This paper examines the role played by sanctuaries as they relate to irregular warfare in two conflicts. The first case study looks at the United States' efforts to defeat the advantages gained by the Viet Cong (and later the North Vietnamese Army)...
This is a ready reference compilation of basic military assistance agreements. Countries include Belgium, Brazil, and Cambodia to Turkey, United Kingdom, and Uruguay, as well as a bibliography of selected international agreements.
Volume II of two volumes, this narrative begins July 30, 1805 on the Jefferson River in Montana and follows the expedition from the Three Forks of the Missouri to the headwaters of the Columbia, back down the Yellowstone River and on to St. Louis. ...
United States Army Combat Developments Command, Institute of Advanced Studies; Miller, Eugene H.; Hall, Charles S.; Miller, Jessie A.; Roberts, Harley M.
In November 1967, the United States Army Combat Developments Command published a classified study, "Countering Communist China, 1970-1980 (U)." The object of this study was to develop concepts that would make it possible for the United States to...
This staff study addresses the problem of determining how the civil affairs responsibilities of U.S. military advisors are affected by the introduction of large numbers of U.S. or Allied forces to conduct military operations.
This text is designed to provide a working knowledge of command and staff functions up to and including the division level. Its purpose is to train intelligence officers in staff procedure in order that they may be better fitted to accomplish the...
This study is a comparative review of the sufficiency of combined arms instruction in officer basic and advanced courses in all TRADOC schools. Includes a complete verified list of combined arms subjects, and an analysis of sufficiency levels...
This paper provides information on the Russian military leadership of General Kuropatkin and General Zasulich during the Russo-Japanese War. There are short biographies on both generals and information about directives given (orders for the...
The United States and Iran have been in conflict since the Iranian Revolution. Iran is seeking to increase its power in the Middle East while America is seeking to maintain its own power in the region while simultaneously containing Iran’s...
As the United States transitions towards a national military strategy based on power projection instead of forward deployed armed forces, contingency forces and their capabilities will become increasingly more important. A key capability required...
This study investigates the role of the Unified Command Plan in Subsaharan Africa. The United States' intervention in Somalia increased public awareness of Subsaharan Africa's problems and that region's potential for future deployments of military...
This study examines the influence of ground forces on the conduct and outcome of the Desert Storm air operations. This influence took three distinct forms. First, Coalition ground forces were instrumental in fixing the Iraqis in static positions in...
This study traces the evolution of Army training management doctrine from 1945 to 1988. It explores the changes that have taken place in the doctrine by examining the purpose of training, key training concepts, the training management process, and...
This study analyzes the Peruvian Maoist Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) movement to discover an explanation for its survival and growth in power. The nature of the insurgency, to include the movement's goals, forms of warfare, ideology, strategy,...
This study explains the recent evolution of U.S. Army doctrine. During the last two decades, the Army revised its capstone manual -- FM 100-5, Operations -- three times: in 1976, 1982, and 1986. A fourth revision is underway in 1991. This thesis...
This study concludes that the Air Attack Team Regiment (AATR), as a part of the corps aviation brigade, is the option that provides the Army with the best utilization of the A-10. The AATR combines the two main elements of a highly successful...
This study is a historical analysis of variables that affected Guatemalan decision makers concerning their relations with the United States, during the period 1970 to 1985. Each variable is examined, based on the current body of literature, to...
The courses of instruction presented at the Command and General Staff School during World War II have generally been dismissed as expedients, whose purpose was the production of large quantities of graduates to staff an expanding wartime Army. A...
Advancements in Science, technology, and industrialization during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had a subtle and almost undetected impact on the conduct of warfare. The increased lethality of weapons systems, the more efficient...