Introduction When US Army withdraw from Iraq in December 2013, it creates and big vacuum of power and resource in the region. A lot of changes happened in Iraq in aspect of politics, security and economics. The global terrorism start staging itself for next level of attacks, preparing to recruit extremists from all over world in Syria. In June 2014 when ISIS took over and second largest city in Iraq, Mosul. That what the global alarm of what will come next, therefore we need to plan our strategies to defeat ideology and remove them from power, military, economically, and globally. The strategies in this fight will be in every aspect, humanitarian, military, economically, and politically. Although the military …show more content…
In current campaign against ISIS, specially the fight to capture Mosul, the second large city of Iraq, and where ISIS declared he Islamic state in June 2014. “The Iraqi Security Forces don't have enough troops to retake and hold Mosul and the surrounding area without help. So, other factions — including Kurdish forces and Shia militias (known as Popular Mobilization Units) backed by Iran. If left unchecked, these other factions could use the battle for Mosul to further their own agendas.” (Pamela Engel 2016). One of the military strategies used by US Army Special Operation were to train the Iraqi Security Forces to regroup and organize the effort to push forward to re capture …show more content…
It will take a lot of work in United states government and all intelligence agency to fight this ideology and educate people on their risk to the future on peaceful world. Every step we will take to achieve our goal must be studies very well, analyses must be done, and critical questions must be answered. We must document all the options and compare them to have better results and depending on intelligence reports we have, then organize the next step to go forward. It’s not impossible to win this war, we can use our strategies in all aspect we discussed and push the campaign forward toward success. We need to go forward with our alley the Kurdish Peshmerga forward in this war and use them and example of freedom and independency for all the minority in that region. Working carefully with Iran and turkey to avoid the humanitarian crisis in the region and economical. Also, Jordan has approved best base and ally to unite states as Arab Sunni government to fight ISIS and terrorism and use its land to train forces to be ready to defeat global terrorism. At the end, all the propaganda must and recruiting must be tracked and shut down all the attempts to care attacked in our homeland by sleeping cells, whom are operating alone in our soil or Europe. Review the screen protocols for the refugees and increase caution method to make refugees vetting more effective
Understanding the purposes and motivation of any non-state insurgent group is the key to defeating them . To misunderstand them very likely lead to failure. However, the organization of non-state insurgent groups is fluid characteristic, which means that the purpose of its fighting also often changing rapidly . It is important to recognise this changes as this will also change the characteristics of their war that they waged . Within a fluid non-state...
In this paper, I intend to analyze Iraq war of 2003 from Realist and Marxist/ Critical perspectives. I intend to draw a conclusion as to which theoretical framework, in my opinion, is more suitable and provides for a rational understanding of the Iraq War. While drawing comparative analysis of two competing approaches, I do not intend to dismiss one theory in entirety in favour of another. However, I do intend to weigh on a golden balance, lacunas of both theories in order to conclude as to which theory in the end provides or intends to provide a watertight analysis of the Iraq war.
Which take me to the Iraq War, not to the actual war but what happened after the drawdown of troops. The intention was to improve the Iraqi Army with billions dollars. But we all know how that went. And like the events of 9/11, we all remember where we were at that exact time, same as the first ISIS attack. I was at Centcom Forward-Jordan (CF-J), watching the news with my blood pressure as high as a kite, but mostly I was harrowed, knowing the amount of time, sweat, blood and bullets spend by me and my brothers and sisters in arms. The actions of the Iraqi troops defending, if we can call it defending, the City of Mosul. The troops fleet the scene like cockroaches when the light is turn on. Without even thinking twice about the millions of dollars left behind on equipment. They were not outnumber neither to say with better equipment than their enemy. Equipment “donated” by the US Army. OUR equipment! Later on, some of those troops join the ISIS group. Proving one more time the Iraqi’s will to fight a smaller force was questionable. The creation of the so called “Sons of Iraq” was a fallacy, group create from the different tribes in Iraq to protect and stablish a democracy.
On March 20, 2003, the combined military forces of the United States and Britain crossed the southern border of Iraq and Kuwait with the intent of capitulating the government of Saddam Hussein. Over the course of 21 days, the joint task force moved quickly and decisively to seize major objective cities along the road to Baghdad using aviation, armor, artillery, and infantry. Following the overwhelming success of the primary combat operations of the invasion, stability and support systems proved insufficient as sectarian violence and other criminal activity among the local population of Iraq increased.
