The Caucasus region has been an area of political, military, religious, and cultural rivalries for centuries. We have latest information that Caucasus region has shown signs of increasing instability. One of the USEUCOM mission is to provide stability in the Caucasus regions in order to support US governmental and commercial involvement in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea region.
Based from our latest update, it has affected our strategic directions of EUCOM and they are to ensure the social, political, and economic progress and stability in the region, prevent combat terrorism, and prevent the use of proliferation of weapon mass destruction (WMD).
Within the Caucasus region, we have unresolved Nagorna-Karabahk (NK) region conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. That created a Free Karabahk Movement (FKM) insurgency groups that Azerbaijan supported. The FKM recently attacked the Armenia nuclear power plant at Metsamor, which very close by Turkey. The US increased security cooperation and economic development activities in Azerbaijan.
There was a disproportionate share of the economic benefits from those pipelines between the north and south of Azerbaijan population. Southern Azerbaijani formed the South Azeri People’s Party/Army (SAPP/SAPA) in an effort to increase their political and economic representation. The SAPA training camp is at the northern Iran and began conducting armed activities in the Kura River valley nearby Azerbaijan’s oil infrastructure. Azerbaijan requested assistance from US, and we provided one Army SOF to conduct limited foreign internal defense (FID) operation with Azerbaijan. SAPA insurgents were continued to increase activities in the northwest Iran-Azerbaijan border.
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In the essence of stability in the Caucasus region, USEUCOM should continue to utilize all national power (DIME) to ensure regional stability in order to build and foster regional economic and energy opportunities. We should continue to have US Army Engineer teams work with Azerbaijan and Georgia to build infrastructure such as the rail system from Batumi through Poti to Tbilisi and onward to Baku, Azerbaijan. Continue to provide economic aid to strengthen coalition partners and this including US military aid and training. For instance, the counterterrorism trainings for Georgia and Azerbaijan. Another recommendation is continue to support non-government organizations into suffering regions to provide humanitarian aid and other needs necessary. Lastly, continue to encourage democratic ideology in order to increase stability within Caucasus region.
International politics as one may imagine includes foreign affairs. This is why the topic and focus of this paper revolves around the current event within Eastern Europe. It will focus on both Russia, Ukraine, and the world, and from it, it will be analyzed by using the resources provided within class. After all it is a International Politics course, and one of the best ways to effectively put the skills and knowledge to use is to focus on an event or current event. The paper will attempt to go over in a chronological order of the events that has happened, and what is happening currently over in Ukraine. Afterwards, an analyzed input will be implemented providing reasoning behind Russia's actions, and actions of the world, and potentially some solutions.
"The Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the President of the United States of America have consulted with each other in the common interests of the peoples of their countries and those of liberated Europe. They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert during the temporary period of instability in liberated Europe the policies of their three governments in assisting the pe
SUMMARY: The Syrian Civil War between the Syrian government, and the insurgents, as well as the Free Syrian Army has been escalating since early 2011. The United States, and our allies have faced difficulty in sending aid to Syria, and continue to deal with obstacles in sending even basic medications to Syrian civilians. However, the United States and its allies have also contributed to the lack of organization and the disparity in Syria by sending aid and artillery to individuals based only on political connection, and ignoring organization, local alliances, and without a true understanding of the reality of the Syrian localities to best protect the Syrian protestors. The question addressed in this memo will be defining the viable options to be pursued in Syria, how to pursue them, and assessing the most beneficial path of least resistance when offering aid, funds, and artillery to specific groups in the country. The recommendation will be that although the best alternative action item would be to choose a Syrian group with the least oppositional values comparative to the United States to fund, supply with arms, and train; that the United States should do nothing for the time being. Given the physical and financial risk involved with the Syrian Civil War, it would be prudent for the United States to simply observe how the war progresses over the next several months, as well as complete some research to truly understand the state of affairs in local areas of Syria to determine the extent to which the United States could identify a group to provide aid to, as well as the extent to which the United States involvement would be within Syria.
...h development of Russia, and the West’s involvement in that task. Russia must feel as though it is being treated as if it is a major player on the world scale, which it is. If it feels that it is being regarded lightly, it will shut itself off from the rest of the world and positive change will not occur. This means that using Russia to augment the United States’ security needs at no benefit to Russia needs to end. The West must recognize the differences in Russia and work around those differences in order to find a system that works for them. A realist approach is clearly not the answer as it only fuels negativity, and does nothing to encourage Russia to fix their internal problems which are hindering the country. If the West can engage productively with Russia, an era of cooperation will ensue which will be essential in solving the globes security problems.
In a recent White House brief, President Obama called the Russian invasion of Crimea a clear violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and international law. When assessing the Russo-Ukrainian crises in Crimea, the commander of European Command (EUCOM) and the Supreme Allied Commander of European Forces (SACUER) must account for U.S. interests in the region before deciding a proper course of action. This essay aims to assess four of the United States’ national interests through the perspective of EUCOM and SACUER. The first section will outline the role of EUCOM and SACUER in the European region and assess the overall problem of Russia invading Crimea. The second section will outline four of the United States’ national interests at stake: international order, trade and economic prosperity, energy supply, and freedom of the seas. In doing so, this assessment of U.S. interests in Crimea supports the options of non-intervention and a non-provocative stance in order to maintain long-term stability because the Russian invasion has only violated peripheral interests of EUCOM and SACUER.
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