All Airline Pilots should be Armed Abstract The issue of pilots carrying weapons‚ while flying‚ is not new. Since the earliest days of pilots flying the U.S. Mail‚ they carried guns to protect themselves and the vital cargo of mail. Today‚ pilots are authorized to fly with weapons to protect the aircraft‚ their passengers‚ and themselves from hijackers and terrorists. It has become a last line of defense in case of a hostile takeover of the aircraft‚ turning it into a weapon of mass destruction
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Through the years‚ military forces are being employed in Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW). For an operational commander and staff‚ these operations present significant challenges: in many areas they are relatively unfamiliar‚ complex‚ involve a wide variety of agencies and are often protracted in duration. The term MOOTW describes a range of operations too diverse to analyze effectively. This reflective essay focuses on a particular form of MOOTW‚ in this case Humanitarian Assistance (HA)
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To what extent was the League of Nations a success? In 1914 war broke out in Europe. The war ended in 1918 and Germany solely blamed. The end of the war was signed with the treaty of Versailles. From the war was born the League of Nations; who helped nations resolve disputes peacefully without going to war. When the League was formed‚ the defeated nations were not invited to join. The League originally had forty-two members. All forty-two members made up the assembly‚ who met once a year. As incidents
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demobilization programs‚ a group of agencies working with children in conflict met in Cape Town in 1997 to establish a working definition: "A child soldier is any person under 18 years of age who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force or armed group in any capacity‚ including but not limited to cooks‚ porters‚ messengers‚ and those accompanying such groups‚ other than purely as family members." By casting the net wide‚ this definition challenges the predominant narrow conceptualization
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him/her. This affects the police service because it means that they may be letting a criminal back on to the streets to possibly commit more crime. The Human Rights act may also affect the Uniformed Public services because of the fact that in the Armed services it is impossible to protect the human right of a serviceman/woman in other countries‚ such as Afghanistan to the same standards of what
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Generally stated ‚this paper seeks to establish the role of child soldiers in the escalation of armed conflict in Africa. The previous chapters have discussed the regional armed conflicts where child soldiers were used or are being used like the case of DRC Congo. This chapter will critically analyse the use of child soldiers in Liberia. There were approximately 120‚000 child soldiers who were participating in armed conflicts in Africa. Out of these‚ approximately 24‚000 were in the Liberian conflict
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citizenship remained dubious and national interest controversial. In a state of this kind‚ armed forces are prone to fragmentation along primordial identities‚ and often privatised while authoritarianism looms as the ultimate recourse against state dissolution and societal strife. The chapter is organised in two sections: The first section looks into the role‚ capabilities and interventions of national armed forces on the domestic and regional scenes. It stresses the limits of the military leadership‟s
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the most important duties any leader in the Army or the Armed forces in general‚ tackle each and every day. Being at the right place at the right time for any member of the Armed forces is extremely essential to the defense of the entire United States of America. It’s because of this that being on time is remarkably important. Dependability‚ accountability‚ consistency and discipline are all crucially important for all members of the armed forces. Being on time shows that a soldier is dependable
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There are many benefits to being a member of the United States armed forces. While serving in the armed forces‚ one will be taught self-discipline and how to live independently. Also‚ the military offers many opportunities for advancement while guaranteeing a pay check every two weeks. Finally‚ the military offers money every year to service members and former service members to obtain higher education. Whether one chooses to make the armed forces a career or to pursue other paths outside of the military
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of when you hear the term “Child Soldier”? You probably think of a normal child who has been trained to become an armed soldier from his early childhood. No‚ the reality is that child soldiers still do exist in many parts of the world. First of all‚ what do you mean by child soldiers? Child soldiers are any children under 18 years of age who is a member of the armed forces or an armed group. Today‚ child soldier has been one of the major issues in the economy of human civilization. It has fore mostly
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