Causes Of The Failure Of Patriot Missile Defense

After the attack, the Taliban led by Osama Bin Laden claimed the attack to be there wrath of anger towards the United States. This was because of the United States siding with Israel and still being apart of the Persian war and having troops in the Middle East. Now, we can assume that if the United States has

After a decision was made in 1984 by the army to give it an anti-tactical ballistic missile capability, a series of modifications and additions were made to the system's software and to the missile warhead and fuse (pac-2). These upgrades were then fully tested, manufactured and deployed in Saudi Arabia on time for Desert Storm. This system was designed to defend military targets such as bases against relatively short-range tactical ballistic missiles," Charles A. Zraket articulates before the House Subcommittee on Government Operations. (Simon, 1996) The U.S. Army’s mission during the Persian Gulf War was to shoot down incoming Al-Hussein missiles and Iraqi scud missiles. The mission in Saudi Arabia differed from the Israel mission because Patriot units only had to push the missile away from its intended target or disable the incoming targets warhead. Disabling the warhead ensured minimal casualties as the scuds would typically target military outposts or civilian populations. The overall success rate of the Patriot missile system during the Persian Gulf War was 70% in Saudi Arabia and 40% in Israel. (Simon,

This project identifies a two possible issues that can happen during the system operations like hacking or data loss due to improper security provided to the company branches and there is no proper infrastructure of the firewall for the network structure. The aircraft security policy result in failure due to their two year reset program.

Al Qaeda was founded in 1988 by the most wanted terrorist in America, Osama Bin Laden, to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Invasion. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic extremist groups to take over regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and remove Westerners from Muslin countries. The organization first began with three members and now there are approximately 200 to 1,000 current members. Al-Qaeda began to construct and offer training camps and guesthouses to its recruits; while they also attempted to pull in U.S. citizens for financial, communication, and operation reasons for the benefit of Al-Qaeda and its other affiliations. By 1990 Al-Qaeda was providing military and intelligence training in various areas including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Sudan.

The incorporation of Patriot was a result of the confrontation with the Soviet Union. The Patriot system was instantaneously recognized in Desert Storm. Operation Desert Storm began on January 16, 1991. The conflict, better known as the Gulf War, was in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Desert Storm was a crucial battle where Air Defense had the opportunity to showcase its abilities.

ultimately resulted in a 24 hour fire fight and the deaths of 7 U.S. service members and over 200

n June 30, 1950 an unexpected bomb went off and the soldiers immediately ran and

On October 23, 1983, a massive explosion from a 19-ton truck full of explosives attacked military barracks and killed 241 servicemen (including 220 U.S. Marines) in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast was the biggest known non-nuclear explosion since World War II and was the "bloodiest day since Iowa Jima," according to Rick Hampson writing in USA Today.

The attack took place on April 30, around 11:30 p.m., at the Voshell Memorial Gardens Cemetery located on 5600 Cardiff Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, according to ABC2.

     On November 29, with coalition forces over whelming in Saudi Arabia and Iraq showing no signs of retreat, the

“Desert Storm was the first combat test of the cruise missile system. It also marked the first coordinated Tomahawk and manned aircraft strike in history. Within the first few minutes of Operation Desert Storm, Tomahawk missiles launched from battleships Missouri and Wisconsin struck with accuracy at Iraq’s presidential palace,” (Hersh, Press, 1994, p.137).

The date was September 14, 2012. At around 10 p.m. Camp Leatherneck was attacked by 15 insurgents. These attackers, organized into three teams, began an assault on the airfield of Bastion. While wearing U.S. Army uniforms, the attackers toted automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and suicide vests. While aboard Camp Leatherneck/Camp Bastion, they inflicted incredible damage to the air-wing. Destroying six AV-8B Harrier jets and damaging two others, along with six aircraft hangers suffering damage, and six refueling stations were destroyed. While trying to fight the attackers off, two U.S. Marines were shot and killed, along with injuring several others.

In 1962, The Soviet Union was caught secretly installing military bases which included their nuclear weapons in Cuba near or around 90 miles from United states mainland. In 1964 China launched and ignited its first atomic bomb. In 1965, The U.S. sent troops to the Dominican Republic and South Vietnam. This let to the Vietnam war which then ended later that

That day German ships arrived at Toulon to take over the base and seize France’s ships in an operation referred to as Operation Lila57. Operation Lila failed, however, because Admiral de Laborde, who served as the commander of the fleet, followed Admiral Darlan’s order to sink any ships that Germany or Italy attempted to take hold of.58 As a result, a total of seventy seven ships were scuttled.59 Some of the ships that France loss were submarines, battleships, cruisers and destroyers.60 Although the French confirmed that they could uphold their promise months after Operation Catapult through their actions at Toulon, there was no way Churchill could have foreseen it. France’s word was not enough. To Churchill, it was critical that Britain make

Israel was not the only foreigner in Lebanon. The United Nations also, had French and American soldiers stationed in Lebanon as UN peacekeepers (Byers, 2003). This did not, please Hezbollah, who wanted all foreigners off Lebanese soil. On April 18, 1983, Hezbollah finally struck. A Hezbollah operative drove an explosive laden van into the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing sixty-three individuals (Byers). Encouraged by this success Hezbollah then struck again on October 23, 1986, using suicide bombers in vehicles to blow up both the U.S. Marine Barracks and the French Paratroop Barracks, killing 241 Americans and 58 French. By, February 26, 1984, just four months after the devastating attack on the Marine Barracks the United States pulled its forces out of Lebanon (Byers).