Iraqi war

Culture of the Kurds According to United Kingdom based news syndicate, BBC, in their article entitled, Who are the Kurds?, “Between 25 and 35 million Kurds inhabit the mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia” (2016). This would make them the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. Although the Kurds adhere to a number of different religions and creeds, they are considered a race of people with a unique history that separate themselves from the

and to lack efficiency upon trial. Realism does not prevent future insurgency acts Realism does not prevent future insurgency acts as there has been an increase in the magnitude of threat and the use of the traditional framework around war. First, a notable political scientist, John Mearsheimer argues that what has changed over time is the magnitude of the threat. What the US is up against is a more formidable and more dangerous adversary that was the case throughout the 1990s. As a

replaced by Viper Company. In that time, B company, or Battle Company as it is commonly referred to, would face serious opposition from both local insurgents and foreign fighters imported by the A.C.M., or Anti-Coalition Militia. B Company faced a war of firepower and of hearts

The reshaping of countries in the latter half of the twentieth century due to nationalist endeavours has resulted in a commonality across a wider spectrum. The wider spectrum is a globalised community that is able to interact and therefore increase the ‘market’ (if you like) of foreign fighters. Urri defines globalisation as the ‘increased density of international and global interactions, compared with such interactions at the local or national level’. The CIAs forecast in 2000 predicted some of

Organizing Insurgency by Paul Staniland, introduces the question, “Do resources like diamonds, drugs, and state sponsors turn insurgent groups into thuggish people or do they help build a more disciplined organization?” The reason this question is asked is because in some cases it suggests that “resource wealth encourages the degeneration of armed groups into greed and criminality” and other evidence shows that “external sponsorship and criminal activity can help leaders build organizations in the

innocent Iraqi civilians are thrown in jails. Yet a year after these horrible events innocent Iraqi prisoners are dragged like dogs on leashes and sexually assaulted. In a desperate bid for freedom, Iraqis assembled themselves into armed militant forces. They have been ceaselessly fighting the occupational forces demanding their withdrawal. Many Iraqis support the militants’ causes because they deem foreigners to be as faceless and heartless monsters. The Iraqi people yet

Beau S. Vomastic MAJ, FA GAAT EXAM O300 Brigade Operations Exam 28FEB15 (ESSAY QUESTION #1) Assessment of the Establish Civil Security (LOE) and the linkage to the overall end state: The overall depiction of the Establish Security LOE is both accurate and relevant to the end state of producing a safe and secure environment. However, the order of decisive points within the LOE is out of order and could develop complications of achieving the end state if not properly structured. Currently

DDR program. This partial macro-level success, however, must be qualified. Apart from enabling the resumption of full oil mining activities, the Amnesty program has been unable to engage other macro level changes. For example, it has notproduced the much anticipated security sector reforms, which is crucial in order to develop the type of intelligence that would be proactive in preventing future armed conflict. The Nigerian Police Force, a humongous, monolithic body of law enforcement officers, remains

Different Cutlers The Killers and The Darling are the two stories I decided to compare and contrast to the contemporary Kurdistan because they implicitly and explicitly reveal so much about the culture, existed in both US and Russia during late 19th century and early 20th century. The killers was written by Ernest Hemingway and takes place in US during the 1920s, during Prohibition. The story starts when two strike men, who do not behave properly, walk into a lunch-room after several

Family in Kurdistan In this essay, I will be exploring an essential word that can be understood or elucidated in various ways based on three perceptions, which is Family. The word family is defined as “a group consisting of one or two parents, their children and close relations” according to Oxford dictionary. However, the word family is described differently bases on the people’s educational level in Kurdistan. Firstly, among the educated or modernized members of the community family is defined