The war in Afghanistan started in October 7, 2001. The U.S. forces, with the support of the United Kingdom and the Afghan United Front, also known as the Northern United Front, launched what we know today as Operation Enduring Freedom. The U.S. would be fighting the first of two wars, the other in Iraq, but we would find that out later. The goal of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high ranking Al-Qaeda members. Then we were to take out the Taliban regime that was helping them. When the United States military started using the Predator in the War in Afghanistan, it greatly affected the outcome of the war on terrorism.
I believe that the war in Afghanistan had to be extremely tough to fight, especially in the beginning, without the help of the Predator. The Soviets would agree to this because just decades earlier they were fighting against Afghan fighters for a period of 10 years. With the mountainous landscape as their home field, the Taliban insurgents had a huge advantage over the U.S. and their Allied forces. Most of the Taliban combatants were trained by the same Freedom Fighters that were in conflict with the Soviets so they knew the region quite well. The same insurgents used the element of surprise, with the help of the caves, to elude the artillery shells and the borage of different bombs to flush out and destroy enemy targets. When enemy targets could not be reached by artillery and or bombs dropped by Allied bomber planes, Allied troops had to clear cave by cave to make sure the area they were patrolling was safe and secure. My wife had a close friend who was in the Army Airborne who came home from two tours in Afghanistan and later Iraq, who told all kinds of stories of going into the caves. He said...
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... Forces would go out on missions, they had more security knowing that the Predator was in front of them, behind them, and even on top of them.
The War on Terror is still not over; however, the United States has come a long way in weapons development. With the use of the Predator Drone, America made an impact on Afghanistan. We proved that we were a force to reckon with. War today is fought so differently than it was in the 1900’s or even the 1940’s. We are constantly coming up against newer technology, or in Afghanistan, new terrain, that we have not seen before. With the development of the Predator Drone, we proved that we could fight them effectively, and without a high civilian death counts. The Predator Drone was a definite turning point in Afghanistan for our troops; it is a great tool in the U.S. military arsenal of weapons that the troops benefited from.
Operation Rock Avalanche was supposed to establish peace with the local village people so that the Afghan government could safely build a road. The Taliban used the Valley
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States was incredibly eager to strike back at the nations thought to be responsible for this horrific tragedy. These attacks were quickly attributed to the terrorist group al-Qa’ida, led by Osama bin Laden, and to the Taliban-run government of Afghanistan, which had provided sanctuary to al-Qa’ida. In response, Washington approved a covert plan led by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to directly attack those responsible in their Middle East safe haven. Initiated on 26 September 2001 with the approval of the warlords of the Afghan Northern Alliance, with whom the CIA had formed an intelligence liaison relationship, Operation Jawbreaker resulted in the fall of the Taliban regime, the killing and capture of a significant amount of al-Qa’ida leadership, and elimination of a terrorist safe haven by early December 2001. Moreover, the Taliban’s collapse denied al-Qa’ida a pseudo-nation-state partner, serving to reduce the organization’s sanctuary to areas residing along the Pakistani border. Operation Jawbreaker, one of the first post-9/11 covert operations carried out by the United States in support of its national security interests, had proved successful. Word of the operation’s swift success astounded those back in Washington; dubbed the CIA’s “finest hour,” it signified the first of many victories by deposing the Taliban’s control of Northern Afghanistan.
The author detailed the many of the difficulties faced by the special operations forces in Afghanistan. They made significant gains with the Village Stability Operations and a major concern for them was losing ground. However, certain factors threatened those gains. In particular, the wars unpopularity at home and President Obama 2014 timetable to withdraw were major hurdles. The author explained that this complicated the efforts of the special operations forces because; a counterinsurgency strategy takes time to cultivate. Many military leaders fear that their efforts will not hold up in their absence. They believe the assistance of the United States is crucial to continued success in the war. The biggest obstacle to this effort was the relationship between American and Afghani Leadership. President Karzai insisted Afghan Special Forces accompany U.S. Special Forces on night raids. Military leaders were hesitant at first nevertheless, president Karzai insisted. In addition, he wanted Afghan approval for every mission launched. The author concludes that the real intention for accompanying the U....
Predators in Afghanistan and Iraq, but they were merely an over watch during raid operations,
The battle happened on October 3, 2009 at Keating, an American combat outpost, near the Kamdesh town in Nuristan province. Nuristan province of Afghanistan is located in the eastern part of the country and is largely inhabited by the Nuristan communities. They exist in four major groups, but are largely subdivided on the basis of religion, clans, and personal beliefs. It is a population of hostile people who vigorously resist foreign aggression and so would not tolerate America’s presence in their land. Their involvement in the attack of the Keating command post was inevitable and must have provided a lot of support, logistics, planning, fire power and command (Kelly, 2011).
