making. His personal values and character define how all Army leaders should lead their men. General Franks practices the Army Values religiously and sets an example for courage and commitment. His successful accomplishments will be addressed in this essay, including how the Warrior Ethos and Army values were displayed by his decisions. General Tommy Franks is a four star general originally from Midland, Texas where he graduated Robert E. Lee High School. General Franks graduated one year ahead of First
the United States (US) military’s Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) campaign plan. Using the OD framework, the US OIF campaign plan from 2002 to 2007 was poor at planning and execution. First, this essay evaluates how OIF planners and commanders understood the Operational Environment (OE) and defined the overall problem. Second, this dissertation assesses strengths and weaknesses of the initial operational approach using end state, supported objectives, Lines of Operation (LOO), center of gravity, anticipation
States waged a war on Iraq that was described as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" which was meant to rid Iraq of all weapons of mass destruction and help it rebuild its army. This war ended up not helping Iraq in the ways
The Iraq war of 2003 is a blueprint of tyranny which is full of controversial ideas and works of individuals who believe that the United States of America is a crusader of freedom and democracy and killing or unintentional homicide of substantial amount of civilians alongside with the targets of the U.S marines (Saddam’s armed forces) was a successful mission in the Middle East. An operation that was to be executed in a time limit, transformed into a war, which began in March 19th 2003 Invasion of
The Iraq war of 2003 is a blueprint of tyranny, which is full of controversial ideas, and works of individuals who believe that the United States of America is a crusader of freedom and democracy. And killing or unintentional homicide of substantial amount of civilians alongside with the targets of the U.S marines (Saddam’s armed forces) was a successful mission in the Middle East. An operation that was to be executed in a time limit, transformed into a war, which began in March 19th 2003 Invasion
The 2003 invasion of Iraq, Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) provides an excellent case study to evaluate military campaign planning. OIF demonstrates the complexity of campaign planning, while providing relevant lessons for today’s planners and leaders. OIF was successful in achieving its initial tactical objective of capturing Baghdad. However, due to a insufficient understating of the operational environment (OE) and a poorly defined problem, OIF’s initial operational approach failed to achieve strategic
throughout this course. Governmentality is a complex public law concept to do with how a state is governed, which is interpreted in many different ways by academic commentators. The different perspectives of these commentators are fundamental to this essay, particularly Foucault’s own perspective, so that the concept of governmentality itself can first be critically analysed and then placed in context of modern
end military operations overseas because many of the countries overseas harbor terrorists that want to take down our country, they don’t have a strong form of government that is reliable and useable, and the people in those countries can’t defend themselves from the enemy regimes without our help. Every day, terrorism is spreading to other countries and one of their main objectives is to take down the U.S. Groups of people in middle eastern countries
attacks and oppression. It is up to us as a superpower to protect these people. Why not eliminate the problems at its source instead of letting it spread out into other countries and hurting other innocent people. The U.S. should not end military operations overseas because many of the countries overseas harbor terrorists that want to take down our country, they do not have a strong form of government that is reliable
mediocre relationships with such as Iraq. Due to the fact that there are multiple countries in the Middle Eastern region each with different relations to the United States, this essay will be focusing on the foreign policy and relations between Iraq and the United States from the start of the Gulf War to the Obama Administration. Although the United States has been in conflict with Iraq for the past few decades, the tables have turned and the U.S. is now aiding Iraq by fighting a common enemy: ISIS