Kuwait

MAJ Woodard served as the Directorate of Logistics (DOL) Support Operations Officer (SPO) of the Area Support Group –Kuwait (ASG-KU). She provided multifunctional logistical support and sustainment for over 50,000 US and coalition forces under the Defense Cooperation Agreement with Kuwait. She was responsible for the training, health and welfare of 50 Soldiers, NCO’s, Warrant Officers, officers and DA Civilians which provided oversight to 5000 contractors in the absence of the DOL Director for…

whole population of MENA, these countries has bigger share of the regions economy - 48%. The GCC average GDP per capita in 2014 is US$ 33,142 - higher than MENA average GDP of US$ 7,761. The highest country with income per capita in MENA are Qatar, Kuwait and…

The United States has been considered the world’s police for more than one hundred years. The founding father’s originally sought to keep American interest secular and to be solely concerned with it’s own well being. World events since that time have caused the United States to involve itself in the affairs of other countries, some for the benefit of that country and its people and others for U.S. interests. President Roosevelt’s Monroe Doctrine “asked the Europeans not to increase their…

diseases. Furthermore, it does not only affect smokers, but also others around them, through secondhand smoking. Therefore, it is banned from numerous public places to avoid harming others. However, it is still allowed in other areas, especially in Kuwait. Not considering its various negative effects on others, could lead to serious harm on children and even adults. Several medical studies have proven that smoking in public places is not only harmful for smokers but also for people who are…

The Gulf War What was the Gulf War? Why was it important? Why was the U.S. apart of it? All of these questions will be answered throughout this paper, so just sit back and enjoy as you read a part of our history, and how Don Snow was during this time, and what he learned. The gulf war was split into two part. Desert Shield was the before war. Desert Storm was the actual war. I had asked Don Snow what the difference between Desert Shield and Desert storm was and he said, “Desert…

abysmal Human Rights record under Saddam Hussein’s regime such as Chemical attack many times, invasion of Kuwait, Bloody suppression of Kurdish and Shi'a, Amnesty International report, Refugees International, and restrictions on religious practice. Second, FBI said Iraqi government was involved in a plot to assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993, visit to Kuwait. Third, the rise of the “Neoconservatives” who believed in US’s right and responsibility to re-shape the…

mujahideen and the United States that drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan, this new conflict arose. When the Iraq-Iran war concluded, Iraq invaded Kuwait after Iraq refused to pay their debts. In an economic territorial context, this was a threat to the neighboring country Saudi Arabia (Freedman & Karsh, 1995). If Sudan Hussein could gain control of both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, he would have control of one fifths of the world’s oil. Oil that the United States depended on (Indyk,…

Imagine this; a man in Iraq is fighting for his country. While he is not on his homeland, he is fighting for what that homeland’s beliefs stand for. He is fighting to free the country of Kuwait. This man is a soldier of the United States Army. Kuwait is under siege by its neighboring country of Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein. This dictator once said that “Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another.” Saddam Hussein said this quote during his…

In relation to questioning the past, the stories uncover the inability to rely on memories. Notably, there is a blurring of fact from fiction when often the characters and sometimes even the reader doesn’t know what really occurred or is the truth. This is pointed out by Austerlitz’s teacher when he mentions: it would take an endless length of time to describe the events of such a day properly[...] [a]ll of us, even when we think we have noted every tiny detail, resort to set pieces which have…

decision is not set in stone but tentatively we are going unless something falls in the too hard to do category. Where are we going? well the arm pit of the world (or one of them anyway) back to Kuwait. Bob said he leaves…