Iraq

time for the first deployment, this is when everything started to change slowly. About nine months after he returned from the first deployment came another eight to ten month deployment. Then this same pattern went on until he did four convoy tours to Iraq and Kuwait with in a 5 year period. Things went from great to it all just faded away. Living with an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, I developed my own stereotype of veterans. Before, it all began he was a nice caring individual who loved…

Terrorism has been a terrible act of hate and violence against multiple groups that people have been fighting for decades to eradicate. ISIS is just one of the many extremist organizations that Iraq and many other countries have been trying to dismantle over the course of numerous years. Currently, a fight in Iraq is taking place for the anti-ISIS forces to take over one of the largest cities under the control of the terrorist group. About one million residents of the Mosul fled their city when…

to expose the weaknesses and strengths of the group in order to jolt the awareness of the reader on why it exists. Given the technical language used in the article, Muir is writing to a well-educated audience with some knowledge of the conflict in Iraq and history. ISIS and The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, have many connections between each other that link religion and fear. For example, the terrorising group’s only main goal is to create a caliphate across the Middle East in which they…

Is it imaginable that Isis is good for our world? Isis, the next big militant group after Al-Qaeda with the amount of executions performed and brutality toward the civilians in the Middle East. It is true that Isis is terrible due to their actions performed on the innocent people, however the effects of Isis is providing good things for the world today as it allowed for the world to learn how to deal with the militant group and how to prevent from any other major group forming. The reason…

standing before me, are going through this as well . I know I did. Thinking back to when one was a child is supposed to be a happy memory, but for many of us; it is not. And it definitely isn’t a pleasant memory for me either. Before the Iran-Iraq war, our family lived well. Not rich,…

demonstrations, and other acts of terror. There is a secondary threat arising against the U.S. military from Hezbollah, however, and that is Hezbollah’s funding and training of Shi’a militia groups in Syria, and its cooperation with Iranian forces in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, and also against Kurds and Sunni militants in both countries. The threat here is considerable,…

terrorists. However, instead of our country breaking down in depression, our leaders took control and we became resilient. Our people gathered together as one and pledged to emerge stronger. This included entering ourselves in a very controversial war with Iraq under the presidency of George W. Bush. Now, many see this war as a total failure. These opponents claim that the United States is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iraqi people and put thousands of United States military persons…

Ares, the Greek God of War, was born from his father Zeus and his mother Hera who was disliked by both of them. Ares was opposite of his sister Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, because he was in love with the blood shed and violence while Athena fought her battles very tactically and with strategy. In the stories Ares was involved in he always faced humiliation and was on the losing side of the Trojans because Aphrodite, his lover and sister, favored that side as well. Even though Aphrodite, the…

In Iraq I was a medic and had opportunities to talk to local nationals every day. In Afghanistan I was a part of Village Stability Operation (VSO) that gave me an opportunity to really be immersed in the rhythm of life in rural Afghanistan. From my deployments…

11.3 million people have been displaced by the civil war in Syria and, despite a lack of coverage recently in the media, the number is only growing (World Vision). When asked, people guessed the number of refugees to be in the thousands and one even responded “is that still going on?” (Mason). We, as people of the world, should help out the refugees by all able-countries working together to assist diplomatically, socially, and economically. In addition, informing the masses about this ongoing…