Essays on Military

The publication focuses on the foreign policy of the U.S. with China and provides some of the key recommendations that if implemented could help in resolving the tension between China and the U.S. The key areas in question include economy and trade, democracy and human rights, military competition, and foreign policy.

The publication offers a suggestion the U.S. can adopt to put pressure on China to respect intellectual property rights without causing a trade war between the two countries. Through this recommendation, the U.S. can be able to take an ethical stand on areas affecting America’s economic and diplomatic ...

Abstract:

People of West Papua are struggling for the freedom since a long time. It has been revealed that thousands of west Papuans has been killed by the Indonesian military forces since they were raising their voice for the freedom. This paper discusses the freedom struggle of the west Papua and other related aspects of the issue.

West Papua is an Indonesian province and region has been fighting for the independence for a long time. West Papua has been witnessing a series of containment by Indonesian military since the decade of sixty. People of west Papua are suffering and feeling suffocated because ...

How genocide affected the relationship between the Maya and the Guatemalan government. How would they react to the offer of military assistance to assist them in recovering from the Hurricane Stan?

The two articles give a clear and detailed picture of the effects of genocide. How the Maya community perceptions towards the Guatemalan government was distorted. The Guatemalan army, according to the articles, conducted all inhuman activities that you can imagine off, with the intention of implanting fear to the people. The military adopted harmful and dangerous techniques. They crushed communities, resulting to death of more than 200,000 ...

The U.S. Victory in Vietnam: Lost and Found

The Iraq war and its insurgency has been likened to Vietnam’s insurgency, the U.S. also faces an equal defeat. Contrarily, people in support of the Iraq war state that Vietnam and the U.S do not share any similarity with the defeat of the U.S. in the Vietnam War.

The U.S. is very dissimilar with Vietnam War, the U.S. won in 1973. It has been argued in two prisms: the Chinese Revolution has been likened to Indochina; the conflict was a Vietnamese Revolution and this was not a threat to the ...

When was the sculpture created?

The sculpture is better known as the Terracotta Army and is actually a large collection of statues which I depict the army of the first Emperor of China who was known as Qin Shi Huang. The sculpture was created around the 3rd century BC and the whole finding was made in the early 1970’s with rows upon rows of soldiers in the dark cavern in Xian, Shannxi province. It is probably ascertained that the sculptures date back to the 3rd century through the use of radio carbon dating. The idea of recreating a whole army is quite incredible in the ...

Stealth technology also known as low observable technology is an electronic countermeasure that is normally regarded passive (Singh 66). It is usually used by the military to acquire intelligence and secretly access enemy lines. This technology incorporates refined listening devices and invisible aircrafts used essentially to access enemy’s territory. Additionally, this technology employs a range of techniques used along with missiles, satellites, ships, personnel and aircrafts to fundamentally make them invisible from infrared while accessing enemy lines, sonar and any other detection technique. Apparently, it is clearly evident that Stealth Technology is yet to experience way many changes ...

A BattleJacket is a product of High Impact Technology (HIT) and is designed in a manner that enables the minimization of leakages from fuel tankers. The leakages in fuel tankers are caused by attacks from firearms. These leakages can cause serious health conditions to the troops handling the tankers and also operational failure due to lack of fuel. The BattleJacket was developed through the testing of several formulas of spray coatings. The BattleJacket has a coating made of a urethane which is fire resistant and similar to that of the spray-in bed liner of the Rhino Linings USA Inc. The BattleJacket contains a polymer ...

Over the past 13years, hundreds and thousands of our youths have been deployed to various countries to maintain peace. These deployments involve long stays in the war zone areas separating them from their family and their loved ones. Unfortunately, the past and the current government administrations have not been able to aide in the effective delivery of the service members and the Quality of life for these armed youths. With these adverse conditions, it can be observed that the rate at which the service members have been conducting suicide is ...

The choice for the profession is one of the most challenging tasks an individual has to deal with in life. Every person has carefully to make a choice of a profession to join. While making a choice for any profession, passion and interest should be kept above everything else. Many people always find themselves in a dilemma while thinking of the profession to join. From childhood, there are career dreams that people usually desire in their lives. It is funny that every time a child comes across a professional, he/she gets interested in joining that particular profession. The biggest question is, “what motivates a person to ...

