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The security environment that is shaping the Joint Force 2025 (JF25) is incredibly complex and rapidly evolving. Challengers to security and stability include two aggressive competing powers (China and Russia), two nuclear capable regional hegemons (North Korea and Iran), and a persistent threat of terrorism to the homeland. The global commons are contested and access to the space and cyber domains are no longer guaranteed. Fiscal constraints limit the available means for the Joint Force (JF)

The following activity is for the seven month period from January to September 2015. There are some tasks that are identified that overflow from the time as a LEIDOS contractor, which I have identified in italics. A task that was assigned to me was to review the environmental requirements for policies and regulations associated with international, national, and local ballast water management regulations to determine applicability to Navy ships. Most of the work associated with this task was associated

Synthesis Essay- President John F. Kennedy MSgt Corey B. Kennedy Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy For two years and ten months, America had a visionary leader that inspired a generation to achieve things as a country once thought impossible. For two years and ten months, America had a president that used ethical leadership in decisions that impacted not just the United States, but the world as a whole, and left a lasting legacy. There are a many defining moments from President

The security environment today is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). The challenges presented by globalization, emerging powers as well as the continuing threat of terrorism indicate the future security environment will continue to gain complexity. Adding to this complexity is the challenge of increasingly constrained fiscal resources. To protect U.S. National Security interests in this complex and constrained environment, Joint Force 2025 (JF-2025) requires four core capabilities

Subsequent to the British withdrawal “east of the Suez,” the United States (US) assumed the mantle of guarantor of Middle East stability. In furtherance of that stability, prior to the Islamic Revolution, Iran, along with Saudi Arabia, was considered one of the “Twin Pillars” of American support aimed at limiting Soviet access to Middle East Oil. As a result of the revolution in Iran, President Jimmy Carter, in his 1980 State of the Union Address, defined what came to be called The Carter Doctrine:

It is very interesting how there are so many countries out there and most of them with very different beliefs, cultural backgrounds, ideals, laws, customs, religion and living very different lifestyles, but, all of that is set aside and they are all able to come together and unite for a similar cause in order to reach a common goal. This is the case the “100 Hour War”, where coalition forces joined their military assets to fight a war against Iraqi soldiers, under Saddam Hussein’s orders, to stop

INTRODUCTION: The European Union (EU) is a political and economic partnership that represents a unique form of cooperation among 28 member states. Formed through a series of binding treaties, the Union is latest in a process of integration begun after World War II in Europe to promote peace and economic prosperity. Its founders hoped that by creating specified areas in which member states agreed to share sovereignty firstly in coal and steel production, economics and trade, and nuclear energy, it

Sun Tzu’s military acumen resonates in the current discussion of the Marine Corps’ preparedness to conduct forcible entry. The Army and Marine Corps saw significant successes utilizing forcible entry and amphibious operations in the Pacific during WWII and the Korean War. The landing at Inchon was “arguably the Corps’ greatest amphibious success” (Cancian, “Preserving Amphibious Capabilities in a Time of Austerity, 2012). Led by General MacArthur, Inchon remains the legacy by which future amphibious

American Technological Advancements and the Cold War Many of the military technological advancements that have been made in the last 60 years can be attributed to the Cold War. Much of the technology developed during the period of the Cold War is still in use today by the military and government. Advancements in offensive technology are well known to just about everyone in the way of nuclear energy harnessed in the form of the nuclear bomb, but little is known about the battle for information

2.1 Key concepts De facto states: From the Greek polis to nowadays-sovereign state, the concept of state has changed and evolved during time. Today, the 1933 Montevideo Convention sets the rights and duties of state. Each sovereign state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) permanent population; (b) defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states. By contrast, a de facto state is, a secessionist entity