Iraq War

October 2014 The Problems of the Iraq War I did my paper on a problem that hits close to home for me. My paper is on effects of PTSD and the Iraq War. PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I choose this because my brother is in the Marine Corps and within the next year so will I. Doing this paper will show what our troops have to go through during and after their time overseas protecting our freedom. The first problem is the impact that the Iraq War had on America. The impact first…

Operation Iraq Freedom to be the most impressive contemporary military campaign. “This military operation intended to strike a major blow at terrorism by overthrowing Saddam Hussein, destroy Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, and impose a pro American style government in the Arab world.” However, postwar planning by CENTCOM started only a couple of months prior to the start of the war, which demonstrates the lack of concern for Phase IV. This lack of concern results in “the tragedy of…

Organizational Structure The war in Iraq has definitely been a major topic of discussion among the America people for a very long time. It is important to understand that this issue had a lot of people divided when it came to answering the question of whether or not America should invade Iraq. Although the war has ended, when discussed today, there is still a level of division after the fact. When dealing with matters that affect a wide range of people and their well-being, especially in…

The Iraq War has had a huge amount of impact America over the last few decades. As a child of the generation growing up during this war I’ve seen pain, hate and economic turmoil. The focus of this article is the economic turmoil created by the Iraq war: In particular the impact oil has had on our country because of it. Over the years I’ve heard a lot on the news about the oil crisis and how it has effected not only gas prices but the entire world economy. Oil is used for transportation of goods…

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…

Psychological Impacts of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Have you ever watched the movie American Sniper, Lone Survivor, or any other movies based on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and replayed the action scenes because “that was so cool”? If you have, your definition of “cool” severely varies from the definition of soldiers fighting in those wars. Those scenes, which may excite the average United States citizen to watch, may happen to be the memories that haunt and mentally tear apart the…

The war on Iraq a case study. Following on from the first gulf war in 1990, when George Bush came into power in 2001 the idea for a second invasion of Iraq become a prominent feature of the US foreign policy. Bush accused Iraq of developing weapons of mass destruction which then lead to the United Nations intervening and assessing the countries weaponry. No such weapons were found but the US pressed the issue further, gaining backing from the UKs Prime Minister Tony Blair, along with other…

agreement between Iran and Iraq that neither named Iraq as the invader nor made either nation pay war compensations. After 8 continuous years, the war outcomes of the war were drastically destructive to both sides, Iraq and Iran. The Iran Iraq war was not only the longest war in the twentieth century; it was the last conventional war in history. Most of the war routine was made of armored and infantry battles, artillery and air strikes. The Aftermath of the Iran-Iraqi War The United State’s…

were involved were United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Poland. So it was a pretty big war. In 2003 the Iraq war started with the U.S military rushing into Iraq. It was an operation to take away the heavy weapons from Saddam Hussein. Chris Tritt was station in the capital of Iraq. He was one of the 1.2 million soldiers from the Marine, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and National Guard. At Iraq at the time.The war lasted a long time and a lot of things happened…

producer in the Middle East. Iraq accused Kuwait of breaking agreements that limit oil production within the region, which led to oil prices being brought down and Iraq losing billions of dollars. By invading Kuwait and burning the oil fields Saddam made the biggest mistake of his presidency by creating environmental disaster for both countries and the degradation of Iraq as a whole. President Bush goal in entering the war was to recover the stolen oil from the Iraq and ensure…