Transformation of the United States Army

conducted with Special Agent David R. Smith, at his office located at the Redstone Criminal Investigations Command, Bldg. 3623, Gray Road, Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. Special Agent Smith provided the following information. David Smith joined the US Army in 1997 and spent his first 8 years in the military working Psychological Operations (PSYOP) as an Arabic linguist. He applied to and was selected to attend the CID Special Agent Course a 16-week course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where…

On March 19th, 2003, President George W. Bush announces to the world that the United States military would soon be conducting operations in Iraq to free its people. Only two years after the biggest terrorist attack on America, Americans no longer felt safe. President Bush stormed through Iraq in search of the alleged nuclear weapons Saddam’s regime was said to have only to come up empty-handed. He also accused the Iraqi government of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda. The War on Terror was still…

Army Recruiter in Muscle Shoals,…

Prior to watching American Sniper, I was skeptical about it, because I am usually not a big fan of war movies. After watching the film it really opened up my eyes about what the military is actually about and what goes on while I am safely sitting at home doing my homework. The 2014 film was two hours and fourteen minutes long and is a true story of Chris Kyle (played by Bradley Cooper). When Chris was a kid, he was a natural shooter with impeccable aim and had dreamed of becoming a cowboy.…

of Boston and the failure at New York and the successful attack on Trenton. The author details the challenges of creating and maintaining an army and then developing and drilling the militia that will be disciplined in the field of battle. I will focus on three areas that were major issues that General George Washington faced while leading the continental army during the year…

When we look at Native American conflicts with the United States we often see references to Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn with Custer’s last stand but there is a battle that was more devastating and more impacting to the U.S. government that history seems to have forgotten. That battle is the Battle of Wabash that happened in the early stages of our country in the year of 1791. This battle would be a crucial point in our young countries history and the way we would have to…

the majority of the American public holds the military in high esteem, but has little to no knowledge about military affairs. In turn, the United States is more likely to go to war and turn a blind eye towards sound military spending. Although I agree with the author on most of his arguments, I do not completely agree with all of them. The author states that the press does not voice public skepticism about the military as they do about other American institutions. I believe that the public…

This was to be achieved through “nation-building”. “Nation -building” is defined as establishing civil order and government in a state (Pan, 2005). This objective was not achieved, as the U.S. forces were unable to create an entity which secured the state by having the capacity to protect Somali citizens and promote civil order and control (Marra and Pierce, 2013). Without civil order and control; developing infrastructure and the formation…

Despite the fact that during the Vietnam War, the United States dropped three times as many explosives as it dropped during World War II, even newer textbooks who dedicated more pages to discussing and illustrating the war, still fail to properly illustrate any type of real damage done by our side during the Vietnam War. Instead, many of these textbooks choose to use images that may be considered less controversial and don’t paint the United States in a negative light, such as using images of…

Things They Carried”, he introduces his extremely personal story to his readers “On the Rainy River” that he supposedly has never told anyone. With this chapter he is faced with a huge life-changing crisis, he had been drafted to serve in the United States Army to fight in the Vietnam War. O’Brien felt trapped, he was completely opposed to this forced command but there was no way out. He couldn’t even fathom why he would have to risk his life for a war that he strongly did not even believe in.…