Homeland Security in America: Past, Present, and Future Roger L. Kemp American Military University HLSS301 October 21, 2012 Abstract The United States has been changing for the better and continues to do so. The past, present, and future of Homeland Security will help us identify our weakness and also help us before our defenses against the war of terrorism. Below is an article that will help us identify our issue that we had in the past and present and also help us how we will be better of in the future. Homeland Security in America: Past, Present, and Future The question that is clearly stated in this article was “What changes have our Home Security have done in the Past, Present, and Future and what we have learn from previous events. Lastly it states that how can we improve coordination and communication among all levels of government and the public in the fight against terrorism.
This too, strengthens the reader’s understanding of the main themes. The themes that aid in the reader's understanding are how wars can bring either the best or worst out of someone and how war can leave such a lasting effect on a society that fallen victim to war. The well thought-out strategies created among the commanders and their confidants that the author writes in complex details can make one feel as though they were sitting down among the generals themselves, planning what the next step will be! Straying far from the historical book stereotype, McCullough writes 1776 what many others have written beforehand, but in a way that makes one be on the edge of their seats, continuing to turn the pages to know what happens next. The author goes straight into the point leaving no small details out, for what the objective the author desires from the reader, is to see how the wrong words or changes in weather conditions can be contributing factors to the outcome of
The Communists won the Civil War mainly because of the weaknesses of their opponents: assess this view. I agree to an extent that the communists won the Civil war mainly because of the weaknesses of their opponents; there are however, other factors that contribute to the victory of the Communists in the Civil War such as, foreign intervention, war communism, red leadership and red military success. White weaknesses were a big reason for the Communist’s victory in the Civil War. For starters, the Whites were spread out over large geographical areas. In addition, White generals launched offensives at different times, failing to co-ordinate attacks, allowing Red forces to move around and defeat them one by one.
Throughout history, civilizations and empires have faced many of the same challenges. These challenges could have been problems with communication, external threats, internal instabilities, overextension of territory, and so on. These empires also have another thing in common. This is the fact that they all try to deal with these problems in the best way possible, or so they think. King Zheng of Qin succeeded in defeating the remaining Warring States between 230 and 221 BCE, ending one of the most violent periods in Chinese history.
Our government, the one we Americans put our trust in to protect our families and friends and to guide us to be the greatest nation we can be has been ripped from its foundation. It is no longer of the people, by the people, and for the people, it is closer to shove the people, deny the people, and war the people. War is an extremely lucrative and profitable venture for our government, and I have heard it argued successfully that it is the most profitable of all the government’s endeavors. President Eisenhower even said in his farewell address to the nation that “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” We put our faith and trust into our leaders to do the right thing, to act fairly and sensibly in its relations with other nations, and we expect them to treat those citizens and ours alike with the same fairness and sensibility.
The death of millions could be caused by one misstep due to Ender.In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Ender Wiggin, the protagonist of the novel, shows with his triumphs and defeats that one can only successfully fight enemies that one understands. Ender shows this truth in his wins against his peers, his losses against adults, and his ability to win against the buggers. In each of these cases, understanding the enemy is a necessary part to do battle effectively and be successful. Ender reveals the importance of understanding his enemies when he fights his peers. The first classmate that Ender fights is Stilson.
Paper #2 The Tet offensive proved to be the turning point of the war, delivering a fatal blow to political support for the war in the United States. Even though Tet was a disappointing defeat for North Vietnam in strictly military terms, it exposed the bankruptcy of U.S. war policy and aims in Vietnam, and paved the way for America’s eventual humiliation. The most surprising aspect of the Tet offensive was that it was not really a surprise at all. Yet the episode shows how even a superior force can be taken by surprise both militarily and politically when it lacks the initiative in war. Since the North Vietnamese had the initiative instead of the U.S., it was possible for their elaborate campaign of deception to succeed in maintaining the element of surprise, even though the U.S. discovered numerous details of the attack to come.
US has been time and again in the past questioning the commitment of the Pakistani establishment in its war against terror and now locating Osama just under the nose of the Pakistan army establishment and the US forces conducting a unilateral operation without any assistance or intimation to the Pakistani authorities, speaks volumes about the trust deficit which the two countries are facing at the moment. China seems to be ready to exploit this situation to expand its influence in the energy rich middle east region. China has shown keenness to further tighten its already close relationship with its long term strategic ally, driven by the view that Pakistan is going to play a crucial, even defining role in Afghanistan amid declining US influence there, especially amid expectations of scaling down of ‘war on terror’ post Osama and US troops withdrawl. This is visible in the Chinese backing Pakistan upfront against the unilateral US operation in Abbottabad which was seen as a violation of sovereignty of Pakistan by the US. Further China has promised to give Pakistan 50 advanced multirole JF-17 Thunder fighter jets during the recent visit of Prime Minister Geelani to
Our military and its associated budget will continue to expand. People around the world will continue to see the United States as militaristic, expansionistic, and willing to take unilateral military action whenever its leaders sense some threat to their position of power. It is this perception of a United States which solves its foreign relations problems by throwing its military weight around, which makes our nation so unpopular with many people and nations around the world. This will not change because the American people showed today that they have no real interest in changing the destructive course this nation is
Some would argue that by killing our enemies without due process, that we are no worse than our enemies in our barbarism. While such a statement is targeted at an audience's pathos, and is devoid of substance, it nevertheless points to the slippery sloped involved in targeted extra-judicial killing. Once powers contravening the Constitution have been put into the hands of government, this power is not easily removed. With this, in dealing with the dangers of terrorism, at home and abroad, America's policies do threaten its democracy. With this, it is of the utmost imperative that independent reviews of governmental policy, regardless of secrecy and classification, take place so as to ensure that extra-judicial governmental actions fall within the national interest, rather the whims of a given