This monograph discusses the current need for platoon forward observers in M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle equipped mechanized infantry battalions. Changes in maneuver and artillery doctrine, emerging. technology, and a shrinking force structure have...
The Korean War is a distant memory in our lives, and the lives of the American people to follow. For many veterans that fought, struggled, and tasted their blood and the blood of a fallen comrade, it lives on forever. Today they live among us as...
My personnel experience paper is written about my experience while deployed for OIF 28 Feb 07 – 28 Aug 07. I was deployed as part of a 4 man Military Transition Team (MiTT). The first part of my paper will discuss the events leading up to my...
This study investigates unit cohesion as it relates to neuropsychiatric casualties in the 43rd Infantry Division in World War II. The 43rd was a National Guard Division federalized in 1941 and sent to the South Pacific, where it sustained over 15...
This book contains stories from field and general officers commanding in training exercises, most from rotations at the National Training Center. In their stories, they describe their thoughts, their actions, their successes and especially their...
Actionable military intelligence gained at the expense of local populace trust using torture is a
short term solution that results in inconsistent actionable intelligence and long term strategic
mission failure. Torture is a desperate act to...
Operation Desert Storm was fought with an immature counter-TBM weapons system, without joint or service AMD doctrine, and without the benefit of joint training. Twelve years later Army AMD forces took to the battlefield once again as part of a...
Threats to peace, violations of security and challenges to world order, which led to the creation of the United Nations (UN) in 1945 will continue. States and state-like entities will continue to approach the UN with their grievances. The...
This research sought to determine the degree to John P. Kotter's 1996 model of Leading Change for transforming businesses could be applied to the Army's current Transformation initiative. The research used three historical examples--Ridgway's...
Considered the first documented commitment of a Western-style army facing a nation-wide insurgency, the Peninsular War deserves a critical examination of French pacification methods. In spite of a severe defeat, the Grande Armee achieved success...
Described in detail from files taken from the House of Representatives in Congress, Major General St. Clair's narrative about the campaign against the Indians in 1791.
I will cover in my ethics paper area and assignments that I think the Sergeant Major of the Army should change. These are things that I experienced during my AC/RC tour while stationed at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
This study investigates the need for casualty liaison teams at medical facilities to accomplish the mission of patient accounting during operations operations in view of the fielding of Standard Installation Division Personnel Accounting System...
Throughout history, particularly in the 20th century, military intelligence, or lack of it, has had a direct impact on the successes and failures of campaigns. No where is this more evident than in the first engagements of unit-size operations at...