counterbalances the DoD’s tendency to focus on conventional conflicts by focusing on the importance of irregular warfare. The concepts of working with allies and expanding our warfare research are both focused towards irregular warfare. Additionally‚ studying insurgency operations and placing less emphasis on conventional tactics further emphasizes irregular warfare. The National Defense Strategy understood the need to transition from conventional to irregular war tactics. First‚ our country along with our allies
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Besides that‚ showing the true identity of those behind hijabs‚ burkas‚ and niqabs doesn’t seem like it’ll be soon under the Taliban’s control. Firstly‚ typical women from the 1980s to 2000s are treated with greater unjustness ever since the Taliban took control over Afghanistan. Most of their rights were rather confiscated until further notice. The beauty and creativity of work were taken away so women were essentially detained in their own home. In the life of a woman‚ especially in Kabul‚
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Police Methodology vs. Rise Of Insurgency : Dysfunctional relationship By the end of 2015‚ there was an increase in mistrust and tension between communities and police officers. Some communities and civil rights leader argue that the killings by police officers are as a result of abuse of power and the use of excessive force. For example as in the case of NYPD Officers and Eric Garner who was killed in a choke hold.The American Civil liberties Union (ACLU)argues that “In a country devastated by
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Children of the Taliban 1. The government school system has completely collapsed. The lack of funding and cohesiveness amongst educators and government has caused the system to literally crumble. School buildings are also in war zones and a lot of them are structurally unsafe at this point. They have been replaced by schools of the Taliban. The Taliban actually offer guaranteed food and shelter to the children who attend their schools. Parents will even receive a monthly stipend. While madrassas
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An Unethical War The insurgents’ war is an unethical war. They use tactics of manipulation‚ deceit and media propaganda to brainwash vulnerable and desperate individuals into becoming suicide bombers. Analyzing these three tactics through events in The Sirens of Baghdad” by Yasmina Khadra with “Eros and Thanatos” by Chris Hedges and “Just War Theory” by Alexander Moseley and then comparing these events to real life stories such as “Abandoned in Iraq; We did our job as interpreters; why has the
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Student Overview Taking a look at this monograph we can find a close examination of the counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan followed by the appearance of the Taliban regime in 2001. It is based on repeated trips to Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ and India from (2004-2008). The author focused on the early stages of the insurgency (2002-2008) and examines how and why it began. The author also draws lessons from the broader literature on counterinsurgency warfare and provides recommendations to help
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Naxals:evrywhere‚and nowhere 17th January‚2008:Samireddy Ganesh‚a 35-yr old tribal in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh is axed to death by the Maoists on the charge of being a ‘police informer’..(1) 20th March‚2008: Three tribal villagers in Bijapur district of Chhatisgarh are killed by maoistsfor being activists of ‘Salwa Judum’..(2) These are just two incidents of the ‘dangerously’ large number of criminal and ambush undertaken by the left-wing ‘radicals’(in their own prerpgative) in
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fighter who was recruited by the FLN and would eventually become its leader. The film depicts the anti-war theme with the aid of its protagonist and his actions as well as by utilizing images of warfare. By showing Ali’s struggles as leader of the insurgency and the acts of terrorism conducted by the FLN‚ Pontecorvo is able to emphasize the destructiveness of war all the while stressing that the true victims are the innocent civilians. He demonstrates just how senseless war truly is‚ when one side escalates
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force fighting a Taliban- led insurgency and plans to send over more troops. According to Matt Waldman (head of policy in Kabul Afghanistan’s capital city‚)”About 55% of civilian deaths in the insurgency last year were caused by foreign militants … This is causing anger‚ fear‚ and resentment among Afghans‚ and is steadily eroding support for the international presence.” NATO could not be improving the lives of Afghan citizens when they are killing more citizens then the Taliban is. Contention
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al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden‚ the one who planned the attacks. We discovered his location in Afghanistan only months later‚ and the thought of an invasion was on everyone’s minds. The United States led multiple offensives against al-Qaeda and the Taliban‚ who were discovered to be holding bin Laden to protect him from the Armed Forces of the United States. How they got to be holding him was only due to one reason. The September 9th‚ 2001 assassination of Ahmad Shah
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