Invasion of Kuwait

Over a few centuries, post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) has been known by plenty of names: at first, it stood as “irritable heart” during the American Civil War; later during the First World War, the symptoms were called “shell shock” or “hysteria”. When the Second World War and the War in Korea occurred, the symptoms were labeled as “war neurosis”, “battle fatigue”, and “exhaustion.” Lastly, during the War in Vietnam, “Post Vietnam Syndrome” remained as the last occurrence of names given…

Muslims, and Catholics against each other in a brutal combat (Avalos 2005). Also, thousands of monks were being persecuted in Burma during that time. Violence in religion even excels conflicts between various ethnicities, which also happen within the same ethnicity. The irony about this is that not one religion that ever existed in the past or present, preaches violence to solve any problems that exist. The reason why religion causes war is not the fact that religion teaches the people to do…

Analysis of 1988-2000: After about fifty years of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War had finally came to end. This was signified by two events: the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992. When the new Russian President Borish Yeltsin signed the START II pact with President George Bush, not only was both nation’s nuclear weapons programs reduced but all the previous satellite nations the Soviet Union had set up were officially declared…

There are many instances in my life during which I thought to myself “this is why I want to become a doctor.” However, there are only a few moments where I have thought to myself “this is why I will become a doctor.” Since I was a little girl, I have always wanted to become a doctor. Although I cannot pinpoint the exact time when this idea was born, I can say that it has stuck with me for a majority of my life. While shadowing at hospitals and physical therapy clinics, I always felt that…

status. Them being selective of their target country also raises questions for me, with 9/11 Al-Qaeda was the one that claimed responsibility yet they decided to go and kill Saddam. The most likely reason for Saddam's capture and invasion of Iraq,was after the Kuwait invasion relations between Iraq and America turned…

significant counterbalancing power, tilting the world towards the United States. Now the U.S. could exercise its influence more easily, as seen in 1991 when the U.S. gained international support through the U.N. to lead a coalition of military forces into Kuwait to oust the invading forces of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. If the Age of Imperialism is the main backdrop to the pre-WWII Middle East, and the Cold War the main context for international actors in the Middle East from the end of WWII to the…

the Gulf war where United States, a country very far away from Saudi Arabia decides to help them prevent the invasion of Iraq before they even considered to be invaded and later helping Kuwait flee away the Iraqi soldiers. This was not done as a friendly gesture by the U.S. to help the countries that were being invaded by Iraq, but actually done in order to save the oil mines that are in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as they needed to protect them from being captured from Iraq (whose relationship with…

Ali Khadery (2014) Three years ago, the Islamic State (ISIS) did not exist; now it controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq. Showing off its handiwork daily via Twitter and YouTube, Isis has repeatedly demonstrated that it is much more than a transnational terrorist organization – rather, it is an entity with sophisticated command, control, propaganda and logistical capabilities, and one that has proven its ability to take and hold strategically critical territory at the heart of the Middle East.…

An Introduction The Second Persian Gulf War, more commonly referred to as the Iraq War, was an extensively long-lasting international armed conflict that found its beginnings on March 20th, 2003, spurred by an invasion carried out by a United States-led coalition with the aims of overthrowing the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict consisted of two phases: a brief, conventionally fought war that had taken place throughout the duration of March 2003 to April 2003, as well as the far…

Iraq War developed in two phases. The first conflict began in 2003 with the invasion of the Iraq from American and English troops. The second conflict lasted until December 2011 with the withdrawal of American troops. Before this war began, there were some signals that something was happening. In Iraq, gradually, a dangerous man was gaining acceptance and power. This man, Saddam Hussein, was suppressing the Kurds, an Iraqi minority, that was revolting against him and was fighting for its…