Persian Gulf

After the events that occurred in the United States in September of 2001, its government started to mobilize in order to fight terrorism and be able to give its citizens the security they expected. In order to do so, Bush’s administration, after a series of negotiations with Iraq and the UN, decided to invade the Middle East country in an effort to end terrorism and make the world, and mostly America, a safe place. However, it has been broadly discussed whether this war was in the best interest…

underestimated the Iraqi regime by minimizing the conflict as a continuation of the Persian Gulf War, a sentiment exacerbated by President Bush’s assumption that U.S. Forces would be welcomed as liberators. Such phenomena reveal another weakness in the Pentagon’s planning, a risk that proves to be an invalid assumption in the first days of…

4.0 Theoretical Framework 4.1 The State as a Collective or Person The state can be a collective or a person based on the political system and the type of leader in place. For instance, people would think of countries governed by dictators such Zimbabwe and North Korea as a person because the dictators make the utmost decisions concerning the country. According to Davis (2005), states governed by political personalities can be reduced to the ideals of those political personalities, while…

Thermopylae – Greece had been fighting to keep the Persians out of their land. They were highly outnumbered and should not have even made it past the first battle. However their luck held and thanks to Greek strategy, they were able to turn the tables on the mighty Persian empire. The Battle of Salamis was the final and most important blow against the Persians, and it's success shaped Greece for years to come. By the beginning of the 5th century BC, the Persian Empire, under Darius, was…

Coming into International Security Threats? I did not know what to expect. Originally I decided to take the class because I figured it would be beneficial to me. Since I am going into the military I wanted to gain knowledge about the threats our nation is facing. Thinking this class would help me make a more rounded officer I hastily clicked to register for the class. My first day of the class threw me for a loop. Instead of talking about how to solve the issue of international security…

After the so-called four coordinated terrorist attack by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2011, the Bush administration declared a war in 2003 on Iraq. This invasion on Iraq cost many of the Iraqi people their everyday life and family members. Al Jazeera is a state funded broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network based in Doha, Qater. It was founded on the first of November 1996 by Hamad bi Khalifa Al Thani. This news…

Muslims, and Catholics against each other in a brutal combat (Avalos 2005). Also, thousands of monks were being persecuted in Burma during that time. Violence in religion even excels conflicts between various ethnicities, which also happen within the same ethnicity. The irony about this is that not one religion that ever existed in the past or present, preaches violence to solve any problems that exist. The reason why religion causes war is not the fact that religion teaches the people to do…

Directive 45.” This directive spelled out four national goals: “the immediate, complete, and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait; the restoration of Kuwait’s legitimate government; restoration of the security and stability of the Gulf region, and finally the protection of the lives of American citizens abroad.” This document came out eighteen days after Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. National Security Directive 45 was the forerunner to the January 15, 1991 National…

restarting his weapons of mass destruction program – not to attack the United States, but to defend himself. We could have monitored that process and kept an eye on it. And as long as he continued to balance Iran and keep a rough balance of power in the Gulf, who…

Between the Lines The recorded history of the Caribbean reveals how the trials and tribulations faced by its people have manifested in the present. Constantly oppressed, underestimated, and abused, the people of the Caribbean have developed a unique culture marked by the exploitation of the natives and slaves by the European colonizers and North American imperialists. The lines drawn by the North Atlantic powers have created an image of what is wrong or right, good or bad, high or low, worthy…