By: Zhanara Omarova
American politicians John McCain and Lindsey Graham requested Trump to send more soldiers to Afghanistan. They claim that issue with Afghanistan should not receive less attention than before. However, they do not provide actual arguments. They claim that US should establish more troops there in order to protect US from terrorist attacks so that 9/11 event will not happen again but what they do not include in their report is that most of Al-Qaeda people were killed since 2001 and currently there is new generation of young people who even do not know what 9/11 event was. Moreover, there are other countries where terrorists can settle down. For example Iraq, Yemen and Libiya countries which suffered a lot from US intervention.
Desch in his book argues that when there is a high level of external threat and low level of internal threat against a state, then there is the strongest civilian control. Terrorism is the most dangerous type of external threat which US has and as US does not face strong internal threats it should exercise the strongest civilian control over the military - which it does. However, here the question US will use their military power in order to defend their national interests. Will US continue deployment of soldiers to Afghanistan or it will choose another destination?
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Reference:
Desch, M. (2001). Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment. Johns Hopkins University Press.
American politicians John McCain and Lindsey Graham requested Trump to send more soldiers to Afghanistan. They claim that issue with Afghanistan should not receive less attention than before. However, they do not provide actual arguments. They claim that US should establish more troops there in order to protect US from terrorist attacks so that 9/11 event will not happen again but what they do not include in their report is that most of Al-Qaeda people were killed since 2001 and currently there is new generation of young people who even do not know what 9/11 event was. Moreover, there are other countries where terrorists can settle down. For example Iraq, Yemen and Libiya countries which suffered a lot from US intervention.
Desch in his book argues that when there is a high level of external threat and low level of internal threat against a state, then there is the strongest civilian control. Terrorism is the most dangerous type of external threat which US has and as US does not face strong internal threats it should exercise the strongest civilian control over the military - which it does. However, here the question US will use their military power in order to defend their national interests. Will US continue deployment of soldiers to Afghanistan or it will choose another destination?
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Reference:
Desch, M. (2001). Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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