War in Afghanistan

between the US and Cuba. Soviet arms shipment ratcheted up. Upon American surveillance, Washington learned that the Soviets introduced ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads in Cuba. The pinnacle of the Cold War, this was the closest the United States and Soviet Union had gone to World War III. Both nations could have destroyed whole cities and decades of infrastructure. Whole populations would be decimated. Generations of individuals would have birth defects. The devastation of Hiroshima and…

Ronald Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate was delivered during a transformative time for both Soviet leadership and the American approach to foreign relations. Reagan’s initial presidential stance advocated for a firm, forceful presence meant to deter Soviet advances and aggression against American freedom. Weapons upsurge and military expenditure rose drastically during Reagan’s early years, in efforts to protect Americans in the event of a nuclear altercation with the Soviets. However,…

(pg. 1183, Evil Empire) On a flight to Detroit, the location where he would accept his party’s presidential nomination, Reagan confirmed that the main reason he wanted to become president was because he intended “to end the cold war.” (pg. 1183) According to him, the main issue that the nation faced was communism, specifically Central America’s Communist threat. (pg. 1184) While Reagan focused on foreign issues, Jerry Falwell, who was a strong supporter of Ronald Reagan, believed…

In general, every society face a big number of troubles. There are many different problems form ocean to ocean, the problem these days are trading in illegal drugs and with illegal drugs bring crime. Drugs cause wrong decisions choose, drugs are not need making people do things that are not right, however make it so that people do not think straight. When people are not think straight they may go to make bad choices. When people make wrong choices it usually puts around them in danger…

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, follows Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, through his emotion-filled life. Throughout the novel, we witness Amir’s experiences with extreme guilt, unworthiness, selfishness, and selflessness. Majority of his relationships have one of these embedded into them. Including his relationships with Hassan, his family’s servant, and his dad, Baba. Hassan and his father, Ali, both serve Baba and Amir. Hassan is around Amir’s age, and because of that, they often…

of soldiers from many nations occupied Afghanistan in an effort to stabilise the country. The ISAF served to train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), rebuild government institutions and remove Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other factional warlords from the areas surrounding Kabul. One of these the Forward Operation Bases was known as Armadillo. Armadillo, is a Danish documentary about a group of young Royal Danish Army soldiers who are deployed to Afghanistan on their first ISAF mission. The…

implementation of the strict Sharia law. Beginning with the Soviet Union’s military invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the conflict between the Afghan communist government and the anti-communist Muslim population became much more violent. Moreover, the United States decided to take measure to prevent the Soviet from increasing in power, as it feared the newfound advantage the Soviet would have in the Cold War. It thus provided an abundance of military weapons for insurgencies known as the…

suggest NATO should fight against terrorism? What are the contentious issues currently in dispute within NATO? In the beginning of the article, some of the current issues that are addressed are how to best help Afghanistan, how to deal with global terrorism, and NATO enlargement. In the Afghanistan situation, there are two views: engaging in full scale conflict and helping the Afghan people become self-sufficient in security…

sometimes conventional—military strategies.” There are two distinct instances of insurgency in the Middle East that aptly convey this definition: Iraq and Afghanistan. Comparatively these to cases are quite similar in motivation and success. It is the act of counter-insurgency by outside forces that were quite different. In Iraq and Afghanistan, it is questionable whether attempts at counter-insurgency by the United States were successful. Jones deems it necessary for the counter-insurgents to…

At a staggering rate, families of honorable veterans are reading words similar to this after it is too late. Suicide among veterans has become a recent epidemic, and the death toll has far surpassed the combat related deaths of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined. As of April 9, 2015, 4,412 soldiers and 13 civilians have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and 2,351 soldiers along with four civilians have been killed in Operation Enduring Freedom for total 6780 combat related deaths since…