This article examines the ways in which the two normative concerns of casualty-aversion and civilian protection influenced US military strategy in the particular context of the asymmetric conflict in Somalia in the early 1990s. The article critically evaluates US military operations through the prism ...
there is a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture, which the U.S.doubledto $10 million in 2018. Al-Adel, the former chief of military operations, was residing in Iran when the former head of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed on July 31, 2022. Al-Adel succee...
Along with China’s economic and military growth since the 1990s, there have been worldwide academic and public debates over whether China aspires to alter the long-standing US-centered international system—or to support the liberal rules as formulated within US-dominated international institutions ...
Thus, it was not until later in the decade, as the US wound down its major military operations across Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas of the Middle East and Africa, that the American concerns about China’s rise that had prompted the Bush administration’s thinking before September 2001 ...
But many Afghans fear a return to the Taliban’s harsh rule in the late 1990s, when the group barred women from attending school or working outside the home, banned television and music, chopped off the hands of suspected thieves and held public executions. "Today, some of my friends went...
Mental disorders among US military personnel in the 1990s: association with high levels of health care utilization and early military attrition. Am J Psychiatry. 2002;159(9):1576-1583.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 39. Haley RW. Point: bias from the “healthy-warrior effect” and unequal follow...
3. 9/11 Mastermind Osama bin Laden The search forOsama bin Laden, the9/11mastermind and al-Qaeda founder, remains one of the most high-profile and extensive military manhunt operations in American history. For more than a decade, billions of military and intelligence dollars were spent on the...
Aiming to upgrade its fleet and expand its operations, Tata-owned Air India on 14 February confirmed it will buy a total of 470 wide-body and narrow-body planes from Airbus and Boeing. On February 10th, reports stated that Air India signed agreements with Airbus SE and Boeing Co. for abou...
During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US arsenal. Various tools, like dozer blade kits and high-explosive rounds, were employed instead. This gap ...
The first anthrax vaccine was developed in the 1970s and vaccination of U.S. military personnel began in the 1990s due to increased concern about the use of anthrax as a biological weapon. Vaccination was also offered in 2001 to civilians who had been exposed to anthrax after intentional maili...