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one hundred and fifty four soldiers to date and compromising our future security is not the answer. By committing to attempts of making Afghanistan a prosperous democracy Canada has assumed partial responsibility for the state of Afghanistan after NATO leaves‚ putting Canadian interests of safety at risk. As articulated by Douglas Bland “it is a false assumption that Canada can choose between peacekeeping or war-fighting missions. In reality‚ the two terms describe the same phenomenon – warfare”
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Vimy Ridge‚ the formation of NATO‚ the creation of the Canadian flag and people such as Lester B. Pearson all assisted in defining Canada as a nation. Vimy Ridge ran almost 12km north-east of Arras. The Germans occupied Vimy Ridge in September 1914 and their engineers immediately began to construct a network of artillery-proof trenches and bunkers. These were protected
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Review Sheet‚ Second Midterm Exam‚ GOV 312L: U.S. Foreign Policy LECTURE 12 :Tuesday‚ March 3rd: Violence and the International Political Order News: 1. Discuss the implications of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on the threat of Iran. How did the fact that Speaker of the House John Boehner invited Netanyahu to speak without clearing it with the White House affect relations between the executive and legislative branches in the U.S.? How did the speech affect partisan
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Afghanistan has long been a land where conquering armies have the most difficult operations. The terrain and the weather are unforgivable‚ with snowcapped mountain ranges as high as 24‚000 feet‚ and an indigenous population who have been fighting for hundreds if not thousands of years. Afghanistan’s location is definitely not an ideal operational theater for a democratic republic like the United States‚ with rouge‚ failed‚ and transitioning states surrounding the landlocked country. These conditions
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talks about the state of affairs in Afghanistan. The Taliban is still very much around even though they are not in control of the government. The government is led by President Hamid Karzai‚ who is said to be very corrupt. There are also the forces of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)‚ and the US forces led by Commanding General David Petraeus. The Taliban is on one side‚ and on the other side are the government and the other forces. Each side seems to claim they have made headway and the other
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The US and its NATO allies which were engaged in a bitter the Cold War with the then Soviet Union decided to use Pakistan as a frontline state against their enemy. Prof Munawar Sabir in his scholarly lecture delivered at the Superior University‚ Lahore‚ exclusively for the CSS students preparing for interview on ‘Geo-strategic importance of Pakistan’. He highlighted the geo-strategic importance of Pakistan by discussing Pakistan’s relations with its neighbouring countries and the major powers
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During the Cold War‚ the United States and the USSR wanted to put their government systems and ideas into people’s minds. A map provided by NATO presents us with information about the Warsaw Pact’s influence on Europe (Doc 5). Since the United States created NATO‚ the USSR responded by implementing the Warsaw Pact. By creating NATO‚ they were able to influence democracy on most of the Europe‚ leaving the Warsaw Pact with a few countries. This gave the United States the advantage‚ because since they
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was achieved through the Treaty of Maastricht‚ which established the European Union and made the Euro standard currency in many countries. Two political actions that were taken to stabilize Western Europe were the formation of NATO and the Helsinki Accords. NATO was originally formed to preserve international security. But it was eventually undermined by President Charles de Gaulle of France when he withdrew military support from the organization and went on to develop France’s own nuclear weapons
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stop the spread of Communism and communist expansion through military‚ political and economic means. Specifically in the Cold War era‚ the U.S. implemented this policy through the Truman Doctrine and the founding of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Another factor of the containment policy was the Soviet Union’s rejection of the Marhsall plan. Containment started in 1949 with the Truman Doctrine. The development of the Truman Doctrine initiated in February of 1947 when England‚ weakened by
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