International Security Assistance Force

The North Korean air force was driven from the skies by US Air Force, Navy and Marines, using their superior equipment and training. Heavy bombers razed the cities and industrial plants of North Korea. Continuous attacks on the transport system forced the Chinese to rely on the packhorse for much…

agricultural sector accounts for the majority of national water demand and workforce agencies to provide Jordan with the necessary funds in rebuilding the region’s water infrastructure. The major users of Jordan’s water supply, according to the International Water Association (IWA), includes: industrial, municipal, and tourism sectors. The overall contributors to the allocation and investments of water resource include intergovernmental organizations, and water advocacy…

Globalization is predominantly viewed from a more economic interaction point of view; with little attention given the consequences that global harmonization has on indigenous cultures. A lot of attention has been given to economic, trade and financial flows with universally binding or guidelines on how partners in the globalization phenomenon should operate. Issues of environmental and human right concerns, also attract attention, and even gain closer impetus than issues related to the cultural…

France desired cultural and economic independence. In order to achieve sovereignty, General De Gaulle, who was the French president from 1958-69, began to manipulate international organizations to suit French interests. For instance, De Gaulle withdrew France from NATO in 1966 and testified Great Britain’s entry into the EC. Furthermore, at the summer Paris conference of 1946, French leaders requested that the Ruhr Valley…

limitations of intelligence in supporting homeland security efforts. This topic will provide examination of the various elements that make up the intelligence community from local law enforcement to national agencies, and how they all work together. The second topic is, critique the capability of the homeland security enterprise to adequately identify and address future challenges. This topic will state my position to the capabilities of the homeland security as a whole, while still keeping with…

assembly rights that are protected under Congo’s constitution and international human rights law. The government will not allow them to speak freely about their political views. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in the east of the country, all forms of sexual violence have been named the worst in the world. “Dozens of armed groups operate in eastern Congo and many of them as well members of the Congolese security forces have been perpetrators of sexual violence” (“Democratic Republic:…

Career Opportunities The United States Customs and Border Protection exists as a subordinate organization within the Department of Homeland Security. Although U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not exist prior to the Homeland Security Act going into effect in 2003, the Customs and Border Protection still possess a rich history of previous forces that evolved into the modern Customs and Border Protection. The mission, budget, and number of employees that the U.S. Customs and Border…

Boko-Haram designated as a Terrorist Organization Boko-Harams affiliation with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a regional terrorist network operating in North Africa, evoked concerns from international policy makers (Taylor, L.). The two terrorist groups were thought to be sharing funds, training, explosive materials, and aspirations to expand their focus outside Africa to encompass Europe and the United States (Taylor, L.). Boko-Haram targeted the United Nations building in Abuja with…

Signs of escalating conflict began as early as 1993 with the inception of “Hate Radio”, a broadcast station called Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC). The RTLMC broadcasts were powerful forms of propaganda that tried to rally Hutu extremists to action.8 Unlike Rwandan officials, most foreign ambassadors did not see the broadcast as threatening. The U.S. ambassador to Rwanda, David Rawson, said that “its euphemisms were open to interpretation. [The U.S.] believed in freedom of…

As an ever more powerful political force, humanitarianism has evolved from its once apolitical stances and found a place on nearly every public policy agenda among developed nations. Since the 1970s, large international groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have dominated the Human Rights Movement, which has grown so much so in complexity and in professionalism that local groups—which arguably have more contextualized knowledge than multinational humanitarian…