The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's...
The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's...
The purpose of the entire self-study process is improvement through a structural evaluation. Writing a self-study in glowing terms while glossing over weak areas fools no one, most of all a skilled team of accrediting experts.
Abstract: Actionable intelligence in today’s contemporary operating environment is a lesson that the intelligence community continues to work on. Most important to ensuring that actionable intelligence is in the hands of the combatant commander,...
Thesis Statement: What is military actionable intelligence and how has it positively and negatively affected the outcome of past battles? According to Websters dictionary, intelligence is defined as the product resulting from the processing of...
This paper discusses two ways in which the Army obtains its intelligence: 1) use of informants; and 2) emersion. The author weights the importance of both courses of options but favors emersion (working side to side with a population to gain trust...
Change and innovation are issues that constantly confront an organization like the Army. During certain periods, the currents of change seem stronger than others. Today the Army confronts the Information Age revolution and a transition into a new...
Prepared under the direction of the Commanding General Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, Fort Sill, Oklahoma and prescribed at that center for use as an aid to training.
To provide a coordinated training plan for the introduction of Tactical Fire Direction System (TACFIRE) into the Army inventory. This training plan covers resident training at CONARC service schools, advanced individual training, and CONARC support...
This anthology presents 14 insightful, personal accounts from those who advised foreign armies in various times and places over the last 100 years. CSI is publishing this occasional paper as a supplement to Occasional Paper 18, "Advising Indigenous...
This paper describes some events and lessons learned during my deployment to Baghdad. Iraq 2007. I have when possible listed the events in chronological orders as they happen. I will discuss the problems encountered while conducting embedded...
The Global War on Terrorism has negatively impacted the National Guard’s ability to perform its primary state mission of disaster relief. With on-going multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving equipment in-theater for follow on...
The Global War on Terrorism has negatively impacted the National Guard’s ability to perform its primary state mission of disaster relief. With on-going multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving equipment in-theater for follow on...
This newsletter provides information on the basics of the Afghan culture and how Soldiers should apply this information while living and working
with the Afghans. The key points covered in this newsletter are: 1.) Effects of Afghan culture on...
In a remote part of the world over three thousand miles away, there are forces at work. This author chronicles some of the experiences in a combat zone that shaped his life forever. Here we examine four events that shaped and created a comradely...
The mission of the Embedded Tactical Trainer (ETT) is to train side-by-side with an Afghan counterpart. It is the intent of this training to aid and train the Afghan senior leadership in daily operations of a functioning Company, Battalion, Brigade...
African American Warriors before the revolutionary war and through every war to the present. The freedoms we enjoy today are only possible because of the sacrifices of the soldiers who have and continue to serve this great Nation in war and in...
African-Americans have served proudly in every conflict that the United States has participated in, yet their outstanding acts of heroism have remained anonymous in several instances. They served in spite of slavery, as well as blatant prejudice...