Posted: December 11th, 2022

History 311 Online Homework 4

History 311 Online Homework 4 (HW4)

Directions: Your HW4 assignment is based on your reading of chapter 22 in Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire.
Before attempting this assignment, please read the feedback comments I have provided you on our previous homework assignments, and make your best effort to follow the suggestions I provide and improve the quality of your submission.
Your answers to the questions below should be based on your reading of chapter 22. Please type your answers directly beneath each of the numbered questions, and do not delete the numbered questions or submit your homework file without them.
Be sure that all of your answers are written in your own words, except where you provide a direct quote from the book. Each quote should be set off with quotation marks, and you should indicate WHO is being quoted.
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Your deadline for submitting this HW4 assignment is Sunday, May 17 @ 11:59PM.
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1. What was the nature of the Bin Laden family’s connection to the United States beginning in the 1930s?

2. In what way did the military planners of Operation Desert Storm try to avoid the “mistakes” of the Vietnam War? What does Immerwahr mean in saying the “fighting had gone pointillist”?

3. What specific problems did America encounter after Operation Desert Storm due to locating its military base in Saudi Arabia? In what way had Osama bin Laden “absorbed the lessons of the revolution in military affairs”?

4. What did the metaphor of “the network” come to represent after 9/11, and how did the U.S. approach the tasks of defeating terror networks?

5. What role did Guam and Guantanamo Bay come to play in America’s ‘empire of bases,’ and how did they represent the “spoils of a not-much-remembered-nineteenth-century war”?

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