"Central Command had published a concept brief on 4 October 2004 via email," Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds recalled, "that had laid out the requirements to conduct full-spectrum counterinsurgency operations to destroy anti-Iraqi forces (AIF)...
"Toward a Universal Society and the United States Army" is a research thesis examining social and political theories relevant to defining the post-Cold War era operationally. Two prevailing schools of thought are examined; the school of pacific...
A Chemical Corps officer serving in Iraq from July through December 2003 with the 5th Special Forces Group - during this period existing as a combined joint special operations task force (CJSOTF) - Major Kenneth Jones was the director of the joint...
A follow-up interview to the one conducted on 4 November 2004 concerning Colonel (Ret.) Bradford Parsons' involvement in the 98th Division's 2004-2005 Iraqi Army training and advising mission, this one, as the interviewer put it, focuses more on...
A recounting of the events of the Mexican American war through official strategic communications between Mexico and the United States, President Polk's reports to congress, and the reports of battle from Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.
A Regular Army signal officer assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division in Iraq from October 2004 to November 2005, Major Rodney Penny augmented the headquarters of the first National Guard division "to be called onto active duty to command and...
Accounting for religion and other cultural aspects of the operational environment continues to be a challenge for the United States military. The basis for this is scientific rationalism embedded in military problem solving processes. It is also a...
After the United States (U.S.) Coalition forces invaded Iraq, the transition to stability operations has been difficult for the U.S. Coalition forces. One method used by the 1st Cavalry Division, in 2004, was to develop logical lines of operations...
After World War Two the United States moved into a position of global pre-eminence. The Bush doctrine of pre-emptive and preventive action, expressed in the 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategies, holds that this level of relative power...
Air Mech XXI is a revolutionary concept of maneuver warfare that displaces the current heavy-mechanized doctrine as the dominate form of land combat in the next century. The concept, developed by the author, uses rotary wing aircraft to project a...
Although the United States Armed Forces train to fight unilaterally, our historical experience suggests we fight as a multilateral force. Post conflict analysis of coalition command and control often appear to focus on command structures. Although...
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, American Forces in Germany, 1918-1923
An account of the American participation in the occupation of the Rhineland, Germany. Continued from volumes I and II covering 1920-1921. Chapters include the political and economic situation in unoccupied Germany as well as the occupied zone,...
An operational detachment alpha (ODA) commander with 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Captain Brandon Griffin, in this interview, discusses in remarkable detail and from firsthand participatory knowledge the 7 August 2005 Battle of Mari...
Army warfighting doctrine clearly delineates the definition, scope, and components of protection for application on the battlefield; however, the Army's Operations Other Than War (OOTW) doctrine does not provide similar clarity for the concept in...
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery - part of the 5th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division - the 68th Chemical Company, commanded by Major Kevin Kugel, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from March 2004 through March...
Attached is a copy of a training manual found in May 2000 by British investigators in Manchester, England, while searching the apartment of suspected al Qaeda member Anas al-Liby, AKA Nazih al-Raghie. The Southern District of New York included this...
Before 9/11, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Falk was serving as executive officer for a field artillery battalion in the California National Guard, in addition to holding a civilian job. Following the terrorist attacks, though, as he explained, "I got some...
By the early-1960's, the United States Army was again engaged in conflict, now in Vietnam. As the war progressed, the attrition of combat, the 12-month tour limit in Vietnam, separations of senior noncommissioned officers and the 25-month stateside...
Can the United States successfully impose democracy by force without resorting to the same level of total warfare it waged on Germany and Japan in the Second World War? The hypothesis for this research is that the U.S. can successfully force...