Gulf Cartel

care through the VA. You may also qualify for an enhanced eligibility status if you meet certain criteria. Enhanced eligibility includes former prisoners of war, Purple Heart recipients, Medal of Honor winners or you served in Vietnam or the Persian Gulf…

“My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail,” stated President George W. Bush on March 19, 2003 when he justified the United States’ need to invade Iraq (Khan 64). Within the borders of Iraq, US soldiers dehumanized Iraqi citizens by torturing them in a prison known as Abu Ghraib and photographed themselves…

“3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!” everyone around time square yelled. Although it’s 2001, our story takes place a decade before. In Seattle, Washington on January 1, 1991,the stadium was extremely loud. The Washington Huskies had a comfortable lead in the first half. As the soon to be winners were in the locker room when their coach Don James came in with a grin from ear to ear. Nobody knew how he was going to speak. “ Alright boys, were having Hawkeyes for dinner. Lets just keep tearing into them,…

The entire world depends on the Middle East for its oil needs. The Gulf War caused a lot of physical and emotional distress to war veterans. During the war, large amounts of oil were released into the Gulf Sea. This damaged the entire ecosystem possibly killing wildlife that lived in the sea. As far as regional effects, Iraq suffered, they not only suffered loss in military equipment…

beyond the media coverage to examine the crisis in depth through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on. 11 workers killed and 5 million barrels of oil was one of the worst oil accidents in history. The leak continued without interruption for 87 days, devastating the Gulf coastline, its wildlife, its beaches and its entire fishing industry. BP's lack of response to the initial…

Saddam Hussein had the power before he became president in 1979. He and the Baath party dominated Iraq until Saddam was removed by the US invasion in 2003.The reasons that made Saddam invade Kuwait are Kuwait refused to forgive debt Iraq had run up during Iran-Iraq war. Second, 1897 map shows Kuwait is a part of Iraq and separated by the British. In fact, all the Iraqi leaders had claimed that Kuwait had been wrongfully split off from Iraq. Also, the UN imposed hard economic sanctions on Iraq,…

Since 2001, the United States with its coalition partners have not enjoyed operational or strategic success in wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. There have been tactical successes, but often those successes have been a contributing factor to operational failure as military leaders ignore their counterinsurgency doctrine, striving to conduct major combat actions. A key contributor in Western failure has been the lack of integration of operations and intelligence in conventional forces. Intelligence…

Four hungry lions escape captivity. What do you do? Most people would panic, lock their doors and pray they can’t smell the leftover Thanksgiving turkey in the fridge. Now imagine your neighborhood was just attacked by aerial bombers. Believe it or not, both of these scenarios are true, and happened simultaneously in Iraq. April 2003, the United States started the invasion of Iraq. During the bombing raids, four starving lions escaped from the Baghdad zoo. Later, they were shot and killed by…

Principal Decisions. The group decided to take three principle actions involving the use of military forces in the Persian Gulf. Our first decision was in response to Iran smuggling automatic rifles and hand held rocket launchers in Saudi Arabia to aid Saudi rebels. The Joint Chief of Staff recommended a higher military presence. As a result, the President ordered 120 special ops to move secretly and strategically into Dhahran to counter the influx of light arms. The next decision was in…

It is hard to read or watch the news without hearing the word ISIS; it is a controversial topic in the current world. The word ISIS also known as the Islamic state has been around mystery, it is Al-Qaeda offshoot that seeks to establish an Islamic state aiming to launch a jihad, which means a holy war where the jihadist sacrificing their life to their hardline beliefs. At first, ISIS initially established in Iraq and Syria (al-Sham) in 2004 by the extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi where only few…