Free Thesis Statement About Policemen Of The World

Part 1. Thesis:

Operation Neptune Spear, better known as termination of Osama bin Laden and 2014 U.S. military actions against Islamic State militants present two examples of America’s policy of preventing a creation of a strong unified Muslim state. This policy is part of the bigger American strategy of eliminating any competition in its world domination and removing any threat to United States mainland.

Part 2:

American foreign policy for several centuries is based on a simple and understandable goal – to protect the United States mainland from any threat that might come either from the North American neighbor states or from overseas rivals. Any potential danger from Canada and Mexico was eliminated in XIX century. Possible attack can only be expected from overseas. After the WWII the USA has become the world’s only superpower. To challenge its global domination with any chance of success another superpower has to be created. The main goal of modern American foreign policy is to eliminate any possibility of such superpower emerging. This is achieved by creating and supporting local rivalries that prevent a single country from gaining too much influence. Elimination of Osama bin Laden, the notorious leader of Al Qaeda Muslim terrorist organization and recent air raids against the terrorists from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) are two instances of realization of the U.S. foreign policy. According to the Congressional Research Service: “If it is determined that Osama bin Laden remained an active decision-maker in the development of core AQ strategy and terrorist operations, his death may have negative implications for the organization’s ability to continue as a viable threat to U.S. interests” (Rollins, John 2011. Osama bin Laden’s Death: Implications and Considerations. Congressional Research Service).
The United States emerged as the world’s only superpower for a simple reason: there were no rivals left after the WWII. European colonial states like Great Britain, France or Germany were devastated by years of conflict. Their economies were either physically ruined or deeply in debt. Naval war against Japan also gave United States the biggest and the most experienced navy in the world and control over the oceans and the Mediterranean. Creation of NATO, World Bank and IMF legalized American control over the world both in military and economic sense.
There were numerous occasions where U.S. has used military interventions to prevent different hostile countries from gaining too much influence and strength. Korean War and war in Vietnam were aimed at preventing communist ideology, backed by the USSR from spreading too far. Stratfor analysis of American Geopolitics claims that: “The United States' repeated interventions in Eurasia have been designed to establish or preserve a balance of power or, to put it bluntly, to prevent any process on Eurasia from resulting in a singular dominating power. The United States participated in both world wars to prevent German domination, and then bolstered and occupied Western Europe during the Cold War to prevent complete Russian dominance. Similarly, the primary rationale for involvement in Korea and Vietnam was to limit Russian power” (2011. Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire. Stratfor). War in Iraq in 1991 was waged to do the same to Saddam Hussein’s regime. Bombing of Serbia stopped Slobodan Milosevic’s effort of re-uniting Yugoslavia by military force and become a Balkan power state.
After the WWII the dominant motive of the U.S. foreign policy was the contest with the Soviet Union, known as the Cold War. The United States tried to prevent the communist ideology and the Soviet influence from spreading all over Europe and the South-East Asia. In order to achieve this goal U.S. military bases were established in Western Europe. American participation in two wars in South-East Asia was also an attempt to tame the Russian’s appetite for world’s dominance. This basic foundation of the U.S. foreign policy remained unchanged until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the post-Cold War era American foreign policy shifted towards more complex effort of balancing powers in various regions of the worlds so that no regional state becomes too strong or too big. Support of Kuwait was part of such policy of balancing the regional powers against Iran and Saudi Arabia. When Iraq tried to invade Kuwait, the U.S. expeditionary forces quickly restored the desired status quo in the region. The same happened in the Balkans. Former Yugoslav countries were involved in bitter fighting against each other, but once Serbia started to dominate the region, joint NATO effort was put in place and squashed these attempts.

References

Rollins, John (2011). Osama bin Laden’s Death: Implications and Considerations. Congressional Research Service
(2011). Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire. Stratfor
(2011). Geopolitics of the United States, Part 2: American Identity and the Threats of Tomorrow. Stratfor