This paper on neutral rights on the high seas and the origins of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War grew out of a much larger and continuing study of the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War. The rights and duties of both neutrals and...
The purpose of this monograph is to inquire whether or not the traditional explanation of poor peacetime training and unit readiness is adequate to account for U.S. Army defeats during the first month of the Korean War. General histories of the...
This document contains material whose purpose has been to record significant incidents and conditions, dates and statistics, and methods and opinions of those who were part of the Seventh Amphibious Force.
Major Mike Stephens served as a company commander and S3 with the 701st MSB in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from late 2004 until February 2006. They applied the lessons learned from their deployment to Turkey to their predeployment training...
The Army of Northern Virginia built its foundation on bedrock regiments like the 44th Georgia Infantry. It is the collective battlefield performance by regiments such as these that gave the Army of Northern Virginia a reputation that few armies...
From August through December 2002, and again from March through June 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Sholto Stephens of the New Zealand Army served as the intelligence officer (S2) for his country's special...
From January 2003 to January 2006, nearly 30,000 Soldiers deployed to Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom received their training from the 3rd Brigade 87th Division. The Soldiers tasked to accomplish this...
Major Mike Stephens served as a company commander with the 701st MSB in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through April 2003. Once Stephens assumed the company commander position, the company began convoying equipment to the barge...
When the North Korean 4th Division breached the Pusan Perimeter in the sector of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division on 6 August, it triggered an extensive series of counterattacks that lasted for the next two weeks. Those counterattacks and the...
In this interview, MAJ Tad Stephens, US Army, talks about his deployment to Iraq as an Individual Augmentee in June 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF). MAJ Stephens discusses his responsibilities during deployment and his perception...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under 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 and...
General Scales and his team wrote Certain Victory to provide both the public and the military a clear picture of the Army's role in the Gulf War. The breadth and speed of Desert Storm operations left many participants unaware of the larger context...
Martin van Creveld, a noted theorist, contends that the concept of operational art did not take off in the United States (US) until after the Vietnam War. Conversely, James Schneider, a prominent military theorist, asserts that operational art...
Hoffman Jr., John L.; Schumacher, James; Minnigan, Anthony; Fuentes, Edwin;
Thesis statement: Sam Houston's leadership and action led the Texas army to defeat the Mexican army at the battle of San Jacinto, 21 March, 1865. Discussion: During the early 1860's many colonists were drawn to Mexico to settle in the fertile lands...
This is a study of the actions of the senior Confederate commanders at the battle of Shiloh. The senior commander, General Albert Sidney Johnston and his second in command, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, did not come to a complete...
Since the inception of the u.s. Army Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center (JSOMTC), animal activists representing the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and other...