During past contingency operations and against a backdrop of competing geopolitical and economic goals, the US military, its allies, and coalition partners found it necessary to integrate combat and conventional airspaces to support military...
The U.S. Army appears to be at a crossroads in the evolution of warfighting. This change has begun to manifest itself in the ever increasing digitization of the force. The success or failure of this new force lies in the ability of advanced digital...
The mechanism for the operation of our military forces beyond the shores of the United States is the modern coalition from the grand alliance of NATO to simple bilateral relationships. Understanding the dynamics of coalition warfare is important...
The purpose of this monograph is to search for, identify, and discuss the emergence of elements of operational art during the Napoleonic wars. James Schneider has tied the emergence of operational art to the technological advances of the industrial...
This monograph examines the Iran-Iraq War from an operational perspective. This eight year war represents the Iraqi's only experience with successful operational maneuver. As such, it is likely that lessons learned, particularly in the final...
This monograph examines whether the current focus of Classroom XXI provides the adequate advanced military education necessary to prepare company and field grade leaders for the future battlefield. Technology has become the driving factor as the...
This monograph examines the current Department of Defense approach to the integration of information operations on the future battlefield. Technology has become one of the driving factors as the military enters into the twenty first century. With...
This monograph examines rear battle doctrine and artillery fires to determine the adequacy of doctrine as it relates to the use of artillery fires in the rear. It analyzes rear battle doctrine as a whole and as it pertains to the effective and or...
This monograph focuses on identifying, defining, and analyzing, operational leadership. Leadership is professed to be the most important element of combat power yet it remains essentially a theoretical construct defined more by its attributes than...
This monograph examines the current readiness of the U. S. Army to conduct battlefield deception operations at the tactical level. The development of sophisticated intelligence collection systems and the automation of analysis has resulted in the...
With the decline of the Soviet Union, the United States Army has become engaged in a multitude of operations that are different and more complex in nature from those of the Cold War. While still needing to train for full scale conventional war, the...
The U.S. Army's stated power projection strategy demands a corps of five divisions that is tailorable, sustainable, and with airborne vertical insertion capability. The lead brigade must be on the ground by C+4, the lead division by C+12. Two heavy...
As the United States Army moves into the 21st Century, the heavy division will undergo a significant transformation. The units will more closely resemble combined arms teams that fight using the simultaneous application of combat, combat support,...
The Department of Defense has a mission to fight and win two major theaters of war in "close succession." Mobility is the critical link, providing the capability to deploy forces and meet mission requirements. One aspect of mobility critical to...
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
Douglas Cubbison, the Command Historian for the 10th Mountain Division, conducted a series of interviews with the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan during January 2007, along with several additional interviews conducted in...
An Army reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Friedman served as the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team command and control cell's operations officer in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview,...
Currently the chief of force generation at Fort Leavenworth's Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance, Colonel Sean Ryan, in mid 2004, was "brought in … to assist Brigadier General Richard Sherlock" - assistant division commander...
Upon arriving in theater in November 2004, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Christian of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) was under the impression that he was to be the officer in charge of developing and standing up an engineer school for the...
Lieutenant Colonel William Brooks served in the 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery (ADA) as the operations officer in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through June of 2003. In this interview, Brooks relates...