General Casey and General Petraeus both put the “Art” back into the “Art of War” using Commander-centric leadership. Casey attempted to refine the operational approach by progressively reducing the U.S. footprint in a three-phased plan to stabilize‚ restore Iraqi government authority‚ and inject Iraqi self-reliance. Although unknown‚ it is possible that this approach would have worked had the Iraqi Sunni population learned of the withdrawal and been faced with a 20% Sunnis 80% Shiite civil war.
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an assortment of operations at this moment. Case in point‚ there have been more than 350 air strikes led in Pakistan that were not voted on by Congress... So an operation can sum to approximately eight times the size of the opening round of the Kosovo war‚ but then nobody thinks about it as a ’war’."50 Part of the photo that has empowered a developing
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Different types of causes‚ long-term causes and immediate causes for WW1. Long Term: Mutual Defense Alliances * Russia and Serbia (Russia joined in first after war started between Austria-hungary and serbi‚ Russia was Serbias alliance‚ we can say Serbia triggererd the chain reaction) * Germany and Austria-Hungary * France and Russia * Britain and France and Belgium * Japan and Britain Imperialism - Imperialism is when a country increases their power and wealth by bringing
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Modern Day Slavery: Sex Trafficking “I was sold for 3‚500 euros ($4‚400). I was beaten‚ raped‚ forced against my will. They would put out cigarette butts on me and cut me with razors. It was like a horror movie” (Kara 131). This first-hand account comes from Martina‚ a 29-year-old sex trafficking victim from Bulgaria. At the time she was 19 and working as cook. She met a young man who offered her a job at a restaurant in Croatia. Desperate for a better life‚ Martina took the job without a second
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-UN kept insisting Saddam to withdraw • Needed to expel him from the Kuwait • And US was the only state with capability to do so POLITICS: Liberate Kuwait (kick out Iraq armed forces) • No expectation that US would follow into Iraq and overthrow Saddam • LIMITED political objective STRATEGY: Make Iraq defenseless as QUICKLY as possible • No messing around with political constraints • Just destroy any capability to use force • No coercion strategy used
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against Impunity: Progress and New Challenges.Boston‚ Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff‚ 2005. Bertodano‚ Sylvia. “East Timor: Trails and Tribunals‚” in Cesare Romano et al. (eds.)‚ Internationalized Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Sierra Leone‚ East Timor‚ Kosovo‚ and Cambodia. Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press‚ 2004. Him‚ Chanrithy. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing up Under the Khmer Rouge‚ a Memoir. New York : W.W. Norton‚ 2000. Lawless‚ Robert. “The Indonesian Takeover of the East Timor
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were barely speaking. Tory leader‚ David Cameron‚ took this as a chance to denounce Blair and the New Labour movement. The largest issue Blair faced during his time as Prime Minister was his support of military intervention in Iraq‚ Afghanistan‚ Kosovo and Sierra Leone. Blair was later harshly criticized by Parliament for his close ties to The United States invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan but did not waiver until his resignation in 2007. The economy was also a central issue during Blair’s time
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of the main reasons were Balkan nationalism‚ entangling alliances‚ and militarism. Balkan nationalism was one of the major causes of World War I. Balkan is a peninsula in Southeast Europe‚ it contains Greece‚ Turkey‚ Albania‚ Macedonia‚ Bulgaria‚ Kosovo‚ Montenegro‚ Serbia‚ Moldova‚ Croatia‚ Slovenia‚ Bosnia‚ and Herzegovina. Britain‚ France‚ and few other countries were interested in the territorial gain of this section of Europe since right on the border of the East and West. In 1912‚ several
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Humanitarian intervention poses a hard test for an international society built on principles of sovereignty‚ non-intervention‚ and the non-use of force. Immediately after the holocaust‚ the society of states established laws prohibiting genocide‚ forbidding the mistreatment of civilians‚ and recognising basic human rights. These humanitarian principles often conflict with principles of sovereignty and non-intervention. Sovereign states are expected to act as guardians of their citizen’s security
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Norway i/ˈnɔrweɪ/ (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk))‚ officially the Kingdom of Norway‚ is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula‚ Jan Mayen‚ the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island.[note 1] Norway has a total area of 385‚252 square kilometres (148‚747 sq mi) and a population of about 5 million.[9] It is the second least densely populated country in Europe. The majority of the
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