Editorial. Operational doctrine. The new FM 100-5: a return to operational art. Major Michael McCormick, US Army FM 100-5 and information age warfare. Major John M. Spiszer, US Army Paying the price for versatility. Colonel Steven P....
A Revolution in Military Logistics is a necessary precursor to the Revolution in Military Affairs. Army and the Department of Defense senior leaders have affirmed and reinforced this idea in logistics literature throughout the past two years. What,...
The Department of Defense developed the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) to increase the amount of national and theater level information provided to deployed forces, resolving some shortcomings in information dissemination identified during the Gulf...
This monograph discusses the relationship between Force XXI and operational art. It develops a construct demonstrating the Force XXI concept of leverage in warfighting and applies technology and operational art to that construct. The goal of the...
This monograph considers expanding the U.S. Army using non-citizens to man new units. Both the French Foreign Legion and British Brigade of Gurkhas provide useful examples of the types of forces needed by the United States to preserve American...
Throughout the Cold War the U.S. Army prepared to defeat a Warsaw Pact attack into Western Europe. With the fall of the Berlin Wall came the end of the Cold War and increased involvement by the U.S. Army in Military Operations Other Than War...
The tension between the operational functions, maneuver and sustainment, produces an interesting dynamic. As much as some may insist, maneuver at the operational level of war cannot be completely addressed without a thorough discussion of...
In the early1940s the attitude toward women entering the Army was "Never". Even after the introduction of a bill to establish a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (W AAC). The bill proposed a quasi-military where women only filled clerical jobs; it was...
This monograph determines the utility of the “reconnaissance-pull” concept for division commanders. Although the term, “recon-pull” is becoming widely used by many Army leaders, analysis proves that the concept is rarely applied in...
This monograph examines the Army's near-term Battlefield Combat Identification System (BCIS) designed to reduce fratricide through use of technology. The near-term BCIS system represents the first use of an Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) device...
This monograph examines the current state of operational level intelligence. The research question to be answered is: "Is current doctrine on operational level intelligence adequate for the development of a joint theater intelligence architecture?"...
This monograph discusses the nature of tactical intelligence prediction in military operations. Such prediction is extremely complex and involves a broad range of factors from traditional military ones such as terrain and doctrine to more...
Within a seven day period, MSG(R) Pedro Rodriguez became a Korean War double hero. He earned two Silver Stars for bravery in the battle field. This great Noncommissioned officer is a legend in his native town in the island of Puerto Rico. He was...
The purpose of this monograph is to determine how heavy-force field artillery brigades can be best employed tactically on the mid- to high-intensity AirLand Battle-Future battlefield. The study focuses on the adequacy of the four standard tactical...
The world in 1999 is a rapidly changing place. Regional conflict based on ethnic, religious, cultural and economic differences is increasing because of a lack of superpower containment. The number of regional powers involved in these conflicts and...
Perhaps one of the most controversial theories proposed by the l9th century military theorist and historian, Carl von Clausewitz, was the proposition that the defense, not the offense, was the stronger form of war. This is the second of two...
The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: How should U.S. Army doctrine for the “follow and support” mission be clarified? This is done by focusing on the evolution of the “follow and support” concept in the Army's capstone...
This monograph discusses the role the American military instrument of power played in supporting the government of El Salvador during its battle against rebel forces during the period 1980-1992. The U.S. provided extensive military, political and...
The number of peace operations US Army forces engage in will likely increase, rather than decrease in the future. Peace operations are nothing new to the military. What is new, however, is the number, pace, scope and complexity of these operations....
This paper demonstrates that concepts behind five of the six imperatives of the Weinberger Doctrine are still relevant to the post-Cold War era. Weinberger's six tests, in addition, are not as restrictive as they appear. Weinberger provides caveats...