To make decisions and to synchronize all available resources properly, the brigade commander requires timely and accurate intelligence and combat information. This monograph examines the issues surrounding the absence of an organic tactical...
The past ten years, in the absence of a peer threat, have focused on technology and capitalizing on efficiencies. The prospects for future operations as part of the War on Terrorism, the continued refinement of the Interim Brigade, and the decision...
This monograph examines the SBCT intelligence structure to determine if it is adequately resourced to conduct operations under a corps headquarters serving as a Joint Task Force Headquarters without a dedicated division level fusion cell. This...
This study investigates the need for an organic reconnaissance and security element (RSE) in the heavy brigades of Force XXI. The study shows the reasons future brigades need RSEs. The following areas were used to compare brigades with organic RSEs...
The Kentucky State Guard’s campaign against the Silent Brigade in 1907-1909 offers lessons for the operational art of civil security and supporting civil law enforcement. The Silent Brigade was a guerrilla army that terrorized western Kentucky in...
This monograph is an analysis of the impact of organizational culture on tactical joint warfare. The merger of the Tiger Brigade with 2d Marine Division during the Persian Gulf War serves as a laboratory for this analysis. The author researched...
This monograph examines rear area terrain management of armored and mechanized brigades. The study focuses on overcrowding, which can result from poor terrain management, as it relates to the brigade's warfighting capability. The specific research...
As the army organizes to fight in the 21st Century, logisticians will need the capabilities to keep pace with the high technology weapons of the modem battlefield. The maneuver forces will be smaller, more lethal, more dispersed and highly mobile....
This monograph examines the impact of the heavy division MI battalion restructure on Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IN) support to the maneuver brigade. This restructure gains significance due to the fielding of a new family of systems...
This monograph analyzes corps aviation brigade doctrine, and its supporting organization, equipment, and control arrangements, to determine if it enables the aviation brigade to conduct successful deep operations. Doctrine is the centerpiece of...
The thesis is a historical analysis of Colonel John T. Wilder's infantry brigade in the Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns of the American Civil War. In 1863 General Rosecrans, commander of the Army of the Cumberland, authorized Wilder to mount...
This monograph addresses a fundamental problem in establishing the heavy brigade command and control system. Can the facilities and organization be restructured or reorganized so that the command posts facilitate synchronization survival? Actions...
This account covers the operations of the New Zealand Division in the Second Libyan offensive and has been written with the intention of giving a general picture of the battle.
This study examines how successful the current heavy brigade fire support system is in facilitating the integration of close support indirect fires with maneuver. The research shows that the supply and demand sides of the current heavy brigade fire...
This study examined what U.S. Army heavy brigades should accomplish when conducting reconnaissance during offensive operations, what they actually accomplish, and why there is a shortfall. Doctrinal literature from the capstone how to manual FM...
This monograph is one of a series prepared under instructions from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers to the Japanese Government (SCAPIN No. 126, 12 Oct 1945). The series covers not only the operations of the Japanese armed forces during...
All three of these FA commands-the corps artillery headquarters, the division artillery, and the FA brigade-play significant roles in the Air Land Battle. They exercise effective and responsive command and control. They ensure the rapid, lethal,...
The purpose of this monograph is to illuminate the role in, and support to, operational art by military police brigades and demonstrate their viability as a bridging mechanism to the operating concepts of wide area security and combined arms...
The purpose of this monograph is to analyze the employment of fires brigades (FiB) in the global war on terror and determine if fires brigades are being utilized fully and in their doctrinal role. The US Army developed FiBs to replace the previous...