If the Department of Defense (DOD) better understands what legitimacy is, how strategic communication affects it, and how a prolonged counter-insurgency affects the legitimacy of specific Afghan and US institutions, we will be better prepared to...
In the modern global security environment, the United States Army faces a different adversary that presents wholly different challenges to the Army’s intelligence effort. No longer facing a traditional, conventional enemy as its predominant...
This study articulates the general hypothesis which states that the Soviet negotiating position in post 1962 arms control negotiations is affected to a measurable degree by factors which are normally considered to be external to the military or...
This paper examines a proposal to create M113 Armored Personnel Carrier support units (vehicles, drivers, and service support) to provide protected tactical mobility augmentation for light infantry forces. Light infantry divisions are a crucial...
The Vietnam War and Operation Allied Force are two examples of coercive strategy characterized by gradual escalation of violence. They both involved significant discord between policymakers and the military leaders called upon to execute the...
Bias caused by organizational culture is a constant companion of military planning. Cognitive models dominated by Newtonian, mechanistic, and reductionist thinking, have all but entrenched bias at the operational level of war where contextual, or...
This study focuses on how commitment among army officers, having between five and fifteen years of commissioned service, may be impacted as a consequence of the army's current drawdown. It was hypothesized that officer commitment would decline as a...
Chaos theory is a poorly understood concept in social science and in military analytical decision making systems. Military decision makers require a multidisciplinary approach of mathematical analysis, modeling and simulation, topology, and...
The U.S. Army's first Future Combat System (FCS) equipped Brigade Combat Team (BCT) becomes fully operational in 2015. Concern for the possibility of combined arms capability gaps between planned FCS capacities and those required to defeat the...
This study is on Religious-Based Violence and National Security in Nigeria: Nigeria is a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society with enormous potential for economic, social, and democratic development. However, intense conflicts and violence that...
The realist paradigm is the USG's dominate perspective for conflict analysis. Historically, this perspective has served the United States well, leading to its ascension from colonial possession to global hegemon in less than two centuries. There is...
In 1994 the Australian Army purchased 347 Bushmaster Infantry Mobility Vehicles (IMV) in a bid to develop a Motorized Infantry Capability. The IMV, a four wheeled armored vehicle, was designed and developed to provide organic protected mobility to...
This paper is an academic examination of the need for the formation of a multinational Regional Security System (RSS) Coast Guard Unit. It concludes that among RSS operational level maritime forces leaders, there is a common perception that the...
Over the past decade the study of resilience in humans has increased in multiple fields. During the 1970s, resilience was viewed as a trait that one was born with, but over the years this idea has decreased in popularity and resilience is now...
This monograph examines the new logistics concepts proposed by the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) to support brigade size and smaller maneuver units. It focuses the analysis on the changes proposed for the support platoons of...
This monograph discusses the evolution of U.S. Army doctrine with respect to the organization of the Bradley-equipped mechanized infantry battalion. General William DePuy's powerful vision, as captured in the 1976 version of FM 100-5, Operations,...
Throughout the past 15 years, both the Western allies and the Russians have entered into a series of military engagements that have in one way or another spectacularly failed to achieve the results intended, namely a decisive military victory which...
Operational level commanders and their staffs require relevant and current joint doctrine that articulates the critical function of operational design and its role in the Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP). Since operational design is the...
This monograph examines the theoretical linkages between Clausewitz's trinity and the spectrum of conflict, the effect of change on the interpretation of each, and the resultant impact on the concept of operational art. It identifies the common...