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Those units have been in the Kunar Province since mid As of fall the transition team training mission has moved to Fort Polk, and the 1st Brigade has transitioned into a combat ready force with possible plans to deploy in the next few years. One of the brigades infantry battalions, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry, was tasked out down south in the Kandahar province outside of the brigade command.

Combat Outposts Keating and Lowell were engaged in combat on nearly a daily basis while Observation Posts Hatchet and Mace disrupted Taliban supply lines and took the brunt of attacks from the east out of Pakistan. They were involved in the infamous Battle of Bari Alai, where 3 American soldiers and 2 Latvian soldiers were killed.

The battle lasted over the course of 4 days where the fatigued soldiers of Charlie Troop and Hatchet Troop were continuously harassed by Taliban fighters after retaking the observation post. CNN branded the brigade "The Dying Duke" because of the brutality and high casualty rate of the unit in their time in theater. Main focuses of the brigade and PRT were to protect population centers such as Jalalabad and Asadabad and help develop the local economy through the construction of roads, and provide security while doing so.

The brigade returned to Ft. Hood, Texas in July after a year of combat in which they recorded over firefights, over enemy killed, over bombs dropped, 26, rounds of artillery fire and over Purple Hearts awarded. The most notable events which occurred during this time were the Iraqi provincial elections, the expiration of the UN Mandate and the corresponding implementation of the security agreement SA , between the Government of Iraq and the United States, and "Bloody Wednesday" 19 August coordinated bombing of the finance ministry and the foreign ministry, with rocket attacks in the green zone.

The bombings resulted in dead and over wounded. The Dagger Brigade experienced constant, albeit minor, enemy contact during this deployment—although the brigade still had two KIAs one serving as the brigade deputy commander's personal security detachment and one from the attached PAARNG battalion and numerous WIA. During this deployment, LTC J. Under the Command of Colonel Henry A. The Brigade experienced two casualties over the course of the deployment. They were later joined by 1—5 Field Artillery in northern Iraq in late spring As the brigade responsible for the "center of gravity" i.

They were partnered with the 9th and 11th IA Divisions. They were partnered with the 1st Federal Police Division. They were partnered with the 6th and 17th IA Divisions. They were partnered with the 2nd and 4th FP Divisions. Significant events during this deployment included the resumption of attacks by the Sadrist movement and other Iranian-backed militia, the subsequent operations that stopped those attacks, the rearward passage of lines of USD-North as they redeployed through Baghdad, the organization and training of divisional field artillery regiments for the IA divisions, the fielding of M1 tanks for the 9th IA Division, and the hand-over of all US facilities within Baghdad to the Government of Iraq or elements of the US State Department.

During this deployment the brigade simultaneously trained ISF units to the point of conducting Iraqi-led battalion CALFEXs, advised ISF units as they conducted hundreds of Iraqi-led raids which disrupted the attacks of Iranian-backed militia, while also conducting unilateral and combined force protection operations to ensure the security of US bases and redeploying US forces.

The brigade departed Iraq in November after having turned the majority of the city of Baghdad over to complete Iraqi control. They completed more than 10, missions as part of village stability operations with the Afghan people. The operations connected the government of Afghanistan to the village level and taught Afghans about their constitution.

Tofan I's mission was to disrupt insurgent safe havens in the Musa Khel region of Khowst province, improve the ability for the government to reach the people there and gather intelligence for planning future operations. Movement to the extremely remote area, which featured narrow or non-existent roads set among mountains, included mounted and dismounted soldiers who also had to be aware of the need to control the key terrain features around Suri Kheyl.

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The brigade operated in Ghazni and Paktika provinces in eastern Afghanistan. This will be the first Division HQ deployed in Iraq since withdrawal back in Among the soldiers sent over approximately will be stationed in Baghdad, where they will make up close to half of US troops deployed. In late July , the U. In April , Military. There are two theories as to how the idea of the patch came about. The first theory states that the 1st Division supply trucks were manufactured in England. To make sure the 1st Division's trucks were not confused with other allies, the drivers would paint a huge "1" on the side of each truck.

Later, the division engineers would go even farther and put a red number one on their sleeves. The second theory claims that a general of the division decided the unit should have a shoulder insignia. He decided to cut a red numeral "1" from his flannel underwear. When he showed his prototype to his men, one lieutenant said, "the general's underwear is showing!

