Military, International Conflicts & Security Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (392) essays
Military & International Conflicts & Security essays:
The Bush Administration¹s Relation With Iraq Prior to Iraq¹s Invasion of Kuwait
... Hussein, she recalled, had made repeated threats against the state of Israel in the first half of 1990, but abruptly switched his focus from Israel to that of Kuwait and another neighbor to the south, the United Arab Emirates. "He announced in that speech, in the ...
In this essay I had to write about the scariest experience of my life. I chose a minor skirmish I had in the Middle East while serving in the United States Air Force.
... Tense Times In February of 2000 I was stationed in Kuwait as a senior airman in the United States Air Force. I was a member of a flight of paratroopers (also known as "pj's") assigned to help enforce the No-Fly zone in Southern Iraq. Life there was fairly uneventful; most of the ...
"The Iraqi Road and Generalissimo George." Persuade your audience that the Bush administration was justified or unjustified in declaring war on Iraq.
... British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The repeated violation of the United Nation (UN) Security Counsel's Resolutions (UNSCR's) prompted President George Bush of the United States to act without the authorization of the UN to disarm Hussein through war. According to UN Chief Weapons Inspector ...
A term paper on "Halliburton", this paper deals with the privatization of our military and some of its effects.
... the last 20 years, the United States has come to rely on more private companies to produce equipment and provide certain services for its armed forces than ever before. This has come to include taking certain jobs ...
Gays in the Military
... forced intimacy with little or no privacy," and there are "numerous restrictions on personal behavior that would not be acceptable in civilian life." In 1993 Congress passed the law (P.L. 103-160, Title 10, Sect. 654) under the Bush administration that further states ...
The Influence and Direction of Deterrence.
... the United States and allied forces naturally discourage the proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction(WMD). Prior to our present war with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, the United States and allied forces, were successful in maintaining the non-proliferation of such weapons ...
"The Idea Of Mutually Assured Destruction As A Reason For Superpowers Not To Attack Each Other"
... nuclear weapon if it happened to be traveling for the United States. Eventually, nuclear missiles would be ineffective and become an obsolete delivery method. Over time, especially during the Eisenhower presidency, nuclear weapons began to gain a different use. He decided to decrease the ...
USA National Security Strategy (NSS) in post-Cold War Era
... the overseas investments of the United States were mainly in the Americas, and those in Europe only accounted for 12 percent of the total overseas investments. Then the United States got a foothold in Europe while helping postwar reconstruction, as before the war Europe was the ...
Under what circumstances can forcible external intervention in the affairs of states be justified? Did 'Operation Allied Force' in Kosovo meet the appropriate criteria?
... force. It was widely believed that several years earlier the occupation of parts of the former Yugoslavia by the UN peacekeeping force failed in its tasks i.e. Croatia and Bosnia. Western political leaders, led by Tony Blair ...
The Great Mistake: The Atomic Bomb
... the atomic bomb made nuclear weapons an acceptable form of warfare. Since World War II , many countries have begun to build up their nuclear arms. Israel alone was recently estimated to have upwards of 200 nuclear weapons (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Iraq's militant dictator Saddam Hussein ...