Opposition to the Iraq War

I do agree with the Warren commission's findings. As pointed out in our book, while critics have found fault with the Warren commission's findings no convincing alternative interpretation of the events of November 22nd,1963 have been developed. America's love and fascination with all things JFK in my opinion, support the notion that although Kennedy offered few solutions to the day’s pressing issues his charisma and charm were immortalized near to the point of Sainthood. Because the vast…

Was the Afghanistan War an Intelligence Failure? Osama bin Laden and many of his key leaders relocated to Afghanistan from Sudan in 1996. They soon established headquarters and training camps in the country and began orchestrating operations from there Following the terrorist attacks of September 2001, the United States found itself at war with al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s international terrorist organization. In response to the terrorist attacks, and because al Qaeda utilized it as a base…

Others have pointed out that the new badge, earned in peacetime, may compete with or cheapen the Combat Action Badge (CAB). The CAB was developed as the Global War on Terror sent soldiers in non-infantry MOSs into combat situations. It is awarded to soldiers of any MOS who personally engage or are engaged by the enemy in combat operations (“Combat Action Badge,” n.d.). Gragg acknowledged concerns by responding, “We are not trying to cheapen anything. What we’re trying to do is enhance our…

media bias and propaganda as future officers of the United States Army. The ability to discriminate between facts and opinions in media coverage and propaganda is paramount to maintaining the morale of the unit as a whole. There may be times when the wars we are fighting are not well supported by the general populace of the nation we are serving but we must not let these views effect the way we operate and compromise the mission. Propaganda is the use of a variety of communication techniques…

military advantage and collateral damage. Talking about the proportionality prerequisite in jus in Bello, one must first clarify exactly what is being weighed in on the scales, and what is being left out. The U.S. finds itself accused of a potential “war crime” following an air strike on a hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan pulled in international…

This reading begins with talking about a specific event that happened during 911. An American Indian scholar named Ward Churchill publishes a controversial essay that saying all the victims in 9/11 were “little Eichmanns” (Kelly, 2016, p.240) and points out that, “9/11 attacks were provoked by decades of American military conquest in the Middle East” (Kelly, 2016, p.240). His argument enrages the public and soon he was found out that he is not even a real Indian according to his blood ancestry.…

The way the government aimed to deny these incidents ever occurred, Gourevitch and Morris deliver an in-depth perspective on the events taken place in a prison system in Abu Ghraib, located in Iraq. It’s astounding how the people whom lead our precious America could be such savages in the face of temptation. And so much so, how could we as a country be the country we are and continuously deny our roles in these events. The leaders of our free have once again aimed at keeping world information,…

Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1: Photo by Jerome Starkey, of Specialist Jacob William Moore. Nov 2010. The piece of art I will be using is an unnamed photo taken by war photographer Jerome Starkey, of US Army Specialist Jacob William Moore. It was taken in Southern Afghanistan in November 2010, after two explosive devices detonated on his squad. The first wounded a single man, Abdul Razak, the second wounding the stretcher team carrying Razak, Moore and Sergeant Sean Flannery. The photo was taken…

In his article ‘The Path to Sokkuram’, Robert Hass develops the idea that reality is subjective in nature, and something that is sometimes based more on the overriding feelings and opinions of large groups of people than on an impartial analysis of the situation. Hass illustrates this through examples of various groups of people in Korea and the political ideologies they subscribe to, which he compares and contrasts with his own creeds. In psychology, the projective hypothesis suggests that the…

Essay Question #1: Analyze Operation Valhalla, Iraq (2006). Using this situation as an example, what is the best leadership course of action to mitigate enemy manipulation of circumstances and kinetic operations? There were many courses of action to be executed during Operation Valhalla, (Iraq) 2006, but as a ground commander you are constricted to a limited amount of resources prior to executing the mission. From my understanding, United States Special Forces killed the enemy inside their…