The World War I with all its hostilities brought death and destruction across Europe. Millions of people died for the sacred purpose – to end all possible wars by getting involved into one massive war. In 1954, the Veterans Day received its official recognition (initially it was called Armistice Day) and became a national holiday that calls people to remember those soldiers who paid with their lives to ensure peace in the US. Without hesitation I would say that celebrating the Veterans Day is not only necessary, but also useful for the US to ensure its history and traditions being passed ...

Schmidt’s tenets majorly described as the Ahimsa principle focus on the need to shun violence in our society. The principle primarily means not to cause injury or circumvent behaviors or activities that lead to pain on human beings as well as the animals. Though the principle pays more attention to the Hinduism religion, it is multidimensional and applicable to all regions. The principle assets that a human being possesses the divine spiritual energy, this means causing pain on fellow human being is tantamount to hurting yourself (Maschike 109). The principle went further to admonish the nation that violence on ...

Question 1

Ex parte Miligan was a Supreme Court case in the United States that ruled that applying military tribunals to citizens was unconstitutional, when it is evident that civilian courts are still working. The case was about Lambdin Miligan and four others who were accused of stealing weapons and invading Union prisoner of war camps. The accused person was arrested and in 1864 and was charged with aiding a confederacy, inciting insurrection and conspiring to free Confederate prisoners. Miligan was arrested in his home in Indiana by the Union general the accused person was active at the time in the secret society ...

The tensions between England and her colonial subjects were rapidly escalating. Henry, a young lawyer, spoke to his fellow Virginians of his opinions regarding the colony’s course of action. Henry Patrick is best known for the speech that he made in the House of Burgesses on March 23, 1775, Give me Liberty or Give Me Death. The Burgesses house was faced with a problem of deciding on whether to deploy their military against the encroaching force of the British military. The difficulty of arriving in a conclusive decision necessitated a meeting of lawyers and ...

1. A "Virtue of anarchy" (or a positive effect of the constant threat of the use of force) in the international system according to Kenneth Waltz. (From Anarchic structures and balances of power, mainly Virtues of Anarchy)

Kenneth Waltz argues that countries reside in a state of war. Nation-states are guided solely by self-interests both internal, such as economic and military power, and external, by forming alliances and counter blocks. Some countries may have military potential and can use it anytime they want as a means of self-interest. K. Waltz implies that this violence is due to the anarchy, or chaos ...

This was a proxy war in the Cold War-era, which took place in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos between 1956 and 1975. It came after the First Indochina War and was a battle between North Vietnam that was backed by the China, Soviet Union, as well as other communist allies and the South Vietnam government that had the U.S. backup together with other anti-communist nations.

The Viet Cong, common front from South Vietnamese communist that was directed by the North, battled a guerrilla war against forces of anti-communism in the area. The North Vietnamese Army was involved in a more conventional battle, sometimes ...

World War 2

This World War 2 is mostly known in another name as the Second World War. This was a global war that was fought between the years 1939 to 1945 and involved almost the entire world (the vast majority nations of the world) as well as all of the great powers forming the two conflicting military alliances: the Axis and the Allies. This period was the darkest, largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of the mankind where hundred of millions suffered from wounds and injuries.

Many reasons have been suggested by historians as the causes of Second ...

The article titled “U.S. military doctors abetted prisoner abuse, study says” was written by Jane Sutton in the Chicago Tribune newspaper on November 04 2013. In the article, Sutton reports the findings of a study by the Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers which studied the conduct of US military doctors in the interrogation of detainees after the September 11 attacks.

The reporter states that military doctors violated medical ethics by collaborating with interrogators to harm prisoners after the September 11 attacks in a bid to force ...

