International Security Assistance Force

EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTION #9: SEARCH AND RESCUE Jeremy Hughart American Military University I chose to write this paper on the emergency support function #9: Search and Rescue. This function is especially important to me because it requires the most specialized training and dedication to the job. Search and rescue personnel must have nerves of steel and be able to perform under incredible stress when called upon. They must be ready to launch immediately after all natural disasters on land,…

my political values come from the three most important men in my life, my dad, grandpa and my husband. They hold very strong opinions on military issues, national security and the four of us are veterans, each experiencing something different but we have a deeper understanding of the issues concerning the military and national security. I do not feel as though the media influences my idea for political values as I do not believe most of what I read but it does sway how I feel at times. Public…

In 1953 Eisenhower brought a new approach to the U.S. National Security policy. One of the elements was maintaining the vitality of the U.S. economy at the time building sufficient strength to prosecute the Cold War. Another element was relying on nuclear weapons to deter Communist aggression with the possibility to fight a war. Eisenhower also used the Central Intelligence Agency to operator secret and covert actions against governments that were connected to the Soviet Union. Strengthening…

United States’ security was reinforced by the World War 2 agreements, the North American Air Defense Command and the Can-US Civil Assistance Plan. World War 2 was an important part of the developing relationship between Canada and the United States because the two allies cooperated closely to defeat the Axis powers once the United States joined the war. They established agreements such as the Ogdensburg Agreement, the Hyde Park Agreement and the Alaska Highway project for security measures…

core international human rights treaties. Each of the treaties was monitored by a committee of experts in implementing the treaty provisions by member states. Some of the treaties were supplemented by optional protocols" to deal with specialized concerns (United Nations, 2010). An emerging aspect of human rights is that international human rights law applies to multinational organizations and private-sector companies (Fariss, 2014). Some scholars argue that the treaties of the International…

poor reconstruction. The problems consisted of security, national insecurity, being able to close the legitimacy gap, and building a government that all different races will accept. Iraq…

From 2001-2014, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led security mission comprised of soldiers from many nations occupied Afghanistan in an effort to stabilise the country. The ISAF served to train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), rebuild government institutions and remove Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other factional warlords from the areas surrounding Kabul. One of these the Forward Operation Bases was known as Armadillo.…

unprecedented destruction and death caused by World War I spurred the victorious nations into establishing a system of collective security in the form of League of Nations. The primary motive of the League of Nations was to prevent/deter or address any aggression by a state through collective response from other states, thereby ensuring collective security. By ensuring collective security, the member states aimed to discourage an aggressor nation from waging war against the victim nation through…

within Southeast Asia versus creating a new war just to win a single border incident. Liberalism also shined through with the emphasis on continuing/increasing participation in international organizations. I feel the Liberalism approach utilizing better border/immigration laws and regulations and participation in international organizations within my strategy will succeed in diminishing terrorist group’s efficacy by eliminating the ability to move freely in the Southeast Asian…

Armed conflict is a challenged that exist between political forces due to incompatibility which concerns governments or a struggle between different groups of people where the use of armed force between parties, of which at least one is the government of a state(Journal of Peace Research 38(5)) . Armed conflict includes enormous civilian death and human suffering. Throughout the past centuries and now in our time the 21st century, the intense increases in brutalities against civilians during…