1. POLICY DECISION AND OBJECTIVES: The United States and coalition partners’ policy is to counter any active violent extremists and ideologies including ISIS and its affiliates overseas. Therefore, in order to protect the homeland from the terrorist attacks, eliminating all the terrorist organizations including ISIS that threaten the United States national security. Furthermore, coordinate and collaborate with all other agencies in order to combat terrorism and extremism internationally.
2. BACKGROUND / NATIONAL INTERESTS: In 2006 after al-Qaeda lost the majority of its leadership in Iraq, it managed to change the name of al-Qaeda to (ISI) that means Islamic State in Iraq. After many years of fighting they found their way to Syria and successfully
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Also reassure the leadership of the Syrian government after complete defeat of ISIS that they need to take the responsibility of their country according to the UN mandates. Applying the information campaign is crucial to counter ISIS strategic messaging regionally and globally because ISIS has been benefiting mainly for its recruiting and successfully used its wrong ideology all over the world. In addition, applying all the instruments of technology against ISIS to cut its communication means internally and externally. Using back the ISIS information methods against its narratives will helps the first strategic option to become …show more content…
Conducting a hard power against ISIS training camps, and all its capabilities. The precision targeting of all the ISIS supply routes and command centers including its leaderships are extremely vital to win the war within Syria. Conducting simultaneous and joint coordinated operations against ISIS within Syria alongside other regional actors to achieve all objectives. Furthermore, coordination with the Russian forces are extremely important in order to avoid any miss understanding. At the same time providing more equipment and training according to the UN mandate to the Free Syrian Army in order to keep the fight against ISIS till the complete elimination. The instruments of economic power is fundamentally crucial in order to freeze all the banks and its accounts that are linked to ISIS. Announce and warn to all the International community to stop giving ransom money for the release of hostages. In addition, sanction all the oil companies that are buying oil from ISIS, and simultaneously blockade all the supply routes for its movements from the sea, air, and land in order to coarse the ISIS to surrender. Interdict and identify all the fund raisers for ISIS anywhere around the world by using Interpol police and other means. The first strategy is feasible because the mission is clear and it has the support of all the international community including the UN and the regional
Specifically, crime shows have given us, the TV audience as a whole, scripts or an expectation of what will/should happen in a variety of situations. It leads people to think about what is appropriate and what isn’t in terms of how the results of these situations play out. For example, in the CSI franchise, as the plot unfolds in each episode, it takes forensic evidence, such as DNA or fingerprints, to convict the villain. Before the technological breakthroughs made in the fields of biology and forensics, juries relied more on circumstantial evidence, and eyewitness accounts to prove someone was guilty. This is just one example of how crime shows have changed the general representations of what is the “correct” way to solve a crime.
President Barack Obama delivered an address to the nation on the U.S. Counterterrorism strategy to combat ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) on September 10, 2014. The recent issue, which became the basis for this speech, has been President Obama’s response to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against diverse civilians. He delivered this speech to prove to the nation that he has an elaborate strategy along with several tactics to destroy the terrorist group. Obama described the ISIL in his speech by stating, “in a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. And in acts of barbarism, they
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On Sep 11, 2001, al Qaeda threatened the United States (U.S.) national security, and we are still combating terrorism. Since that time, al Qaeda and other extremist groups have also been endangering some of the U.S. allies. Realizing the magnitude of this international fight, the U.S. needs help from its partners to counter violence worldwide.
Al-Qaeda’s purpose for targeting the US was due to Osama bin Laden’s mission to wipe out American presence on Islamic lands. Fearing America was looting natural resources of Islam through aiding Islamic countries, al-Qaeda decided to attack the U.S. Founded in the late 1980’s by Osama bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan, al-Qaeda was created as a network to fight against the Soviet Union during the Afghan war through Islam. Meaning base in Arabic, al-Qaeda was considered the base of Islamic support for Sunni Muslims to fight the Soviet Union and the protector of Islam. After the Soviet Union departure, al-Qaeda focused on removing corrupt leaders of Islamic regions and removing U.S presence in Islamic lands. bin Laden’s rift with U.S
Al Qaeda’s history began during the Cold War. Western countries, such as the United States, and its allies supported militant units within Islam to fight the Soviet Union. The United States formed an alliance with the Pakistan Interservice Intelligence Agency (ISI) (White, 2012). The ISI is equivalent to the United States intelligence agency CIA. The ISI, along with the United States began training and arming the mujahedeen (holy warriors) to fight the Soviet Union. In 1979, Afghan mujahedeen along with Saudi Arabia fought the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan (White, 2012). The United States supported the Afghan mujahedeen along with any other form of Islam to combat the Soviet Union. The United States developed an unde...
