Essays on Desert Storm

Introduction

The Battle of 73 Easting was a war fought between the United States VII Corps and the Tawakalna Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard in 1991. The Battle of 73 Easting became one of many army fights that took place in Desert Storm. War tactics used in this battle were entirely different from the strategies employed in the current world. The development of modern war tactic methods such as the use of chemical weapons, and long-range ballistic missiles among others, are all signs that army forces must be ready to fight and win wars in complex environments and under ...

Introduction: Overview & Thesis

According to a PBS report in 2011, commenting on Middle East rooted terrorist group attacks, “While these extremely violent religious extremists represent a minority view, their threat is real” (Moore, “Evolution of Islamic Terrorism”). Today, of course, the most commonly popularized terrorist group gaining worldwide headlines in the news are the jihadists known as ISIS. Ever since ISIS has gained center stage internationally, there is hardly a human being who is not aware of the group’s presence on Earth. Currently it has been written that the contemporary world in the Middle East has been socio-politically changed, and the ...

The United States has a proud tradition of military accomplishment and support. Federal holidays like Memorial Day and Veterans Day celebrate the men and women who have fought and died in battle for American freedom. Historians have coined terms like the “Great War,” and the “Good War,” to describe the proud feelings of America’s participation in modern wars. After World War II, the country experienced an unprecedented economic growth and increased political power throughout the world, leading some to label the decades after World War II “the American half-century.” However, the memories of one American war stand in stark ...

The Korean War took place between 1950 and 1953. After World War II the country was divided between the USA and the Soviet Union into a communistic North Korea and a capitalistic South Korea on the line of the 38th parallel. It was a war between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union. Many scientists call the Korean War as "The Forgotten War," because it has been overshadowed by bloodier and vaster conflicts like the War of Vietnam, Desert Storm and the anniversary of World ...

The first gulf war, also termed as the Persian Gulf, emerged as a result of conflict of the Iraq nation and the merging of quite a number of nations 32 in number. These nations include Egypt, the United States, France, Britain, and Saudi Arabia. The theory of the world system explains that the world is divided into three groups. The first is the main developed countries; North America, Western Europe, and Japan. The second includes the underdeveloped countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The third group include the countries in Eastern Europe, Russia and Asian societies who struggle to outweigh ...

What justification did Iraq give for its invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990?

For seven months Saddam occupied Kuwait thus resulting in the first Gulf War as US led forces worked to push the Iraqi military out of Kuwait. Many people have given different reasons as to why Saddam invaded Kuwait but it is believed that he wanted to set Iraq free from the ‘gratuitous debt’ he assumed they had accrued during the Iran – Iraq war, to reconcile the theft of their oil by ‘slant drilling’ from Kuwait and to proclaim as theirs the land he believed to rightfully belong to Iraq. Amidst all the reasons that may have led to the ...

Abstract

The January 2012 Strategic Air Force Guidance was launched in an effort to cut the United States Air Force budget in over $480 billion over the next decade. Options to reduce the budget and yet protect the USA citizens are continuously being exploited. This paper will identify and discuss three capabilities that could be used to maintain spending in the USAF at a minimum and yet advance its functionality. This would be a challenging tall order but it is possible. The new strategies discussed in this paper are embarking on new technology, deterring aggression in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region, ...

Slavery had long been an established institution in the American colonies prior to the advent of the Revolutionary War, and yet a degree of ambiguousness marked the attitude of white colonists to blacks and to the institution of slavery in late-18th century America. Thomas Jefferson, generally considered the leading intellectual light of the incipient republic, could call into question the practice of slavery while at the same time lending it his tacit approval as the owner of hundreds of black servants. Indeed, as the Continental Congress and its undermanned military forces faced the world’s greatest military power, expediency rather ...