There are two main theaters of combat in the world today where US troops are present. Afghanistan is one, and Iraq is the other. In Afghanistan, the US was targeting two related groups: Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Al Qaeda is a terrorist group that is based in fanatical Islam. They were the group responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001. Al Qaeda's ultimate goal is a world that is governed based on Islamic law from the Koran (Muslim Bible). The Taliban was the government in Afghanistan before the US came in and took them out. They were providing Al Qaeda a safe home. Since the US invasion of Afghanistan, their country has a new government in place that is supported by the US and has made great progress in basic human rights, including giving women far more equal treatment.
Iraq is easily the biggest US military involvement at the moment, with over 125,000 troops committed (I do not know the actual figure). We invaded Iraq in 2003 because we believed that they were building weapons that they could one day use against the United States or US allies. Iraq's government (led by Saddam Hussein, the former President who was recently executed after being convicted for being responsible for a massacre) had a long history of trying to acquire deadly Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's). In our current invasion, we have not discovered any of these weapons but the US government continues to believe that by attacking Iraq now we may have averted a major crisis later on. Iraq is now struggling through a civil war, with many different groups trying to gain the power that Saddam Hussein and his government had before the US invasion. The current situation is very unstable and violent. The debate in the US right now is about whether or not a foreign country can impose a peaceful situation on a Middle Eastern country that has factions who despise each other vying for power. Basically, we are trying to break up a fight between two groups of Muslims who both want to run Iraq and both groups attack us as well as each other.
I hope this helps you understand the basics of what is going on with the US military involvement in the world today.
2007-03-11 19:43:50
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answered by Robert 3
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i think of of you're lacking an important element. the straightforward denominator between those 2 wars is that the politicians tried to try against it --- with a similar effect. as straight away as a conflict is underway, the only spectacular difficulty a infant-kisser can do is to step returned and enable the army do their difficulty. The politicians know little sufficient approximately each element else yet seem unwilling to maintain their hands off something they know relatively no longer something approximately. If the politicians had no longer stopped the army after the 1st Iraqui conflict, we would not have the undertaking concerns we've. If the politicians had no longer demobbed the Iraqui protection rigidity, starting to be to be an great unemployed yet armed mob, we would not have the undertaking concerns we've. If the politicians had no longer tried to try against the conflict at the cheap with too few troops we would not have the undertaking concerns we've. With all the political meddling happening, that's impossible to respond on your unique question regarding the often happening of the army or their procedures. They never have been given a extensive gamble to word them --- in the event that they had fought the politicians they could have been retired, so optimal of them did no longer.
2016-11-24 21:52:58
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answered by newcomer 4
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The American "Men" are mostly in Iraq, those who could not be defined in such a way but genetically have both an X and Y chromosome, are spending their time screaming about how America is evil and smoking water pipes.
Wars are won when one side quits fighting. If one does so before the fighting is over, that is called surrender/defeat,
2007-03-11 19:27:48
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answered by Eric K 5
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I hate to tell you this, Alexa, but with the limitations our politicians place on our military, we cannot win a war anywhere. Don't misunderstand, our military is perfectly capable of winning any war, they are just not allowed to. There are rules they have to comply with, called the Rules of Engagement. It's like putting handcuffs on the world heavyweight champion boxer and telling him to whip someone. If they'd turn our soldiers loose, Iraq would be finished in less than a month.
2007-03-11 19:29:32
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answered by Anonymous
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There are several wars and skirmishes going on all over the world and in the middle eat. Americans are really only involved in two (with actual american soldiers) right now (Iraq and Afghanistan), but we have bases scattered around.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/
2007-03-11 19:28:45
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answered by Anonymous
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A war can be "won" if there is a specific opponent that can be defeated, including fighting an organized enemy where there is a single authority which can issue a surrender for all forces.
Absent that, when fighting a diverse and disorganized enemy, nothing short of completely eliminating every single opponent- combatant will qualify, since anything less than that leaves more people still to fight.
Then again, if only one side is defining the finish line, the concept of "winning" and "losing" is meaningless.
2007-03-11 19:29:34
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answered by coragryph 7
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None!
No war can be won without our creator in planet of apes.
Lesson from the vietnam's war.
The Liberation of Freedom can be won with our creator out there in Iraq.
Why the boys and gals out there has to stay in line out there .
That is not an ordinary war out there.
So stay in line.
The Liberation of Freedom from world war two was led and guided by our creator back in the past.
Living human kind had made blunders and slip-ups with human errors got themselves caught in Iraq.
So just stay in line and you all be safe.
2007-03-11 22:33:10
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answered by Anonymous
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