rn half. In less than ten years, the Korean states were at war with each other, quickly pulling the United States and China into the conflict. Though the fighting ended in 1953, the United States kept as many as 40,000 combat troops in South Korea. The US military has begun to withdraw many of its forces in an attempt to transition from a conventional, static military force to a more flexible, mobile one, reducing the number of combat troops in S...
...n, and possibly to reverse public perceptions of weak leadership following a close election, President Felipe Calderón, on just his tenth day in office, took the unprecedented step in December 2006 of deploying 36,000 federal troops to nine states. The strategy sought to decrease the amount of drugs crossing the border, capture high-profile leaders, and seize shipments and destroy illegal cultivation. Almost four years of fighting, 45,000 troops,...
...speaking, the United States is currently boosting its relationship with the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. This ranges from deepening military cooperation with Australia (through the deployment of US troops in Australia) to hosting joint naval drills with Vietnam to maintaining an enormous presence of nearly 50,000 troops in Japan. China views all of these relationships as US attempts to cage in China and preclude its ec...
...m as a progressive politician. But what is a president to do when he inherits a war? For a campaign that ran on hopeful rhetoric, Team Obama has also been quick to emphasize the necessity of pragmatism. And now, all 41,000 US troops currently in Iraq will return home by December 31. “That is how America’s military efforts in Iraq will end,” Obama said somberly in his speech announcing the withdrawal. And the reactions to the announcement were alm...
...ely to remain Iraq. However, it seems that the legacy of Iraq will have important implications not only for Bush and Blair, but also for the U.S.-U.K. relationship. That is to say, Blair’s unpopular decision to commit British troops to Iraq is widely attributed to his willingness to “blindly” follow U.S. foreign policy. As a result, any hint of a British leader doing the same again—namely tagging along behind the U.S. with unquestioning subservie...
...any involvement with the greater Muslim world, instead orienting its foreign policy toward the West. There is a historic echo in Turkey’s recent “neo-Ottoman” influence in the Middle East, as it is being tapped to provide the troops to keep the peace between Israel and Palestine, Syria and Jordan, and Arab players and the West. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the modern Turkish state in 1923. Following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War...
...es. That immediately deflates the big money balloon, they can still raise all the corrupt money in the world but it doesn’t do them any good if there’s equal access to the public airways. I’d also have to mention bringing the troops home and downsizing the military industrial complex is a huge difference, implementing Medicare for all, which is as simple as dropping the eligibility age, then boom, we have a healthcare system that works for everyo...
...s.” As the president of Afghanistan was offering Obama his nominal congratulations, the Taliban issued a statement demanding that Obama concede that the United States has been defeated in Afghanistan and pull out all American troops. The phenomenon of increasingly hesitant support for Obama is not just occurring abroad, but also here at home and even here on campus. People are generally disappointed and now feel obliged to qualify their support...
...of the senate’s most hawkish and influential members. What needs to be understood is that, even after assiduously vetting Syria’s rebel groups and choosing our A-Team, our job is not done. This doesn’t mean committing ground troops to keep the peace in Syria. But it does mean keeping better tabs on our “friends” than we did in Libya. Unfortunately, West Africa is not high on the West’s priority list, and the creation of a failed state (Mali) bec...
re Not Alone (YANA) or continued acting in longer-standing groups such as the Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) and delivered tens of thousands of hot meals, coordinated donation hubs, and even have National Guard troops and city officials looking to them for training, advice, and leadership. Eyewitness accounts of these volunteer networks at St Jacobi Church (Occupy Sandy’s headquarters) and other volunteer activites are awe-inspirin...
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