Yemen Raid: Military Decision & Consequences

This assignment examines the controversial 2011 commando raid in Yemen ordered by President Obama. It details the intelligence leading up to the operation, the execution of the raid resulting in the death of several civilians including Anwar-al-Awlaki's daughter, and the subsequent political fallout and debate surrounding the mission's planning and justification.

Introduction
Incidences of the terrorist attack had been increasing for a consistent period of time in
America. It had been observed that the terrorism has highly influenced the rate of deaths
taking place the country. Severe and sincere policies had been taken, yet the factor of
terrorism seems to b dominating in the country of America. The National security of America
including the consent of President Trump and Joint Chiefs of Staff had planned for approving
the plan of commando raid even if it would risk lives of forces appointed for American
Special Operations as well as the foreign civilians.
According to the information gained through the National Security Offices, a terrorist
belonging to senior most Qaeda collaborator had been observed to be residing in the
mountainous village at the remote area of Yemen. However, Mr. Obama did not approve of
attacking since Pentagon wanted to attack a moonless night for enjoying the victory. At the
conference of White House, it had been decided that the commando raid would be sent to the
remote part in order to seize the cell phones, laptops or any other valuable information
gaining gadgets from the house of the terrorist in order to get more clues about the world’s
most significant terrorist groups.
It had resulted in the death of William Owens who was the Chief Petty officer due to the
sending of a raid which engaged in a fifty-minute fire fight which even left three other
officers wounded along with the destruction of an aircraft of worth $75 million. Several
civilians, as well as children, were killed in the fire fight and the allegations of all these
mishaps had been given on to the Pentagon. Among the dead bodies, entities such as the
daughter of 8 years old of Anwar-al-Awlaki under the group of Al Qaeda along with the
group leader of Al Qaeda Group.
Mr. Trump has been observed to enjoy his counterterrorism success by claiming upon the
bravery of the commandos and declared it as ‘important intelligence that will assist the U.S in
preventing terrorism against its citizens and people around the world’. It had been eventually
stated that the casualties involved in the mission had raised potential doubts of detailed
planning of the America’s national security group during the reign of Obama in regards to
approval of right things. According to the new team of national security of Obama, it had
been stated that officials' at lower levels are to be delegated with more authority and get the
quick response of military through the quicker decision-making process.