Paramilitary

Soviet Union but it’s disbandment in the early 90s left Cuba aloof ("CENTRAL AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN :: CUBA"). Reporting from 2002 shows estimates of militia sizes to be at 46,000 active duty and 39,000 reserves making up the total armed strength. Paramilitary forces are sectioned into 20,000 states security troops, 6,500 border guards, 50,000 civil defense forces, 70,000 member youth labor army, and a million-member territorial militia ("Cuba - Armed forces"). The numbers appear to show a very…

Assembly, the problem was the way of the representative system itself ().In early 1837, throughout Lower Canada several meetings were held near the Montreal region, criticizing British policies. In 1836, there already existed an organized secret paramilitary body composed of radical British Canadians called the Doric Club. Which was trailed by “Les Canadien” in 1837 who formed “Sons of Liberty” (Fils de la Liberté) a Patriote group based in Montreal named after a surreptitious society that had…

Ku Klux Klan: The Most Racist Organization Throughout the United States’ long history there have been many terrible times. One major cause of these terrible times was because of racism. The Ku Klux Klan was one of the reasons it led to this racism. The Ku Klux Klan had a negative influence in the United States from the start of their organization, to the leaders, and all of the events they held. Every organization, good or bad, had to start somewhere. The Ku Klux Klan started in Pulaski,…

COMPARISON OF SHIITE GROUP HEZBOLLAH WITH THE PALESTINIAN GROUP HAMAS KUNJA RAI “The earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” Mahatma Gandhi Abstract: Hamas and Hezbollah are assessed on various bases to compare them. Two of these groups who have their own ideological stand has been compared functionally and ideologically in this article. The aspects of these groups are assessed on categories of historical, ideological and military keeping in mind the…

Abstract The conflict in Northern Ireland goes back to the seventeenth century when the Scottish and English Protestants colonized to a great extent the Northern Ireland area. Whatever remains of Ireland was predominately Catholic and gained autonomy from the United Kingdom in 1922. Moreover, six regions that make up Northern Ireland, a dominant part Protestant territory with a Catholic minority, chose to stay with the United Kingdom. Unionists in Northern Ireland, for the most part Protestants,…

of 1,000, few doubt a war is going on. A threshold of 100 can be more divisive. In keeping the “troubles” in Northern Ireland from becoming a war, for example, such a threshold fits the views of the British public—but not that of Northern Irish paramilitaries. (Economist, 2013) Fernando (2011) clarifies that for a business to primarily succeed, it must interact with its environment. However there is a little impact which a firm can have on its environment as the forces which controls the…

A semi-nomadic pastoralist culture in the middle of modern, Westernizing Africa, is an ethnic group called the Tuareg. Though diverse and living in separate communities speckled throughout Algeria, Mali, and Niger, the Tuareg are united by their shared language and proud history. They were expert traders and formidable warriors, raiding and conquering to find the best land for the livestock, prior to the European colonization of Africa. For the Tuareg, it was the French that proved too…

Most Americans have heard of the Civil Rights Movement, and names like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are common knowledge. Not many Americans, though know about or have even heard of the American Indian Movement, in return leaders like Dennis Banks(Ojibwe) and Russell Means(Oglala Sioux) are virtually unknown. Many things will be discussed and alluded to in this paper, some of which I will attempt to explain; for an example at the time of AIM, “Traditionals” were full-blooded American…

World War I and World War II were periods of change and adaptation for London citizens; the city itself was attacked several times, food became scarce and was rationed, and the able bodied men of the city were sent off to fight. The lack of men left in the city lead to a major changes for everyone that remained there, but specifically contributed to many changes for the women. These changes were focused on how women functioned in society and the roles that they played while the men were fighting…

to pursue being a painter. He failed at this and entered politics, still with good intents. Hitler is seen as a communist leader, but early in his life he actually was in a group called the free corps who opposed communism.”The Free Corps was a paramilitary organization composed of vigilante war veterans who banded together to fight the growing Communist insurgency which was taking over Germany. The Free Corps crushed this insurgency.”(Grobman 1) After this his kind self fell victim to the…