On December 15, 2011, the U.S. mission in Iraq became State Department-led, and all U.S. military activities became the responsibility of the U.S. Embassy's Office of Security Cooperation--Iraq (OSC-I). There are few, if any, well-known examples of...
In December 2011, the United States removed all combat troops from Iraq, leaving only a handful of military personnel within the U.S. Embassy. This military presence--in the form of the Office of Security Cooperation–Iraq (OSC-I)--seeks to assist...
ما وراء قوة االسلاح والحديد: إحياء أدوات غير عسكرية للقوة الأمريكية
Beyond Guns and Steel: Reviving the Nonmilitary Instruments of American Power
نص كلمة وزير الدفاع...
The 2010 U.S. National Security Strategy emphasized that the U.S. would use security sector assistance to build the capacity of at-risk nations and reduce the appeal of violent extremism and assist in resolving the world's armed conflicts. The 2010...
The success of the occupation program will be an important factor in the achievement of a just and lasting peace. Success in achieving our objectives in the occupied areas, in turn, depends, to no small extent, upon the understanding and full...
Seeks to determine what methods or organization should be established to integrate the results of private, industrial, foundational and university research and development work into the Army technical program and functioning. Determines that the...
Seeks to determine what methods or organization should be established to integrate the results of private, industrial, foundational and university research and development work into the Army technical program and functioning. Determines Army...
The collective security environment has changed dramatically in recent years. Ethnic conflict, traditional rivalries and religious disputes have increased the scope and frequency of peace operations for military forces. Instability is now the...
The Department of the Army decided to re-structure the combat divisions into modular, brigade units in order to better address the difficulty inherent in fighting a long war on terrorism, while simultaneously providing combat units to OIF and OEF...
From the conclusion of the Third Afghan War (1919) to India’s Independence (1947), Great Britain governed the wild, mountainous territory of the North-West Frontier that borders Afghanistan. This control used a variety of mature political and...
Beyond guns and steel: reviving the nonmilitary: instruments of American power.Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates; The secretary of defense says the U.S. must develop a cadre of deployable civilians to strengthen the Nation's "soft" power in...
Addendum: Anbar awakens. Colonel Sean MacFarland, U.S. Army; A major player in the Anbar Awakening recalls how joint-force cooperation led to the turnaround in Ramadi.
The most important thing: legislative reform of the national security...
Throughout United States military history several examples show us how unprepared the armed forces were at the outbreak of hostilities. Analysis of the defeats at Kasserine Pass in 1943 and the battle of Osan seven years later point to a government...
Many of the historical highlights of the United States are connected in one way or another to military conflict. Most of those are well documented, detailing what decisions were made by whom and what resulted from the decision. Some of those...
Without argument or doubt, the United States Air Force has earned distinction as the world’s greatest Air Force (AF)! The renown successes of the AF beginning with World War I, through the conception of jet aircraft during the Korean War, the...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...