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    Most of the fighting took place along the borders of Nicaragua and Honduras. In the Nicaraguan revolution, Honduras was transformed into a staging ground for covert operations. The U.S. poured military aid and advisors into the Honduran army and set up base camps for the Contras—a right-wing paramilitary force cultivated by the U.S. to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The United States viewed Honduras as the…

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    information operations, public affairs, visual information, and defense support to public diplomacy. The PECOM and especially the case of Philippines, where they actively engage with Philippine’s military and civilians should be focused maintaining support of the relevant population to the US mission and the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty. Therefore, an effective IO based on synchronization of important themes, messages, images, and activities with other nonlethal and lethal operations…

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    the canal to allow the navigation of Israeli ships. The actions of the British and French countries were universally criticized by the international community. The United States, as an ally of the Three Kingdoms, was also dissatisfied with the covert operation, which saw the Anglo-French aggression as a manifestation of colonialism. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower directly called the British Prime Minister Aiden for pressure. Economically, the US government deliberately dumped the pound,…

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    following contents: A word on Terminology, an introduction, three chapters and an Afterward. In his “Word on Terminology, he explains the definition of propaganda and it’s primary uses. He also alludes that there are two types of propaganda: overt and covert. He also discusses psychological warfare. Overt propaganda, by his definition, is: Information created to educate the intended audience about certain ‘truths’ and, as such, is disseminated in an undisguised fashion so as to reach as many…

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    reasoning for the invasion and was it justified to the administration or was the administration and appropriate members of congress and what would have been the intelligence communities of that period / lack thereof, spoon fed information. The use of covert…

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    (bugs), etc. were used for years to gather information about criminals, but were only done so with a court-issued warrant. Up until 2001, this is how most surveillance operations were carried out--the government agency, whether it be NSA, FBI, DEA, DOD, etc. needed permission and a valid reason to carry out surveillance operations. The events of September 11, 2001, however, changed all of this. On October 26, 2001, a little over a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Congress and President…

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    released groups of Podesta's emails for weeks before the November election. A US official familiar with the election-related hacking told CNN Thursday that the operation was carried out with sophisticated hacking tools, suggesting that Putin was involved. The source said while Putin's "fingerprints" were not on the hacking, "the nature of the operation was such that this had to be approved by top levels of the Russian government." Clinton's speech, the donors said, was not deeply reflective and…

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    Central Intelligence Agency are basically the spies of the United States who deal with conducting covert operations in other countries and retrieving intelligence on its nation’s enemies. The National Security Agency is primarily in charge of collecting data to prevent threats from other countries. In order for them to be able to go into individual’s phone…

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    A long time ago in a galaxy far far away a guy named Spock had something called the Force. Captain Kirk was taking voyages on the Millennium Falcon across the galaxy, and Luke Skywalker was killing Klingons all over the Death Star. Star Wars and Star Trek imagine a future where technology has magnificent implications and improved the lives of many people; the technological advancements are most impressive. In the current time, society is making fantastic technological advancements leaps in its…

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    Choice #1: Ethical Business Management Sometimes, in firms, the interest of the stockholders and that of management will diverge and misalign thereby resulting in mismanagement of the business. Such separation leads to what is known in the finance world as an agency problem. Moreover, one of the five principle foundations of finance is principle number five (5) which points out that a conflict of interest will cause this agency problem (Keown, Martin, & Petty, 2014). Presented is an analysis…

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