Counter Insurgency

The Middle East is a region centered on Western Asia and Egypt the region has generally been a major center of world affairs as the major religions of Islam and Christianity and Judaism were also established within the region. The region is made up of 18 countries and has vast reserves of crude oil. In modern times the Middle East remains a strategically, economically, politically, culturally and religiously sensitive region.

The Gulf houses half of the world’s oil reserves and a third of the natural gas. The Gulf States still continue to supply the international markets with a significant amount of the hydrocarbons. The stability of the region is crucial for the stability in the global oil markets. The Gulf also hosts one of the most strategically and important choke points in global trade, The Straits of Hormuz, which moves about 35% of the global seaborne oil, natural gas and other trade goods.

In this essay, I will support the JP 3-24’s current definition of insurgency. It defines an insurgency as “The organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force change of a governing authority.” In CW4 Sicard’s COIN class we discussed that insurgencies mobilizes people and other resources to form an alternative to the state or government. As my historical example to defend this definition of insurgency, I will use the American Revolutionary War. The American Revolutionary War was essentially waged by insurgents, which were present in all the American colonies, which were still controlled by the British at the time. We were legally subjects of the British crown, but we wanted to break free

How significant was guerrilla warfare as a reason for the USAs lack of success in the Vietnam war?

Revolution became very prominent in the life of the Uruguayans and Salvadorians. The documents from the Guerrilla Warfare and from Claribel Alegria describe how the revolutionary struggle was for both of their countries and described the involvement of the women. Women became very important through this time, by comparing and contrasting the obstacles and roles that the women had to overcome in these documents would give a better view of how important women were for the revolutionary struggle.

The Middle East is a region contains countries from Africa and Europe. Some of the countries included are Turkey, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Syria (pg 416). This is a pretty big span of countries with different types of lifestyles, including religions and food. The main religions in the Middle East are Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Each religion is unique in its own sense and has certain foods that are associated with it.

he Middle East is a large and diverse geographical area located in southwest Asia and northeast Africa.

According to Zubaida (2003), the Middle East is located in parts of Western Asia spreading from the eastern Mediterranean coastline of Turkey and Syria, through the desert to Iraq and Arabia, and to the East through Iran to the Caspian, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea. Into Africa, it includes Egypt, and, by some accounts, Arab North Africa. This area comprises of mountains, deserts, fertile plains watered by grand rivers, and seacoasts. Climatic ally, the Middle East ranges from the extreme temperature of the Mediterranean coast, to the extreme heat of the arid desert areas, to snowy mountains. This variety of terrain produces a wide range of food ingredients.

I have to admit that we are very blessed with so many beautiful and breathe taking cities in the world. Dubai is just one of the many countries which has advanced from their humble beginnings and today are multi million tourist. Dubai is another city which has moved from having not as much as other countries once did such as money and a stable economy, to one of the richest cities in the world. In 1966 oil was discovered in Dubai and was a catalyst for Dubai’s economic growth. From a country that had come from not having a stable economy and not a lot of money, it has become like I said earlier, one of the richest cities in the

This top map of the Middle East shows that topography of the Middle Eastern countries. This map shows the Middle East country consists of Cyprus, The Asian part of Turkey, Lebanon , Israel , Syria, the West bank and Gaza, Iraq , Jordan ,Yemen , Oman ,Iran ,Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Libya ,Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Egypt. On the other hand this map also include the borders plus of river, land features and lakes.

The United Arab Emirates is one of the most important tourist destinations in the region. The Arab spring had a very minor effect on the country’s tourism as it did not have a revolution but tourists in countries such as the Americas and Eastern Asia and some European countries were still slightly worried to visit any Arab country as it could be hit by the domino effect of the Arab Spring. UAE is not a neighboring country of any of the countries that had revolutions but it is in the same region.

The UAE is one of the riches nations in the world as measure by per capita GNP. The economy is primarily based on the oil

UAE is located at the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Arabian Gulf sometimes referred to as Persian Gulf, bordering Oman , and Saudi Arabia to the south, sharing sea borders with Qatar and Iran (CIA World Factbook). The population is estimated to be 9.446 million and consists of 1.4 million Emirati citizens and 7.8 million expatriates, majority of whom came from India, Pakistan, Philippines and other Arab countries. It was established in 1971 as a federation of seven emirates (states). Each emirate is governed by a monarch; together, along with some elected representatives, they form the Federal Supreme Council – legislative organ. One of the monarchs is selected as the President of the United Arab Emirates.

Further infrastructural developments in the future includes Khalifa port in Abu Dhabi, expansion of Port Khalid in Sharjah, extensive goods rail networks connecting the GCC countries and other Airport and Port expansions. This vigorous investment in the sector is essential due to same trend prevailing among other GCC countries. This would further improve the market size and continue growth in sector.

Before the discovery of the oil the economy of the UAE was dependent on fishing and pearl trade. The people were busy in farming dates, breeding camels and goats.Since the discovery of the oil in 1966, the country’s economy and society have changed considerably. Discovery of the oil boosted the economy and throughout 25 years the UAE has developed high living standards. The oil discovery attracted many foreigners to work in the UAE. Recognizing that the oil , the source that affects the economy, may soon be exhausted the government of the UAE thought of other factors that the economy can be reliable on such as trade zones and tourism. The article “UAE Focusses On Tourism to Boost Post-Oil Economy” from the Middle East Business News