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....
This Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) describes the spectrum of worldwide systems and system trends in the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE). The updated and approved definition for COE is as follows: The contemporary operational...
Discussion on importance of proper military transportation including plans, units, staffing, staff duties, types of transportation, transport of wounded, transport by rail, sea, and animal, with a review of transport in former British wars.
One of the most crucial joint combat operations in Afghanistan was Operation ANACONDA, designed and executed to remove the last remaining organized Taliban resistance. Operation ANACONDA generated lessons learned involving many aspects of the art...
This report is from the IFPA-Bradley Workshop, held February 9, 2006 in the Polaris Suites of the Ronald Reagan Building. Presenters contributed information on lessons on the Cold War to the global war on terror, exploring the similarities between...
This history discusses the support rendered by the Army Materiel Command (AMC) to the humanitarian relief effort which followed in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Andrew in South Florida. It illustrates how the new Army is adapting...
This volume presents the story of Afghanistan's fight against the Soviet Army beginning in 1979 and how the Mujahideen prevailed against a larger and decisively better equipped foe. It provides an understanding of guerrilla field craft and tactics,...
This is the supporting volume to the December 2004 report and includes a historical perspective on postconflict operations that shows a pattern of failure, an effective process for stabilization and reconstruction operations, and the role of the...
Is America's counterinsurgency (COIN) effort being shortchanged? Does a one-dimensional doctrine fail to exploit America's full COIN potential? Would a genuinely joint approach provide better options to decision-makers confronted with the harsh...
Contains a series of essays on various military campaigns and operations during World War II and the Vietnam War. All of the documents illustrate both the historical interest of the officer corps and the variety of tactical situations that can be...
The year 1993 marks the 20th anniversary of the Army’s establishment -- on 1 July 1973--0f the Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, as the major innovation in its post-Vietnam War reorganization. Skeptics were free with predictions that...
United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
This is the first in a series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Committee) on the threat of homegrown terrorism inspired by violent Islamist extremism. The Committee...
Winner of the “Excellence in JC4I-IO Writing Award” competition sponsored by the Armed Forces Electronics Association (AFCEA) for 2007-2008 Class 08-01. Accepting the rule of law as one of multiple logical centers of gravity at a local level is...
TRADOC Intelligence Support Activity (TRISA) - Threats
This supplemental handbook presents a sampling of foreign and domestic terrorist incidents against the United States of America. Using an abridged case study methodology, analysis approaches each case from a 'threats' adversary viewpoint.
The scope of this document discusses the usefulness of biographical knowledge, persons about information is to be collected, information to be collected, and sources of biographical information. Topics include the use of history to strategic...
From March through November 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Kevin Lovell served as program and project manager for the counternarcotics and police programs as part of the US Army Corps of Engineers' Afghanistan...
Major Chuck Palmer was told that he was too young to go to the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) so he PCS'd to Kuwait to take command of the 385th Signal Company in July 2006. The unit is now deactivated but at the time it had the mission...
During the planning and major combat operations phases of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel Russell Thaden was the deputy G2 for V Corps. Responsible for "ensuring that the entire staff was updated on the current intelligence situation" and for...
Lieutenant Commander Brandon Sellers served as a pilot for an F-18 Hornet in Carrier Air Wing Five onboard USS Kitty Hawk from March through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about being part of the Navy's...