Between the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Friedrich Engels functioned as a writer, analyst, and critic concerning military affairs. His most essential commentaries were published,...
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...
This paper presents a demonstration of the failure to appreciate the necessity of exhaustive logistical planning in peacetime preparation for war and of providing the means necessary to execute such plans, and to show the unsoundness of unbalanced...
This document was compiled under the direction of the editorial staff of the Review of Reviews. Topics include America's principles for world settlement, weapons of war, cost of war, Germany (industrial/political structure), the selective draft,...
This annual report from the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office contains the following information: plans and policy; research and analysis (Southeast and Northeast Asia); Joint Commission support; operations and personnel recovery; outreach...
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, did the 3 nnd Military Police (MP) Company lack the proper training or was the unauthorized treatment of detainees tolerated? The questions create implications, but who is the implicated; the jr. enlisted, jr....
This Ethics Thought paper is to provide my feelings and views on the Abu Ghriab Prison detainee abuse scandal. J will present the legal aspect of this ethical dilemma per the Geneva Convention and the Army. J will also present how the environment...
With the struggle in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the ongoing threat of terrorism
throughout the world, it is important to continually strive to gain timely, actionable intelligence.
We must continue to defend the interests of our nation and...
Contains a history of the origin and activation of the Interrogation Branch, Interrogation Centers, techniques of interrogation, selection of interrogees, process and interrogation reports, and equipment used.
U.S. Army direct and organizational level leaders faced challenges in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, which combined to create an environment permeated by ambiguity and replete with uncertainty. Although it may be impossible...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2011-01. Defining NATO's culture by the three categories of institutional, the status quo, and the future provides a framework for considering a strategy...
Since the seventeenth century, Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion have had tremendous impact on the Western world’s mind-sets for understanding nature as predictable and orderly. Consequently, Western strategic culture has been based on a linear...
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
The location is Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. General William T. Sherman outlines in his address the establishment of a school entirely different from that of West Point, with a purpose to extend to the officers of cavalry and infantry the same or...
Attached is a copy of a training manual found in May 2000 by British investigators in Manchester, England, while searching the apartment of suspected al Qaeda member Anas al-Liby, AKA Nazih al-Raghie. The Southern District of New York included this...
This treatise deals primarily with American artillery and includes such data, description, etc., as can be given in one volume of reasonable size and still cover the history of development, the design and manufacture of a modern great seacoast gun...
This thesis explores the strategy followed by the American military government in overcoming Moro resistance in the Philippines from 1903-1913. A chapter is devoted to the period of each of the three Military Governors of Moro Province, Generals...
Stewart, Roger D. ; Avila, Alex; Cattin, Tommie; Hokianga, Patrick; Smalls, James
Thesis Statement. Despite the best intentions of the
Geneva Conventions to instill humanitarian principles amongst nations
at war, the treaties had a minimal effect on the treatment of American
Prisoners of War during World War II (WW II), the...