The first Battalion 184th Infantry was federally mobilized on the 16th of August 2004. Its Battalion Headquarters was located in Modesto, California. The rest of its rifle companies and FA attachments were located in the following California...
The proliferation of information technology within Department of Defense (DoD) has markedly improved the speed and reach of command and control capabilities. The ease of entry and global availability of network access makes automation linked...
Now more than ever every facet of society relies on the NII to facilitate critical information related activities. Entities around the world have not ignored this transformation and seek to steal, disrupt, and interdict the U.S.'s key information...
From May to September 2002, in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Shenk (then a major) served as a battalion operations officer with the 101st Aviation Regiment, an assault helicopter unit of Blackhawks and Chinooks....
In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini's indirect approach ignited existing socio-economic conditions during the Iranian Revolution to topple the Shah. A similar indirect approach using psychological operations to target audiences through key vulnerabilities...
The evolving U.S. stabilization, reconstruction and development doctrine displays the tenets necessary to stabilize a state following conflict; however, this doctrine remains insufficient for insuring long-term stability. To adequately guide...
In August 2002, the Special Forces Qualification Course was still operating on a peacetime footing. Graduation rates were low, attrition was high. The course was the same one that had been running for years with slight modifications. The Global War...
From shortly after its inception, Al Qa’ida has sought sanctuaries from which it could safely operate and provide support to Islamist groups around the world. It found one in Sudan from 1992 to 1996, in Afghanistan from the late 1980s to 2001,...
This monograph discusses planning for the post-conflict phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. More specifically, it examines whether a disparate focus on war-fighting operations during the planning and execution phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM is to...
This monograph examines the use of Foreign Internal Defense (FID) and Unconventional Warfare (UW) as the primary means of preventing global insurgency. The paper is broken into four sections. The History section gives a basic background of Special...
Many lessons from the Multinational Force and Observer (MFO) mission to the Sinai and the Multinational Force II (MNFII) mission to Lebanon are relevant for future U.S. peacekeeping operations in Israel and the Occupied Territories (OT). A final...
The 21st century security environment poses challenges to military paradigms that have existed for generations. Events around the world demonstrate how military forces are increasingly assisting in a variety of civil crises and national emergencies...
This monograph examines the integration of Information Operations (IO) during Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF). As a rule, most commanders considered IO ineffective because IO was unable to respond to the complex...
In an age predominated by states but rife with non-state actors, failing states, increasingly fluid boundaries, disenfranchised yet interconnected populations, and increasingly self-aware cultures, the United States must develop a foreign policy...
In September of 2001, 90% of America received most of their news on the terrorist attacks against the United States from television; a number that would hold steady at 89% throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In April of 2003 while the United...
This study traces the development of Japan's administrative program, analyses the salient aspects of Japanese military control, outlines the major governmental and economic problems which confront the civilian Burmese administration, and evaluates...
When Soldiers fight against an enemy who is not clearly recognizable, by lack of uniforms and unit organization, trying to identify the enemy becomes extremely difficult. Enemy combatants, and disgruntled local civilians, can easily blend in with...
A cavalry team chief with 4th Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support), Fort Stewart, Georgia, Major Brian Kerns conducted training and assisted the mobilization of National Guard units deploying to Afghanistan and, later, Iraq from April 2002...
In this interview, MAJ Terrance Buckeye, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a Headquarters Troop Commander in 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Buckeye discusses a typical day, compares his deployment...
This study deals with the historical evolution of the Muslim uprising in Mindanao and how the present Muslim secessionist groups; the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),...