Gulf Cartel

Democratic Peace Theory In order to critically evaluate the concept of the democratic peace theory, one must highlight the key aspects of what it means to be a democracy and emphasize the controversies caused by various arguments associated with the history of liberalism. The theory, based on assumptions made by notable scholars, proposes the idea that democratic states naturally abstain from engaging in armed conflict with other equally democratic states. Immanuel Kant’s ‘Perpetual Peace’…

In the essay “The Enemies of Empire,” the author discusses an argument that develops between two different perspectives on imperialism and anti- imperialism after the Spanish- American War. He mentions that many Americans supported the idea of expansionism while others opposed it. He asserts that the people who supported the idea of imperialism believed that it was an American duty to intervene in other countries affairs in order to liberate the oppressed. Conversely, he states that other people…

The Spanish Colonization of Texas (Hook.) Spain attempted to colonize Texas from a recommendation from Pineda, who mapped the Gulf coast in 1519. They wanted to develop Texas by building Catholic mission around natives. Afterwards, the Franciscan Friars, who ran the mission, would convert the natives. Then presidios—a military post—would be built; the area would be deemed safe and then Spanish people would begin to move in. They began in 1682, when the first mission was built, called Corpus…

articles, customary international law, relations with terrorist groups and humanitarian intervention we will address the question, Was the use of force by the United States, United Kingdom and their allies against Iraq in 2003 legal? In 1991, after the Gulf War, Iraq was forced by the United Nations to get rid of their weapons of mass destruction (WMD),…

From living in Louisiana my whole life, storms became just a part of the journey. They came and they went as if they were tourists passing through and soon enough, we learned that storms are just a natural path way to get to the good parts in life. However, on August 25, 2005, a storm came that was not just a part of life. It did not swiftly breeze through and it did not just pass by. Hurricane Katrina was an exceptional encounter and unlike any other storm that has yet to come. Before the…

The increasing role of the media as a military outlet post 9/11 has led many political scientists to address the War on Terror as a war of words. Western and Arab news outlets, across the political spectrum, have portrayed interrelated and sequentially organized stories. These serve to weave certain ideological desires within their target audiences to achieve specific objectives. In political science discourses, these stories are referred to as “narratives”. This paper will explore narratives…

Logistics: Sustaining the Battle Leadership and Logistics: Sustaining the Battle Michael Miles Excelsior College Leadership and Logistics: Sustaining the Battle One of my initial experiences in the Army was deploying to the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm. During that deployment, I was assigned to the 7th Transportation Group, 24th Transportation Battalion, who was responsible for off loading the merchant marine ships and transportation of goods…

In an Essay written by William T. Cavanaugh, he realized that many scholars were unable to define and distinguish religion from secular nations. He questioned why religion had only recently been separated from political institutions, by providing the example of the Aztec religion. He stated “Is Aztec ‘politics’ to blame for their bloody human sacrifices, or is Aztec ‘religion’ to blame?” He suggests that although many argue that Religion plays a major factor in the cause of conflicts shouldn’t…

wars with the Middle East. One of those wars we are still in today, nearly a generation since the original operation. Operation desert storm was one of the largest multinational operations in the history of the world. Operation desert storm AKA(the Gulf war) was caused by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who sent troops into the tiny country of Kuwait. The problem with this was that Kuwait is one the world 's largest oil providers, and taking over Kuwait posed a threat to Saudi Arabia,…

ISIS has been gaining power in the middle east and still is in 2016. America, like in the gulf war, has been the key player in fighting ISIS. Saudi Arabia on the other hand, like in the gulf war, hasn’t done much of anything to combat them in any way. America has been sending in constant bombings of the area that ISIS controls of Iraq and Syria with also the funding of anti ISIS militants…