Essays on Military Aid

After the carnage of 9/11, the international community turned its local and joint efforts to the struggle against terrorism and prevention of terroristic activities. Antiterrorism initiatives have been run by various international organizations, particularly by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee, and by the United States government, which applies its resources to combat terroristic activities on a domestic scale and in countries overwhelmed by terroristic groups. As Chalk notes, “the coordinated terrorist strikes of 9/11 galvanized a [] response by the United States government to increase the country’s physical and financial security in the face of potential future attacks” (Chalk, ...

Introduction

On the fateful afternoon of December 10 1981, during the Salvadorian war, several units of the renowned Atlacati Batallion, a section of the Salvadorian Army stormed the small village of El Mozote. They were all out on a mission to counter the guerilla insurgents in the region after a clash. The army embarked on interrogating the El Mozote residents for some time before they started brutal execution of the men on account of being sympathizers with the insurgents. The ordeal that lasted for three days left approximately 800 people dead, Men, women and children. (Danner, 2016) The events and ...

The Islamic State must not be regarded as a terrorist organization alone. The group has evolved into a well-run political machine and a potent military force. The group believes in a twisted translation of Islamic law as an anchor political belief and demands that this particular world view be imposed on Muslims as well as peoples of other ‘inferior’ religious beliefs. Founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the group was originally called as the “Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the first regiments of the IS fought against the US military in the aftermath of the downfall of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. The IS ...

The United States government bears almost complete responsibility for the Massacre at El Mozote, as the U.S. President, Congress, and military encouraged the policies that led to the massacre, trained and armed the soldiers responsible, and covered it up. Apparently, the government of the United States played a key role in the massacre since its military trained the Atlactl Battalion, a unit of the Salvadorian armed forces, in order to combat the Salvadorian guerilla. The Atlactl Battalion was an elite unit and the government of the United States was extremely proud of having taken part in its creation. Therefore, the government ...

Countries have always relied on each other for help. At least all countries, at one point in time, in their history, have received foreign aid from another country or an International Financial organization. Foreign aid policies, overtime have had received much criticism and applause in equal measures. It will be discussed in detail, in this discourse, with a focus on the effect of foreign aid in Liberia. Since the period after the Second World War, foreign aid has become a factor that has informed most developed countries foreign policies. The postwar period was an important time in the development of ...

The legacy of the cold war and the struggle between the USSR, and the United States continues to flourish in large portions in developing countries. The two world powers had different ideologies, and were in a battle for supremacy. The Cold War pitted an American led alliance against the Soviet Union that divided the economical and political world into two major blocs. The cold war involved a contest of ideologies that intensified after the two great powers, America and the Soviet Union started competing for friendship from dozens of new sovereign states that had previously been colonial powers. The super powers ...

Analysis on “To Die In Mexico”

The war on drugs, as it has developed in Mexico, where supplies to fill a US demand, have led to extreme loss of life, parallel power systems, government corruption, extreme costs to taxpayers and a variety of social woes. Regardless of the argument for or against legalization, or the effects of the controlling cocaine and marijuana has led to numerous undesired consequences. As John Gibler argues in his book To Die in Mexico, the message the governments of both Mexico and the US tell to the general public regarding the justification for the war on drugs, are false and designed to ...

Global Force of Good: The United States of America

Since the end of the Second World War and the Cold War, the United States has often been regarded as the world’s most powerful nation today. In the political, economic and social sector, the country often served as the leader of the international community while some saw the country as a role model for change and democracy. However, in times of conflict and disasters, the United States is one of the first few who would respond and send in the US military to help nations in need. Critics may find this action by the United States questionable considering the ...

Forewords

Egypt's military-backed government led by Abdel Falah al Sisi is trying to establish a political order since July 2013. The political order has been given tremendous public support in Egypt, and the authorities have sensed this. Many observers and authors are of the opinion that after the riots against former president Husni Mubarak, Egyptian society has become more opinionated, connected to the world, daring and more economically and socially entrepreneur. There could be no central power which can control or rule such a society for an indefinite period. Some are also of the opinion that Egyptian security forces have reemerged as a ...

“U.S. Foreign Policy Responses to the 2014 Crisis in Ukraine”

International Relations “I certify that all material presented in this assignment is my own work except where I have clearly acknowledged the work of others by means of accurate citation. I have read and understand the University’s Academic Integrity Policy.” Local political events that constantly happen all over the world have impact, though not always immediately palpable, on the interests of the United States and its citizens. While some can be insignificant and barely affect economic or defense sector, the others can lead to the redefinition ...

INTRODUCTION

The problem in question here is the crisis in Syria. The crisis began since the last elections in 2011 with a hardline difficult to eradicate opposition fighting a government that stops at nothing to stop its opposition and suppress resistance. The government has reportedly been using chemical weapons, cluster bombs and missile attacks to suppress the rebels. The solution to the problem will involve a military solution given the present state of the situation. President Bashir la Assad has dealt with the opposition in ways that have severely torn the country with the opposition responding in equally radical ways. Both have ...

In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2010), Naomi Klein found numerous examples of how the United States imposed a system of free trade, free markets and laissez faire capitalism on the rest of the world over the past forty years, through manufacturing crises to impose ‘shock treatments’ and structural adjustments on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe, or simply taking proper advantage of a crisis that was already underway. She calls the many “orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market ...

The U. government had been dissatisfied with the leftist, nationalist and neutralist policies of Brazil’s civilian leaders for at least ten years before it organized the military coup against President Joao Goulart in April 1964. From Washington’s viewpoint, this problem grew especially acute after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the refusal of the Brazilian government to join enthusiastically in the covert and overt campaigns to remove Fidel Castro from power. There was precedent for the military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) actions against President Goulart, including the removal of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in Operation ...

The Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was already in the making long before the Truman Doctrine was announced in the spring of 1947, and in fact dated back to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. During that period, the U.S. and other Allied nations sent troops to support the anti-Communist Whites against the Reds, and then refused any diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1934. Even the policy of containment was not new since during the 1920s and 1930s the Western powers attempted to create what they called a ‘cordon sanitaire’ around Communist Russia. Britain, the ...

According to Twopeopleonefuture (2012) the war between Israel and Palestine has continued to affect the two countries in a negative trajectory which has seen the United States suffer huge economic losses through the aid mounted by the government. The campaign run in the US and other global cities through the various social media and media platforms originates on the basis of trying to get the military presence and aid of the American troupes out of Israel and Palestine. Twopeopleonefuture (2012) observes that it is done with the intention of pushing for a more conscious approach on the aid that is allocated ...

Abstract

As early as the times of the Roman Empire, warfare plays a huge role in the determination of who dominates a territory. The scramble for resources has made war a necessary evil that is hard to ignore. The geographical and economic expansion of the United States of America can to a large extent is attributed to the military and the naval supreme powers that it possesses. The United States of America is considered a world hegemon due to its involvement in world politics. The other states in other world possess resources that are often of interest to the United States. For instance, the invasion ...