The Kurds and the Palestinians are two nations that are knowingly similar in their struggle for independence, yet every one of them has a unique, different history toward this struggle. These two cases initially began in the earls of the 20th century, after WWI, with the history of these nations dating way further than that. Britain was indirectly responsible, with France, for starting these dilemmas in the Middle Eastern region which remain unsolved until our days. In 1916, The Sykes-Picot Agreement
David Galula’s first of four “Laws of Counterinsurgency” is the utmost reflected in the United States counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, which most closely resembled the theory of “Hearts and Minds.” The President Obama’s speech and General Petraeus’s guidance outlined the United States counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. Galual’s first law of counterinsurgency stands incorporated as the prevailing theme of the United States counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. Moreover, the
Analysis of Kurdish Geopolitics Past and Present Who are the Kurds? Most of us have heard about them but don’t know who they are. Are they a race, a religion, a country? As we see from the following example, even Europeans who are much closer to the Kurds still do not have a complete understanding of the Kurds or the middle east in general: In the West, the left and liberal minded people in general, especially in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries, have usually supported or at least expressed
Organizing Insurgency by Paul Staniland, introduces the question, “Do resources like diamonds, drugs, and state sponsors turn insurgent groups into thuggish people or do they help build a more disciplined organization?” The reason this question is asked is because in some cases it suggests that “resource wealth encourages the degeneration of armed groups into greed and criminality” and other evidence shows that “external sponsorship and criminal activity can help leaders build organizations in the
The presence of English has indeed increased steadily from the beginning of the 2013. Along with its increased visibility, its status has changed dramatically. The period from the 1991 to the 2003, a period of major social, cultural and political change, was particularly important in this process. Until 2007, all students began learning English in Kurdistan in elementary school at approximately 11 years old (grade 5). In September 2007, the Ministry of Education held the second conference which concluded
April 2004 American forces drove insurgents out of Fallujah in a large-scale ground attack. However, al Qaeda retook the city weeks later. The offensive operations conducted by the U.S. forces were effective as they would disrupt insurgent control of Iraqi cities, but the U.S. was not establishing strong security in the areas just captured. The result of little to no security in the cities retaken by American forces resulted in al Qaeda taking back most positions. The U.S. had to retake Fallujah in November
ethnic group without a nation state. This paper seeks to shed light on whom the Kurds are, the territory they claim being a part of their right, and more on the status of their struggle for nationhood, an independent Kurdistan with its main focus on Iraqi Kurdistan. It also establishes the relationship with the nation-states in which they (Kurds) live. The study also explores the challenges, and resolutions, of and by the Kurds. For Kurds to face their plight and get solutions, they have had to take
On the month of April in 2004, in the city of Habbaniyah, Iraq, a brutal and terrible act took place which ignited one of the bloodiest battles in the history of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Four Black Water security members were killed and publicly maimed. The resulting battle left a high casualty rate as well as hundreds of American service members being wounded. This is the story of the events that took place after the events in the city of Habbaniyah. On the 31st of March, 2004, a convoy was
Counterinsurgency (COIN) is defined as the political and military strategy or action intended to oppose and forcefully suppress insurgency. In Douglas Porch’s Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War he begins to question the many scholars, public figures, generals or COIN-dinistas on their indiscriminating dedication to counterinsurgency. Counterinsurgency is not something new it has been around for merely 40 years, but recently it’s made its way to the forefront of many scholars
controversial approaches to reach his goals. Under Jabotinsky, Begin was influenced into siding with non-mainstream secular Jewish movements. These included going against the somewhat Utopian left-wing socialistic views and embracing the idea that at the core, Jews had to survive on their own.
The Battle of Fallujah forever changed the methods in which the American military conducts combat operations. The American military was not expecting to engage in such a bloody and intense battle like Fallujah. Fallujah changed the way the military conducted its tactical operations, its intelligence operations, and its Information Operations (IO). There are also a number of other factors that were changed to due this intense urban conflict. The Battle of Fallujah was started by one singular incident
I was deployed to Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo when Operation Iraqi Freedom kicked off. I remember wondering how this war would affect my life or the direction of my career and unit. In March of 2003 I found out. Because of the war, our replacements, already having been trained for real world action, were sent to Iraq, extending my already long six month tour to ten. The start and end of that war, as a whole, had its effects on not just me and my unit, as I was deployed there twice, but on the whole
their people are expected to follow, no matter how inhumane or difficult they can be. In the small village in The Lottery, the citizens are expected to randomly draw names and kill whoever is picked, whereas in the Iraqi culture portrayed in the article An American Honor Killing, the Iraqi people are expected to live and abide by the traditions and lifestyles. These completely different cultures show that tradition plays a very big role in society, but some traditions can be violent and outrageous.
The 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, a unit known as the Rakkasans, were conducting Operation Iron Triangle in 2006 in Iraq when soldiers killed eight unarmed Iraqi men. The US military severely reprimanded the Commander of the Rakkasans, COL Michael Steele, for the unethical command climate his leadership allowed to exist within the unit at that time. This unit will need a new commander that can set and maintain an effective, ethical command climate through his leadership. That new commander
Long Term Effects of War Even though , many people have been effected by the Iraq and Afghanistan war because the number of displaced Iraqis internally and externally are estimated to be between 3.5 million and 5 million people (Iraq: The Human Cost , 2014). According to the Iraq Body Count website, there have been 186 thousand deaths due to violence in the war. Violence Deliberate killings, human bombs, dozens of vicious groups, and a growing sense of insecurity trouble Iraq (Tirman). Cluster bombs
really both monsters were killing people by the 100,000’s. Another way that the holocaust may have influenced the Kurdish genocide is the way in which people were murdered. Concentration camps were set up all over Europe and were used to exterminate the jews, the Anfal campaign was another term for the ground attacks, aerial bombing, destruction of villages, concentration camps, mass executions and chemical warfare targeting the Kurdish population. The Kurdish cities were either evacuated, completely blown
In schools, typically students are taught about the plight of groups such as the Jews through the Holocaust and the Africans through American Slavery. Rarely brushed upon is the aftermath in these communities. How long did the segregation last? Did they ever receive acceptance in society? In this paper, I will be comparing the effect on the autonomy of both these groups. In the aftermath of the war, foreign troops invaded concentration camps in Europe to set those held hostage free. Many were Jewish
The Germans mainly targeted Jews but also those who didn’t fit their definition of “perfection”, including Gypsies, the physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses and some Slavic people. The Germans plans for punishing the Jews for their misfortunes was called “The Final Solution”. The Final Solution consisted of gathering up the Jewish populations and shipping them off to concentration/death camps. In these camps they were enslaved until the day they died from either working to the point
ethnicity on the planet without a state to this day. This paper will focus on the Iraqi part of Kurdistan, for it has come the closest to a state-like notion as per Weber’s definition. Iraqi Kurdistan is a region characterized by many diplomatic issues due to lack of acceptance as a state. The region was established through an autonomy agreement with Iraqi government in 1970 after decades of disputes between the Iraqi government and the Kurds in the north. The region had already established a government
Media Manipulation Exposed in George Orwell's “Shooting an Elephant” The phrase “the power of the press” is used often, but what exactly is the power of the press? Since the beginning of news reporting, it’s been known that what actually gets into the news reports is monitored and carefully picked by higher authorities. What isn’t widely known, however, is that the media can use specific wording and phrases that, on the surface, look like normal news coverage, but are actually a technique of