So, the young officer cut a piece of gray cloth from the uniform of a captured soldier, and placed the red "1" on top. Toast of the Army, Favorite Son! Hail to the brave Big Red One!

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The New Republic must ultimately become a "World-State". The League of Nations LoN was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in — At its largest size from 28 September to 23 February , it had 58 members. The League's goals included upholding the Rights of Man , such as the rights of non-whites, women, and soldiers; disarmament , preventing war through collective security , settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy , and improving global quality of life.

The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift in thought from the preceding hundred years.

The League lacked its own armed force and so depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions and economic sanctions and provide an army, when needed. However, these powers proved reluctant to do so. Lacking many of the key elements necessary to maintain world peace, the League failed to prevent World War II.

Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations once he planned to take over Europe. The rest of the Axis powers soon followed him. Having failed its primary goal, the League of Nations fell apart. Below these were many agencies. The Assembly was where delegates from all member states conferred. Each country was allowed three representatives and one vote. According to Karl Marx 's theory of historical materialism , the capitalist epoch depends on the expansion of competing geopolitical markets across the planet, atomizing the global proletariat and thus sustaining economic disparity and rivalry between markets.

Eventually, this will be succeeded by a Socialist epoch in which the working class throughout the world will unite to render national distinctiveness meaningless. Although world Communism 's long-term goal is a worldwide Communist society that is stateless, which would entail an absence of any government, many anti-Communists especially during the Cold War have considered it naive to think that the world revolution advocated by international Communists would lead to world domination by a single government or an alliance of several, yielding a de facto world government of a totalitarian nature.

The heyday of international Communism was the period from the end of World War I the revolutions of —23 through the s, before the Sino-Soviet split. Anticipating environmental movements for world unity, like Global Scenario Group , and such concepts as the Planetary phase of civilization and Spaceship Earth , British Geographer Sir Halford Mackinder wrote in Gradually as the arts of life improved, the forests were cleared and the marshes were drained, and the lesser natural regions were fused into greater.

It may perhaps be thought that with the continuance of this process all mankind will be in the end unified … Unless I mistake, it is the message of geography that international cooperation in any future that we need consider must be based on the federal idea. If our civilization is not to go down in blind internecine conflict, there must be a development of world planning out of regional planning, just as regional planning has come from town planning.

The ruling Nazi Party of — Germany envisaged the ultimate establishment of a world government under the complete hegemony of the Third Reich. When this control would be achieved, this power could then set up for itself a world police and assure itself "the necessary living space The lower races will have to restrict themselves accordingly". This was the idea behind the attempt to establish a Greater Asian Coprosperity Sphere and behind the struggle for world domination. It was intended as the blueprint for the postwar world after World War II , and turned out to be the foundation for many of the international agreements that currently shape the world.

It first started with the United States and Great Britain, and later all the allies would follow the charter. Some goals include access to raw materials, reduction of trade restrictions, and freedom from fear and wants. The name, The Atlantic Charter, came from a newspaper that coined the title.

However, Winston Churchill would use it, and from then on the Atlantic Charter was the official name. In retaliation, the Axis powers would raise their morale and try to work their way into Great Britain. The Atlantic Charter was a stepping stone into the creation of the United Nations.

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When Kansas and Colorado fall out over the waters in the Arkansas River, they don't go to war over it; they go to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the matter is settled in a just and honorable way. There is not a difficulty in the whole world that cannot be settled in exactly the same way in a world court". The years between the conclusion of World War II and , when the Korean War started and the Cold War mindset became dominant in international politics, were the "golden age" of the world federalist movement.

Wendell Willkie 's book One World , first published in , sold over 2 million copies.

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In another, Emery Reves ' book The Anatomy of Peace laid out the arguments for replacing the UN with a federal world government and quickly became the "bible" of world federalists. The grassroots world federalist movement in the US, led by people such as Grenville Clark , Norman Cousins , Alan Cranston and Robert Hutchins , organized itself into increasingly larger structures, finally forming, in , the United World Federalists later renamed to World Federalist Association, then Citizens for Global Solutions , claiming membership of 47, in Similar movements concurrently formed in many other countries, leading to the formation, at a meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, of a global coalition, now called World Federalist Movement.

