This paper explores the impact that an army's structure has on its ability to process information and achieve victory on the battlefield. It discusses the following questions. What is information and how is it related to organizations? How does...
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. Office of the Chief Surgeon
This manual is for medical depot companies engaged in tactical operations. Includes the principles of supply operations and procedures involving receiving, recording, storing, and issuing medical supplies.
Security concerns over the growing capability of Cyber Warfare are in the forefront of national policy and security discussions. In order to enable a realistic discussion of the topic this thesis seeks to analyze demonstrated Cyber Warfare...
The drug war in Mexico is entering its fourth year as of 2011. The level of violence has spread throughout Mexico raising doubts as to Mexico's ability to win and assert its State authority. The violence in the Northern part of Mexico causes...
This monograph explores the concept of the Army as a storage vessel for national values, and the government's periodic use of this vessel as a tool in the peacetime protection of the Constitution. Most of the social mechanisms which shape the...
The Army is currently embarking on a major peacetime modernization program. As the drawdown comes to a close, the Army is about half its former size and is confronted with a far more complex strategic environment. Virtually any place the Army may...
On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda and affiliated jihadist organizations declared war on the United States. Since that day, the U.S. government has initiated a series of policies, legislation and actions to confront the new threat. Seven years into...
This paper explores some of the vulnerabilities that are present within terrorist organizations that the United States can exploit in order to deter, dismantle, dissuade, and defeat terrorist organizations. In addition, the paper will explore the...
Islamist violent extremists (VE) and violent extremist organizations (VEO) require a broad range of material, social, and financial support to organize, train, conduct operations, and sustain their ideologies and terrorist/insurgent endeavors....
Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri enticed tens of thousands of Muslims from around the world to travel to Afghanistan, swear allegiance to bin Laden and the cause of Al Qaeda, fight and even die for that cause. Bin Laden united faithful...
In the summer of 2003, the United States Army was ill prepared to wage an effective counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq. The lack of institutional readiness can be seen in many areas, but one of the most glaring was its utter lack of doctrine...
The late Roman Republic faced what looked unsolvable social problems and all attempts made by the politicians from all parties failed or made the situation even worse. Finally the crisis was so deep that the security and survival of the state was...
In 2003, the United States led a Coalition force into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein 's repressive Ba 19ath Party regime. Under the provisions of the Hague Regulation of 1907, the Coalition became an occupying power with all of the attendant rights...
Throughout history we can find multiple samples of successful / unsuccessful insurgency and
counterinsurgency campaigns. Two of the most studied are the Algerian War of Independence
(1954-1962) and The Vietnam Unification war (1954- 1975. Both of...
The U.S. Army is quite possibly one of the greatest armed forces in the world. Every man or woman is a volunteer who joins on his or her own free will. An elite cadre of Noncommissioned Officers transforms young recruits from normal citizens to...
Every day Americans face ethical dilemmas in our society. Our soldiers also face similar ethical problems in the United States Army. With that in mind, what is ethics? In accordance with Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, "ethics is the...
Since the first people brought a legal tender with some kind of value, society has had problems with corruption and bribes. In this paper I will describe corruption, which is in my opinion a very big ethical problem everywhere. The law of the...
The Army policy on improper superior-subordinate relationships has changed.
The current Army policy suggested that are ways to address violations of the regulation and examines the most recent law case in this area. There are various incidents that...