This project examines the military ramifications of the emerging revolution in military affairs and the changing strategic environment. Assessing two strategic approaches, Joint Vision 2010 (evolutionary force design) and a rising advocacy of...
This study investigates the use of contractors to perform aviation maintenance on U.S. Army helicopters. It traces the development of the concept of privatization and the evolution of this process to the point where, currently, many duties formerly...
This thesis investigates the significance, theory and practice of tactical signal security (SIGSEC) during the Ardennes Offensive of 1944-1945. The work includes a brief introduction to the offensive and to the history of SIGSEC, and examines how...
This thesis investigates the history of the Confederate Army of Tennessee from formation under command of Braxton Bragg through the eve of the battle of Chickamauga. The specific question to be answered is whether the Army of Tennessee had...
This study addresses the viability of large scale amphibious operations within the context of the missions required of amphibious forces in today's threat environment. In the past, massive fleets carrying tens of thousands of troops characterized...
The debate over the service of black Americans in the U.S. Army centered around three questions: Could they serve? Would they be allowed to serve? And, if allowed, in what capacity would they serve? This is similar to modern debates about the...
This thesis examines the intent of Iran's sea power strategy, and discovers that it is a definitive component of a coherent national security strategy of strategic deterrence designed to protect its strategic center of gravity--its oil....
This study investigates the barriers to adopting commercial products relating to aircraft avionics with the Department of Defense after the passage of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) of 1994. There has been a strong emphasis from...
This study investigates the United States Army Infantry training during the Korean War (1950- 1953). It surveys the United States Army training doctrine (before and during the war and current), training memorandums, bulletins, periodicals, observer...
The Army needs educated and trained force managers who can effect change and can integrate into the numerous force management processes. The problem is that as Army officers are selected into the force management functional area, they are sent to...
This study investigates the current division level Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) information architecture and its ability to support Army divisions in the twenty-first century. Current developmental efforts are...
This study documents the roots of the Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1866 and again in 1931-1940. The study's focus is on the mission of Fort Leavenworth and its relationship of the Buffalo Soldiers, garrison life for the Buffalo...
This study investigates the effectiveness of the Army system for preserving unit heritage. Heritage is valuable to units and the Army, and given the cyclical nature of the size and organizational structure, the Army requires an effective...
This paper discusses Army requirements for deep operations and the TACAIR problems associated with and the systems available to support deep operations. The monograph first examines Army manuals from battalion through corps level to identify the...
A history of Fort Leavenworth Kansas and the churches and schools on this U.S. Army reservation. The history encompasses Christian churches on the Army reservation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Surveyed and drawn by order of Col. J. A. Potter, Chief Quartermaster, Depot, Ft. Leavenworth. Map details area of lands east of river, west of river, and arsenal grounds. Scale is 1000 ft. to 1 inch.
The history of Fort Leavenworth is the history of our country. From its beginning in 1827, Fort leavenworth was involved in the onward development of the West. Troops stationed here escorted wagon trains, campaigned against the Indians, built...
A lecture delivered before the class of officers at the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Dec. 17, 1984. Discusses the history of using railroads to transport troops and supplies, advantages and disadvantages of such...
A history of the Army Service Schools at Fort Leavenworth, now called the Command and General Staff College. This history was compiled from General Orders of the War Department, annual Reports of Commandants from 1881 to 1908 and other available...
Wagner, Arthur L.; Swift, Eben; Dickman, J. T.; Mills, A. L.
This book is not presented to the public as a treatise on strategy, but is intended solely for the use of the student officers at the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry School in connection with a course of lectures. Many features that would be required in...