise, and dedication to duty that epitomizes the highest standards of the…
However, this kind of weapon is unable to discriminate combatants from civilians. In addition, once it is installed the destructive effect can happen even long time after the war is finished, so it is not restricted to the time lapse of the conflict. Finally, it is the equivalent of killing of mutilating a person…
There is a strong Judeo-Christian principle of ‘love your enemy’. Not sure why God wanted to teach “His people” to do such a thing, but that question is redundant to the faithful. He is God and I am not. American values have often imitated the Judeo-Christian heritage that formed most, the majority, of the founding fathers and mother’s beliefs in the 18th century. As the civilization worked through this process it had to sometimes kill the enemy before they could historically love them…
The proposition side’s first contention is that it provides research for militants and scientists. When countries are going to attack a area, they need to know what the area is like and that is what exactly one of the good uses a drone has without risking a life. According to the Brookings Institution, “all countries excluding third have 13% higher success right when studying the target zone in terms of killing the terrorists using drones.” When we success rate goes up then the terrorists will…
Millions of people recognize Ernesto “Che” Guevara as an icon of rebellion through his involvement with the Cuban Revolution, along with the other facets he facilitated in the opposition oppression. Aside from the political impact Che Guevara made during the Cuban Revolution, not many people know the accuracy behind the revolutionary’s commitment to unity, equity and freedom of Latin American citizens. Che Guevara was extremely dedicated to fighting injustice and oppression, but was often…
held at Guantanamo Bay who was designated an enemy combatant, but was not charged was held with out assess to a legal attorney in 2004 the U.S supreme Court release Hamndi do to the fact that he was involved in the Taliban fighting the continued civil war and was not found guilty of being associated directly against the United States. After Hamndi surrendered and give his weapon to the Northern Alliance forces who classified him as an enemy combatant although congress gave authorization to the…
Goldwater-Nichols reduced each branch’s service chief to an advisory role while strengthening the position of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It also streamlined the chain of command between Combatant Commanders, four-star generals in charge of geographic or functional operations, so that these commanders reported directly to the Secretary of Defense and the President. The most significant change wrought by Goldwater-Nichols for collaboration purposes is the act’s legal requirement…
From the day in which the human being imposed rules and laws in places of power, there has always been someone who for one reason or another, does not want to take these, and have therefore protested. In principle, just riots occurred, but with the advent of new technologies, terrorist groups throughout the world were founded to fight the politicians. Terrorism is the use of threats and violence for political ends, and that everyone who practices it will be tried as a terrorist. The people who…
Expeditionary Force 21 is a new strategy that spells out how the Marine Corps will be used to support the evolving requirements of the Geographic Combatant Commanders (GCCs). There are threats popping up all over the world and the requirements of the GCCs are increasing to be able to eliminate and suppress these threats. The Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) are the forward deployed units that are at the ready and able to help fulfill the requirements the GCCs request within their Area of…
lead from bad to worse. The fear should be realized and managed as arguing the Admiral to his son, “Tactic is not a problem, but the fear. It’s the fear that is spreading among my men like virus”. Similarly Philip Caputo says that 75% of ancient combatants consider that the fear can be contagious and connect to on solder to another one.1 Knowledge of the fear is the first step, but decisions are to be set quickly and unity is crucial. For stopping the desertion of the equipage, the Admiral…