United States Secretary of Defense

and the Secretary of Defense. Then the article follows by stating that in education we do blame our teachers when their students do not perform well on a standardized test. In like manner, the article then states if we do not like the way a school performs on a test, we blame the teachers then restrict their resources. Following, the article states that when our military does not get the results they want they are given better and stronger tools, but teachers are not. Next, the article states…

The Secretary of War, Lindley ________________________ 1. “Military Developments of World War I,” last modified April 5, 2016, http://www.encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/military_developments_of_world_war_i. 2. “Inventing Mechanized Warfare, 1916,”…

In the defense department there are six branches of the armed forces. The six branches include The US Marine Corps, The US Army, The US Navy, The US Air Force, The US Coast Guard, and The US Special Operations Command. Out of the six branches in the armed forces The US Special Operations Command sticks out the most. The US Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, consists of the elite and finest members of all other five branches of the armed forces. It is the most unrecognized and underrated armed…

killed and taken hostage in September 1972 when the Palestinian guerrillas attacked at Munich Olympics. The hostages were killed in an airport during an attempt at a rescue. Arab states met in October of 1974 and decided the PLO should take responsibility. By 1976 the PLO had established itself enough to take part in a United Nations debate. In 1980 the organization split into factions. In 1994 the leader of PLO won the novel peace prize. The next year he was elected president of Palestine…

“We Win, They Lose”: How Reagan’s Foreign Policy Brought Down the Soviet Union The 1980s was a pivotal era in world history. After decades of America’s failed containment policies which strengthened and helped spread Communism across the globe, a change in direction was desperately needed. Ronald Reagan fundamentally shifted American foreign policy as president, which in turn, greatly influenced the collapse of the “evil empire” by the early nineties. Although the Reagan Administration did…

An article from the Smithsonian magazine details the finding of an anthropologist about bureaucracy, “Spencer found similar evidence timing the rise of bureaucracies and the expansion of states when examining the archaeological record of the Moche state in Peru (c. 200 to 400 A.D.) . . . and the Erlitou state of China (1800 to 1500 B.C.). In each case Spencer found that the development of bureaucracy was necessary for the development of the empire (even on a small, pre-industrial scale).”…

way. With advancements in technology, drones are able to study and accurately carry out missile strikes that eliminate suspected terrorists and high-risk targets in the middle-east and around the world. Drone warfare should be conducted by the United States military due to the war on terrorism, reduction…

last 40 years, the United States has been tangled in the political environments of both the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq. This entanglement is rooted in the contradictory involvement of the United States in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980’s. In the war, the United States supported both sides of a conflict in which it officially wished to end, but the resources it provided may have actually allowed the war to continue. One should ask, “Why would the United States pursue…

destabilizing the country and enabling the execution of Libya’s dictator of 42 years, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) justified the Libya Intervention for NATO allies on the grounds of a humanitarian threat thought to occur at the direction of Gaddafi. However, the humanitarian crisis never occurred. Thus, I conclude that the United States, UNSC, and the NATO allies involved in the Intervention are responsible for Libya’s present-day humanitarian…

the decline of the Imperial Japanese Army’s aggression and morale between 1941-1945. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president of the United States in 1941 gave his Infamy Speech on December 8, 1941. The speech was his response to the American people regarding the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Just hours after his Infamy Speech, the United States declared war on Japan. This attack struck America in the heart and made Americans realize that we are not invincible. Allen…