POLS 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Gulf War, Powell Doctrine, Bush Doctrine
13 Dec 2018
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Udhr (1948) became customary law (meaning that it is generally accepted but not officially ratified) Allows a person to explain why they need to seek asylum in the country where they stand. International and regional human rights agreements relating to asylum. 1991 persian gulf war follows powell doctrine. Powell doctrine: vietnam does not mean we cannot use military force again, but we need to go in with overwhelming force (shows commitment to winning). 2003 us invasion was shock and awe Sends much smaller force to send a message assuming iraq would be overwhelmed. The us did not have the personnel to send to iraq. Replicability model (they chose not to use overwhelming force in this case because they wanted to be able to reproduce it more than once). They did not want to seem limited on the amount of times they could deploy troops. Bush doctrine: us military force to squash potential threats to the us . the anticipated.
