Covert operation

Political assassinations have destabilized and changed the very nature of countries and in some cases the entire world. The practice of assassination stretches back to ancient times with the first notable, or significant victim, the Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhet I who gained power by usurpation in 1986 B.C. He unwittingly set an example to his courtiers who devised his killing. The course of human history is studded with countless acts of assassinations and even more we do not know about and…

The Clinton (Democrat) administration’s military intervention foreign policy is in the ‘half-out’ category due to Clinton’s policies of “hegemony on the cheap” (“The Quiet Clinton Era of the 1990s: A Liberal Internationalist Strategy for Unipolarity?”) which emphasized multilateralism and avoided conflicts in which the U.S. had little to no interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar…

states, "No one thought about it, no one! Don't pull my pud with stories about budget cuts and supply problems! The only thing in short supply was com-mon fucking sense!"(Brooks 61), blaming the failure on the misjudgment of military needs for the operation they were undertaking. They certainly had the means to destroy their enemy, but not the strategy and knowledge to put it into action. He goes on to speak about the expectations of a soldier saying, "You think that after being "trained" to aim…

The animals in a farm named Manor Farm attempt to assert their Otherness in contrast to the oppressive human interference through a Rebellion. The word Rebellion appears with a capital ‘R’, as if the animals have almost found their harmony with deifying the act of Othering. The capitalized ‘Rebellion’ seems a raw simulation of the anthropocentric deity-figure that appears in grand narratives of the religious kind. The Rebellion of Manor Farm turns bloody and resembles in all its subtlety the…

near future the US forces are unlikely to fight a conventional war. Instead the enemy will look for other ways of waging war to cater for their weaknesses. After 9/11, asymmetric warfare emerged as a term applicable to a number of overt and covert operations fought by regular and irregular forces. Adversaries waging the asymmetric warfare can employ a variety of tools, ranging from cyber warfare to Weapons of Mass Destruction or the use of terrorism. Use of terrorism has been the most common…

Tuesday September 11th, 2001 is a day that every American will never forget. Even though the terrorists thought they could weaken us, instead we bravely fought back and grew stronger as a country. As Toby Keith says in his song, Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue, “Now this nation I love has fallen under attack/It will feel like the whole wide-world is raining down on you, brought to you Courtesy of the Red, White Blue/You will be sorry that you messed with the USA” (Spotify). When this…

Iran-contra affair, in U.S. history, secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. The Iran-contra affair was the product of two separate initiatives during the administration of President Ronald Reagan. The first was a commitment to aid the contras who were conducting a guerrilla war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The second was to placate "moderates" within the Iranian government in order to secure…

Civil law originated in the Roman Empire and extended to Europe (Glenn200, 119). When the empire declined so did its legal system. In the 11th to 13th centuries Rome revised the European system. The revision gave key legal codes that influenced Europe and other colonized territories (David and Brierley, 1985). Common law came from the British Isles following the military conquest of England from the Normans (Glenn 2000: Whincup, 1992). The Normans introduced the institution of jury and the…

Axel Frazier was born on October 29, 1983 in Los Angeles, California. He is now on his way to The Mill, a covert automobile workshop, owned and operated by his friend, Makari Gregorovich. He had been going to that shop for the last twenty years and is about to add a new car to his collection. While he selected the new model he had a little chat. “I heard you’ve been selected for a mission in Kaliningrad,” Makari said. “I guess that means that you are still actively affiliated with the CIA, to…

As this class has made clear, oppression doesn’t live in isolation. Every form of oppression intersects and melds together in the mainstream, creating subsets and building traits that both make them similar and set them apart from the others. All forms of oppression affect one another, but during the class I saw particular correlation between classism and racism. These forms of oppression have a great deal in common, but also have aspects that make them distinctive. Among many things, I noticed…