Soviet war in Afghanistan

Ali “The brother I had never had (93).” This inspiring phrase was spoken by Baba during chapter nine as Ali grabs hold of Hassan and leaves Baba’s home in order to protect him from Amir’s lying heart, demonstrating to readers his humble personality. It is evident throughout the novel that Ali withstands some Major abuse especially at the very beginning due to his appearance. His lower facial muscles are paralysed which “left him unable to smile and left him perpetually grim-faced (7).” No one…

policy with its hat on.” Before the start of World War 1 foreign policies such as the Good Neighbor Policy and the Monroe Doctrine had been produced. The Good Neighbor Policy was adopted by Franklin d. Roosevelt in 1933 and designed to improve the relations…

The radical-Islamic terrorist groups are primarily located in the Middle East with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world at 38.2% which one of the reasons terrorism thrives there (“Literacy”). The Taliban teaches the children at young ages what the Quran means and how the stories contained inside of it reflect…

In Richard A. Clarke’s book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror, Clarke explains America’s long war on terrorism. This book contains Clarke’s self-written narrative of his experience in counterterrorism and national security. On September 11th, 2001, Richard A. Clarke, chair of the Counterterrorism Security Group, the CSG for short, guided the United States’ instantaneous response to the terrorist attacks from the infamous Situation Room located in the West Wing of the White…

significantly different that they cannot make the same sorts of attacks on each other’ (Sexton, 2016). Before discussing the importance of Asymmetric warfare we need to take a short glance on Ivan Arreguin-Toft’s article analysing ‘How the small win the wars’, figure 1. It shows, that there is an evident tendency of a weak actor defeating a strong one if the Asymmetric warfare model is used. The diagram shows that in the last fifty-year period weak actor’s chances to achieve victory have…

compared to that of Lyndon B. Johnson about two decades prior, was certainly a revolution. Reagan’s domestic policy allowed specifically for economic expansion which had been unachievable to LBJ. His successful foreign policy led to the end of the Cold War, which America had been involved in since 1947 and from which LBJ failed to remove the US. The public political legacy of Reagan is undeniable and incomparable to that of LBJ because of the myriad improvements he made to the life of all…

Throughout the 1960s, the country of Germany was in a political crisis. The Eastern communists of Germany, who were owned by the Soviet Union, were unhappy to realize that many people were escaping the reality of communism to live in Western Germany. Upset and angry, East Germany decided to build a wall in order to split up the country in the center of Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a symbol of detachment of the government politically and physically. However, during the years of the “Iron Curtain”…

The Cold War was a rivalry that developed after World War II between the U.S., the Allies, and the Soviet Union. It started when the Soviets instilled left-wing governments in the eastern countries of Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. The Americans and their allies feared that communist rule would influence the Eastern parts of Europe and come to power in democratic countries. During this conflict, the U.S. and the USSR began developing missiles that could reach each continent if…

The Hidden Meaning Behind Random Acts of Violence Shakespeare's Macbeth and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner both contain scenes that are considered controversial, or "edgy". However, neither Shakespeare nor Hosseini intended for these scenes to be interpreted as pointless, random acts of violence. Both controversial scenes are thoughtfully developed and are vital to the theme and tone of their respective works. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth attempts to consolidate his power by…

and Afghanistan War has triggered an immense increase in the number of academic literature regarding asymmetrical warfare. It is generally assumed that the power disparity between a strong state and a weaker non-state opponent would permit the stronger adversary to win. However, history illustrates a different picture, since weak non-state actors have been the side reaping victory. This paper will limit its scope by examining why strong counterinsurgent state actors lose in asymmetrical wars,…