Uday Hussein

Ali Khadery (2014) Three years ago, the Islamic State (ISIS) did not exist; now it controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq. Showing off its handiwork daily via Twitter and YouTube, Isis has repeatedly demonstrated that it is much more than a transnational terrorist organization – rather, it is an entity with sophisticated command, control, propaganda and logistical capabilities, and one that has proven its ability to take and hold strategically critical territory at the heart of the Middle East.…

The USA is worldwide known for being the major liberal democratic country. However, on 20th march 2003, the USA invaded Iraq, which was the major and the most expensive military confrontation for the USA after Cold war (Lieberfeld, 2005). This action has been argued to be the breaking and rejecting the international law of non-intervention. But, the justification of such action was given by the president of the USA – George W. Bush as following: ‘Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward…

What is ISIS? ISIS is an acronym that stands for the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" . Its recent origins must be briefly explained by political unrest in Afghanistan and Iraq that started in the 1980's. The Soviet Union invades and occupies Afghanistan 1979. Muslim Afghan warriors called "mujahideen" rebels are the fighting Soviet Union incursion from 1979-1989. The United States was openly supporting and sponsoring these anti communist rebels. This is the rise and infancy of Osama bin…

Prior to our invasion of Iraq on March 2003, there were some monumental failures conducted by the intelligence community (IC). These failures pertain specifically to the assessment of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which was the IC’s ultimate end state goal. The United States was not alone in its inaccuracies. In fact, it was a multinational effort. This short report will review the history leading up to the failures that played a major factor into the assessments. In…

Counterterrorism is a complex topic that can be used through many formats. For example, economic, social, religious, political, military and security. The difficult aspect of counterterrorism is deciding which tactic will be most successful to the mission. Every domestic and international situation should be responded to using the measure that will produce the best results. The United States government is focused on using military tactics in a softer format and political measures. The current…

Geographic Advantages, Disadvantages, and Natural Resources of Iraqi Kurdistan The purpose of this research is to identify the distinct geographic advantages and disadvantages Iraqi Kurdistan currently possess in order to develop strategies for resource sharing, stability, governance and regional stability to a unified Iraq. The primary focus of selecting key geographic advantages and disadvantages is to have the ability to apply one or all of the lessons learned to effect change in Iraq and the…

The roots of the Iraqi conflict begins and ends with the whole entirely story of Saddam Hussein in Iraq is one of terror, killing, and colonizing dreams. However, in 1979 Saddam Hussein took power (Rayment, 2007). Saddam was on a mission to take over and get things running and done his way that he did not wait to start a battle with his dominant neighbor, Iran. The war lasted approximately for 8 years (Rayment, 2007). Shortly after the end of the war a raid was propelled in Kuwait. His fast…

The name “Saddam Hussein” was one I had heard many a times in my childhood. He was after all the “bad guy” and “we got him”, and apart from this association I could really have cared less about his importance. The end of the old order and the rise of the Ba’ath party was Saddam’s coming. The increased independence of Iraq from western imperialism post-WWII can be largely associated with the Ba’athist regime and the rise of the Soviet Union as a contending world power. The party dreamt of a…

More than thirteen years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq in March of 2003. This contentious decision has forever shifted U.S. foreign policy thus creating problems that will not be repaired easily, if at all. What grew into a full-blown war finally ended after Obama’s decision to bring troops back to the U.S., however the effects of the war are prominently evident in Iraq. The lack of any complete resolution for Iraq and its people has left many citizens of the United States,…

the Iraq War was that the nation had weapons of mass destruction, which posed an immediate threat to the United States and its allies (Kumar, 2014). Therefore, military intervention was required, which ultimately resulted in the removal of Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, from power. The war lasted for eight years and had everlasting effects on the United States and Iraq. The argument of whether the United States should have invaded Iraq is a complicated and multifaceted one; a number of…