During this mission the Northern Iraq Liaison Element (NILE) were assisted by members of the 10th Special Forces group in order to combat a terror group in Iraq as well as determine what their connection was to Saddam and if they were making weapons of mass destruction. (Dale 2008, pg.40) The NILE element executed this mission with little to no assistance from outside sources and most of their assistance came from Kurds, leading to a mission success in determining what the activities…
On March 20th 2003, the United States of America was enticed into war by former President George W. Bush’s claims that Saddam Hussien was hiding ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction.’ Soon after, an insidious bombing campaign spread throughout the country of Iraq; led by the U.S. Armed Forces. This gave way to the collapse of the Baathist government, and consequently, to the capture of Saddam in December of 2003, and was later executed by a military court in 2006. However, the war continued as an…
while in the end it did end the war it promoted the idea of killing on a massive scale. The Cold War has popularized the use of using nuclear weapons as a deterrent which creates lots of tension between countries; if one country, shoots a nuke at another, then the other country will fire back, and this process will repeat until the amounts of death and destruction will become truly apocalyptic. The strength of the U.S. military has become unstoppable in the past few years, which has made the use…
improving the background checks conducted by the FBI. Gun control laws should be put into effect because there have been numerous mass shooting that have occurred in the past couple of years. If gun control laws are…
90’s into a decade that everyone knows of. The Gulf war,also known as Operation Desert Storm, was launched by President H.W. Bush and his administration after it was believed that Saddam Hussein, leader of Al Qaeda had weapons of mass destruction. Along with weapons of mass destruction, Iraq had annexed Kuwait and claimed it as their own. After disregarding warnings from the United Nations Security Council, the United States and other allies were called upon to take Kuwait back. The invasion…
Sanctions according to the former US president Woodrow Wilson is a "peaceful, silent, [and] deadly remedy" and currently there are sanctions placed on North Korea. Critics can say that this deters North Korea from building weapons of mass destruction thus illustrating how it is not necessary to ever use preemptive strikes. The problem with this is first, sanctions placed on states that sponsor terrorism are ineffective . This is because sanctions are not used to change the mind of a foreign…
would develop one next and what would that mean for their enemies? Its possibility of opening of mass destruction and genocide everywhere was looming risk. The United Nations was quick to create regulations concerning this matter and outlawed the use of all arms classified as Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMD’s. A Weapon of Mass Destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great…
Wars are what define the success of a country; if you win, then the country is considered strong; if you lose, the country is considered weak. This, however, does not determine how justified the country was in deciding to go to war. The Mexican American War marked the first time the U.S. fought on foreign soil. This war began over a border dispute between America and Mexico. It started with Texas gaining independence from Mexico in 1836. At first the U.S. did not want Texas to join the Union due…
impact of the Berlin Wall because if it wasn’t constructed, there could have been a very destructive war due to the buildup of nuclear weapons. This shows how the Berlin Wall was a success because it peacefully separated the city into two parts, and no war took place. A war would have a detrimental impact on the economy, and it would have caused unnecessary destruction. Therefore, the Berlin Wall was a success because it prevented a war from taking…
except for certain units within the Military, these units belong to the CBRNE enterprise system. These units were created under the direction of the Department Homeland Security and the President of The United States. These units are the Weapons of Mass Destruction – Civil Support Teams (WMD-CST), CBRN Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP), and the Homeland Response Force (HRF). All three of these specialty units have an increased budget and spending allocations, because of the risk management…