Sustainment by definition IAW FM 4-0, is the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until mission accomplishment. It’s an integrated process inextricably linked to operations.
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.
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Open the door to let the World know is a cycle that US forces can’t stop. The Army Sustainment in this case turned 180 degrees. It’s simple, for an outsider force to create a unified and effective Iraqi force from a plethora of believes and a disgruntled population was a fool’s idea. Without the present and support of the outsider force became impossible to maintain operations until mission accomplish. We support the wrong
All solution chosen is essential to addressing the issues unit’s faces with their phrase maintenance program while deployed in a combat theater. The proposed solutions must be implemented simultaneously in order to be effective.
During an interview of three family members, I was able to learn more information about the events of 9/11. My mom, Jamie Goldman, was the first person I interviewed. She told me she was helping a friend with her new business in Aiken, SC. She first heard on the radio, breaking news, that a plane had flown into one of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. Her first thought was that a plane had crashed accidentally. As the day went on, she learned of even more horrible acts against our country, and then realized our Nation was under attack from terrorist. My mom was heartbroken, scared, sad, and mad all at the same time. She struggles with forgiving the terrorist but knows that God would want her to forgive them. The song "God Bless the USA" is a song that helps my mom cope with the events of 9/11. My mom did not know anyone personally that was killed or injured on 9/11. She said, "after 9/11, our country has been a country at war. We have stopped loving our neighbors and instead, started judging them."
No matter how well intentioned the invasion of Iraq may have been, it was an act of violence and deception that has left many American men dead for no clear reason.
This will result in gained trust between our military partners and local leaders. Without this trust and patience, future operations like these could replay as they have during this mission.
Joint Publication 3.0 entitled Joint Operations, defines Joint Sustainment as the provision of logistics and personnel services necessary to maintain and prolong operations through mission accomplishment and redeployment of the force. Joint Publication 4-0 further states, “Effective joint logistics planning identify future requirements and proposes solutions; it requires joint logisticians to understand the commander’s intent and concept of operations (CONOPS).” Logisticians use seven principles in their planning at the strategic, operational, or tactical level of war to ensure operations are logistically supportable. These principles are responsiveness, simplicity, flexibility, economy, attainability,...
...cleanly ending the war was the wrong way to approach the end of war because there were so many open ends with the Iraqis that could possibly lead to conflict in the future; however since the war was expensive, costing 620 billion dollars, and because three hundred ninety American soldiers had already died. After tying up loose ends with handling the Iraqi army and their leader Hussein, General Schwarzkopf, who played a major role and served as a key leader to the American army during Operation Desert Shield and Storm, made his way to where Saddam Hussein was so he could witness his surrender, however Hussein’s actions to follow this event required President Bush to put in place “no-fly zones” to protect the Kurds in Northern Iraq and the Shiites in the South. Eventually Operation Desert Storm, the biggest military operation since Vietnam, came to a successful end.
... landing on the president for putting the soldiers out in the jungles of an un-winnable war. In conclusion, there are just too many people and too many things to place blame easily for this disturbing event. So the easy road was taken, just do not let this happen again. The military took time out to think about their training of soldiers. "Commanders sent troops in the Desert storm operation into battle with the words, “No My Lais—you hear?” (Linder) History is said to be good for one reason- to learn from past mistakes so they will not be repeated, and that is a very good lesson to learn from My Lai and one that all hope was, in fact, learned.
In an attempt to overthrow Hussein and end his cruel reign of terror, the US sent in an armed military force. Since the beginning of the war, there have been over 3334 military fatalities for the US alone. The US has caused as many, if not more, civilian deaths in Iraq than Hussein did, and in the process we have lost many of our soldiers, in addition to the twenty-six thousand wounded. As England and many other countries try to help us with our fruitless quest, they also lose their soldiers. Not only may soldiers be hurt physically, the images they see in Iraq haunt them forever mentally.
Our American Military soldiers are highly trained and able to kill with such precision weapons only to come home to lose their inward personal battles. Our Military is equipped with the best equipment offered today. They can destroy an enemy with a push of a button or the flip of a switch while being a thousand miles away, just like playing a video game on Xbox. Our troops can destroy any powerful enemy, yet when they come home, they lie down at night a fierce battle rages inside so strong with no switch to flip or button to push only to be tortured as they lose this inner battle and self destruct.
The war in Iraq is over now. Looking back on a huge controversy makes one side seem clearly more “correct” than the other. Yet in the beginning there were two sides to the controversy about the war in Iraq. There was the terror brought upon by the 9/11 attacks, people that the government wished to punish or kill like Saddam Hussain and Osama Bin Laden, and a country which was in “need” of US help both politically and financially. At the time of the Terrorist attacks, people were afraid of what else the terrorists were planning or could do and so George Bush sent troops in to look for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). In hindsight the war on Iraq was a bad idea. The situation was handled poorly, far too much money was spent, and there were far too many casualties to say that the war was a good idea to enter into. To continue war efforts and gain support, lies were spread about finding actual weapons. Later in the war it was revealed that there were never any WMDs. So beyond the decision that was seemingly wrong after a decade of fighting to enter a way with Iraq, the US government lied to prolong the war and continue to waste resources.
been good news for the Iraqi people, it has left them in a worse state
It wasn't until i got over seas, that i realized, how great of a footprint we have left on the people's lives. Upon arriving, i realized that we are in someone's home, this is where this person grew up, we may come and go, but they will remain here. What may be collateral damage on paper can be someone's entire livelihood someone's business being turned to rubble, or family torn apart. Most of these people don't care who is ruling them, all they want is to live their life in peace and raise their family, the more we try help out, the more we get in the way and complicate that for
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).