Introduction

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a Tamil insurgency and terrorist group, which fought for an independent state of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka. LTTE was founded in 1976, and since 1983 was engaged in a civil war with government forces. The civil war between LTTE and Sri Lanka government lasted for 26 years and claimed approximately 60,000 human lives (Human Rights Watch, 2006, p. 1). The rise of LTTE movement started with ethnical conflict, based on Sinhalese discrimination of Tamil ethnic minority. Underrepresentation of Tamil minority in the government as well as social exclusion from Sri Lankan community ...

The predominant academic agreement is that gunpowder was invented in China, but no one scholar in the whole world could tell us the exact date of the creation of gunpowder. However, I researched different articles and found out that there are several major versions of the origin of gunpowder and each version assumes different time it was firstly received by people. According to some authors, for instance Joseph Needham, China used gunpowder in rockets and fireworks in the VII century B.C. (9), another theory tells that gunpowder came to Chine and Arabia in the 1st century from India and ...

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The feudal system of land tenure was introduced in Ireland by Normans. In this regard, the feudal system primarily worked on the principle that the ownership of all land eventually lied with the crown. This principle was base on the presumption that private bodies could not directly own land. The feudal system of tenancy completely disregarded and did not recognize the modern relationship between the landlord and tenants. To this end, grants of land over a period of years were regarded as creating personal contracts only. Nevertheless, it did contain certain characteristics of modern landlord-tenant relationship. The land ownership structure ...

Summary

The battle to defeat IS militants has extended to the Syrian territory. Backed by five Arab nations, the US launched overnight attacks on IS positions overnight in northern and Eastern Syria, including the militants headquarters in Raqa town. Dozens of militants were killed, and eye witnesses say that residents are fleeing from the city. The Syrian, government was informed of the attacks. According Abu Ibrahim, an activist with the “Raqa, is being Slaughtered Silently” Campaign, 18 airstrikes by four US was planes hit the city from 5 a.m. The targeted positions were military/security installations, including checkpoints, government buildings and ...

At first I decided to cut foreign aid and reduce the federal workforce by 10%. When it comes to national welfare Military sector should step back, so I chose reduction of nuclear arsenal and space spending, military reduction to pre-Iraq War size and further troops reduction in Asia and Europe, cancelation or delaying of some weapons programs, reduction of noncombat military compensation, and troops reduction in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30,000 by 2013. In the Health Care sphere I consider increasing the Medicare eligibility age to 70 and cap Medicare growth starting in 2013 to be excessive. We ...

Schmidt’s tenets majorly described as the Ahimsa principle focus on the need to shun violence in our society. The principle primarily means not to cause injury or circumvent behaviors or activities that lead to pain on human beings as well as the animals. Though the principle pays more attention to the Hinduism religion, it is multidimensional and applicable to all regions. The principle assets that a human being possesses the divine spiritual energy, this means causing pain on fellow human being is tantamount to hurting yourself (Maschike 109). The principle went further to admonish the nation that violence on ...

Introduction

Regarded as the icon of German militarism, Paul von Hindenburg was one of the most popular field marshals, politicians and the second president of Germany. Hindenburg, a man of discipline and fortitude, served gloriously in the Prussian army retiring from the military in 1911. However, during the World War I, he was called back in service to serve the nation and he, with the help of his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, fought the Russian army victoriously bringing glorious victories in the eastern front of Germany.

Because of his immense popularity as a war hero, he was nominated to run for the German ...

The history recognizes the Vikings as one of the greatest warriors with the most advanced and developed weapons, armor and methods of war. The reputation of the Vikings states that these were one of the most brave, strong, technical and dangerous and this reputation is obviously supported by the various historic facts about their weapons and warfare, which will be described in the next paragraphs.

First it should be stated that the Vikings were the true sea masters, as their fleet has become one of the most famous through all the years and ages. Their famous wooden longships, well-known for ...

The movie by Shaw titled Spartacus was documented and mentioned to showcase the lives of the slaves as early as the time and period of 73rd BC. It included the slave trade and the kind of life that the slaves were subjected and exposed to in Athens and Greek region as a whole. The irreducible and indisputable minimum was the right of the Romans to own slaves. On the contrary, what was up for debate or negotiation was the aspect of how to treat the slaves. Most of the people, especially the slaves, were captured or defeated soldiers, who were ...

