Soviet war in Afghanistan

According to Carter Von Findlay: "The Soviets’ economic problems were worsened by the fact that the world-market price of oil, their main export, dropped again by the mid-1980s. As the Soviets’ export earnings fell, their foreign debt shot up, reaching $54 billion by 1989. The Soviet domestic economy was shrinking." Moreover, the scientific and technological revolution that began in developed countries rejected the Soviet Union in its development decades ago, and it lagged not…

Al Qaeda Formation The name Al Qaeda was common in the Soviet-Afghanistan war training camps and it is translated to mean the base in the English language. This organization developed during the Bureau, becoming an organization of faith-fueled warriors rigorously working on an ideological program to protect the world’s evils to Israel and an America that was Jew-dominated. Osama used his managerial skills to establish this group as a business and obtained many of the finances from legitimate…

carried out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department, by a vote 94-2 on January 21, 2009. Additionally, although the president is reflected as a commander-in-chief of the army, Congress embraces an important role which emphasizes the war. As a part of “check and balance” principle, Congress and the president might either decide with each other or not in some certain points, especially, in foreign policy making. And even, both come to the agreement, it doesn’t mean that this…

The 1990-1991 Gulf War was the first true test of the modern US Army. The Army was armed and equipped with some of the best weapon systems in the world. After Vietnam the US Army underwent major changes in organization, structure, and philosophy. Following the Vietnam War, the Army went through significant changes in preparation to fight with the Soviet Union or Korea. The preparations for these conflicts led to the defeat of the fourth largest Army in the world in Operation Desert Storm.…

made by Osama bin Laden’s it was considered a holy war against the United States, also the support of Israel, and U.S troops in Saudi Arabia. The goals of al Qaeda is to get rid of the Americans and their influence away from all Muslim nations, destroy Israel, collapse the Western dictatorship around the Middle East and Saudi Arabia. The country was dismantled by the attack of 9/11 and President Bush establish Homeland Security, also announce a “War on Terror”. The al Qaeda terrorist attack…

Since 2001, the United States with its coalition partners have not enjoyed operational or strategic success in wars in Afghanistan or Iraq. There have been tactical successes, but often those successes have been a contributing factor to operational failure as military leaders ignore their counterinsurgency doctrine, striving to conduct major combat actions. A key contributor in Western failure has been the lack of integration of operations and intelligence in conventional forces. Intelligence…

Despite successful elections held in January 2005, most of Iraq had disintegrated, due to a post-war insurgency which the United States did not anticipate. Many of Iraq's intellectual and business elite fled the country, and many Iraqi refugees left as a result of the insurgency, further destabilizing the region.(Cimino, 2005) Unlike the deteriorating…

Americans were concerned about the Communist take-over in China in 1949, the Korean War in the 1950's, and increasing Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. To stop the spread of Communism, the United States helped found the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and pledged military aid to NATO members. It gave military and economic aid to developing countries facing Soviet or Chinese pressure. These countries included Greece, Laos, South Korea, South Vietnam,…

Most recent Muslims migrate to the United states as refugees because of wars, whether it’s the Sudan’s endless civil war, or it’s the Iraqi civil war after 2003; which led to Iraq been completely destabilized, or the recent civil war in Syria which led to millions of refugees to flee their homes, or Afghanistan war and conflicts with the Taliban, and many other Muslim countries that have been having or had some sort of violent conflicts and…

types of peace. He concluded that a negative peace; the absence of violence and the absence of war and a positive peace; the integration of human society as the essential definitions of peace. These two types of peace are important because they indicate the progressive nature of peace as a political relation to international society. Negative peace by nature are characterized by a absence of violence and war, it tends to be pessimistic and indicates that peace is not always achieved by peaceful…