Lebanese Armed Forces

The 2015 National Military Strategy The NMS provides an overview of the strategic challenges the United States is currently encountering and outlines how the United States armed forces will be employed to support the NSS. Today’s strategic environment is characterized by its complexity and quickly changing situations due to globalization, the spread of technology, and demographic shifts. In this complex strategic environment, the United States military cannot focus on one challenge and must…

A political activist named Emma Goldman produced a speech in 1908 called “Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty” within it she analyzes what patriotism actually means. Inside the speech an important quote in which she alludes to America becoming the most powerful nation in the world, and eventually planting her iron foot on the necks of all other nations (Voices of A People’s History pg. 271 ). In the essay to follow I will analyze, and explain the meaning behind this. I will also take a deeper look…

The lifting of the policy is by no means going reduce the efficiency of American armed forces, rather it will serve as advancement for the military through, providing equal opportunity, enhancing military readiness and eliminating gender discrimination. For many years women have been proving themselves worthy to fight next to male…

lack of attention shown to Hungarian Defense Forces or called Honvédelem. Many statistics show that the criticism has truth behind it. The Hungarian Military overall, counting the Air Force, Special Forces, etc… have overall 20,000 personnel of a nation that has just under 10 million as their population. Not mentioning the military budget of 1.03 Billion US Dollars. Also not mentioning that the Hungarian Ground Forces use 1960s. The Hungarian Air Force also uses 1970’s era aircraft. Looking at…

Qualifications to be on the Front Lines Imagine being sent to a combat zone, being placed on the front lines of one of these areas. It’s still dark out but you know the sun can’t be far from rising. A fellow comrade comes running into your tent and informs you that enemies have been seen hiding behind the nearby hills. Standing in the front of the tent, eyes wide, your comrade is waiting for your command for what the troop should do. What I’ve just described is a situation that isn’t uncommon…

The debate on women serving in combat positions seems to remain unresting in the United States. Considerations and measurements have been taken seriously towards this issue to figure out whether females are able to fit in such a tough environment of the military. Although women are currently accepted to join the army, doubts, worries and disagreements about this are continue to take place. This is because many people believe that females are feminine, weak and emotional, so they are not brave…

40 years. In the US, dogs are utilized in a lot of different sections of the government. Dogs are used to “sniff” out drugs, bombs, scents from missing people, etc. War dogs are used as: patrol dogs, messenger dogs, mine dogs, casualty dogs, tunnel dogs and, sentry dogs, and more. Dogs are even used as morale boosters in military hospitals. Dogs are put in a dangerous line of work to help the military but is it humane? While these dogs do receive “top veterinary care”, they are forced to work…

Tim Marshall’s main focus in writing the book, “Prisoners of Geography” is to introduce the concept of geopolitics. He explains how the location and certain geographical features affect politics, especially international relationships. To further elaborate on this topic he includes historical examples to show how the geography affects trade, conflict, and a countries’ economy. Seeing that there are 195 countries in the world and over 4,000 religions, conflict is bound to break out sometime.…

New Technologies A big chemical weapon was used with chemical gases. The chlorine and mustard gases would burn, blind, and kill enemies or anyone who happened to be exposed. Tanks used as well at this time. Tanks could cross onto treacherous territory, and over barbed wire fences of the enemy's land. The most used WW1 weapon was the automatic gun. Automatic guns made it easier for the soldiers to spend less time reloading and more valuable time shooting at the enemies. Machine guns as well as…

The U.S military is a gendered organization dominated by men. In the history of the U.S Military, the public eye does not agree with women being in the military. America is not ready to see women die in combat. Gender relations in the armed forces has been in the public attention. The media have covered the sexual assault cases, women capability in the military, and women in combat. In the article by Cohn, Carol he talks about the underline negative feelings that males in the…