This newsletter is a collection of articles focused on stability operations in the Western Hemisphere, specifically in Central and South America. Today, stability operations in Afghanistan and Iraq rightfully receive the lion’s share of our...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under 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 and...
This paper clearly shows the immediate relevancy of historical study to current events. One of the most common criticisms of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq in 2003 is that too few troops were used. The argument often fails to satisfy anyone for there...
The British and US experience with the use of local, irregular security forces suggest their importance in assisting the host nation government and counterinsurgent forces. Their successful establishment, training, and employment demonstrate the...
In the wake of hostilities, military professionals should not foreswear changes and adjustments designed to make their forces more proficient on future battlefields. Military forces that have just suffered a costly defeat often manifest a greater...
Casebook serves as background information for training in the field of psychological operations and as an introduction to the more important elements and principles of PSYOP.
This is a history of the Marine Corps participation in the Lebanon crisis from July-October 1958. It is published to show the role of the U. S. Marine Corps in carrying out American foreign policy and the pacification of a country through a...
The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany's blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved...
Concepts Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University; Barondes, Arthur D.
This study has been prepared at the Aerospace Studies Institute (ASI) as part of a continuing program to examine the role of airpower in guerrilla warfare. It is one of several studies undertaken simultaneously on the conduct of guerrilla warfare...
The World Factbook is a guide to country profiles containing fields including geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
With United States involvement in Afghanistan, knowledge of the country is imperative. This "handbook explains a number of basic issues that should be in the knowledge" toolbox of a Marine working with Afghanis or deployed to the country.
This photo album contains pictures of Yemen from April to July 1946. The black and white photographs vary in subject matter and include landscapes, people, soldiers, road and street scenes, camels resting, villages, members of the Special U.S....
Jones, Priscilla D.; Air Force History and Museums Program
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned cool and clear, with sunny skies all along the eastern seaboard. For Air Force aviators like Lt. Col. Timothy "Duff" Duffy of the 102d Fighter Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, the day held the...
In this wide-ranging interview focusing on his January 2005 through January 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel (P) Edward Cardon discusses his service as the commander of 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and his area...
Currently the deputy chief of staff, G6, of the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Edward Castle was involved as a project officer in the training and advisory effort in Iraq in 2004-2005. Alerted that their Reserve unit would be...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier assigned to the 4-80th Chemical Training Battalion when he received orders sending him with the 80th Division (Institutional Training) on a military transition team (MiTT) to Sinjar, Iraq in 2005-2006, Sergeant First...
Major Steven Fandrich, in this first of two interviews, talks about his service as the commander for Charlie Battery and Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB), 3rd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery supporting the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd...
From January through December 2005, Major James Schreiner served as a joint staff planner in the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan CJ7 engineer directorate. More specifically, in the first half of his tour, he was the lead engineer planner for...
A longtime member of Special Forces, Master Sergeant Michael D. Coker deployed with 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), US Army National Guard, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001-2002. Based initially in Uzbekistan,...