GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM

Global war on terrorism



Global war on terrorism

Introduction

The War on Terrorism is a campaign of United States supported by several members of NATO and other allies, with the stated purpose of ending terrorism internationally, systematically eliminating the so-called terrorist groups, so considered by the Organization United Nations (UN). In addition to, all those suspect of belonging to these groups, based on the universal declaration of human rights, and put an end to the alleged sponsorship of terrorism by states. This international offensive launched by the Bush administration after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in New York and Washington, DC, by al-Qaeda. It became a central part of the foreign and domestic policy of former U.S. President, George W. Bush, supported by other States.

US Army Signal Corps

US Army Signal Corps founded in 1861 by U.S. Army Major Albert J. Myer, a doctor by training. Bodies develop and examine the signal transmission equipment for the battlefield (Thomas, 1972).

In January 1905, considered the War Department, the predecessor of the Defense Department an offer that is of two inventors from Dayton, Ohio had received, which the government wanted to deliver a flying machine that was heavier than air. The fact that many doubted at that time that the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright actually had built a working aircraft, is a part of aviation history. But the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, the committee that examined the proposal of the Wright brothers, had even more facts to consider. Outside of science fiction back then it was certainly not entirely clear what role airships, gliders and airplanes would play in warfare. Only balloons had proven their actual value. Revolutionary France had a balloon in 1794 the battle of Fleurus used. Also in the American Civil war balloons used, and the U.S. Army Signal Corps given the task of acquiring it and operate. However, the Signal Corps until 1892 created a permanent balloon department, whose use in the war with Spain in 1898 but was not very successful. From the end of the Civil War until the year 1907, the Signal Corps had acquired eight balloons.

In 1898, the Signal Corps awarded the contract to build an aircraft to Samuel P. Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, but his trial ended on 8 December 1903 with a spectacular crash in the Potomac River, just nine days before the first flight of the Wright brothers. The War Department, which in 1905 still thought to refused this embarrassing episode, so from the new offering. On 1 August 1907 Brigadier General James Allen, Chief Signal Officer of the Army commander of the Signal Corps, at the suggestion of his new executive officers George Owen Squier, in his sixth memorandum of the year Aeronautical Division, the overall supervision of all aspects of the "military balloon driving, air machines and should lead related subjects ":

This division will have charge of all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred ...