Gulf Cartel

Dumitru Popescu the Romanian Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Las Cruces based aerospace company Arca was detained in Georgia and then sent to Doña Ana County. Popescu was finally thrown into the Doña Ana County Detention Center with his bond set at $40,000. Mr. Popescu has been charged with over a dozen counts of fraud including embezzlement and misleading filings. The charges he currently faces are the outcome of an investigation by the New Mexico Securities Division. First, the formal…

War; there is a lot of speculation about what it is actually good for. But what actually constitutes as a war? Is it the number of deaths? Above a threshold of 1,000, few doubt a war is going on. A threshold of 100 can be more divisive. In keeping the “troubles” in Northern Ireland from becoming a war, for example, such a threshold fits the views of the British public—but not that of Northern Irish paramilitaries. (Economist, 2013) Fernando (2011) clarifies that for a business to primarily…

Perception and War War is a difficult subject to think about. Images of it are hard to look at and described as gruesome or gory. It seems strange that disagreements between countries are solved by sending people from each state involved in the dispute to fight each other and “die for their country.” Huge amounts of money have been spent to find new and better ways to kill people – maybe a single person, as is often the aim of an unmanned drone strike, or a large number of people, with more…

The Persian Gulf War began on August 2nd, 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq ended up against a coalition of about 30 Nations, led by the United States and mandated by the United Nations to liberate Kuwait. The invasion was met with immediate economic sanctions by the United Nations against Iraq. The war progressed, and eventually Iraq was defeated. My uncle, Mark Sunderland, served in the Persian Gulf War. He served for 21 years in the Air Force and retired as a Master Sergeant. Also, Shelly…

Soldiers in the U.S. military can be separated into two specific categories. First are conventional armed forces that are used to fight an opposing nation’s military. Two examples would be U.S. conventional forces fighting the Iraqi Army in both the Gulf War in 1990 and the early stage of the War on Iraq in 2003. The second category is Special Operations Forces or SOF who are used to fight an unconventional enemy such as insurgencies. Some examples would be SOF battling insurgent groups in the…

Operation Desert Storm was created to liberate Kuwait as compared to Operation Desert Shield which protected Saudi Arabia from Iraqi attack. On January 17 at 3am (Iraqi time) Operation Desert would start with a massive air and missile attack on targets within Iraq and Kuwait. Colonel David Deptula (who is in charge of target planning for the army) said “Imagine Iraq like a human body. What happens if you take away somebody ability to think or communicate with the rest of the body? What happens…

I went to Sterling Surgical Hospital for an abdominal ultrasound. The Ultrasound Technologist name is Shannon Risher. During the ultrasound I asked Shannon if I could talk to her right after we were done with my ultrasound. Shannon said, “She would be glad to!” Shannon is 41 years old from Metairie, Louisiana. She looked normal on the outside, but when she told me what happened it changed my perceptions about her. During 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit, she so happened to be the Ultrasound…

Louisiana exploded causing a disaster on levels not previously seen in history. The facts of this instance are summed up in an article from the Smithsonian Institute, “The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana.…

For the sake of a single hotel, a coastal Alabama community risks the future of its ecosystem and ultimately its economy. After Hurricane Ivan and the destruction it caused to the Gulf of Mexico states, Alabama is hoping to use the $60 million of the $1 billion received after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 to rebuild one of its beachfront hotels. Council members say that in building the hotel it would bring back the recreational services and help rebuild the economy in Alabama. However,…

The country of Iraq is located between six countries in the Middle East. It is north of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and south of Turkey. Because of its geographical location, it has been through many conflicts throughout its history that date back to biblical times, formerly known as Mesopotamia. Other countries along its borders to the east and west are Syria, Jordan and Iran. One of the main terrain features of Iraq consists of extensive plains that cover the Central and southeastern parts of the…