Over the last decade the importance of Naval Coastal Warfare (NCW) to the United States Navy as a viable asset in the war on terror and conflicts in the Middle East is on the rise. Because the Navy’s focus during the decades between the Vietnam...
Lieutenant Commander Gregory Chapman served as the executive officer onboard the USS Ardent in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) during 2003 and 2004. Joining the ship in April 2003, after they had been operating in support of OIF for a...
Major Jose Martinez, a quartermaster officer, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the commander of the 202nd Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) of the 559thQuartermaster Battalion-the only active duty water purification...
This study examines a void in current peace operations doctrine--negotiating at the lower tactical level. Current United Nations and military doctrine presents a checklist for conducting meetings but neither explains the theory behind negotiating...
This monograph analyzes the Iran-Iraq War to determine the role of society--the government, the people, and the army--in forming a state's strategy and action in war. It applies the writings of two classical theorists--Clausewitz and Delbruck--to...
Major Jose Martinez, a quartermaster officer, deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the commander of the 202nd Quartermaster Detachment (Water Purification) of the 559thQuartermaster Battalion-the only active duty water purification...
In December 2001, Major Douglas Smith, an Active Guard Reserve soldier, was mobilized along with the 160th Military Police Battalion - an enemy prisoner of war/civilian internee unit - for service in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Over roughly the...
The United States is committed to on-going involvement with Iraq to rebuild the country. Marines, who deploy to Iraq or are involved with Iraqis, need a basic knowledge of the country, its culture, history and present-day state of affairs. This...
Information is all the world, and all the world is information. Every military action or inaction is based on information. Military transformation and modernization programs are focused on leveraging information as a battle-winning capability. The...
This qualitative thesis examines the Coast Guard's historic participation in special operations and a potential national requirement for designated Coast Guard special operations forces. Some observers have rejected the label, “Global War on...
This monograph is an assessment of the performance of the Iraqi Army in selected major operations from 1941 to 1988. Focused primarily at the operational level, this study first describes the Iraqi Army's performance in an abbreviated 1941 conflict...
This monograph analyzes the Iran-Iraq War from its inception in September of 1980 through the Iranian Faw Counteroffensive of February 1986. It uses the precepts of operational art to examine the performance of the belligerents in this prolonged...
The transition is one of the most important, but most overlooked, parts of any campaign. The United States concluded Operation New Dawn in December 2011. The U.S. is also converging towards Operation Enduring Freedom's conclusion in 2014. In both...
The Coalition's success in Iraq will be defined by how well it balances the strategy of Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO) against the realistic requirements for post-conflict reconstruction operations. There are many questions posed about how the...
The relationship of events in time is the essence of history. Chronology: 1941-1945 establishes the sequence of events from the time the first bombs on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 until the instrument of surrender was signed aboard the USS...
A veteran of two deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Geoff Van Epps, in this two-part interview, discusses each of them, beginning with his July to December 2002 tour as part of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan,...
A veteran of two deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Geoff Van Epps, in this two-part interview, discusses each of them, beginning with his July to December 2002 tour as part of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan,...
From March through August 2003 as part of the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) - and member of the first DCMA team to enter Iraq - Lieutenant Commander Colin O'Brien served as the administrative contracting officer on several task orders...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Scott Pierce, US Marine Corps, discusses his continuing role as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, this time during and immediately following...
This interview with United States Air Force (USAF) Security Police Major Jason Beers covers his deployment as commander of a 240-person base security unit - the 586th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron - located near Um Qasr at Camp Bucca in...