Caliphate

Iraq Enmity In March of 2003, United States troops were deployed into Iraq to topple the government of Dictator Suddam Hussein. Merely nine months after the war began, Hussein was captured and executed by a United States regime. After Hussein’s demise, the power vacuum that was created led to violence between the two dominant Muslim denominations the Shias and the Sunnis. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed in the first few years of conflict. A surge of US troops were once again sent to…

Using this oil, they act as a broker to small and privately owned refineries. The US has bombed the majority of these refineries, but they continue to dictate the oil economies of the world. ISIS makes money off their pillaged land to fund their caliphate by controlling the Middle East under Allah. They skyrocket the price of oils since the majority of the world's remaining oil is in the Middle East. After all, fossil fuels are a loose monopoly monitored by the government. The US for…

Its 1218 and growing up to have no fear, but war and violence is key to the nomadic empire I am a part of. Overlooking my camp, I have spent fifteen years preparing myself to become one of the warriors of a huge army full of fearsome fighters known in Central/Northern Asia, for the rest of my life. Ever since I was young enough to remember, I have been training with horses with hunting and herding them. Now that I am of age to be a part of the military life, I was given four horses to alternate…

of jihad to inflict economic, political, and physical damage to U.S. forces. Once successful, al-Qaeda would establish Islamic rule and expand their jihad around the region. Ultimately, they wish to join all of the Islamic states and establish a Caliphate in the Islamic…

Footsteps of an army of soldiers march outside your door. Most people have ran from the town in fear of ISIS taking over. Any hope of escape vanishes when realization of having no escape hits. There is nothing to do except hide; hide and wait for some hope of an opportunity to leave the town. Christians in the Middle East are being tortured, crucified, and raped for believing in Jesus Christ. They are living martyrs for the Lord. ISIS is a radical muslim group who persecutes anyone who does not…

perspective, we begin to see parallels between this decade and the interwar period. Just as Hitler sought to expand the German State through the ideology of lebensraum; the Islamic State, and it previous iterations, seek to establish a global Islamic Caliphate. Hence, The Caliphate’s center of gravity is its ability to hold and expand terrain, enabling the spread of a political ideology known as “Islamism”, which has demonstrated an ability to influence the global strategic environment.…

Research Paper In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan supporting a newly elected communist government that was being threatened by traditional Islamic government officials. In 1981 Osama Bin Laden the son of a wealthy Saudi businessman crossed the border into Afghanistan to support the cause against the Soviet invasion. Bin Laden young member of the Islamic Brotherhood which believed in traditional Islam blended with 20th century government. In the beginning Bin Laden helped by raising…

What was the role of the Catholic Church and religion in medieval life? Which institutions and events were the most significant? Why? The Catholic Church and religion dominated the lives of people of the medieval period because they had staunch believe that God, heaven and Hell all existed staunch. In the medieval age, the fall of Rome resulted in the church growth in power as they took the role of leadership and the distribution of food to the needed. The church was largely a spiritual…

a secret police known as the Cheka that began a campaign of terrorism that would later become known as the “Red Terror” (Beck et al., 2005, pp. 517-519). Under the Bolsheviks hundreds of academic professionals and artists were imprisoned and tens of thousands of churches were forced to close while many of the leadership and followers of the Russian Orthodox Church were imprisoned in forced labor camps or outright executed (Spindlove and Simonsen, 2013, pp. 211-212). Another use of terror on a…

religion. Now that the friendly center of gravity has been defined, the enemy center of gravity is next. Constantinople has relied on its dominant defense and geographic location since it was first targeted by the Ottomans and Umayyads during the caliphate of Mu’awiya in the 600s. Therefore, the enemy center of gravity is its dominate defensive characteristics. Following the identification of the centers of gravity, the related lines of effort must be defined. These lines link multiple…