Andre Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America. Following his biography, he was orphaned at a tender age of fifteen and had his life to live without the care of parents. According to Remini, Jackson could not have existed if not for the Native Americans, but his life was connected to the Indians. It is evident that he fought alongside the Indians and on other cases he fought them (Remini 14). He was the key negotiator of the Indian lands and contributed in advising negotiators how to get the land from the Indians. Jackson had two ...

This paper presents an argument in favor of a United States sponsored full-scale invasion with troops, into Iraq and Syria, for the purpose of confronting ISIS. The term ISIS, for a short abbreviation, represents the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.’ Recent global news reports indicate a bloody sweep of terror by ISIS organizational members and sympathizers. Nevertheless, counter arguments pertaining to whether or not U.S. troops should enter into a war against ISIS provide opposing opinions. After the counter argument reviews the situation, its stance shall be revoked, and the argument in favor of U.S. invasion shall ensue.

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The hegemonic status of the United States military results in unequal and unfair treaties with other, less powerful countries; these treaties often include clauses that make prosecuting the US military men difficult. In this essay, I argue that the military power of the US has created a culture for American soldiers which eliminates potential consequences for violent crimes; this culture has led to an increase in violence against women from other countries as well as against women within the United States military. Assault, murder, and rape by the US military personnel go unpunished. These acts of violence are perceived in ...

ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) is one of the jihad extremist groups that are very dynamic in Syria and Iraq in the Middle East. The group is self-proclaimed in the world, claiming the religious authority over Muslims in the globe. In fact, they focus on bringing Muslims in the world under one political control, which entails controlling Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Southern turkey, as well as Cyprus. In the modern society, these are one of the threats on issues related to security. It is believed to be a terror group that has violated human rights in the world. ...

Historically, the idea of the deep state is described in the Turkish political structure where a powerful military would intervene in matters of a democratic government. In fact, the military served as an oversight for the government because it would take control, in its view, when the leaders overstretched their mandate on issues of Islam. The same concept of deep state is evident in the modern Egypt where the military rules indirectly through the influence it has over the elected leadership. In essence, Egypt’s deep state is characterized with a dominating military supported by other branches such as the police, the ...

Ancient Rome was one of the greatest country and empire that have been ever existed in the history. Started as the small village in Italy it became the biggest and most powerful Empire of antiquity. Borders of the Roman Empire stretching from the deserts of Africa on the South to the Northern England and from Spain on the West to Euphrates on the East. However, it would be all impossible without Roman army, which conquered dozens of nations and brought a glory to Rome. Roman army was in war campaigns all the time. Thus, it was the most experienced army ...

Florida then moved to prepare its defences, by passing legislature that agreed to appropriate $100,000 for ammunition and arms purchases, and raised one cavalry regiment and two infantry regiments, in February 1861. Governor Perry then managed to seize Fort Marion at St. Augustine and Chattahoochee’s federal arsenal, but not the more strategic Forts Taylor, Pickens, and Jefferson. Especially Pickens was of particular interest to both the South and the North and the military confrontation there brought dark clouds of civil war-threat; however, Fort Pickens remained in the Union’s hands from beginning to end of the war.

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1) The phenomenon of military slavery became nearly universal from Egypt to Central Asia in the medieval period. Many Europeans were shocked at the thought that the roles held by kings, nobility, and aristocracy were held by soldiers of such humble beginnings. Discuss this phenomenon, what accounted for it and why did it become so widespread?

Most of the existing work that has been published about slavery focuses on the transportation of slaves into Europe and the extreme west across the Atlantic Ocean into America. However, records of the booming Sahara-Indian Ocean Slavery business that existed since the seventh ...

Social Problems of the Modern World: A Reader War and Global Crime

Though war and militarism have a correlation, it is worth noting that there is a difference between the two and a significant one at that. War is a conflict between large-scale groups or states and involves physical force and the organized use of weapons. Furthermore, war(s) can be said to be a series of campaigns between two opposing sides which are brought about by disputes over various subjects (religion, territory, resources and ideology). On the other hand, militarism is desire or belief of a government or a particular group of people that the country should maintain strong military capability and use it if necessary to promote ...

