United States Secretary of Defense

President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zone making way for the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, all backs were turned to those of Japanese descent; were they (the Japanese) with us or against us? Legion amounts of people questioned the loyalty of the Japanese. This negativity caused officials to conclude that the Japanese residing in the United Stated were untrustworthy and to…

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Using the Defense Security Service Insider Threat Risk Equation Where, Risk = (threat, vulnerabilities, values, or consequence), I propose the Risk of Russian insider threats has grown substantially, that US citizens, many with DoD security clearance access, maintain radicalized or adverse political beliefs favorable to Russia. Our vulnerabilities range from poor personnel vetting to all aspects of information and systems security, and DoD facilities security. Lastly, the values of these…

transnational contacts. These ideas made many people as well as states in the East to abandon the conservative ideas that they held on to. This subsequently contributed to the collapse of the influence of the Soviet Union and subsequent end of the cold war (Jervis, 2006). The end of the cold war can also be attributed to the economic successes that the West was registering. The economic successes were to a large extent more appealing to many of the states that were in the East and that were…

threat to the United States. Hezbollah’s primary threat is to Israel and the Lebanese government, and it has traditionally manifested this threat through kidnappings, bombings, hijackings, street demonstrations, and other acts of terror. There is a secondary threat arising against the U.S. military from Hezbollah, however, and that is Hezbollah’s funding and training of Shi’a militia groups in Syria, and its cooperation with Iranian forces in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, and also…

To better understand the United States’ foreign policy and the Bush administration’s ultimate decision to invade Iraq in 2003, it is necessary to first understand what realism is and how this theory has played an important role in decisions made by the US concerning other countries. Realism developed a new political theory, different to its predecessors which were based on natural law. Realism is based on the theory that every state will do whatever it feels necessary to ensure its own…

However, with no dominant threat the nuclear powers such as the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China are defensive of their continued use of nuclear weapons as a means to bully in international politics. Since the powers refuse to disarm, it has been the work of smaller nations, as well as citizen groups, who have the most progress towards a nuclear free tomorrow. Many smaller nations are making strides towards disarmament with the extreme example being South Africa who…

Harry S. Truman became the 33rd President of the United State on April 12, 1945. Truman had only been vice-president for 12 weeks when President Franklin D. Roosevelt [FDR] died suddenly and catapulted Truman into the presidency. Truman had not been aware of the nature of Roosevelt’s long illness and knew little about crucial issues relating to the development of the atomic bomb, the increasing conflict with the Soviet Union and other wartime problems. Truman told the media, “I felt like the…

The Secretary of Defense holds a paramount job in the U.S. Government because of the importance of its department. Actually, the Secretary of Defense must be a citizen of the United States with large government or administrative experience, and who has not served in the U.S. armed forces in the previous seven years. The Secretary of the Defense is assigned by the President with the consent of the Senate, and is considered as the member of the Cabinet and the National Security Council. Holder…

Christopher Mouawad (915196889) Ms. Sarah Prince POL 003 27 October 2017 Senkaku Islands Dispute: Best Explained by Realist Thought For centuries, interactions between states have revolved around power, be it geopolitical, economic, militaristic, or otherwise. This concept is central to a theory of international relations known as realism. Contrary to liberalism, the other dominant theory of international relations, the tenants of realism support the idea that a state’s interests revolve around…