In 1926, Dwight D. Eisenhower was first in his class and an honor graduate of the U. S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Eisenhower's year at the school was a formative period in his career and prepared him for many of his...
In 1926, Dwight D. Eisenhower was first in his class and an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Eisenhower's year at the school was a formative period in his career and prepared him for many of his...
This study is a historical analysis of Dwight Eisenhower's experience as a student at the 1925-26 Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The study develops several themes of Eisenhower's life -competitiveness, individualism,...
Terroristas: nem soldados nem criminosos. Amitai Etzioni; Nas atuais hostilidades no Iraque, Afeganistão e partes do Paquistão, bem como em outros países, da Colômbia ao Chifre da África, atores não-estatais -- em particular, terroristas e...
Cómo se hace un líder: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Coronel (R) Robert C. Carroll, Ejército de EUA; La biografía de Dwight David Eisenhower (alias Ike) como general y Presidente es conocida. Sin embargo, no lo es tanto la historia de cómo Ike, cuando...
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with SGM Ada L. Mercado-Morales. It is dated: February 27, 1989. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive.
SGM Mercado talks about joining the service, her time in...
In 1981, the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, published an excellent selected bibliography of periodical articles and dissertations on Dwight D. Eisenhower compiled by Robert D. Bohanan (see Bibliographies and Indexes). This author's...
In a constantly changing world threatened by ever increasing terrorist acts, American interests, both at home and abroad, require protection provided by great military leaders. In order to produce military leaders who can successfully meet the...
This paper investigates General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s roles as strategist and strategic general during World War II. Eisenhower had zero combat experience and was still a colonel on the Army rolls when selected for four-star unified command....
This monograph examines the adequacy of the joint task force (JTF) to operate effectively in the context of wartime uncertainty. Military theorists have long understood the deleterious effects of uncertainty on the conduct of war. Commanders never...
T. E. Lawrence: Ações Indiretas e o Emprego de Forças Especiais. Tenente-Coronel Alessandro Visacro, Exército Brasileiro; T. E. Lawrence é considerado um dos formuladores da moderna concepção de guerra de guerrilhas. Tanto sua experiência...
FM 100-5 cites the theoretical concept of the culminating point as one of the essential considerations in campaign design. In his work On War, Clausewitz introduced this concept to the lexicon of operational theory. In doing so he advised that even...
Between April and August 1943, the U.S. Army’s II Corps saw two of its division commanders relieved of their commands. Each relief appeared tied to battlefield setbacks. MG Orlando Ward of the 1st Armored Division was relieved after his division...
Warfare in the modem era will be joint. However, the Armed Forces have been slow to make requisite changes. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 forced change by legislating reforms and ending the internecine...
U.S. national security depends in part on the Nation's ability to respond effectively to disasters, both at home and abroad. Recent responses have relied heavily on airlift, commercial and military, and U.S. Navy surface combatants. The per-ton...
Irregular warfare is emerging as a dominant form of warfare for the future. Yet irregular warfare, at its root, contains many of the characteristics found on today's battlefront in Afghanistan and Iraq and in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). At the...
Communicating official messages to soldiers within the United States Army is an endeavor that leaders at every level have conducted since the inception of the organization. Army doctrine links communication to leadership via the terminological...
It has been another great year for the Simons Center. The Simons Center topped last year's busy production schedule, publishing four InterAgency Journals, three InterAgency Essays, four InterAgency Papers, one InterAgency Study, and a special...
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...