Role of the president and congress regarding the involvement of the military in wars

As dictated by the United States Constitution, the president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. This role gives the president power to wage war. To be precise, it is often argued that the president has the power to engage the army in wars, especially in cases whereby the country has been attacked or in cases where an attack is in the offing. On another note, the congress has a role to play on the matter of engaging the military in war and conflicts.

This is because of the primary fact that the Congress have the power to declare war ...

The success of military action during the war times has leadership as the main component. The leaders are therefore shaped in relation to the situations they face in their life and daily life activities. The leaders have a great effect on the outcomes during their interaction with the diverse information, people, resources and the general environment they operate in. This movie also shows the first phase relating to the Second World War. The situation exposed to General Frank Savage while leading the bomber squadron in England during the Second World War. This therefore helps in demonstrating the leadership styles of ...

Entrepreneurship is often described as innovation, creativity, the establishment of new organizations and firms. Its occurrence is in almost all sectors of the economy, though the bulk of entrepreneurship occurs in the private with a very small part occurring in public organizations. In recent years however, entrepreneurship in the public sector has become more pronounced, partly due to the challenges faced by this sector as a result of conservatism in the way of doing business and high levels of bureaucracy.

Entrepreneurship in the public sector serves as a way of identifying new opportunities, an aid in judgemental decision making and innovation which ...

Boynton, Emily. "Helicopter Transport Increases Survival for Seriously Injured Patients." University of Rochester Medical Center. N.p., 5 Jan. 2011. Web. 30 Oct. 2013. <http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/index.cfm?id=3087>.

The article is significant in defining that helicopter transportation of trauma patients is faster and safer than use of ground ambulances. This conclusion is vital in redefining the thesis for this paper.

Carter, Gary, Robert Couch, and Daniel J. O'Brien. "The evolution of air transport systems: a pictorial review." The Journal of emergency medicine 6.6 (1988): 499-504.

In their article, Gary, Robert, and Daniel are mainly determined to analyze the evolution of air transport systems in delivery of medical services. According to the article, air transport for patients started approximately 70 years ago and was carried out through primitive biplanes. These planes were no extensively reliable as they could not fly over some areas such as battlefields. This attracted introduction of air ambulances in ...

Beard, J. M. (2009). “Law and War in the Virtual Era,” The American Journal of International Law, vol. 103, no. 3, pp. 409-445.

In this article, Beard examines the development of technology and its effects on military capabilities. Specifically the article studies various military technologies like the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and explains how virtual distances influence operations and military culture. Beard’s paper is informative and interesting in its approach and subject. In my view, this article is amongst the best studies that provide a detailed examination of the impact of war technology on international politics and relations.

The intended audiences for this article are the head of military personnel and other departments used to maintain peace and order in any ...

The espionage Act and the National Defense Authorization Act, though were enacted for different purposes, serve the common goal of national security. The espionage act of 1917 was enforced during the earlier part of the twentieth century, when the entire country was under the grip of the fear towards Bolshevism, and there were widespread apprehensions regarding the possible spread of communism. The country had just recovered from the civil war, and the emotions of patriotism and nationalism towards the newly united America, was at its peak during the First World War. Russia had witnessed the Bolshevik revolution, and people ...

The petitioner who had been a Commanding General in charge of the Fourteen Army Group that belonged to the Japanese Army stationed in the Philippine Island. He was forced to surrender to the US Army making him a prisoner of war (Kirk, (1974). On the other end the respondent was the commanding General from the US Forces whose base was the Philippine Island. He had appointed a military commission that was in charge of the case. The charge being that the petitioner had on an earlier date been unable to control the operations that had been laid out for his troops. The ...

ISSUE:

The conflict in Syria has been going on for over 2 years now. It is arguably the longest civil war resulting from the Arab spring that started in Tunisia. But Syria’s has metamorphosed into a complex war whose end will never be realised quickly if the current conditions prevail. There needs to be a concerted effort from world leaders to bring an end to this, and Britain is not an exception in this respect. The recent defeat of David Cameron in the Commons has more or less left Britain as an isolationist, and indifferent towards the affairs of the world.

