Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
The year 1993 marks the 20th anniversary of the Army’s establishment -- on 1 July 1973--0f the Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, as the major innovation in its post-Vietnam War reorganization. Skeptics were free with predictions that...
The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of arms limitations at the strategic nuclear level between the United States and the Soviet Union as it contributes to arms control in general and to strategic stability in particular. This approach...
This project examines the military ramifications of the emerging revolution in military affairs and the changing strategic environment. Assessing two strategic approaches, Joint Vision 2010 (evolutionary force design) and a rising advocacy of...
The purpose of this report is to describe briefly all of the significant aspects of the petroleum economy of Germany and of the more important petroleum installations in that country. Volume I of II Volumes.
Air Intelligence Group, Division of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department
This is a supplement to the Photographic Intelligence Center report. Topics include information on radar, communications, direction finding, navigational aids, electronics combinations, related installations, comparative studies and searchlights.
Air Intelligence Group, Division of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department
This is a Photographic Intelligence Center report on radar, communications, direction finding, navigational aids, electronics combinations, related installations, and comparative studies.
This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It sets forth doctrine to govern the joint activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations and provides the...
Gutierrez, John B.; Suri, Frank T.; Carland, Richard L.; Million, Will T.
“Military institutions and their needs (not women’s needs) determine women’s role in the armed forces” (Skaine, 1999, p. 45). Despite various roles in the military of the past, women have earned a more prominent role in current military...
“So far, so good” thought SGT Edward Duran. Even though the Squadron had only been in Iraq a week, there was enemy contact the first day upon arrival to the Forward Operating Base. Tonight looked like it was going to be an easy trip south to...
Gutierrez, John B.; Suri, Frank T.; Carland, Richard L.; Million, Will T.
"Military institutions and their needs (not women's needs) determine women's role in the armed forces" (Skaine, 1999, p. 45). Despite reduced roles in past militaries, women have earned a more prominent role in current military operations with...
"My first experience with the Global War on Terrorism," said Major Joseph T. Irwin Jr., "was September 11, 2001. I was at Fort Meade, Maryland, with the 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and our mission was to provide military support...
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. " (From the Declaration of...
A common perspective among U.S. interagency partners today is that any step towards more effective and coordinated responses to contemporary security challenges requires an improved and shared understanding of the nature of the conflict and the...
A confluence of factors led to American engagement in one of Central America's most violent uprisings: the Salvadoran civil war. By the time of President Ronald Reagan's first term as president, the civil war had created social, political and...
A discussion of the lack of foreign language capability as it affects the ability of the U.S. to fight in asymmetrical wars such as the War on Terrorism, especially in the area of military intelligence.
A discussion of the lack of foreign language capability as it affects the ability of the U.S. to fight in asymmetrical wars such as the War on Terrorism, especially in the area of military intelligence.
A discussion on the US military’s evolving doctrine due to the lessons learned from Asymmetric Warfare during World War I, World War II. The many instances of Asymmetric Warfare used during this period of military history by both enemy and allies...
A historical analysis of the 2006 Lebanon War discussing Israeli and Hezbollah doctrine, operational and tactical problems surrounding Israeli use of effects-based operations and systemic operational design, dependence on air power, and the...
A historical case study concerning the Israeli Army's response to the Palestinian "Intifada" or uprising in the late 1980's and early 1990's provides instructive planning considerations for likely future application of U.S. military force in an...