Nepal, geo-strategically located between India and China, must have appropriate relations with both countries. Prior to 2006, Nepal's monarch maintained a generally balanced approach in dealing with India and China even though in practice Nepal had...
In January 2007, President of the United States George W. Bush announced a strategy called the New Way Forward in Iraq, a departure from the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq announced only thirteen months previous. Additionally, President Bush...
Causal claims are unavoidable in military affairs. However, causal claims are also insufficient when attempting to understand and intervene in complex environments. Hence, notions of conventional causality must be supplemented with an understanding...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relevance of Adaptive Campaigning to recent Australian Army operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The context for Adaptive Campaigning is set by reviewing Australia's way of warfare and the evolution of...
The opium trade is a major funding source for the insurgency in Afghanistan. The Afghan counter-narcotics law enforcement agencies continue to target drug traffickers with counterdrug missions in order to break the funding source of the insurgents....
The American primary tank in the Second World War was inferior to its German counterpart for all but the final months of the war. The U.S. tank evolved and demonstrated its superiority to the world in Operation DESERT STORM in 1991. This monograph...
This monograph analyzes the current challenges facing the U.S. Army and the potential for force structure changes to meet future threats. Allowing for widened spans of control through the addition of a line company to the maneuver battalions of the...
The classical counterinsurgency theorists emphasize that it is necessary for the government to gain and maintain control of the population in order to defeat the insurgency. They describe population and resource control measures as a means of doing...
When looking at the way the United States Army develops doctrine, leaders need to ask themselves “When is a change in doctrine necessary or justified?” Because the Army is a doctrine-based organization, leaders should only change, publish, and...
The classical counterinsurgency theorists emphasize that it is necessary for the government to gain and maintain control of the population in order to defeat the insurgency. They describe population and resource control measures as a means of doing...
The unpredictable global, regional and national security environment will require capable institutions and competent leaders to address future challenges. The Republic of Albania now finds itself a more secure NATO member country standing between...
Strategic communication is a relatively new and currently evolving concept in the U.S. military, and it is currently not widely understood what role, if any, leaders at the tactical level have in it. In order to determine what role tactical-level...
The United States Army needs doctrine that addresses strategic communication based upon emerging design concepts while incorporating existing principles of strategic communication and narrative theory together with an updated communication theory....
The purpose of this monograph is to determine the ideal practices for militias and irregular forces in counterinsurgency operations. This study specifically addresses those groups organized by a legitimate sponsor such as the Host Nation or one of...
This paper lists some of the key events and lessons learned during my 28 years of service in the Army National Guard, to include my deployment to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2005 and my recent deployment to...
In 2003, during 3rd Infantry Divisions initial push in Iraq, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms enabled ground commanders to have eyes and ears on the battlefield that in effect increased their situational awareness and...
Being a mentor is a lot of hard work, more than I'd ever imagine. While serving in Mosul, Iraq 2007-2008 it was exciting, yet tiring. When I first met the soldiers of the 4th Division, Iraqi Army they all looked at me very strangely seeing that my...
Uma visão de dentro da escalada de tropas. Tenente-Coronel James R. Crider, Exército dos EUA; Durante os primeiros anos da Operação Iraqi Freedom, um número muito grande de unidades tentou combater, da maneira errada, a insurgência que surgiu...
El precepto moral latente en el FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency. Teniente Coronel Celestino Pérez, Jr., Ejército de EUA, Doctor de Filosofía; La doctrina del Ejército de hoy en día describe una nueva era de "conflicto persistente" en el cual los...
Force modernization is the one thing that is a constant in today’s military. The development of the Heavy Brigade Combat Team (HBCT), Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) and the Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) are a direct reflection of...