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In early 1990 Somalia was going through a civil war. Their dictator Mohammed Farrah had order the closer of all food transportation that entered the country. He`s goal was to kill his own people by starving them to death. About 300,000 civilians had died of hunger. In response, the united States send troops to Somalia to capture Mohammed Farrah., the self-proclaimed president of Somalia. They soon found out that the best strategic was to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale Queybdiid, two of Mohammed top advisers. The special mission was to be done by experienced man as well as new recruits. The operation was supposed to have taken about 30 minutes on Octuber 3, 1993. There objective were the two top advisers of Mohammed that

Colonel (Col) Michael Steele’s resolute beliefs regarding how to prepare his unit for combat and his bravado demeanor commanded respect from other bemused military officers. While serving as Commanding Officer (CO), 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Col Steele aggressively cultivated a command climate focused on three core principles: personal protection, precision, and lethality. Although these three core principles narrowly aligned with the Army's "Soldier's Creed", Col Steele’s principles did not reinforce the Army’s individual and organizational core values. 3rd Brigade’s disassociated ethical subculture fostered a toxic environment which compromised both subordinate commanders' and individual soldiers' moral standards to various extents. Col Steele’s vague guidance concerning proper ethical behavior during the execution of high stress Counter-Insurgency (COIN) missions resulted in subordinates failing to conduct kinetic operations in accordance with established Army ethical standards. The military establishment shall remember May 09, 2006 as the day the revered "Rakkasans" failed to personify the unit's motto of "Ne Desit Virtus," meaning "Let Valor Not Fail". For on this day, four soldiers assigned to Charlie Company, known to the “Rakkasans” as the "Kill Company", murdered eight unarmed Iraqi citizens during Operation Iron Triangle. These four soldiers failed to understand the nature and consequences of their iniquities as they could no longer distinguish

When America entered into the Second World War it made their friends from different region and everywhere in the world to unite and fight for freedom and also fight against fascism. Ronald Takaki, a famous historian finds out that the armed fight for democracy abroad was followed by disregard of America that everyone was made or created equal. There was racism of all kinds; segregation of African Americans and imprisonment of Japanese Americans and also denying to overall asylum to the Jewish refugees.

Black Hearts tells the story of a few bad soldiers from 1st platoon, Bravo company of the 1-502nd Infantry Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division, that was plagued with toxic leadership and lack of control over soldiers. The book documents the events that led to the ultimate demise of the soldiers involved in the horrific incident that occurred on March 12, 2006. Four soldiers were arrested in the brutal murder of an Iraqi family, which was a result of the lack of leadership and structure these soldiers received. Black Hearts takes a deep look into what happened to this troubled platoon and what unfortunate events occurred during their deployment.

Operation Anaconda was a subordinate joint combat operation, during Operation Enduring Freedom, (Lyle 2012) to be carried out in the Shahi Kot Valley located in southeastern Afghanistan. Operations planning took place in February of 2002 and was executed from 2-16 March. The operational purpose was to capture or kill, what was reported to be, “The largest concentration of al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan”. Operation Anaconda Case Study (2003) In order to undertake a mission of this magnitude and scope, unity of command would prove critical. The task organization of Operation Anaconda involved both joint and multinational assets. Operation Anaconda lacked unity

On July 13, 2008, Taliban fighters launched a major assault on a small U.S. Army outpost in Afghanistan, killing nine soldiers and wounding 27. The story of Wanat is more then just one small group of commanders’ mistakes; it is a window into how the war in Afghanistan went awry and how we can learn from these mistakes to better future missions and future leaders.

The plan was to have the mission function like a “hammer and anvil.” The very outer cordon area would consist of mainly US SOF and numerous other nations. Task Force Rakkasans (10th Mountain and 101st Airborne Divisions) would be air assaulted in by Chinooks helicopters on the eastern side of the valley to set up blocking positions. The valley floor

Failed Strategy: General Clinton toxic mission command ensured a failed strategy against the colonial insurgency. His subordinate leader’s preference for brutality tactics against the colonists enhanced the populace support for the

The United States has had several different presidents of which have been in office for 8 years because they have been re-elected by us the citizens. The story of James Earl Carter Jr. or better known as President Jimmy Carter, as every other president the United States has had is different. Jimmy Carter was in office as president of the United States of America for four years only. He was president from 1977 through 1981; during this time period many different event occurred.

Deploying a propaganda technique that would be honed to perfection during the Gulf War thirty years later, Nixon began to redefine the war. From the spring of 1969 on, the war was going to be first and foremost about the men who were being sent to fight it (and not, mind you, about the people who sent them there). In the first instance, this meant prisoners of war. The administration’s clever campaign to muster public opinion around the POW issue was launched on May 19 at a press conference held by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Enthusiastically promoted by the media, the POW issue soon dominate war news to such an extent that the writer Jonathan Schell observed that many people were persuaded that the United States was fighting in Vietnam in order to get its prisoners back.

According to us.macmillan.com, Operation Dark Heart “remains a stirring indictment against military bureaucracy and a culture of cover-ups.” Written by ret. Lieut. Colonel Anthony Shaffer, it depicts the story of the black-operation (covert or secret operation) team he led in Afghanistan whose mission was to help stop the Taliban’s reappearance (us.macmillan.com). Black-ops can often involve a fair amount of deception, including the creation of fake identities, much of which was mentioned in the book (Turse). Because of this, the book

Released in 1998, Saving Private Ryan is a war movie directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells a story of saving Private James Ryan (Matt Damon) who is an American paratrooper was trapped behind the enemy in Normandy during the Second World War. Unfortunately, James Ryan is the youngest and only surviving son of a mother who had received notices on the same day of the death of three of her four sons. The mother would be extremely grieved and helpless if she lost her remaining son. After the US Combat Commander knew the situation, he decided to organize a squad of eight soldiers include Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) to look for this only hope, James Ryan, of the family and bring him back to his mother safely from the war.

This was the first war that the department of defense (DOD) has no real plan on how the invasion would take place. The central intelligence agency (CIA) was the mastermind behind the use of network centric warfare (NCW) which was transformation of the army in action. This plan seemed to work as they had the taliban’s  on the run through the use of airpower and the Northern Alliance infantry. The problem for the military was that the taliban learnt and adapted to their new environment and concealed themselves underground. The military had to adjust to an enemy that lurked in the dark, NCW was no longer an effective strategy.

Most of the songs written for or about the Vietnam Conflict focused mainly on the negatives of the war, such as the draft and the lost lives of fathers, brothers and husbands. These musicians also focused on the hardships everyone in the United States had to face. They put a negative light on the Conflict as a whole and failed to recognize the immense bravery, strength and courage the soldiers displayed by fighting. But, in The Ballad of the Green Berets it focuses not only what is happening during this time period in the United States, it also talks about the conflict from a soldier’s perspective. This allows the song to explain how the Conflict was an opportunity to show that against all odds, the Green Berets and all the soldiers never stopped

This paper explores the events that contributed to the ambush of Task Force Ranger (TFR) and their Pyrrhic victory over the Somali National Alliance (SNA) from 3-4 October 1993. The majority of military and political historians concur that the Battle of Mogadishu hastened the departure of a tenuous US military presence in Somalia. TF Ranger was successful in accomplishing their objective of capturing six key lieutenants of Somali Warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, but failed in the ensuing extraction due to a complex ambush perpetrated by the SNA militia. This paper aims to illuminate the intelligence failures and how these factors effected the events of the battle. A comprehensive summary of the battle will lead to an analysis of the key actions and decisions, building to a possible outcome.