This study examines how the American army trained and developed its company-level leaders during the First World War. It highlights the prewar army’s concepts of leadership and explains the limitations of the army’s system for selecting and...
ABSTRACT-This is a paper concerning the federal activation of the 2-162 IN battalion out of Oregon, their mobilization experience, deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, the redeployment back to Conus and Oregon, and the...
A reprint of the second edition ( of History of Fort Leavenworth) brought up to date by Walter E. Lorence. The original covered the first 110 years of Fort Leavenworth's history and provided a chronology of events that covered the Westward...
The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E.O. 11652,...
Turkish Culture had a profound influence on the conduct of its counter-insurgency campaign against the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). The independent variables shaping Turkey’s response to the insurgency were a unique brand of nationalism,...
This study addresses the question that, even though such items as strength, ammunition, rations, transportation, equipment, etc., can easily be charted from reports and war diaries, how can the factors that are so essential to true combat strength,...
The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's...
Techniques used to gather actionable intelligence to achieve mission success were used
during the Spanish American war and the Philippine Insurrection. Until a recent
executive order signed by President Obama banning water boarding and...
Military operations are complex and chaotic phenomena. Current theoretical models inadequately deal with the increasing complexity and inherent uncertainty of modern warfare. Relying on mechanistic paradigms and reductionist methods of analysis,...
In a surprise move during the summer of 1955 the Secretary of the Navy selected Rear Admiral Arleigh Burke over 92 more senior admirals to become the Navy’s next Chief of Naval Operations. The junior admiral went on to serve an unprecedented...
The Global War on Terror brought about several military assistance efforts that include the training and development of foreign security forces. The United States has been providing advisors to foreign security forces around the world for over 120...
Several recent targeting studies have fundamentally shaken the Air Force to its core by challenging the service's ability to employ precision munitions. The erosion of the targeting skill sets occurred gradually. Protracted low-intensity conflict...
In recent years some theorists have asserted that because of the limitations of ground maneuver, the lethality of the modern battlefield, and the pace of technological change there is a need to replace current conventional warfighting concepts with...
This paper covers the mutiny of Company I and is a micro-history of events which took place during the Russian intervention. The mutiny is a little known event in the history of a relatively little unknown expedition launched in the closing months...
Choudhri, Israr A.; Purnell, Kristine A.; Robertson, Steven R.; Shimbeza, Simon; Isler, Michael P.
Thesis Statement: American policies in Afghanistan led to the tragic events that took place in the United States on the morning of September 11, 2001. Discussion: In its Cold War struggle against Stalinism, the United States organized a civil war...
This study strives to determine the most effective way to organize and train a military force at the brigade level and below to build peace during contested peace operations. The thesis investigates three organizational models for military forces....
The intervention in Russia in 1918 was a momentous decision in American military and diplomatic history. In the chaotic months between January and July 1918, Wilson developed and implemented America’s foreign policy toward the Russian revolution....
On 7 December 1941, the US Navy had 343 warships in commission; however, a “second” fleet, consisting of 344 warships, was in various stages of construction in shipyards across the country. Given that building a warship could take anywhere from...
Not all history should be about the guys people want to emulate. Andy Rooney, a World
War II Public Affairs NCO, has called Soldiers fighting in OIF "economic victims." Andy Rooney is known to millions for his witty television essays, "A Few...