Military Involvement Around The World Throughout America’s history of being a superpower, America has asserted its dominance into the world’s problems. President Barack Obama once said “the more and more, we all confront difficult questions about how to prevent the slaughter of civilians by their own government, or to stop a civil war whose violence and suffering can engulf an entire region” (Scott U.S. Intervention). Sometimes to achieve total peace, one must engage in violence to bring tranquility to the world. Since the late 1800’s, the United States has been engaged in or has impacted other countries in an attempt to better the nations as a whole, therefore, U.S. involvement is a necessary good that must take place in order to achieve world peace. The United States has a very complex economical system that involves many countries around the world to keep the balance of its equilibrium. In the 1990’s, Iraq invaded Kuwait for its oil reserves. America, along with a coalition of many other European countries, set out to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Kuwait has always been a very critical and essential necessity for America. The oil reserves in the middle east helped supply America with numerous amounts of oil, which decreased the price of gasoline and oil in the United States. Without the Kuwaiti oil reserves the economical status of America’s supply and demand in the oil game would plummet. With Iraq in charge of the oil reserves America can't trade and make money (Overseas U.S. Military Operations). Therefore, it was a necessary evil to invade Kuwait and Iraq to remove Saddam and his army from Kuwait and from power. Since the Second World War, majority of the interventions that have involved the U.S., have all been seen... ... middle of paper ... ...ves. Therefore U.S. involvement in foreign countries is a vital and key component to how the world is ran and how the world operates. Works Cited Council on Foreign Relations. U.S. war in Afghanistan. 2014. cfr.org. Web. 20 April, 2014 Grossman, Zoltan. From Wounded Knee to Libya: A century of U.S. Military Interventions. October 2001. academic.evergreen.edu. Web. 20 April, 2014 Horsley, Scott. U.S. Intervention In Libya: A Noble Use of Force. 28 March, 2011. npr.org. web. 20 April, 2014 The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War. loc.gov. Web. 22 June, 2011. 24 April, 2014 Tindall, George Brown. America A Narrative History Eighth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2010. Print. Overseas U.S. Military Operations Make America Safer, Bush Says. defense.gov. Web 22 April, 2014
Kuwait has the 3rd most oil in the Middle East. Iraq was very poor and needed money. They had just suffered a war with Iran. (Stroilov)They invaded Kuwait in hopes of getting oil to sell and get some money. America was the number 1 country buying oil from Kuwait so we put troops on Kuwait's grounds to defend them.(Stroilov) The deadline for Iraq to leave was Jan. 15, 1991, so Iraq needed to leave and America took action and forced them out of Kuwait. Although before they left they set over 600 oil wells on fire. It took over 1 year to extinguish the fires. In the Gulf War USA played a big part to defend Kuwait. (Stroilov)In 1990 USA defended Kuwait from Iraq invading them for oil to sell it. Later Iraq did get into Kuwait and Desert Storm
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Though the United States was the military power of the world prior to World War II, its foreign policy was one of detachment. The government was determined not to get involved in other countries affairs barring unusual circumstances. A World War provided big enough means to become involved, as many Americans became enraged with the military ambitions of Japan and Germany.
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For 113 days during the summer of 1898, the United States was at war with Spain. Neither the president of the United States, nor his cabinet, nor the the queen of Spain, nor her ministers wanted the war wanted the war. It happened eventhough they made their best efforts to prevent it. It happened because of ambition, miscalculation, and stupidity; and it happened because of kindness, wit, and resourcefulness. It also happened because some were indifferent to the suffering of the world’s wretched and others were not (O’Toole 17). By winning the war the United States proved the the rest of the world and to itself that it could and would fight against foreign nations. For many years, world power had been concentrated in the countries in Europe. Nations such as Great Britain, France, Germany, and Spain had the most influence in global affairs. But a shift in power was gradually taking place as the United States matured. The young nation gained wealth and strength. Its population grew immensely, and many people believed it would become a major world power (Bachrach, 11) Spain was one of the many European countries that had territory in the United States. Spain controlled mostly some islands off the coast of Central America. The most important of these were Cuba and Puerto Rico. The United States was led to believe that the Spanish mosgoverned and abused the people of these islands. In fact, Spain did overtax and mistreat the Cubans, who rebelled in 1868 and again in 1895. Thus, the American people felt sympathetic toward the Cuban independence movement. In addition, Spain had frequently interfered with trade between its colonies and the United States. Even though the United States had been a trading partner with Cuba since the seventeenth century, Spain sometimes tried to completely stop their trade with Cuba. In Spain doing so, this sometimes caused damage to U.S. commercial interests. The United States highly disagreed with Spain’s right to interfere with this trade relationship. (Bachrach, 12) The United States was also concerned that other trading and commercial interests were threatened by the number of ships and soldiers Spain kept in the area. If the United States had to fight a war with Canada or Mexico, these Spanish forces could quickly mobilize against the United States.
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Whenever world politics is mentioned, the state that appears to be at the apex of affairs is the United States of America, although some will argue that it isn’t. It is paramount we know that the international system is shaped by certain defining events that has lead to some significant changes, particularly those connected with different chapters of violence. Certainly, the world wars of the twentieth century and the more recent war on terror must be included as defining moments. The warning of brute force on a potentially large scale also highlights the vigorousness of the cold war period, which dominated world politics within an interval of four decades. The practice of international relations (IR) was introduced out of a need to discuss the causes of war and the different conditions for calm in the wake of the first world war, and it is relevant we know that this has remained a crucial focus ever since. However, violence is not the only factor capable of causing interruption in the international system. Economic elements also have a remarkable impact. The great depression that happened in the 1920s, and the global financial crises of the contemporary period can be used as examples. Another concurrent problem concerns the environment, with the human climate being one among different number of important concerns for the continuing future of humankind and the planet in general.