Personal Narrative: A Career In The Intelligence Community

American soldiers are ethical warriors. Military ethics and warrior ethos constitute the two fundaments of the Army’s Code of Honor. One cannot be separated from the other. This obligation has applied for ages to those who held power: "science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul," as wrote Rabelais in the early seventeenth century. More than ever, soldiers need ethic references to guide their actions and prevail, especially in a Counter-insurgency environment where excessive use of force jeopardizes mission accomplishment. Whatever the situation might be, soldiers must be able to use their science of war with restraint, discernment, and ethics. Recent bad experiences proved that the Army should advocate this ethical military obligation with humility and determination.

Do you remember what I told you that night? That if I hadn’t seen the doctor pull Amir out of my wife, I’d never believe that he is my son? Well, that thought had been crossing my mind a lot these past weeks. Just yesterday, I took him out to watch the yearly Buzkashi tournament. Before we had left, I had sensed a sign of discontent from Amir, but I shrugged it off as if he were tired. Buzkashi was Afghanistan’s passion. It was not possible that an Afghan was not interested. While we sat in the upper bleachers, Amir often looked confused or bored. He would look up at the chapandaz then back down at his fingers. I had told him the sight of a book at the Buzkashi was unbearable, and that he could last a few hours without burying his face in one. Although his eyes were on the horses, I knew by his gaze he knew next to nothing about Bazkashi. So I decided to point out my long time favourite chapandaz, Henry Kissinger. Before Amir had time to respond, I saw his eyes dart to the far end of the stadium. A chapandaz fell off his saddle and was crushed under the hooves of the horses. Slowly, Amir’s face changed from shock to mournful. How is it that this is my son? This rather quiet, bookish, feminine

The history of mental health in the United States show a robust movement towards the mental healthcare system we have today. Prior to the 19th century, individuals with mental health issues were widely considered to be demonically possessed, thus contributing to the stigmatization of mental illness and the proliferation of poor treatment conditions. However, in the 1800s, there was a dramatic change in mental healthcare in the U.S. The government took a proactive role in treating the mentally ill, leading to the dawn of state psychiatric facilities.

…The U.S. began the Iraq war with the goal of ridding the region of a tyrannical government that didn’t protect its people. However, a decade later, at the conclusion of the U.S. military mission in Iraq, the people are perhaps worse off than they were before the

While deployed during the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), I served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Although Iraq had its own unique complexities, Afghanistan proved to be a significantly more complicated fight. It included a determined and experienced enemy, austere terrain, and challenging weather conditions, which combined to present a myriad of complexities throughout all phases of the find, fix, and finish of the F3EA cycle. During a specific rotation to Afghanistan in October of 2008, I served as the 2nd squad leader for Bravo Company 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. During this combat rotation my platoon executed a mission targeting high value individuals (HVIs) associated with the Haqqani Network (HQN). Although the mission seemed

When general find Amir had been talking to his daughter, not only her throw Amir’s story in the trash can, but also he tells Amir to remember that he is among other Afghans. “He signed and waved a hand ‘—even decent boy need reminding sometimes. So it’s my duty to remind you that you are among peers in this flea market’” (Hosseini 161). General rejects Amir because he doesn’t want a tragic happen again, the tragic that his daughter went away with a man.

Although it is a relative rarity in America, it is very common in other parts of the world for innocent people to be murdered as a result of a war between factions. According to Mrs. Lazare, a study performed by three groups of physicians has concluded that at least 1.3 million innocent citizens have died as a result of the War on Terror, between September 11, 2001 and March 2015 (Lazare). Additionally, under the concept of total war, which was employed in instances such as Sherman’s March to the Sea during the American Civil War, and the demolition of Belgium during World War 1, thousands of civilians were killed as collateral damage towards a goal. Each of these victims had loved ones which will forever feel the loss of the deceased. It is the family who one must think about before proclaiming another’s life to be collateral damage.

May, 2006 was a month that I will not soon forget. My platoon and I were stationed in Baghdad; our mission was to eliminate the leader of a terrorist organization widely known as the Leumi. The Leumi consisted of thousands of bloodthirsty savages who were known for their radical methods of torture. Members of the Leumi would murder for either the satisfaction of taking another man’s breath or the perception that someone was trying to interfere with the Leumi’s cause. The objective of the Leumi is to rid the world of all impurity, which they deem to be those who do not follow Allah. At the time that I was stationed in Baghdad, their leader, Muhadi, was rumored to be hiding in a compound in No Man’s Land. No Man's Land was the headquarters for

No one will truly know how it is on the battlefield. Its full of resentment, remorse, and uncompation. “By November 1967, the number of American troops in Vietnam was approaching 500,000, and U.S. casualties had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded.” The battlefield is human hunting grounds, for dominance or for avarice. Blasting other troops, insightful that there is an alternate way out, the extermination of someone’s cherished one to prove that you allege is virtuous. It’s not deserved, it’s immoral.

While the political and military implications of ISIS’s actions are discussed in the first half of the article, there is a noticeable shift to the emotional and moral implications of the released video in the second half of the video. Landler and Schmitt highlight the impact Sotloff’s death had on his family. His mother is

Lost amidst the 5,200 people killed by ISIL (ISIS, ISIL Deash) over Ramadan is the news that the third battle of Fallujah has been won. The victory continues a trend that has seen ISIL 's self-declared Caliphate lose a third of its territory and half its manpower. Within the Caliphate moral is so bad that ISIL has been forced to publicly execute its own soldiers to maintain order in the ranks.

"Shhhh!" my mother whispered as the tanks rumbled by under the cold Afghan night, the stars twinkling above the mountains surrounding us. From our hiding place in the brush along the shoulder of the dirt path through the Khyber Pass, I could see tanks stretching to infinity and, try as I might, I could not find an end to the convoy of trucks. Huddled along with my father, mother, and infant brother and sister, we peered anxiously as the Russian Spetsnaz scouts rolled past us in jeeps ahead of the convoy heading toward the Afghanistan-Pakistan border-the very place our destination lay.

The article “The Aftershocks of bin Laden” discusses that in war, the issue of morale is critical. To break the enemy is to break his morale. The killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Operations forces in a firefight north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad delivered a pivotal boost to American morale and a blow to the morale of al Qaeda, with repercussions that are being felt worldwide. Bin Laden did not mysteriously fade into oblivion, simply never to be heard from again, fueling conjecture about his fate, and thus giving hope to the radicalized Sunni Muslim faithful; nor did he die a natural death. He was hunted down and killed. This fact cannot be overestimated. The following number among the salutary

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted lawabiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil. One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognizes the overwhelming strength of patriotism, national loyalty. In certain circumstances it can break down, at

As sweat drips off of your body you round the corner of the street. You take a moment to admire that it’s a beautiful day in Boston and there’s nothing you’d rather be doing then running the marathon. As you pump your arms and continue to run euphoria takes over as the “runner 's high” spreads throughout your body. Suddenly you’re thrown to the ground by as an explosion goes off to your left. Ears ringing, you stumble up and look around. There are people all over, bleeding, crying, and dead. The only feeling you have now is horror. Terrorist groups all over the world are destroying communities and families by recruiting their young children and killing innocent people. Terrorism is sweeping the world and it’s growing steadily. With a constant inflow of young soldiers, terrorist groups are stronger than before. They have surely mastered the art of recruiting the weak and vulnerable and using their weaknesses to carry out dangerous and deadly missions. There are hundreds of extremist groups carrying out terrorist acts all over the world. Throughout history terrorism has been a consistent issue in the Middle East. There are however a few that have had detrimental impacts on countries throughout the Middle East.