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with the fourteen years spent abroad would not allow him to understand the social and political views of the nation. Basically the General felt war was the answer to American foreign policy. He did not grasp the interworking of European Affairs or NATO and the Truman team was well prepared as their agenda in the Pacific was well documented. The firing of Douglas MacArthur, an influential and popular General due to his accomplishments of World War II, is arguably a contradiction of the fight…

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One such containment strategy was the North Atlanta Trade Organization (NATO) which unified the countries of western Europe, Great Britain, and the US effective April 4, 1949.(Hightower 10/27 & Roark et. Al 697) This capitalist alliance was a way to cut off the effects of communism and also provide assistance from others if…

demand that the KRG denounce all acts of violence committed by extreme elements of their nationalist movement against our NATO ally Turkey. Of all the countries opposed to the Kurdish State Turkey seems to have the most to lose and has suffered great loss of life during the ongoing counter insurgency against extremist within the Kurdish movement. Turkey also serves a vital NATO ally in the region to counter Russia’s ambitions to restore the Soviet Union and in the ongoing counter terrorism…

The year 2016 is a very captivating year for the United states’ government. It is the year where a new president is elected into the White house. Nominees from different political parties travel across the nation to win the citizens votes in each state. For example, the Republican party nominated the candidate Donald Trump on July 19, 2016. From then on, before election day, Trump has gone state to state, trying to secure votes for himself to win the election. His poll numbers increased daily…

2.2.2 Constraints and costs of bandwagoning Bandwagoners have to pay considerable costs. The ECE state example showed domestic disagreements on whether a state should bandwagon put constraints on the degree of bandwagoning behaviors. One cost bandwagoners paid is the loss of autonomy in making security policy. Taking Japan and Canada as examples, their alliances with the US constrain them from making security policies fully as they are occasionally asked by Americans to devote efforts in…

I begin my paper by Waltz’s perception of modern realist theory, who in his writing ‘Man, the state of war’, has pointed out three integral images of the causes of war. Firstly, dealing with the classical realist thought, war has its root in flawed human nature. In his view, the evilness of men, or their inappropriate behavior results in war. Second, the internal organization of the state unit is crucial in understanding its prosperity towards war. Which means in order for a state to prevent…

The effect of the Kurdish fight for autonomy in both Iraq and elsewhere, has changed the Middle East’s landscape. This includes subnational or internal fracturing of Kurdish parties, national barriers, and newfound international relations as well as political alliances with historical rivals. Gareth Stansfield illustrates this point when he uses Kurdish history in Iraq as and cites economic and political relations with Turkey as signaling a potential Kurdish state, “By embracing this agenda,…

the plans for the satellite countries, especially East Germany. When the Berlin crisis rose in 1958, the espionage from Col. Oleg Penkosvkiy was crucial to anticipate the plans of Khrushchev over Berlin, thus preventing a military escalation between NATO and the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact. However, when the USSR authorities found out their activities, they were both allegedly imprisoned and executed for treason. As we have seen, HUMINT has been a salient hallmark in the activity of…

The United States president has become more powerful in the military affairs because, like so many past presidents the provisions that are in place as written by the framers, in the United States Constitution, are essentially being disregarded. The power of the executive gives the president authority to command the military. Although the president is supposed to notify congress, they have not been doing this as much. It’s not just our current president, but many in the past have disregarded the…