was one such conflict that occurred before 9/11. Saddam Hussein‚ leader of Iraq‚ lead his country to war over oil and invaded Kuwait. Hussein was said to have stated‚ “We are not intimidated by the size of armies‚ or the type of hardware the United States has brought” (www.cryan.com 2016). Saddam was defeated‚ but the United States would once again find itself fighting Iraq after 9/11. The initial war went well for the United States and Saddam was toppled. However‚ as war dragged on without
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preemptive military action against Iraq was both necessary and justifiable. To continue to appease Saddam Hussein in 2003‚ this argument runs‚ would have had the same unfortunate consequences as appeasing Hitler in 1938; both were signs of weakness and miscalculation‚ in which an unavoidable conflict was imprudently postponed. The lesson of the Munich analogy rests on at least two claims. The first is that Saddam and Hitler were alike‚ not simply because both were vicious tyrants (a proposition that is undoubtedly
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Throughout George W. Bush’s administration policy towards Iraq between January 2001 and his decision to intervene in March 2003 American foreign policymakers have demonstrated their desire to act unilaterally contrary to their declaration that multilateralism is extremely important. During George W. Bush’s first month in office his foreign policy team revealed to the American people that they were going to deal with the world in ways that previous Presidents had not done before‚ they would be
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with those who oppose this type of violence. Following the invasion of Afghanistan‚ the U.S. received information of the whereabouts of Iraqi president‚ Saddam Hussein. Operation Red Dawn was a military mission that would lead to the capture of Hussein‚ who would be later hung. Was this‚ however‚ inspired by the previous assassination attempt Hussein plotted against George H.W. Bush? Due to this action‚ however‚ Bush had claimed “mission accomplished‚” in May 2003‚ which ended up being a lie. Correspondingly
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engagements‚ to including political role of the Patriot Missile. First off on June 1990 when 11th Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Brigade was attached to the XVIII Airborne Corps. Afterwards‚ Saddam Hussein was in the Kuwait area which did move a number of scuds to the desert of western Iraq. Saddam Hussein moved the scuds to have the capabilities of conducting a threat with air power; also to try threatening
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a combat environment. However‚ HUMINT collection did improve during the Iraq conflict‚ and many of the lessons learned from Iraq led to improvements in HUMINT collections in Afghanistan. It is also noteworthy that HUMINT led to the capture of Saddam Hussein (USAICoE Command History Office 2013)‚ and this event certainly can be considered a significant impact of HUMINT. This point was also made in 2011 by Major General James "Spider" Marks‚ in the video‚ “Army Elite – Intelligence Collection.” Major
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The fall of Saddam Hussein’s rule in 2003 saw a shift in the Iraq political situation. Fostered by the U.S. intervention‚ the Sunni‚ who were the minority and in power lost it to the majority Shia. Many leaders in the Middle East expressed their worry over the increasing influence of the Shia in Iraq (Nasr‚ 2006). Following this‚ Iran‚ primarily a Shiite country began to suggest a foreign policy that was more aggressive in the Near East‚ where Iraq is located. This action by Iran caused apprehension
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demonstration of its armies. Instead‚ this paper will argue that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s motives were to free Iraq from the assumed ‘gratuitous debt’ which was procured during the Iran- Iraq war‚ to reconcile Kuwaiti theft of its oil through ‘slant drilling‚’ and to proclaim land that Hussein believed rightfully belonged to Iraq. Although a tough predicament‚ the invasion was an impartial reconciliation path for Iraq and for Hussein‚ considering the factors leading to the strife between the two nations
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Realism‚ as a way of interpreting international relations has often been conceived to be closely tied to the Cold War. Realism‚ rooted in the experience of World War II and the Cold War‚ is said to be undergoing a crisis of confidence largely because the lessons adduced do not convincingly apply directly to the new realities of international relations in the twenty-first century (Clinton 2007:1) Worse still‚ if policymakers steadfastly adhere to realist precepts‚ they will have to navigate “the
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Presidents have banned the use of assassination by Executive Order). However‚ this issue regained topicality in the 1990s as leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic pursued bloody careers which threatened international peace. In recent years US airstrikes apparently aimed at killing Muammar Qaddafi of Libya (1986)‚ Osama Bin Laden (1998) and Saddam Hussein (1991 and 2003) have provoked argument - were these assassination attempts or did these leaders have the status of enemy combatants in
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