The Role Of Transportation In The Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq war is one of the most important, but least well known events in the recent history of the Middle East. It was no small conflict, lasting eight years, with casualties estimated to be between 150,000 to 340,000 Iraqis and 450,000 to 730,000 Iranians killed in the conflict. It saw the newly revolutionary Iran pitted against Saddam’s Ba’athist Iraq. It saw the United States support a regime that it would eventually topple, against a nation that only a couple years earlier was a close ally. It was a war of the Sunni Arab world against the Shiite Iranians; a conflict that still plagues the Middle East even today. It also echoed some of the worst aspects of World War I, with the Iraqis deploying chemical weapons like mustard gas and Tabun, without the

Throughout American history wars have played a huge part. From the start of the country to the present wars have played a lagrge part in shaping America into the national power that it is today. Not only is America the most pwerful nation in thwe world but it is also the policeman for the entire world, making and checking up on the world and all the interactions of foreign countries worldwide. Being born in born in the early eighties prohibitied me from experiencing many of the Americas war firsthand. This however changed early in the 1990's.

II Marine was closing in on the 3rd Army Division of the Southern States of America. So far, there had been no order from DoD asking the Marines to halt in place. Marine scouts had located the rear echelon of the 3rd and a day later they found the main body. The 3rd had held up ten miles from the rear echelon of the 3rd ID. The Marines that had radio communications with the 3rd ID notified them of the discovery. The 3rd ID graciously thanked the Marines, but told them they already knew.

When Americans speak about the Iraq war, they mention the number of soldiers, the number of casualties, and the enemy that we fought. People fail to recognize the importance of the “Angels of the battlefield”, the nurses. Nurses were a crucial piece of our military because they cared for our wounded soldiers. This, in turn, reduced the number of casualties as a cause of the war. For my research paper, I will find the effects of the Iraq war on Nurses. I will speak on the roles and experiences of nurses during and after the Iraq war during 2003 all the way to 2011. I will first speak on the different roles that nurses had. This will include the different levels of modern combat care, and statistics about the nurses. Next, I will examine the experiences that the nurses had

At the end of World War 1, the Soviets controlled eastern Europe, the Soviets were also one of the last superpowers with the U.S. also being one. Then the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs ending the war in the pacific. This lead to the Cold War. The Cold War started from tensions growing between the U.S. and Soviet Union.

The Persian War began when Iraq leader Saddam Hussein, ordered to take over Kuwait in early August 1990 due to a border dispute and allegations that Kuwait stealing Iraqi petroleum. Therefore, western forces such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on The United States for help. By January 1991 the allied coalition against Iraq had reached a strength of 700,000 troops (Encyclopedia Britannica). Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein refused to obey The United States order to withdraw from Kuwait so, President George H. W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm (ushistory.org); a military operation seizing Iraqi forces from Kuwait. At the end of it all in February of 1991 when Iraq was defeated The Kurds and Shīʿite went into heavy rebellion.

United States military was moving into Iraq, the American economy was taking the first assault of a long and expensive fight. Victory was declared several years ago, and many are content to leave the story at that point. Advocates of the war have hailed its expediency and relatively minimal cost to the United States and its allies. The facts support a different conclusion. The truth lies in the economical devastation that the war in Iraq has left in its wake. The only accurate summation of the war is to say that the United States’ invasion of Iraq was not economically responsible.

“The Iraq war took priority of domestic disaster prevention”. To begin with, the Iraq war began in 2003 of U.S. infected the war from the bloodiest war caused more anger, if we keep on fighting the war, the disease spreads, and gets worse they won’t stop, but we could stop the disease.

The United States aversion towards former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, began nearly thirty years ago after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait. Post-invasion there was international animosity towards the Hussein regime, causing the U.S to step in and take action in an attempt to control and restructure the Iraq government. In 2000, when George W. Bush took office, U.S foreign policy adopted a more aggressive stance with the overall goal being the removal of Saddam Hussein from any governmental position. Bush actively started moving forward with this plan post 9/11 when allegations were made of possible relations between Hussein and Al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden as well as beliefs that Iraq was developing and planning to use weapons of mass destruction.

During The Gulf War the public and operational witnessed the debut of unfathomably complicated battle equipment, sleek new aircraft employing stealth. Arthur C. Clarke also described the Operation Desert Storm as the world’s first space war, as none of the accomplishments of America’s new look military would have been possible without support from space. Twelve years later Operation Iraqi Freedom proved that the central role of space power could no longer be denied. America’s military had made the transition from a space-supported to a fully space-enabled force, with astonishing results. Indeed, the military successfully exercised most of its current space power functions, including space lift, command and control, rapid battle damage assessment,

As described by Diamond, one of the major problems facing Iraq at the time was the lack of a national security. After the war, the state of Iraq had collapsed along with social order. The national security was weakened, making the people in Iraq feel unsafe. The lack of national security is very harmful to a country, especially in terms of economics growth. When the people do not feel safe, they do not feel compelled to spend or invest much. He describes that social capital, such as trust and cooperation, was missing from the Iraqi people which left the economy stagnant.

In order to fully interpret the nation of Iraq’s holistic condition during and after the Saddam Era, Social, Political, and Economic factors must be weighed accordingly and in contrast to each other. In order to do this, the span of years leading up to 1989, and

While the Iran-Iraq War during the 1980's may have permanently altered the course of progress in Iran and Iraq, the war also altered the resulting permanent involvement of the rest of the world in the middle-east. The rich and complicated history in Iraq has established numerous cultural and ethnic traditions that all play a part in where the country is today. The Iran-Iraq War brought into focus some of those traditions and how they conflicted, while also bringing Iraq and its economic situation into the spotlight. Being on top of some of the most mineral rich soil in the world makes Iraq a major contributor to the world's economy through petroleum and crude oil exports. This, among other reasons, ties nations

Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War, (1990–91), international conflict that was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring that nation’s large oil reserves, canceling a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi power in the region1. The Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein claimed as a reason for the invasion a territorial dispute over the Shatt al-Arab, the waterway which forms the boundary between the two countries2. Saddam Hussein believed that Iran was in turmoil and that his forces could achieve quick victory3.

The MEK has a turbulent past and a background of information is needed to understand their relationship with the Middle East and West. The People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran (MEK) came into existence in the 1960s as an armed guerrilla movement inside of Iran. The original founders of this movement were university students led by Mohammad Hanifnezhad. Homa Katouzian asserts that, “After the arrest and military trial of their leaders, and especially in consequence of the military suppression of the revolt of June 1963, they, like some other young dissidents in Iran and the West, reached the view that the only avenue open to them was armed struggle. However, they were raided by SAVAK and almost all their leaders and members were arrested in 1971, before they had taken any effective action.” Their movement almost died with them, however they had ideals that appealed to the Iranian people and more would soon follow. Most of the organization adopted a practice of following Marxist-Leninists ideals and political philosophy. The MEK was a militant organization that intended to overthrow the Iranian government. They were deemed as terrorist organization by many western governments. MEK at first was against the West and their influence as they tried to topple the shah in the 1960s and 1970s.