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military has participated in military action both in Syria and in Turkey (among numerous other places) -- but these two separate interventions expose a single aim -- the destabilization of Assad, through direct support of mercenaries and through the direct assistance of Turkey, whose President Erdogan is a known collaborator with ISIS (a point which indicates that the world's "police" are still very active in pursuing courses of action which have two levels of objectives -- on the surface, the provision of a defense of democratic rights; below -- the attainment of American-Israeli-Saudi interests).
Action
In 2012, the U.S. deployed 400 troops along with 2 Patriot missile batteries to Turkey to serve as a defense of that country from Syrian attack.
Two years later, the U.S. military illegally entered into Syria (uninvited) to conduct operations against ISIS.
The Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex: 3 aspects of U.S. history since 1865 that have led to the U.S.'s rise as a world super power policeman
A. The rises of Industrialization post-Civil War and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny growing into New Expansionism saw the U.S. military entering into conflicts with foreign powers, beginning with the Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century and continuing on unabated with various countries around the world for the next...
Following WW2, a reorganization of world powers came into being. This reorganization was supported by a reorganization of the global monetary system at Bretton Woods and the rise of the USD as reserve currency, thus helping to solidify the U.S.'s role in dictating policy world-wide.
C. The military-industrial complex saw massive profits as a result of perpetual war, thus supplying a profit-driven motive to foreign intervention and the massive build-up of the military as well as the selling of arms and munitions to foreign governments, thus ensuring that international conflict would be perpetual.
III. 3 international incidents since World War II where America has taken on a policing role
A. Cuba -- Bay of Pigs
B. Vietnam
C. Iraq
IV. 3 driving forces that fueled international policy decisions involving the international incidents you outlined previously. (Consider treaties, exit strategies, elections, wars, etc.)
A. The spread of Communism (pretext for invasion): CIA efforts to overthrow dictators who did not embrace U.S. interests in their countries (Gleijeses, 1995)
B. Soviet containment: the idea that the Vietnam War grew out of a policy of containment (Herrmann, 1986)
C. The UN: R2P Doctrine:…
References
Gleijeses, P. (1995). Ships in the night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs.
Journal of Latin American Studies, 27(1): 1-42.
Herrmann, R. (1986). The power of perceptions in foreign-policy decision making: Do
views of the Soviet Union determine the policy choices of American leaders? American Journal of Political Science, 30(4): 841-875.
Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia (1990) What is genocide? When it comes to genocide there is a lot of disagreement amongst legal scholars as to what is enough to qualify as genocide. But basically genocide is described as the logical, structured, planned attack or in other words the deliberate destruction of a national, religious, racial or ethnic group. The said destruction could be in whole or in part. Scholars of the legal system
The accident in the Tonkin Gulf when North Vietnamese forces attacked the U.S. vessels and caused two airplanes to crash was a good reason to start the conflict, as the troops of North Vietnam violated the Geneva Convention and attacked a foreign navy in the neutral international waters. The United States has to react on this accident, as it was the mater of international respect, but at the same
(Somalia - UNOSCOM 1. Background) However, a major limitation of the initiative was that the UN force was limited to self-defense, which resulted in it being infective and virtually ignored by the various warlords in the regions. The United States also attempted to intervene and manage the conflict. To this end the U.S. organized a military coalition with the purpose of, "...creating a secure environment in southern Somalia for the
On November 8, 2001, the U.S. Senate passed several new conditions before direct 'military-to-military relations can be restored with Indonesia including the punishment of the individuals who murdered three humanitarian aid workers in West Timor, establishing a civilian audit of armed forces expenditures, and granting humanitarian workers access to Aceh, West Timor, West Papua, and the Moluccas." Following are two very recent bills and rulings by the U.S. Congress concerning
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Just War Theory Sweeping changes in the way wars are fought have brought current scholars' attention to the ethical concept of the Just War. The concept of the Just War is nearly as old as war itself; it is perhaps best codified in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. There have historically been two main approaches to deciding what is, in fact, fair in war: deontological and consequentialist. In short,