This study investigates the current proficiency of media skills required for Military Police junior leaders to perform missions in any environment. Currently, junior noncommissioned and company grade officer professional development courses do not...
Battlefield conditions played a key role in the success of Operation Dynamo in Dunkirk. There has always been a potent and omnipresent synergy between the environment, or physical geography, and battle (Galloway, Reynolds, and Rhyne, 1). Forty one...
Daniel J. Kessinger Jr.; Henry T. Williams III; Miroslav Jelcha; Angelia Brody; Maurice Thorpe
Although some people see the battle of Dunkirk as a type of victory, more men would have been saved with proper planning and communication. The operation was one of the biggest surprises of World War II and for Hitler it proved to be one of his...
This monograph analyzes doctrine relating to the creation of Commander's Critical Information Requirements (CCIR) and its role in providing direction to units in combat. It compares doctrine to theory to assess it's doctrine's applicability in the...
For almost a century, the U.S. Army’s 24th Infantry Regiment, established by Congress shortly after the Civil War in honor of the sacrifices of nearly a quarter of a million black soldiers who fought for the Union, was a segregated but integral...
The U.S. Army Officer Corps is composed of officers with varying backgrounds, education, experience, commissioning source, and resources required to produce those officers. The Army has invested varying resources depending on the officer and...
Using Force XXI operational concepts, the US Military expects to overwhelm both high and low technology opponents. If history is any indication, however, apparently low tech forces have the potential at least to tie 'modern,' conventional...
Numerous contemporary political and military observers have suggested that there are profound problems in contemporary American civil-military relations. Some have even suggested that there is in fact a 'crisis' in civil-military relations. Base...
Soldiers returning from service in the Global War on Terror may experience a high incidence of varying degrees of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). As such, the military leadership and society in general must, therefore, develop an in-depth...
Everyone in the Army has an image of what a Sergeants Major is. Some feel that the Sergeants Major (SGM) should be very approachable, and friendly. I believe that a SGM should be the meanest man in the Battalion. The most competent individual the...
This thesis investigates a single leadership attribute: willpower. Willpower is defined as the amalgamation of continuing in the face of adversity; the refusal to accept failure; and the power to affect a desired outcome in others. The central...
This monograph discusses the importance of cohesion to build an effective tactical unit. Historically, armies that have done well in combat have been cohesive units. This monograph investigates the components that produce effective cohesive units...
This monograph analyzes the common cause of the three incidents, Balangiga, No Gun Ri, and My Lai and discusses implications for the U.S. Army to prevent such incidents from recurring. The Balangiga incident took place in the last quarter of 1901,...
Thesis: The Confederate Army achieved victory at the battle of Spotsylvania despite an overwhelming opposing force, through leadership, combat experience, indomitable spirit, and the will to fight and win.
The US military has made many improvements in force readiness since 1775. Every war is different from the last and each lesson learned does not always translate into success at the beginning of the next war. As the cliché goes, history repeats...
Quartermaster NCOs of past and present have made many positive contributions to their units. Their individual contributions may not be known by many, but their contributions have directly resulted in many soldiers surviving and multiple units being...
This monograph seeks to identify doctrine's role in limiting fratricide--specifically, ground-to-ground and air-to-ground fratricide. Fratricide is hardly a new condition on the battlefield. However, an increasingly complex, dynamic, and lethal...
The U.S. Army's ability to meet current demands for land combat power in the execution of the National Military Strategy has reached a critical stage. For the first time the All-Volunteer Force must sustain a lengthy conflict with significant...
Historically, the U.S. Army faces numerous challenges planning for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations. Insurgencies by their very nature occur within the context of a complex operating environment that typically last years if not decades. The...
The American Military is an adaptive fighting force. As such, they are able to take the experience obtained from past conflicts and actions and apply these to current operations. History provides a backdrop for military tactics, missions, and...