This paper will discuss why it is important for military professionals to study history. I will discuss the relationship between core skills in communication, problem solving, evaluating, and analyzing and how they will be improved by studying...
In order to defeat an insurgency the Army must wage a campaign with the population rather than against it. Examining history allows Soldiers to identify the best practices to combat and defeat insurgencies in the modern world.
Actionable intelligence is often difficult to obtain because there are often great challenges to overcome in obtaining it, such as culture, geography, time, and language. It often takes the expenditure of a great amount of resources to obtain...
The United States Army counterinsurgency doctrine employed against Cuba and the Philippines during the late 19th century and early 20th
Many important factors were in play during this time in the history of the United States. The United States had...
The United States military is faced with fighting the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The President of the United States is very much concerned with the transformation of the U.S. military forces. The goal of military transformation is to provide...
Thesis Statement: The efforts to transform the U.S. military during wartime, pre- 11 September 2001, versus peacetime, post- 11 September 2001, created extreme challenges to our military leaders.
Abstract: The U.S. Military, specifically the Army...
Since the American Revolution, the Army has conducted stability operations, which include counterinsurgency operations. Intelligence gathering methods do not work for every counterinsurgency campaign; methods vary from conflict to conflict....
The study of military history is an important method of understanding the relevance of
Lessons learned through the actions of past military Commanders on the battlefield. The
Application of these lessons which reinforce the fundamental Principles...
The study of military history is always relevant to current times. The phrase, “history always repeats itself,” has described many instances where society had not learned from past mistakes. This paper will focus on several instances in United...
The United States military primary focus is to fight and win the nation’s wars. During the times of peace, the military has been dramatically reduced to save money from the cost of war. The Army has found itself in difficult situations at times...
Thesis Statement. The lack of understanding culture and lessons learned of previous counter insurgency military operations will continue to present unnecessary burdens on the future of our forces. Abstract:
This paper will examine two examples of...
For over 230 years the military must continually update, and improve on their tactics and equipment in order to defeat any threat that may present itself. Since the early days of this nation, a need for some type of Militia laid heavy on the...
The United States began Operation Uphold Democracy on September 19th, 1994, in an effort to rid the nation of Haiti of its evil dictator, General Raoul Cedras, and to reinstate the former President Jean Bertrand Aristide in order to bring peace and...
The Cold War caused our Army to train and master conventional force on force combat. For
this reason our NCOs’ adopted training plans and scenarios to fight and win on a Russian front.
The terrorist’s attacks on September 11, 2001, and the...
The history of the United States Army is a long and colorful one dating back over 220 years. Adding to the traditions and history of the Army is the Noncommissioned Officer, the backbone of the Army. During the period of 1865-1924, the NCO has left...
The study of Military history is important for all Soldiers. The situations that face the military now have already been face by the military of the past. The technology has changed and the locations, but the principles and issues have not. The...
There are multiple techniques used to gather actionable intelligence some are humane and some could be considered inhumane or torture. This paper will not debate the issues whether the techniques used are one or the other, but it will analyze which...
Thesis: Although American Soldiers through their tenacity always figure a way to accomplish the mission, the military and its leaders should better prepare their Soldiers through proper training and providing the necessary equipment for the...
Military history is important because it gives you the basis how to complete a mission from an historical respective. Just because the present battle field is different for the reason that of technology and the way we fight, it all revolves from...
The Iraqi Afghanistan war and Vietnam has a lot of parallels that make them similar in nature. The purpose of this paper is to examine these parallels and outline them in order to shed light on what they are and the lessons learned from Vietnam. As...