In this paper, the author analyzes the counterinsurgency techniques the British used in the Malayan Emergency operations and compares them with the United States (U.S.) operations in Afghanistan, which, he maintains, will lead to successful U.S....
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...
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...
In this first of three interviews, Chaplain (Major) Merrell D. Knight Jr. talks about his experiences as the chaplain for 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Afghanistan from July 2002 to February 2003 in support of Operation...
Captain Paul Toolan served as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group while deployed to Afghanistan in 2005. In this interview, he discusses at length four different battles fought by Special Forces (SF) in the...
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Baker of the 82nd Airborne Division spent the first three months of his May to December 2002 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom based in Kandahar, Afghanistan as the Task Force Panther engineer; and then...
During the July 2005 battle of Siah Chow - an intense, daylong, small-unit fight waged by elements of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group against Taliban forces in Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province - Major Chris Hensley served as the Bravo Company...
As a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and commander of ODA 324, Major Chris Wells played a lead role in the July 2005 battle of Siah Chow, fought in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province. Having its genesis in the suspected...
In this first of a two-part interview covering his 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Jason Shelton talks about being a team leader from the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion and working in Uruzgan Province...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
From August 2004 through March 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Steve Petzold served as a team leader with Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion – his second deployment to Afghanistan. In this interview, he discusses his...
In July 2005, in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, Sergeant First Class Donald Grambusch - a member of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, specifically ODA 324 - was involved in an intense, daylong fight against enemy forces in an area known as...