War in Afghanistan

Another large problem is that these strikes are secretive and lack legal oversight, which leads to us not being able to hold our leaders accountable. Drones are used in conflicts where war is not openly declared and authorized by Congress, allowing the executive branch to have virtually unlimited power over secret wars across the world. The CIA has yet to officially acknowledge its drone programs anywhere in the world, let alone describe the rules and procedures for compliance with US and…

children who are not fighting may be used as cooks, messengers, spies, really just in any way the commander wants (Child Soldiers). Kids from many different countries are being recruited, some places including; South Sudan, Somalia, Philippines, and Afghanistan. Child soldiers are seen to be easier to recruit into the military. Some of the children do choose to join the military based on their education or protection of themselves and family. Not a lot of these children are choosing to be…

Governments around the world today are using child soldiers as expendable, Frontline combatants in armed conflicts around the world. Every day in countries around the world, vicious warlords and military generals kidnap children from their homes and use them to further their own goals of national conquest. These children are made to kill hundreds of people and are manipulated into thinking that what they are doing is righteous. The use of child soldiers can be mitigated by supporting the…

prepare them for the war before they put them in the wars, so now if a child is living on their own they to worry about being taking to a war preparation camp. There are both boys and girls being taking away from their families to fight in these wars. Both girls and boys are feeling as if they do not go to war then they have nothing else to do. In an article called “Sierra Leone’s Child Soldiers…” said that “Assessments revealed that the nature, frequency, and severity of most war-related…

The idea for Arena centered on humanity facing a hostile species. At that time, World War II was nearing the end and Germany was the species being fought. Second Variety had a theme of mankind and their ability to destroy themselves. It was an apt theme, as the development of the hydrogen bomb was underway during the time the story was published…

When the Towers Fell, We Took a Stand In a recent Ted talk presentation, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, Jamila Raqib, discusses how she knows the secret on how to resolve conflict in a non-violent technique. She goes on to state how there are over one hundred techniques of non-violent actions that can be taken to resolve harsh issues instead of using violence. Although I understand what she is saying and agree to a certain extent, I think living during the time of a…

umn Winston Child Soldiers Due: 12/3/15 When one thinks about a soldier, what do you think comes to that one’s mind? In my mind a soldier is a person who willingly choose to serve and defend their country. A solder that is over the age of 18 and who has joined to help not hurt. Little did I know that over thousands of children are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts all over the world. That there are boys and girls under the age of 18 serving in things such as government forces and armed…

It was pretty clear from the beginning that President Reagan was willing to utilize all of his power to makes sure the goals of the INF treaty were to be accomplished. Some examples of this was when President Reagan in 1981 proposed a zero option policy. This was especially critical and a large use of his Presidential power because this was the beginning to the creation of the INF treaty. This proposal laid the framework of negotiations on reductions in all types of arms. Reagan proposed the…

se, the over reliance on SOF to conduct operations for which more conventional ground forces may be well suited is of concern. It may very well be time to examine, the mission sets of conventional forces and leverage the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan to steep these Soldiers and Marines even more in the techniques of irregular warfare so that the future Joint Land Force is even more capable of performing full spectrum operations. In the current and foreseeable fiscally repressed…

Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper (2014) was produced at a time when both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were settling down and it was time for the American audience to see a glimpse of life on the battlefield compared to at home. This film was produced during a lot of tension and divided America on whether America should have even fought the Iraqi war, and tension between the Veterans healthcare system. American Sniper was released almost a decade after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom,…