This study deals with providing force protection for the Navy’s future, minimally manned surface combatants. Following the attack on the USS Cole, force protection became the Navy’s primary warfare concern. In order to add experience and...
This study delved into the premise that the Department of Defense is the United States' most equal opportunity employer. The employment results of the United States Army was compared with the results of Major League Baseball using five imperatives:...
This paper describes the role of the military in what today would be termed peacetime contingency and peacekeeping operations. After tracing the origins of the Dominican crisis, it then analyzes the concerns that led to U.S. intervention; the joint...
West Africa is ripe for democratic development, but chronic instability impedes progress. This thesis describes the causes and extent of instability and concludes that the military is a major contributor. The question is how to prevent the military...
The Battle for Manila presented the first instance in the war in which a metropolitan city strongly defended by the Japanese was assaulted and captured by U. S. forces. The account of this engagement has obvious value in training for future...
This study documents the history of the 9th and 10th Cavalry during the Spanish-American War. This study's focus is on employment and deployment of the 9th and 10th Cavalry during the Battles of Las Gasimas and San Juan Hill (Kettle Hill). The 9th...
The following pages are written with the idea of furnishing the members of the Army School of the Line and Staff College a guide in the solution of field problems in fortification. These problems are such that any line officer might be called upon...
The history of the Buffalo Soldiers dates as far back to the mid 1800s and it is a history that is full of pride and Army tradition. In 1866, there was a call for the regular Army to relieve volunteer units in the West because some of the...
Staff Sergeant Edward A. Carter, Jr., Company No.1, 56th Armored Infantry, 12th Armored Division. Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and denied the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat on March 23, 1945, he died in 1962. This brief...
William Fitzgerald; Augustine Flores; Mark Sinnard; Shandia Terry-Hughes; Paulette Moore
Analysis of recent world events (9-11) and an emerging global threat posed against the
United States clearly show that we, as a nation, are currently under the greatest threat we have
ever faced. Our subsequent declaration of the Global War on...
This thesis examines the potential application of training and education methods utilized by the United States Army pre-commissioning programs to the civilian intelligence agencies with respect to how they might increase collaboration....
This is a brief look at the life and events of a great American, my older brother Command Sergeant Major Roy A. Wells. CSM Wells was born into a family of nine children in total. He fell among the middle group of kids and he learned early on that...
According to a 1992 survey of272 I read many year ago stated that mans from the Gulf War found that more than half the men and three-quarters of the women said that troops in their unit had sex in Saudi Arabia as much or more than at home. I...
This monograph examines two disasters, Hurricanes Andrew (1991) and Marilyn (1995), and the U.S. Army’s support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine whether Joint and Army doctrine provides doctrinal tools for Defense...
This study compares the United States use of military power to achieve political aims in Lebanon 1958 and the Dominican Republic 1965. The study uses the Strategic Analysis Model, developed at the Command and General Staff College, to integrate...
Colombia remains one of the most troubled countries in South America. The continued export of drugs coupled with a significant insurgent threat and increased violence against civilians, signals a crisis capable of disrupting the entire region....
Though the US is physically located in the Western Hemisphere, for most of its history, policy toward the South American countries that share this region has taken a distant second to Euro-centric issues. One of the few areas of concern that has...
Contains telegraphic correspondence of Emilio Aguinaldo, July 15, 1898, to February 28, 1899, translated and annotated by John R. M. Taylor, Captain, 14th Infantry.
The following special questions are presented for consideration and recommendation by the Educational Advisory Board during its meeting at the General Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, beginning October 20, 1924. They include, in addition...
This manual describes the nature, scope, and form of military intelligence required by the Air Corps for initial and subsequent operations, means of obtaining information and methods of converting this information into military intelligence,...