be able to defend the country they live in. Women generally make up about 14 percent of the armed services. Of the roughly 2.2 million troops who’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan‚ more than 255‚000 have been women‚ said Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez. Pentagon figures show that as of Jan. 3‚ 110 women had been killed in the war in Iraq compared with about 4‚300 men. In the Afghan campaign‚ 24 women have been killed compared with more than 1‚400 men. French‚ German‚ Danish‚ and Canadian women
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THE ARMY RESTRUCTURING PLAN 2 Abstract The U.S. Army plans on cutting 80‚000 soldiers by 2013. This will be done by cutting the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32. This restructuring comes as the Pentagon works on its 2013 fiscal year budget‚ which much reflect $260 billion in savings over the next five years. On January 26‚ 2012 senior DOD leaders released a new defense strategy‚
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Running head: TRENDS PAPER Trends Paper University of Phoenix Introduction to Popular American Culture SOC 105 Sep 06‚ 2007 Trends Paper There are many trends in the world‚ but they vary from country to country. Trends have a tendency to change within time‚ but there is always something called popular trends those are the trends that people tend to follow. This paper will observe a few trends in the American Culture‚ which will include social‚ political‚ religious‚ and personal trends
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The Economic Crisis in America The Road Of Despair Abstract We are going through a crisis that is sweeping the nation and affecting our people greatly. I will be discussing terrorist attacks; the war in Iraq‚ the falling housing market‚ government’s bailing out program‚ unemployment and the natural disasters which have played a key role in the direction our country has taken in the twenty first century. I will provide in-depth examples on how each event
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Military Budget Cuts The United States military has a major presence worldwide. We have the most dominant force and by far are the most advanced. There are soldiers and troops in over 150 countries across six continents. That does not count for all of the soldiers based on naval ships that constantly travel the oceans going country to country. With all of the soldiers‚ military equipment‚ testing‚ and research and development‚ the military’s cost has been averaging over 500 billion dollars annually
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April 17‚ 2013‚ from A&E Bio Network website: http://www.biography.com/people/condoleezza-rice-9456857?page=1 Bannon‚ B. (2011‚ November 4). Condoleezza Rice should have quit over Iraq ar. US News. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brad-bannon/2011/11/04/condoleezza-rice-should-have-quit-over-iraq-war CNN. (2004). Smart‚ savvy‚ strong-willed Rice charts her own course [Newsgroup post]. Retrieved from CNN website: http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/rice/profile.html Forbes
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Barack Obama On August 4th‚ 1961 in Honolulu‚ Barack Obama was born. Barack’s mother‚ Ann Dunham‚ lived in Wichita‚ Kansas during her life‚ while her father was employed on oil rigs in Great Depression time. After the Pearl Harbor attacks led by Japan‚ Ann’s father‚ Stanley Dunham joined United States Armed Forces under George Patton’s control and marched across Europe. Obama’s father‚ Barack Obama Sr.‚ was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province‚ Kenya. Barack Obama Sr. lived his early years
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introduce a tax rises at the year 2002. This had affect on some of the citizens of UK with less inbound tourism and outbound tourism with the taxation. Moreover‚ with the Iraq war happening at 2003‚ this greatly brings a huge impact to the tourism industry of UK. The government has spent around 7.4 billion pound on the Iraq war. The rises on year 2006 were because of the grand opening of the Emirates stadiums which brings in a lot of footballs fans to the country. The international friendly matches
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may blame inexperience or dereliction of duty by commanding officers. Others may say that stress caused by living in a war zone was responsible. However‚ it has become clear that no single reason would be sufficient to completely explain the events at Abu Ghraib prison. Throughout this essay‚ Szegedy-Maszak attempts to answer the question: Are there particular conditions in Iraq that might shed light on why these soldiers committed these unconscionable acts? (Szegedy-Maszak p. 173). She begins by
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How does ‘Lyndiee England at Abu Ghraib’ help us to understand why good people to bad things? Lyndiee‚ before being posted in Iraq‚ was an innocent soldier or a ‘good person’. However‚ when she tortured the prisoners in Abu Ghraib to the extent the actions were deemed to be an example of dehumanisation‚ she was labelled a bad person by society. When I watched the video I became aware that she was still a good person but she had just done bad things because of the situation she was in and
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