The last 10 years of conflict have seen a dramatic increase of airspace users above the battlefield providing both opportunities and challenges to maneuver commanders. Assets operating overhead assist the commander in mission command; however, the...
This study focuses on tactical airpower in south Vietnam between 1961-1968. Some of the issues examined are command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters,...
Concepts Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University; Barondes, Arthur D.
This study has been prepared at the Aerospace Studies Institute (ASI) as part of a continuing program to examine the role of airpower in guerrilla warfare. It is one of several studies undertaken simultaneously on the conduct of guerrilla warfare...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how the 1st Sustainment Brigade (SB) reduced customer wait time (CWT) in Multi-National Division-Baghdad (MND-B) from October 2007 to January 2008. A secondary objective was to determine what affect...
Theory and doctrine Warfighting's moral domain. Lieutenant Colonel Antulio J. Echevarria II, US Army, and Major Jacob D. Biever, US Army Blending maneuver and attrition. Colonel Lamar Tooke, US Army, Retired Revamping...
Johnson, Ray B.; Campbell, Scott; Moore, Mark E.; Marrero, Frankie; Parnell-Smith, Sue
Thesis: The Light Infantry Division is a more viable force than the Mechanized Infantry Division on the battlefield due to its deployability, sustainability, firepower, and tactical mobility.
Airspace command and control in the combat zone is becoming more complex due to the proliferation of unmanned aircraft, and the introduction of host nation and civilian aircraft. The ability to deconflict and integrate multiple airspace users...
Within the UN, the "Mogadishu Line" is a reference to the failed UN mission in Somalia in 1992-1993, intended to mark the limit of UN peacekeeping capabilities. The UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been so disastrous that more...
Discusses air support operations; tactical air support functions; organization of the air-ground operations system; and Army aviation support operations.
During the months of June and July 1999, SGM Dabney, while assigned as the Army National Guard Flight operations NCOIC at Soto Cano Airbase, Honduras, assisted in humanitarian efforts to rebuild four Central American countries. The SOUTH COM...
I will discuss my unique experiences, challenges, and frustrations of my Active Component to Reserve Component (AC/RC) assignment while stationed with 6th battalion, 52d Aviation Regiment headquartered at Los Alamitos, California. The explanations...
The purpose of this study is to trace the evolution of airmobility in the U.S. Army. The integration of aircraft into the organic structure of the ground forces is as radical a change as the move from the horse to the truck, and the process is only...
This manual is primarily a ready reference to assist the ground observer in aircraft recognition and identification. It provides information on current operational aircraft of the United States and foreign countries, which may be observed worldwide...
Joint publications list fixed-wing aircraft and Army tactical missile system (ATACMS) as the two preferred weapon systems for engaging time-sensitive targets (TSTs), but do not give specific considerations. This thesis comprehensively lists the...
This publication describes the joint targeting process and provides tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) for targeting surface (land or sea) time-critical targets (TCTs). It describes specific procedures for joint force components in the...
This Manual, prepared under the direction of the Interagency Committee on Search and Rescue (ICSAR), provides guidance to federal agencies concerned with the implementation of the National Search and Rescue Plan. It was intended for use as a...
Operation JUST CAUSE was the final result of a two year effort to remove General Manuel Noriega, Commander of the Panama Defense Force (PDF) and de-facto ruler, from power after his indictment in the United States on drug-trafficking charges. The...