Irregular military

I am applying for a commission in the Army JAG Corps to continue my interrupted service to our country. I was brought up with a very strong sense of selfless service to our nation and to my community. I was fortunate to be able to proudly serve our country with distinction for 17 years on active duty and in the Reserves (12 or 13 good years for retirement purposes) but unfortunately I had to make one of the most difficult decisions of my life in 2007 and leave the service. At the time, I had…

Robert McNamara, philosopher and former Secretary of Defense under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, discusses the political and ethical lessons he learned during his career. Of the eleven lessons he cites in the video, “The Fog of War”, two lessons will be examined as they apply to the war in Afghanistan. Lesson #1: Empathize with the enemy and Lesson #8: Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning, are lessons that if applied, to the war in Afghanistan, would positively influence the…

and how the United States military should be the powerful in the world U.S. defense budget is $612 billion and despite spending cuts, this is more money spent on defense than the next ten highest spending countries combined. (Business Insider) The United States has the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard. These US Armed Forces have 298 military bases in the United States and other 900 bases are in 130 countries overseas. (Political Fact and Military Bases.co) The United…

screen out persons likely to become disciplinary problems. Standards cover court convictions, juvenile delinquency, arrests, (UNORIG) drug use deviant behavior, etc.” There is a program for people who are newly joining for men and women who have no military experience. All people trying to join must pass the Armed Services Vocational Battery (ASVAB) test. All applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalency certificate.” Once an individual is done with all enlistment procedures have…

A Victory From the Start One of the biggest events in America’s history is, without a doubt, the Civil War. In the Civil War, the North and the South fought for four years and if the South had won, America would look extremely different today. This is because if the South had won, it would have seceded from America. Although the South fought hard, one miscalculation it made was that it never even really had a chance at beating the North. Based on population, economy, transportation, and many…

The Internal Battle for Victory The Red Badge of Courage, a civil war narrative which portrays the struggle of a young soldier in battle, was written by Stephen Crane, an author who had no real-life war experience. But through the accounts of real soldiers, Crane was able to create a novel respected for its realism about the civil war. He is commended for his deft use of figurative language and symbolism to depict the morbid reality of war. In The Red Badge of Courage, Crane not only analyzes…

Old and new Imperialism is the extension of power and influence of European nations over other foreign countries by military force. Even though between 1500 and 1800, the Europeans only had influences on the Americas, by the 1800s, the Europeans were strengthened not only in their military, but also in their economy due to them being imperialists in Africa and Asia. There were five motivations that led to imperialism, exploratory, political, ideological, religious, and economic. Even though…

a contrast to the First Amendment. Nevertheless, in regards of whatever the circumstances of the people of society had misused the Second Amendment, the people has been entitled of bearing the guns to defend themselves from the government, as the military had to protect and secure safety from any hostile situations, the people are also having to bear weapons of any threat to national security. The anti-federalists argued that the federal control over militia could take away from the states the…

As the global hegemony, the United States has both a great deal of power and plenty of responsibility. The United States is recognized all throughout the world as its superpower and it has legitimacy to back it up. Even if we were in a decline from being the global hegemony, no other country comes close to our GDP. Many suggest that China is the next hegemony and that they will be the next authority, but no one can really tell by just using raw data alone. As we discussed the debate of what…

strongest allies was notably missing. The Japanese, refrained by their strict interpretation of their constitution, refused to participate in any use of force in the region. Instead Japan’s powerful Self-Defense Forces (SDF), the fourth highest-funded military in the world , went to nonviolent regions of Iraq to participate in humanitarian relief efforts . Additionally, these Japanese troops required foreign troops, mostly Australian, to protect them during these operations and the Japanese…