Osama bin Laden was an adversary of the West for years and it was known to the whole world. Unfortunately, he took it a little further by having two planes fly into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and another plane possibly for the White House. As we all know, this is the unforgettable day of September 11, 2001. Thousands of Americans were innocently murdered that day and in our own country by a terrorist organization. The United States of America would not stand for this and rapidly sought out Osama Bin Laden for what he had done to us. This is the day that caused the United States to accelerate the search and destruction efforts of bin Laden. Soon after September 11th, the United States was very involved in Afghanistan in trying to find him.
On December 24th 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On that day began a war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction on Afghanistan for 10 long years. The Soviets stormed in with thousands of troops at the request of the troubled Afghan Communist regime. The Russians believed this be a neat surgical military operation. They were wrong.(Boggs) The only resistance to the Soviet invasion were men known as the "mujahideen" known to many as freedom fighters. They are multinational; some even from America, doing everything in their power to repeal the Soviet horde. The Soviet invasion frightened neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, so they unofficially allied with the United States. The U.S. provided the weaponry, training, etc., Saudi Arabia recruited the fighters (mujahideen) which were sometimes based in Pakistan. They all agreed on the need for armed resistance against the Soviets. The U.S. decided to tap the religious vein of the rebels, creating a zealous religiously driven guerrilla organization; well armed and trained by CIA officers with the goal of returning Afghanistan to Islamic purity.
Graw, Lester W, and Ali Ahmad Jalali. "The Campaign for the Caves: The Battles for Zhawar in the Soviet-Afghan War." The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 14 (September 2001): 69-92.
In his essay “What We Are Fighting For”, Rex Murphy outlines reasons why Canadian army is fighting in Afghanistan. In the beginning, Murphy clearly states that Canada’s involvement in eliminating the Taliban Government was in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks to our ally, the United States, particularly because of those Canadian citizens who murdered in those attacks. According to Murphy, the international campaign to combat terrorism would be effective not only by eradicating the Taliban Government, but also by helping Afghan citizens in establishing a democratic state. Furthermore, Murphy explains that the Canadian army remains in Afghanistan to secure the peaceful democratic transition of power, as well as to assist Afghans with
How many innocent farm animals are going to be brutally killed and consumed by predator species before the citizens of america are going to do anything about it.
Operation Anaconda was the first major joint combat operation against the war on terror that the US was committed to winning. This operation would test our military’s readiness for joint operations against a hardened and willing adversary. The primary mission was to kill/capture Taliban/Al Qaeda forces occupying towns and villages in the vicinity of Shahi Khot in order to gain control of the valley.1 The US needed the towns, villages, mountains, and more importantly, the intricate and hard to access caves cleared of enemy fighters. Units participating in the operation included elements of the 101st Airborne Division, 10th Mountain Division, Special Operations Forces (SOF), and Coalition forces from seven nations including Afghanistan.2 With so many different nations fighting along with our own branches of military, it would test our ability to conduct joint operations on multiple levels.
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their “Vietnam War”, meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the war, and impact on the United States are key to understanding the Soviet-Afghan War.
Endersby, A. (2011, February 20). Afghanistan, invasion of. Retrieved May 23, 2011, from International Debate Education Association: http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=145
It is not wise for a predator to underestimate its prey. In “The Most Dangerous Game,” written by Richard Connel, General Zaroff has become disinterested in hunting simple animals; he needs the challenge of hunting an animal that can reason. Mr. Rainsford is the next item on General Zaroff’s menu. The only way to get out is by beating Zaroff at his own game. A game of hunting that means life and death. Zaroff is the hunter and Rainsford is the hunted. In, “The Smuggler,” written by Victor Canning, Tasso, like Rainsford, is being contested by a predator. He is known as the Great Man. The Great Man is interrogating Tasso for smuggling. Tasso must be clever at how he responds and how he displays himself, for his life is in danger. The antagonists
Afghanistan is like a time capsule. Many people farm for subsistence, and few are able to read or write. Afghans have been compared to Spartans in that they are a martial people who have been at war for thousands of years. The rough terrain in which they live lends itself to long periods of resistance. Time and time again they have been able to push away would be conquerors. The current war in Afghanistan stands in contrast to previous wars because its purpose is not one of conquest for land or for the exploitation of resources. The purpose of the current war in Afghanistan is to win over the Afghan people and to help them grow ideologically to assimilate into an ever more technologically advanced global environment.