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...
This thesis describes an attempt to prove the hypothesis that a threat/opportunity matrix methodology can be used to effectively define targets against which an effort to satisfy long-range informational requirements may be attempted by the use of...
"My first experience with the Global War on Terrorism," said Major Joseph T. Irwin Jr., "was September 11, 2001. I was at Fort Meade, Maryland, with the 5th Brigade, 78th Division (Training Support) and our mission was to provide military support...
A historical analysis of the 2006 Lebanon War discussing Israeli and Hezbollah doctrine, operational and tactical problems surrounding Israeli use of effects-based operations and systemic operational design, dependence on air power, and the...
A new environment, a new paradigm faces United States policy and decision makers. The bipolar world of superpower control and confrontation has been replaced with an unipolar world lead by the United States. A rapid evolution is occurring. A...
A special tactics (ST) project officer for the Joint Special Operations Air Component during two separate deployments in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, US Air Force Major Jerry Kung, in this interview, discusses the purpose and organization...
A veteran of two deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism, Major Geoff Van Epps, in this two-part interview, discusses each of them, beginning with his July to December 2002 tour as part of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan,...
Abstract: In 1961, the government of South Vietnam (GVN) along with several United States advisors and Sir Robert Thompson, (who was personally engaged with the successful Malayan relocation), began modifying the Agroville Plan into what was known...
Advances in technology and evolution of doctrine provide grounds to review commonly-held assumptions about the level at which combined arms warfare begins. This thesis examines the platoon equipped with the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle to...
Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) is the Army’s transformational model for manning, equipping, training, and deploying both Active Component (AC) and Reserve Component (RC) forces. Under this modular force concept, the Army National Guard (ARNG)...
As Adolf Hitler conquered most of the European continent in 1939-1941, the small island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea became vital to future operations in the Mediterranean region for both the Axis and Allied powers. If the Allies controlled...
As an enabler to the most dominant land force in the world, engineers allow maneuver forces to close with and destroy the enemy. The concept of assured mobility uses a framework to increase situational understanding and results in a greater freedom...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Major Mark Fisher discusses serving on a military transition team in Ramadi, Iraq throughout 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
As the Afghan Regional Security Integration Command-West (ARSIC-W) CSM in 2008, I would best describe the Italian commanded Western Afghanistan as a chicken wire canoe. Built quickly and on the cheap, even though it may have slightly resemble a...
As the Headquarters Service Company First Sergeant of 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), I was responsible for the out-processing, palletization, and departure of over 300 assigned and attached personnel. A thorough out-processing...
Beginning in June 2007, Major Stephen Rhudy served as a military transition team (MiTT) chief tasked to coach, teach and mentor an almost all-Kurdish Iraqi Army battalion. In this interview, he discusses the disappointing predeployment training his...
Coalition warfare has been, and will continue to be, a matter of course for the U.S. military. Developing and maintaining coalitions of politically and militarily diverse members is, at its most elemental level, a matter of human relationships--the...
Colonel Bruce Grant was the deputy commander of a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Iraq from December 2005 through September 2006. Retired when Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced, Grant "felt a sense of duty" to return to active service and...