This monograph is an examination of the transition of the Iraqi Saddam Fedayeen militia into a guerilla organization in an attempt to draw out methods that might be used against the Niruyeh Moghavemat Basij (Mobilisation Resistance Force) militia...
Why has an S2 never won a wargame when playing predicted enemy courses of action against a friendly course of action during the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)? Why did the V Corps commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) respond to...
In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini's indirect approach ignited existing socio-economic conditions during the Iranian Revolution to topple the Shah. A similar indirect approach using psychological operations to target audiences through key vulnerabilities...
Operational pauses are part of campaign design and remain relevant in 21st century expeditionary warfare. The United States should maintain the military in a subordinate role as only one element of national power. Where this is infeasible, use of...
The recent publication of the Army Operating Concept 2016-2028 (AOC) and the Future Concept for Fires (FCF) conceptualizes doctrine for the Fires War Fighting Function (WFF). These documents introduced the concepts of Combined Arms Maneuver (CAM)...
War, diplomacy and economic sanctions are three cornerstones of strategy that have, in the past, successfully coerced rogue regimes to capitulate. However, it may be time to look beyond these persuasion techniques and develop a new method that can...
The United States has now invaded Iraq on two separate occasions. These invasions offer some interesting similarities such as occurring on nearly the same terrain with similar equipment and against Iraqi forces under the leadership of Saddam...
Special Operations Forces Integrating SOF into Joint Warfighting. Lieutenant Colonel Mark Jones, U.S. Army, and Lieutenant Colonel Wes Rehorn, U.S. Army SOF on the Contemporary Battlefield. Colonel Mike Findlay, U.S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel...
The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a preemptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons about the lengths to which nations will go to secure their interests and the limits of the United Nation 's influence. How the UN...
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MAJ Chris Barker served as the Joint intelligence (J2) operations officer with a Joint Special Operations Task Force (JSOTF) in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and the intelligence training officer and the executive officer (XO) of a Military Transition...
In the wake of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the most intensely debated issues concerning the conduct of the war has been the level of troops committed to the effort. Military observers, policy makers, military officers, and...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the 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...
Deconstructing army leadership. COL Christoper R. Paparone, U.S. Army; A deconstruction of the Army's theory of leadership, with its emphasis on hierarchy and management, reveals that the Army has based its theory on circular logic, improvable...
DURING MY BRIEFING I WILL HIGHLIGHT THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CSM DANIEL AND HIS BATTALIONS DEPLOYMENT AND REDEPLOYMENT TO AND FROM IRAQ. CSM DANIEL,THE BATTALION COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR OF 1/10FA REGT, 3RD INF DIV(MECH) ARTILLERY. ON THE EVE OF WAR 20...
The Republic of Mali since 1961 has been experiencing insurgency carried out by an ethnic group called Touareg in its northern regions, lying in the Sahara valley. That situation has significantly impaired the security, stability and development of...
Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Coalition forces discovered that the military, security, and intelligence agencies of Iraq were well suited to transition into an insurgency after conventional defensive measures had failed. This paper argues...
Information is all the world, and all the world is information. Every military action or inaction is based on information. Military transformation and modernization programs are focused on leveraging information as a battle-winning capability. The...
As an All Source Intelligence Technician with 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, from March 2003 to March 2004, Chief Warrant Officer Bryan Gray provided the brigade commander, Colonel James Hickey, with tactical intelligence...
During his May 2003 to July 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major George H. Sarabia served as a regimental S4, then XO of 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based in the heavily Shi'ite Baghdad slum of Sadr City,...