Gordon Rudd, PhD, deployed in support of what would later become the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) and eventually the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a professor of...
Sergeant Major (RET) Joe Garner, a twenty seven year veteran with twenty-one-years as a member of the Green Berets. Joe Garner was born in a rural part of Tennessee on 6 May 1934, the fifth child out of a family of six children. Garner enjoyed and...
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO member nations have begun reducing the size of their military forces. Therefore, NATO is faced with responding to crises situations with considerably smaller forces available. To...
Since 1993, the United States has conducted numerous reconstruction and stabilization operations including Operation Joint Endeavor, 1995 to 1996, and the initial stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 to 2004. Reconstruction and stability...
The attacks of 11 September 2001 taught the United States that weak states can pose as great a danger to our national interests as strong states. With this lesson still fresh in the minds of policy makers, and the mixed results of several...
There are many critics who have concluded that the US Government has not successfully conducted communication with its public during the current, persistent conflict, but perhaps one of the earliest was Ted Koppel. In 2001, responding to a question...
Assigned to the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), which later became the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), from March through September 2003, Major Thomas Verell Jr. served as the aide-de-camp to then Major General...
Accepting that post-conflict operations are part of campaign planning continues to be a challenge for the U.S. military. This monograph proposes that current Joint and U.S. Army doctrine is deficient in addressing the importance of post-conflict...
Joe Garner was born in Sherwood, Tennessee on May 6, 1934. He had 4 brothers and 2 sisters, one of which died of Pneumonia when she was one and a half years old. While growing up, Joe had a very dysfunctional child hood, by the time he was 17, Joe...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
Ambassador James Dobbins is currently director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he served as assistant secretary of state for Europe; special assistant to the president for the Western...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) current organization and its role in recent stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The thesis begins by looking at some of the historic missions for...
The United States and many other countries are engaged in the Global War on Terror using all the elements of their national powers. Much of the diplomatic, economic and perhaps some of the military actions take place behind the scenes and often...
From 2002 through 2004, Mr. Gene Del Bianco served as the US Department of State's political-military advisor in the US Embassy in Kuwait and, in this capacity, he said, "One of the major issues I was dealing with in my portfolio was the planning...
The United States Army presence in Iraq has
been ongoing for over six years now. The failure to fully plan for follow-on
operations after the invasion and a slow start to recognize and counter the
insurgency set conditions for a difficult...
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...
This monograph examines the interagency interoperability challenges faced by joint force commanders and planners during international humanitarian assistance operations (HAO). Three patterns or currents flow through the study. These currents...
This study addresses how operational and strategic commanders best implement strategies to accomplish their specific goals by analyzing the three distinct tasks that strategic commanders must accomplish in order to successfully build the support...
This monograph shows how understanding three conceptual tradeoffs of complex versus complicated, complexity at large-scale versus fine-scale, and exploration of potential problems versus exploitation of known solutions can help the military...
The Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) is a significant part of the U.S. Army's planning process. The IPB is a methodical process that reduces the enemy and the environment into its component parts at an instant in time and finite...