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A 6 page paper which examines how Afghanistan and Iraq’s military operations and decisions were, or were not, influenced by culture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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to eating rituals and types of food eaten, from political focus to military involvement, culture influences how a culture reacts and lives in every aspect of their existence. One author
notes that "different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group" which indicates that the
behavior, military and otherwise, of a people is relevant to their culture.1 With that in mind the following paper examines how culture, or cultural "awareness," influences military operations and decisions
as they can be seen, first, in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Afghanistan In looking first at Afghanistan one author, in examining
military conditions and procedures in Afghanistan, through involvement with the United States, states that one U.S. military individual noted that when they got to Afghanistan they assumed they could just
train an army but that there was no army there.2 There were "no centralized record-keeping, no standard uniforms, no training regulations, no military doctrine, no disciplinary code, no supply system
and few other trappings of post-Industrial Age militaries, Afghanistans army faced huge hurdles."3 Or perhaps more accurately, they faced huge hurdles in the opinion of Americans who are a completely
different culture and a different military entity. An important element to note in the nature or culture of the Afghanistan men, or
soldiers, is that they are a very brave and fierce people when it comes to defending and fighting.4 This does not mean they have met with great success in a
modern world because they are hugely tribal type people, a culture wherein "every governor, tribal leader and warlord is guaranteed by his own armed forces."5
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