Over the past fifteen years, many have argued that the military’s overwhelming battlefield successes stem from the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reformation Act of 1986. While few can debate the efficacy of joint US military operations in a...
Major Charles Anderson, in this first of two interviews, talks about his deployment as the personnel officer (S1) of the 489th Civil Affairs (CA) Battalion to Afghanistan from March through November 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He...
Described in this paper through sections I, II, II, is my 9/11 day, and the difficulties I faced getting to Afghanistan. My assignment into a position that contributed to the building of the Afghan National Army (ANA). Described are some of my...
Colonel Dalton Diamond mobilized as a US Army Reserve soldier, deploying to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and also serving as the command surgeon of US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) at Fort Bragg, North...
In this joint interview, conducted while both were at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, attending the Pre-Command Course, Colonel David Paschal and Colonel David McCauley discuss their Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments,...
In this joint interview, conducted while both were at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, attending the Pre-Command Course, Colonel David Paschal and Colonel David McCauley discuss their Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments,...
Although the United States (US) has been involved in nation-building efforts for the past 100 years it does not have a doctrinal definition to articulate what nation building is. Another challenge for the US is the lack of a designated agency...
Counterinsurgency is the most common conflict that America engages in. From the Mexican-American War to the Philippine Insurrection and small wars of the early 1900s, the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) focused on sanitation, hygiene programs...
In the past decade, DoD has conducted the majority of US stabilization and reconstruction operations (SRO) due to an inability of other government agencies to deploy and integrate. In April 2004, President Bush approved a concept to...
As operations in Iraq and Afghanistan end, it is useful to analyze the current state of stability operations within the U.S. Army and determine its ability to conduct these types of operations in the future. Analyzing the state of stability...
In the last ten years, the United States military has dealt with emerging counterinsurgencies in multiple operational theaters. To deal with the complex nature of counterinsurgency, organizational planning and operational processes increasingly...
Lecciones aprendidas de las guerras modernas: Los puntos imprescindibles para prepararse para un futuro peligroso. Teniente General Peter W. Chiarelli, Ejército de EUA, y Mayor Stephen M. Smith, Ejército de EUA; Desde que regresé de mi segunda...
From August through December 2002, and again from March through June 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Sholto Stephens of the New Zealand Army served as the intelligence officer (S2) for his country's special...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier with extensive civil affairs (CA) experience in the Global War on Terrorism, Major Elizabeth Medina, on 9/11, served as operations officer for the 413th CA Battalion. The following year, she became the G3 plans...
As the military liaison officer (LNO) to other government agencies - mainly the CIA and the FBI - Major Melissa Fozman, based at Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan in Kabul, supported Operation Enduring Freedom from July 2004 through January 2005....
Since the end of the Cold War, the US has employed its armed forces into a host of contingency operations in countries, such as Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia. More recently, the US has undertaken operations in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the...
The Standing Joint Task Force today serves as an enduring organization of the national security environment. Of the numerous Standing Joint Task Forces operational around the world, this paper examines two whose missions support defense of the...