World politics

Do you agree or disagree with Lawrence Freedman 's thesis that the United States will experience difficulties and large numbers of casualties in future efforts to enemies in asymmetric conflicts

Indeed Lawrence Freedman 's thesis that the United States will experience difficulties and large numbers of casualties in future efforts to enemies in asymmetric conflicts , holds true because the United States could not always assume that the wars or conflicts it enters into will not be costly and detrimental to the country . For instance , the war with Iraq has cost the United

States not only countless lives but also financial downtrend as well . It left the citizens paying for a costly war , to which no weapons of mass destruction were ever found , much to the disgrace of the Bush administration who still kept insisting that the war the United States entered with Iraq was justified despite the absence of the WMD

Moreover , the conflicts and wars entered into by the United States would only place a strain on the country 's coffers to which the citizens in turn will have to shoulder . It is a fact that war is costly as evidenced by the wars entered into by the United States in decades past Not only was the country left having to contend with fortifying its armed forces in to ensure war , it must also contend with paying the indemnities and costs of war to the states that the country came into war with . Because it has to pay the defeated country , the United States is then left in providing assistance and political attention , the country then has the burden of shouldering economic expenses of two countries to which the citizens do not always approve of

The United States ' persistence to prove its military capabilities to the global community , particularly in its efforts to combat terrorism may have subsequently been a failure since it cannot topple all its enemies with just one invasion . The war in Iraq and Afghanistan have just proven Freedman 's thesis . Despite the good intention of the United States in engaging conflicts , it must be remembered that not all the wars are necessary and must be fought . Wars are always violent and therefore must be approached with care

According to the study discussed by Paul Collier , how does poverty and illegal trade in natural resources cause civil wars

Causes of civil wars are often attributed to its ethnic roots as explained by historians . But this has not always been true as a nation 's past and its economic conditions are the factors that should be given attention to . Civil wars most often than not occur in developing countries compared to rich nations and usually have spanned for more than seven years . Furthermore , it will be likely that the country will experience another civil war again as it would invariably be a perpetuating cycle

As Paul Collier theorized , poverty and illegal trade in natural are among the foremost causes of civil wars . Indeed , as history has...