Prior to General Petraeus arriving in Mosul, Army Special Forces and Kurdish Peshmerga were engaged in fierce fighting in the city. An unstable government and the military occupation of the city were contributing factors for the civil unrest (Lunberg, 2006). To compound this situation, there was no emphasis put on the reestablishment of the Iraqi Government or the rebuilding of the city. Additionally, the main
The 2015 National Security Strategy (NSS), the 2015 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and the Army Operating Concept (AOC) collectively agree that the United States cannot solve strategic problems alone. All of these documents discuss, in their opening paragraphs, the importance
every day there is something on the news about a terrorist attack somewhere in the world. The threat is real, but the biggest threat is ISIS. Countries all around the globe are preparing for, or fighting, a war against ISIS. In a world full of many terrorist groups and threats, ISIS is the most powerful. The world needs to better understand what it is, where they attack, and how to stop them.
By invading Kuwait, Iraq succeeded in surprising the entire world. The USA ended her policy of accommodating Saddam Hussein, which had existed since the Iran-Iraq war. Negative attitude toward Iraq was soon a worldwide phenomenon. The United Nations Security Council passed 12 resolutions condemning the invasion. The ultimate decision was to use military force if Iraq did not withdraw unconditionally by January 15, 1991. Then, when the deadline was set, it was time to start prepa...
Immediately following the two thousand and three invasion of Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) was in full effect. After the decline of the Iraqi government headed by Saddam Husain, The United States concluded that Iraq as a free nation was now more vulnerable than ever. American policy would not completely withdraw military forces and abandon the newly liberated Iraqi people. A reduced American Military force was left behind to aid in a smooth transition to a new government. Quickly, the coalition forces occupying the nation began to meet heavy ambushes composed of devastating Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) combined with multiple directional small arms fire. Intelligence concluded that a well trained and organized insurgent force was
I don’t think our strategy in Iraq is quite complete since we are still there under Obama’s administration. Since ISIS has lost some of its key territory, the U.S. has been using air strikes to hinder the group and supporting local groups that are fighting ISIS on ground (“There are still huge problems with the US strategy for fighting ISIS – Business Insider,” n.d.). According to the same article, Sunnis are the key to the U.S.’s strategy because most of the cities the U.S. are planning to invade or seize are dominated by the Sunnis (ISIS
...most distressed by outcome of a war, could exercise only inadequate control on the issue of armed action against Iraq. Most of the regional actors discarded the U.S. policy towards Iraq with varying intensity as they feared insecurity after Iraq’s disintegration (Reuters, 2003) whereas; Jordan decided not to endanger its rewarding ties with Washington. Another key actor at this level is the Baathi party in Iraq which was based on tribal division, domestic oppression and economic enticement. Under Baathi regime military, bureaucracy and security services was divided into several competing institutions which reinforced Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq. In the post war Iraq, the USA in collaboration with the Iraq National Congress and the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution started to make Iraq a democracy that is similar to the American political culture and values.
Iraq’s economy system was disastrously crippled by the Iran and Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War and the UN embargo. The country has yet to recover from
The abrupt end of decade long dominating regime in three weeks had created a political vacuum, that is evident in shifting coalitions and divisions among religious groups, ethnic groups, regional groups and even classes (Barnett et al. 2003, 25). US did not realize, moreover, the depth of the hostility between Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, and the members of different tribes and local religious groups. Furthermore, to deal with destruction in Iraq new plan was decided by the US. The plan was to pull out all troops and hand over the responsi...
Attention: According to an article by The New Yorker entitled Did George W. Bush Create ISIS written by Dexter Filkins on May 15th, states that after the overthrow of Saddam, the Iraq army was disbanded by the US which left over two hundred thousand people humiliated and without a job (Filkins). These angry young men decided to take up arms against the United States to get revenge. This is what caused start of the Iraqi insurgency; all this could have been avoided if the United States stayed out of Iraqi Politics (Filkins).
Current military leadership should comprehend the nature of war in which they are engaged within a given political frame in order to develop plans that are coherent with the desired political end state. According to Clausewitz, war is an act of politics that forces an enemy to comply with certain conditions or to destroy him through the use of violence. A nation determines its vital interests, which drives national strategy to obtain or protect those interests. A country achieves those goals though the execution of one of the four elements of power, which are diplomatic, informational, military and economical means. The use of military force...