The Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962 was a major international crisis and political standoff between the Soviet Union and The United States of America over missile placement in Cuba‚ 150 km from US shores. This was a major nuclear threat to world peace. On the 1st January 1959‚ President Batista of Cuba was overthrown. This allowed Castro backed revolutionary forces to seize power. Fidel Castro then became Prime Minister of Cuba. In May 1960‚ a US plane flying
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countries. This is how NATO came about. Alstyne provides backing by talking about everything that led to the making of NATO. Alstyne states
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The Vietnam War was fought throughout 1962 and 1975 between the communist North Vietnam and its communist allies‚ and the government of South Vietnam‚ supported by the United States and nations of the SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organisation). During the war‚ it became evident that the attitude towards the Vietnam War began to change as it developed. In the beginning of the Vietnam War‚ most Australian citizens and politicians had the unfounded propaganda that Australia would become a victim
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the evolving European security environment was raised at a discussion of current issues at NATO in 1993‚ it was described simply as being a "paper tiger" incapable of responding to future crises 1 However the status of the WEU has changed rapidly‚ particularly with the European Community (EC) agreement at Maastricht defining new responsibilities for the organisation‚ as witnessed by WEU operations involving NATO seconded personnel and equipment for mine detection in the Persian Gulf‚ and for the naval
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Current domestic and global security threats: The impact on The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed to cope with the challenges of a bipolar world. However‚ today’s global environment faces multi-polar challenges from non-state actors such as terrorists. Threats once considered domestic concerns now affect the world‚ like global warming and the need to rebuild the infrastructure of unstable states such as Afghanistan and Bosnia. The
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primarily workstation use only example personal computing on a Linux box. The X-Window was intended and developed for the network GUI only‚ X-Windows by itself doesn’t even have an interface. 4. What partitioning options are available when installing CentOS? 5. Why is it important to put the swap file on a separate partition from the root (/)partition? 6. What is the significance of the swap partition in a Linux system? a. Temporary space $‚ its swapping information between the memory and the disk.
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What is the purpose of enabling SYN cookies in the Linux kernel? To harden the kernel security; it tunes the kernel parameters against the SYN flood attack. 4. If you wanted to limit the number of files that a user can open simultaneously on the CentOS Linux Server to a maximum of one‚ what is the command syntax you need to enable in the Linux kernel? su -c ’/sbin/sysctl -w fr.file-max=1 5. What is the best way to make a systemwide permanent change to the kernel to enable SYN cookies? Open the
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Discussion. After 2014‚ will NATO continue in AFG or is it more likely to shift to a ‘Coalition of the willing’ and why? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization‚ or NATO‚ will have a continued presence in Afghanistan after 2014. Their presence will continue to cultivate the development of democratization and human rights‚ allay the fears of the Afghanistan people‚ and send a message to armed oppositions that Afghanistan will not be abandoned. Provided that NATO and the international community
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The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was NATO’s military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The strikes lasted from March 24‚ 1999 to June 10‚ 1999. The official NATO operation code name was Operation Allied Force; the United States called it Operation Noble Anvil‚ while in Yugoslavia the operation was named "Merciful Angel”. The more common name for the events in Serbia‚ still used in historical records‚ is "NATO aggression”. The NATO bombing marked the second
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prevent the massacres Gaddafi’s forces were about to commit. On March 2011‚ the UN started an intervention in Libya by imposing a no-fly zone over Libya to prevent Gaddafi’s air forces from killing civilians. This intervention -which was later led by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - proved later that it was the best way to end the conflicts in Libya. The three main reasons behind this statement are firstly‚ to protect Libyans from the Gaddafi’s crime. Secondly‚ because the intervention was
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