By , the movement claimed 56 member groups in 22 countries, with some , members. World War II — resulted in an unprecedented scale of destruction of lives over 60 million dead, most of them civilians , and the use of weapons of mass destruction. Some of the acts committed against civilians during the war were on such a massive scale of savagery, they came to be widely considered as crimes against humanity itself. As the war's conclusion drew near, many shocked voices called for the establishment of institutions able to permanently prevent deadly international conflicts.

This led to the founding of the United Nations in , which adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Many, however, felt that the UN, essentially a forum for discussion and coordination between sovereign governments, was insufficiently empowered for the task. Gandhi , called on governments to proceed further by taking gradual steps towards forming an effectual federal world government. The United Nations main goal is to work on international law, international security, economic development, human rights, social progress, and eventually world peace.

Almost every internationally recognized country is in the U. The United Nations gather regularly in order to solve big problems throughout the world. There are six official languages: The United Nations is also financed by some of the wealthiest nations. The flag shows the Earth from a map that shows all of the populated continents. The idea was raised at the founding of the League of Nations in the s and again following the end of World War II in , but remained dormant throughout the Cold War.

In the s and s, the rise of global trade and the power of world organizations that govern it led to calls for a parliamentary assembly to scrutinize their activity. In France, , Garry Davis began an unauthorized speech calling for a world government from the balcony of the UN General Assembly, until he was dragged away by the guards. Davis renounced his American citizenship and started a Registry of World Citizens. Its first task was to design and begin selling "World Passports", which the organisation argues is legitimatised by on Article 13, Section 2 of the UDHR.

World Passports have allegedly been accepted sporadically by some countries, but no immigration authority has a de facto or de jure policy of acceptance with regards to the document. The latest edition of the World Passport, which has been on sale since January , is an MRD machine readable document with an alphanumeric code bar enabling computer input plus an embedded "ghost" photo for security, printing overcovered with a plastic film. The document is in 7 languages: Two covers are available: Each page within the document is numbered and each page has the World Citizen logo in the background.

There are two pages for affiliation with companies, organizations, and firms. There are nineteen visa pages in the document. Adamson Hoebel concluded his treatise on broadening the legal realist tradition to include non-Western nations: But until force and the threat of force in international relations are brought under social control by the world community, by and for the world society, they remain the instruments of social anarchy and not the sanctions of world law. The creation in clear-cut terms of the corpus of world law cries for the doing.

If world law, however, is to be realized at all, there will have to be minimum of general agreement as to the nature of the physical and ideational world and the relation of men in society to it. An important and valuable next step will be found in deep-cutting analysis of the major law systems of the contemporary world in order to lay bare their basic postulates — postulates that are too generally hidden; postulates felt, perhaps, by those who live by them, but so much taken for granted that they are rarely expressed or exposed for examination.

When this is done — and it will take the efforts of many keen intellects steeped in the law of at least a dozen lands and also aware of the social nexus of the law — then mankind will be able to see clearly for the first time and clearly where the common consensus of the great living social and law systems lies. Here will be found the common postulates and values upon which the world community can build. At the same time the truly basic points of conflict that will have to be worked upon for resolution will be revealed. Law is inherently purposive". While enthusiasm for multinational federalism in Europe incrementally led, over the following decades, to the formation of the European Union , the onset of the Cold War — eliminated the prospects of any progress towards federation with a more global scope.

The movement quickly shrank in size to a much smaller core of activists, and the world government idea all but disappeared from wide public discourse. Following the end of the Cold War in , interest in a federal world government and, more generally, in the global protection of human rights, was renewed. The most visible achievement of the world federalism movement during the s is the Rome Statute of , which led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in In Europe , progress towards forming a federal union of European states gained much momentum, starting in as a trade deal between the German and French people led, in , to the Maastricht Treaty that established the name and enlarged the agreement that the European Union EU is based upon.

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The EU expanded , , , to encompass, in , over half a billion people in 28 member states. As of [update] , there is no functioning global international military , executive , legislature , judiciary , or constitution with jurisdiction over the entire planet. The Earth is divided geographically and demographically into mutually exclusive territories and political structures called states which are independent and sovereign in most cases. There are numerous bodies, institutions, unions, coalitions, agreements and contracts between these units of authority , but, except in cases where a nation is under military occupation by another, all such arrangements depend on the continued consent of the participant nations.