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- At this time, the economy and population were expanding, as was overseas trade, railroads, industry and canals-building. - Most white males received the right to vote without property requirements. - Jacksonisn ‘democracy’ did not apply to blacks, women or Native Americans, however, although the abolitionist and women’s rights movements got their start in this era.

II. Jackson the Man

- Jackson was a child during the American Revolution, born into the class of ‘poor whites’ in South Carolina. They suffered greatly during the war. - He became a wealthy planter and slaveholder on the ...

- There were a number of similarities between China under the Han and the Roman Empire. Why do you think that was so? Was it simply historical accident? Do those aspects of empire imply some sort of empire-building process common throughout the world? Why or why not?

China and Rome were both land empires, based mostly on agriculture, as were all other empires before the industrial revolution over the last 200 years. These two empires developed along similar lines even though they had no contact with each other, given the extremely slow communications and travel times of that era. They all seem to have had very similar caste systems, with slaves and peasants at the bottom, an aristocratic-military caste and an emperor or king at the apex (Adler and Pouwels, 2008, pp. 169-70). Both the Han and the Roman emperors also claimed to rule by divine ...

1. State Licensure Requirements

Medicare Advantage Plan is described has a type or branch of Medicare health insurance program, which covers healthcare expenses for the disabled, poor or less fortunate individuals, and the older population in the society (Brown et al, 2011) .This health insurance program is specifically provided by private health insurance companies under licensure from the federal government health insurance program or Medicare.

Before an organization is allowed to become a Medicare Advantage plan member, such an organization or institution is required by law to comply with various state licensure requirements and guidelines (Budrys, 2011). These requirements includes capacity to have been in ...

Hello everyone! I am Kamie Quijano and I am standing in front of you today for the fulfillment of the final requirement of our Public Speaking class. First of all, allow me to thank you, Mrs. Malarkey for all the assistance that you have given me during the duration of this class. Thank you for your encouragement and patience in helping me become a better public speaker. Secondly, I would like to extend my gratitude to you my fellow classmates for the positive feed backs which I received throughout this course. Your relevant critiques have not discouraged me but instead ...

- United State Interest in Afghanistan

The Afghanistan war was conducted by the American soldiers in a bid to stamp out the terrorist group of al Qaeda. The group enjoyed support by the extremist leadership of the Taliban within Afghanistan. The first few years of the war provided success with the military group scattering and some of the members moving to the mountainous regions.

The presidential address showed that the group was regrouping which would be a problem to the homeland security (Military, P.3). The regrouping members of the terrorist group have been blamed for causing insecurity in Pakistan region. The group has started causing insecurity within ...

Q1. The World War II took a diverse form. The film attempted to construct suspense the same as propaganda to convey ideas in support of the associated cause. The central government was responsible for propaganda and publicity in the Second World War. The effect was of consternation was desirable in the government.

Q2. Some of the conflicts that followed in the years after the end of World War II are; millions of Japanese and Germans were expelled from their native territories. Problems that lasted for a long time caused tension in East and West Germany which led to the creation of ...

As a military veteran, I know there’s a lot of change going on in the world. People all over are seeking answers and time and again, the United States Army steps in to lend a hand. While working in the military, I learned I can make a real change, not just in the lives overseas, but in the lives of those in our country. The tools my training has provided me are not enough; I need a better education, a degree, and ultimately a job that will open up another side of the military to me.

I am pursuing a Master of Business for Veterans (MBV) ...

Posse Comitatus is a Latin term that translates to ‘Power of the County’ in reference to the period in time when sheriffs could recruit able-bodied males above 15 years of age to help keep public order. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was initially enacted to minimize the influence of federal troops on domestic affairs as well as prevent the possibility of having the military under civilian control. Prior to the enactment of the Act, the use of federal troops to maintain order in the various States was an accepted feature for example, the federal troops were used to ...