Another important reason for intervention of American military and military of its allies in Syria is that this intervention will be beneficial to eradicate the famous terrorist group: ISIS. The terrorist activities of ISIS group are increasing day by day and this terrorist group is becoming a big threat like Al-Qaida. So it is necessary to eradicate this terrorist group (ISIS) from its roots by intervening military in Syria. Based on all these facts it can be said that America and its allies should intervene their military in Syria.
Al-Qaeda is an international Islamist extremist terrorist network founded in the late 1980s by Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda practiced an extreme version of the religion of Islam. The group is intensely opposed to the United States and other Western, democratic nations. They are especially against the military presence of these countries in Arab nations. Since the group’s creation by bin Laden in the late 1980s, Al Qaeda has helped coordinate and fund numerous bombings worldwide. Their aim had been to overthrow governments in the Middle East, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, which do not strictly enforce a religiously sanctioned political and social order. Attacks against the United States were intended to cut American support for many of these governments; U.S. support was viewed by al-Qaeda as a major obstacle to creating a global order under Islamic
It is said that Western civilization had been primarily male dominated and as a result as diminished the feminine. Women’s roles in society have changed drastically over the past decades. While it took much time, progress for women’s rights has blossomed. Influences in civilization have affected view points of the commonly held mores, expectations, and stereotypes which define gender.
every day there is something on the news about a terrorist attack somewhere in the world. The threat is real, but the biggest threat is ISIS. Countries all around the globe are preparing for, or fighting, a war against ISIS. In a world full of many terrorist groups and threats, ISIS is the most powerful. The world needs to better understand what it is, where they attack, and how to stop them.
Television has affected every aspect of life in society, radically changing the way individuals live and interact with the world. However, change is not always for the better, especially the influence of television on political campaigns towards presidency. Since the 1960s, presidential elections in the United States were greatly impacted by television, yet the impact has not been positive. Television allowed the public to have more access to information and gained reassurance to which candidate they chose to vote for. However, the media failed to recognize the importance of elections. Candidates became image based rather than issue based using a “celebrity system” to concern the public with subjects regarding debates (Hart and Trice). Due to “hyperfamiliarity” television turned numerous people away from being interested in debates between candidates (Hart and Trice). Although television had the ability to reach a greater number of people than it did before the Nixon/Kennedy debate, it shortened the attention span of the public, which made the overall process of elections unfair, due to the emphasis on image rather than issue.
The current war on terrorism is tending to have three different sides: the United States, the European Union, and the terrorists. Before the September 11th attacks all policies towards terrorism were reactive rather than proactive. So before we get involved with terrorists at all, there is a game in which based on what policy the EU is going to enact, the how should the US act towards terrorism. A proactive policy means that the government is going to attack POSSIBLE terror threats, whereas a reactive policy would mean that there would be no strikes against terrorism unless the terrorists decide to strike first.
SUMMARY: The Syrian Civil War between the Syrian government, and the insurgents, as well as the Free Syrian Army has been escalating since early 2011. The United States, and our allies have faced difficulty in sending aid to Syria, and continue to deal with obstacles in sending even basic medications to Syrian civilians. However, the United States and its allies have also contributed to the lack of organization and the disparity in Syria by sending aid and artillery to individuals based only on political connection, and ignoring organization, local alliances, and without a true understanding of the reality of the Syrian localities to best protect the Syrian protestors. The question addressed in this memo will be defining the viable options to be pursued in Syria, how to pursue them, and assessing the most beneficial path of least resistance when offering aid, funds, and artillery to specific groups in the country. The recommendation will be that although the best alternative action item would be to choose a Syrian group with the least oppositional values comparative to the United States to fund, supply with arms, and train; that the United States should do nothing for the time being. Given the physical and financial risk involved with the Syrian Civil War, it would be prudent for the United States to simply observe how the war progresses over the next several months, as well as complete some research to truly understand the state of affairs in local areas of Syria to determine the extent to which the United States could identify a group to provide aid to, as well as the extent to which the United States involvement would be within Syria.
Despite the world being full of diverse people with varying accomplishments and skill sets, people oftentimes assume the qualities and traits of an individual based purely on the stereotypes set forth by society. Although these stereotypes are unavoidable, an individual can be liberated, empowered and ultimately overcome these stereotypes by obtaining an advanced education.
As previously mentioned, intelligence and weapon systems also become more critical when fighting insurgencies, especially in population centers. Without the intelligence to target dissidents and the means to target them precisely without large-scale collateral damage Assad and his Syrian Army were forced to press the attack regardless. Syrian Airforce began large-scale bombing of cities to target the uprising and military ground forces began to enter population centers causing significant fighting in the street. As casualties mounted, Syrian Ground and Air Forces began additional systematic destruction of structures that were assessed as being utilized by dissidents in effort to protect its own force, leading to significant destruction and mounting civilian casualties. This type of warfare ultimately led to a refugee crisis that resulted in millions being displaced in the