Information operations: from good to great. BG Ralph O. Baker, U.S. Army; Army must ensure it executes information operations with the same degree of rigor and discipline that it employs in kinetic operations.
Security force assistance operations: defining the advise and assist brigade. COL Philip Battaglia, U.S. Army, and LT COL Curtis Taylor, U.S. Army; In security force assistance operations, the only real way to measure success is by the quality of...
An Army Outgunned: Physics Demands a New Basic Combat Weapon. Joseph P. Avery, Ph.D.; Army, Marine Corps, and special operations forces M16s fire NATO 5.56x45 millimeter rounds over a half-century old. The services should adopt a more robust...
Interagency reform: the congressional perspective. Congressman Geoff Davis, speech given at PNSR/ROA Luncheon, 8 May 2008; Congressman Davis explains why we need to reform the interagency process in regard to national security and what must be...
Tactical leader lessons learned in Afghanistan: operation enduring freedom VIII. Colonel William B. Ostlund, U.S. Army; During its 15 months in Afghanistan, the 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry Regiment, spent 90 percent of its time training...
Family and Future: Five Assignments for Future Leaders. U.S. Representative Ike Skelton; The ranking minority member of the House Armed Services Committee offers assignment advice to Command and General Staff College graduates.
Regional studies Africa's security issues through 2010. William Thom Threat kingdom. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Flynt, US Army Under new ownership -- it's Panama's Canal. Colonel William W. Mendel, US Army,...
This monograph examines the vital role that operational sustainment plays in the application of critical elements of operational art and operational design. The operational art and sustainment issues examined in this monograph are assessed using...
Sep-Oct 2004 Winning the War of the Flea: Lessons from Guerrilla Warfare. Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy, U.S. Army; America's enemies use guerrilla tactics to protract the war in Iraq and to erode America's...
The American primary tank in the Second World War was inferior to its German counterpart for all but the final months of the war. The U.S. tank evolved and demonstrated its superiority to the world in Operation DESERT STORM in 1991. This monograph...
Monograph examines the use of security barriers and delves into circumstances leading to the removal of security barriers. The purpose was to explore whether there existed specific conditions or criteria for removal of security barriers. Specific...
This paper provides a critical analysis and assessment of interagency-Department of Defense (DOD) support during combat operations, specifically stability operations during or post-conflict. The general reluctance of the Department of Defense to...
The Army conducts operations in complex environments with Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational (JIIM) partners. Doctrine provides several concepts designed to create and sustain effective partnerships. One of these concepts, the...
The purpose of this monograph is to analyze the employment of fires brigades (FiB) in the global war on terror and determine if fires brigades are being utilized fully and in their doctrinal role. The US Army developed FiBs to replace the previous...
The United States' (US) invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the subsequent removal of the Taliban regime are considered monumental successes. In the wake of this success remained the challenge of developing an Afghan National Army (ANA) in order to...
The current budgetary constraint on the Department of Defense only exacerbates the increasing concern over long term officer professional development in this era of persistent conflict. Looming budget shortfalls are forcing the Army to reduce...