In this way a countries cooperation in international affairs is voluntary, but non-cooperation still has diplomatic consequences. In addition to the formal, or semi-formal, international organizations and laws mentioned above, many other mechanisms act to regulate human activities across national borders.

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In particular, international trade in goods, services and currencies the " global market " has a tremendous impact on the lives of people in almost all parts of the world, creating deep interdependency amongst nations see globalization. Trans-national or multi-national corporations , some with resources exceeding those available to most governments, govern activities of people on a global scale.

The rapid increase in the volume of trans-border digital communications and mass-media distribution e. A proactive form of globalization is emerging, spawned by international corporations that wish to loosen trade restrictions. It is the global financial firms that have been the most eager proponents of this expansion.

A group of advocates from different parts of the world had been pushing for an integrated global society as envisioned in the Globalist Manifesto which is the foundation of globalism ideology. The only union generally recognized as having achieved the status of a supranational union is the European Union. There are a number of other regional organizations that, while not supranational unions, have adopted or intend to adopt policies that may lead to a similar sort of integration in some respects.

Although the EU is still evolving, it already has many attributes of a federal government such as open internal borders, a directly elected parliament, a court system, an official currency Euro , and a centralized economic policy. A treaty change would be needed to allow for enlargement of the Union beyond the European continent. A multitude of regional associations , aggregating most nations of the world, are at different stages of development towards a growing extent of economic, and sometimes political, integration.

The European Union consists of twenty-eight European states. It has developed a "single market" which allows people of different countries to travel from state to state without a passport. This also includes the same policies when it comes to trading. Where the Euro is in place, it allows easy access for the free circulation of trade goods.

Tariffs are also the same for each country allowing no unfair practices within the union. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

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CARICOM's main purpose is to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared and to coordinate foreign policy. Its major activities involve coordinating economic policies and development planning; devising and instituting special projects for the less-developed countries within its jurisdiction; operating as a regional single market for many of its members CARICOM Single Market and Economy CSME ; and handling regional trade disputes.

Part of the revised treaty among member states includes the establishment and implementation of the Caribbean Court of Justice CCJ. Eventually, the AU aims to have a single currency and a single integrated defence force, as well as other institutions of state, including a cabinet for the AU Head of State. Its claimed aims include the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, and the promotion of regional peace.

Except for Uzbekistan, these countries had been members of the Shanghai Five ; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in , the members renamed the organization. The Commonwealth of Independent States is comparable to a confederation similar to the original European Community. Although the CIS has few supranational powers, it is more than a purely symbolic organization, possessing coordinating powers in the realm of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security. It has also promoted cooperation on democratization and cross-border crime prevention.

It was formed in Cairo on March 22, with six members: Yemen joined as a member on May 5, It has also been proposed to reform the Arab League into an Arab Union. The Arab League currently is the most important organization in the region. It incorporates all the independent states of South America. In terms of population, its sphere of influence is the largest of any regional organization: In April , at the Association's 14th summit, Afghanistan became its eighth member.

The organization claims it represents the Global Islamic World ummah. Since the 19th century, many Muslims have aspired to uniting the Muslim ummah to serve their common political, economic and social interests. Despite the presence of secularist, nationalist and socialist ideologies in modern Muslim states, they have cooperated to form the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. The final cause sufficiently compelled leaders of Muslim nations to meet in Rabat to establish the OIC on September 25, According to its charter, the OIC aims to preserve Islamic social and economic values; promote solidarity amongst member states; increase cooperation in social, economic, cultural, scientific, and political areas; uphold international peace and security; and advance education, particularly in the fields of science and technology.

On August 5, , 45 foreign ministers of the OIC adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam to serve as a guidance for the member states in the matters of human rights in as much as they are compatible with the Sharia , or Quranic Law. The Turkic Council is an international organization comprising Turkic countries.

On October 3, , four of these countries signed the Nahcivan Agreement. All of these organizations were coopted into the Turkic Council. The Turkic Council has an operational style similar to organization like the Arab League. The member countries are Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. The remaining two Turkic states, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are not currently official members of the council.

However, due to their neutral stance, they participate in international relations and are strongly predicted to be future members of the council. The idea of setting up this cooperative council was first put forward by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev back in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.