NATO

An attack on one NATO member was to be treated as an attack on all members. Although the United States was by far the most powerful nation in NATO, Canada still had a major role in the alliance which, consequently, further asserted its rank as a middle power. Another defense organization Canada joined after World War Two was the North…

NATO alliance members are especially guilty of this. Twenty-three out of the 29 countries fail to reach the NATO guideline of 2% of GDP expenditure going towards defense. Instead, the median percentage of alliance members fall short at 1.31%, with America spending considerably higher than any other at 3.58% of GDP. As of 2017, US defense expenditure makes up more than two-thirds of total military spending by all NATO countries combined; exhibiting a clear lack…

Each year the president and his top advisors put together a budget proposal for the country. The spending in the proposal indicates what the administration’s priorities will be for the following year. Despite the fact the Trump presidency has been unlike any other in my lifetime thus far, it is no different in this respect. Though the commotion has made this particular budget more anticipated than years past, President Trump’s first budget was recently released to much excitement. One of Trump’s…

drug cultivation and trafficking, and to have a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan and world. But it’s not possible without knowledge and education. I have 10 years of progressive working experience with NATO led mission in Afghanistan. As a senior adviser, I have closely worked and advised NATO political and military leaderships on current and security affairs of Afghanistan. I am also a social activist and I have been leading number of key institutions for promoting justice and governance. …

World in general and it helped tremendously. In 1948, the NATO was formed. This organization is similar to the United Nations. The NATO is a collective security force to resist the further spread of communism in Europe. NATO was founded under the concept of collective security or "collective self-defense" as it is termed in the NATO charter. This concept calls for any attack on a NATO member nation to be perceived as an attack upon all NATO member nations (Stoddard, 140). This idea of collective…

Prior to joining NATO and the U.N., Spain has conducted or participated in decades and even centuries of wars and conflicts. Two wars that are noteworthy in a discussion are the Spanish American war and the Spanish civil war. The Spanish American war was the outcome of…

When One Door Closes, Another Opens Immediately after World War II, the United States went to war with another country. This war was not fought like traditional wars, where countries would settle their differences on a battlefield. This war was fought through politics, fear, and through “proxy wars”. The Cold War went on from 1947 to 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union. What Led to the Cold War? The United States and Soviet Union were not allies in World War II and then suddenly…

This essay seeks to analyze the relationship between the production of opium in Afghanistan and the sustainability of the Taliban. Rather than continue the failing anti-narcotics campaign in Afghanistan, the United States should undermine the power of the Taliban by pushing for development of the Afghan Economy through the utilization of the country's comparative advantage in opium production. The failure of extermination, the lack of profitable substitution crops, the important role that…

War in Afghanistan”, Gaven Esler, interviews US General David Petraeus who said that the Afghan war is “not a war of choice”. He was repeating a line used by President Barak Obama and many others. According to this thinking, there had to be a war and NATO forces needed to be in Afghanistan to keep terrorists off our streets. This claim is refuted in the article and in fact the opposite perspective is suggested: our presence there increased the threat of terrorism here. According to WikiLeaks…

boys, and girls experience conflict differently and, as a result, they have distinct needs in the post-conflict phase. Contrary to common belief, women are both victims of, and participants in armed conflict. Increasingly, gender considerations are recognized as a vital component of plans and programmes to avoid, mitigate and resolve conflict situations, and to build sustainable peace. Gender perspectives must be integrated in all aspects of UN peace operations to ensure that interventions are…