Where only two decades before, John Acquilla’s paper: “Cyberwar is Coming” may have resembled the fanciful promises for the future offered by the Jetsons, recent developments have suggested that Acquilla’s prediction that the internet would fundamentally change warfare may have credence. Whilst in 1993 a futuristic concept that belonged in the realms of James Bond and Dr Who, in recent years the media, policy planners and militaries alike the world over have heralded the dawn of a new age of…
may encourage or prevent other countries such as Iran to continue its nuclear program. China. In the last decades china was the primary economic and energy benefactor for DPRK, and the main choice for it to avoid global deep isolation. China did not express hard-line stance toward DPRK within the nuclear crisis, but it has insisted in negotiation to solve the crises, so it kept a good relation with it. Indeed, the Chinese position is not isolated from the china’s changing policy process which…
Of all of the presidential candidates running for president, Ted Cruz has the plan that will save America. America is in a state of turmoil with economic downturn and job loss to illegal immigrants, a broken tax system, and the threat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Barack Obama promised change in 2008, but no economic recovery has been evident, jobs have been continuously lost, and he has dismissed the threat of ISIS and saying that the U.S. “is making significant progress defeating them” (Riley 1)…
al-Haq, understood US Policy bottom line. In a meeting with William Casey, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the dictator offered Casey with a map of the Near East demonstrating how the Soviet Union occupation is moving towards Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea. General Mohammed proposed that if the US does not interfere, the Soviets would produce great economic disturbance in the region (Hartman). Of course, the CIA recognized that this was not only possible but a…
Cities wiped out in seconds, nuclear fallout that lasts years, and consequences on how we see life today. Ever since their inception we have barely maintained a hold on the reins of a weapon that could wipe out the world. The atomic weapons of the past are but a fraction of the power we now have with hydrogen bombs. Nuclear weapons have shaped society in many ways, in the cold war we lived in constant fear that everything we’ve ever known will be destroyed before we even knew what happened. The…
changing the scope and consequences of international warfare, as well as causing a widespread hysteria over the use of nuclear warfare that led to conflicts such as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. On August 6, 1945, the world was changed forever. On that fateful day the United States plunged the world into the chaos of nuclear warfare by dropping the first nuclear bomb in world history. The bomb brought with it an absolutely unparalleled level of destruction to the…
The novel “A Kim Jong Il production” by Paul Fischer emphasizes in kidnapping, films, tortures, and leaders in the country. There are two couples from South Korea who are film makers known as Shin Sang-OK and Choi Eun-Hee, who were kidnapped by the great leader of North Korea, and brought to Pyong Yang to make successful films. Shin was popular at filming good movies and Choi was an actress, but turned out to film with Shin after they were both kidnapped. However, Kim Sung became a leader of…
Theocracy government has been around for many ages, but it wasn’t until Feb 11, 1979 the Pahlavi monarchy was overthrown, making Iran form an Islamic theocracy. Was this the right decision for the government? To understand this, we must look at how the government is operated first, see the citizens point of view, and see how the government is affected. Iran’s government consist of a supreme leader, guardian council, parliament, Assembly of Experts, expediency council, president, cabinet,…
in the Cold War but also involvement in the Iran-Iraq War. The United States Army was definitely at its worst shape, with very low recruitment numbers and minimal weapons compared to other nations. Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 and pledged to reconstruct the U.S Army. However, Ronald Reagan’s fulfilment did not come easy though as it had many effects on the poor and the United States budget. According to document two, Reagan cut social service programs in order to increase military spending…
applying that intelligence to their own military operations and capabilities or; worst case scenario, to attempt to cause damage to the United States. Three of the most formidable nations posing a threat to the United States today are China, Russia and Iran. Each of these countries and their government has their own purpose and motivation to collect intelligence on the United States, ranging from the desire to steal technology from corporations and the government to the desire to destroy the…