Confidentiality is of great importance both in the civilian and military life. This is especially so when it comes to treatment. Some patients require that the psychotherapists should keep their information a secret due to the consequences of releasing the information. On the other hand, confidentiality in the military service is necessary and the officers are not supposed to reveal any confidential information that may affect the activities of the military. The military service believes that all their activities should be kept secret. However, this is sometimes dangerous to the officers. This research paper will evaluate the differences between civilian ...

The 9/11 tragedy is one of the fiercest terrorist attacks on USA. We can call it a terrorist attack because it was planned and executed by the terrorists of Al Qaeda (CBC News, 2004). Most would not deny that 9/11 was a typical act of terrorism; some believe that it was a war in the name of religion. A group of Islamist terrorists hijacked air planes and crashed those into the twin towers of World Trade Centre and the building of Pentagon in US, killing more than 3000 people (Inside 9/11, 2005). Noam Chomsky, the renowned intellectual supports the definition of terrorism ...

Legal authority of military commissions

The military commissions were established pursuant to the Presidential Order cited as Military Order November 13, 2001 under the George Bush administration. The commission is constitutional and legal and its mandate is anchored on the law. In addition, the commission can be seen as an exercise of the presidential authority in the United States of America in reaction to the terrorist activities visited in the world and specifically American land. It should be appreciated that the military commission draw their legal status and basis from a set of laws. One, it should be appreciated that the progressive American Constitution envisions ...

Introduction

India and Pakistan in recent years have been embroiled in a dispute that has threatened to escalate into a full-fledged nuclear war. The dispute has captured the eyes of the international community. The disagreement between the nations has mainly been because of the Kashmir region that is hugely disputed. The region is claimed by both nations and as form 2010, India administered about 43% of the entire region. The government of India has been quoted in many circles stating that the Kashmir region is part of India. The dispute has over the past led to three wars and a fourth one is ...

Introduction

In the military, effective communication forms an integral part. Military leaders are problem solvers, strategy layers, managers, organizers and key influencers .All these activities can only proceed effectively if there is effective communication between different ranks within the forces. Success in military largely depends on ability to think critically and express your intentions and ideas effectively. Both written and verbal communication in the military plays a major role. Inability to effectively communicate and mis interpretation have historically cost the military. For instance, during the civil war, it is believed that Gettysburg victory depended on how the juniors decoded General Robert ...

Holcombe, A. (2010). Politburo's Directive Issued on May 4, 1953, on Some Special Issues regarding Mass Mobilization. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 243–247.

In this directive, the use of propaganda against the spread on capitalism and the defence of socialism are clearly shown in the directive.

Kaiser, D. (2000) American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Boston, MA: Belknap Press.

This book explores the origins of the Vietnam War, with specific focus on the clash of the two ideologies of socialism and capitalism. It looks into ...

Methods used to exempt classified, terrorism-related information from disclosure In Criminal prosecutions

Owing to the sensitive nature of terror related information the disclosure thereof is highly restricted. In determining which information to disclose or the extent of such disclosure, a balance is struck between the constitutional right to access to information and the need to restrict the access to information that may compromise national security. This is especially so with terror related information the disclosure of which might have far reaching consequences to the state. The government thus relies on several mechanisms to avoid disclosing such information.

One approach has been the trial of terror suspects through a specialized system. This system comprises ...

Calloway, C. (1995). 'How to tell a true war story': Metafiction in The things they carried. Critique 36(4): 249.

In this article, O'Brien's work is examined as a piece of metafiction; the style and structure of the work frames the stories into epistemological tools with which to view the Vietnam war, life in America, gender issues and more through the lens of different viewpoints. The amount of autobiography found in many of the stories creates a metafictional link between O'Brien's experiences and the contents of these stories. O'Brien also notes unique ways to involve the reader in creating their own interpretations of the text - Calloway examines several places in the book where the author ...

International Relations and Security 1. What is your idea or theory of international relations and how does this unit change or complement it?

My international relations theory is realism. I believe that the world lacks a global police. In this regard, the world is anarchic because it lacks a central authority that is bestowed with the responsibility of regulating and monitoring the actions of nation-states. One thing that is worth noting is that nation states did resources to survive (Patrikarakos 149). However, the lack of a global central authority gives nations the option of pursuing resources in the way they deem best. ...