The purpose of this monograph is to offer some practical solutions to building unity of effort between Special Operations Forces (SOF) and conventional forces using operations in Afghanistan from 2001 until 2009 as a case study. In researching U.S....
The driving concept behind this monograph is the thesis that not only does the military conduct diplomacy, but military diplomacy, at the combatant command level, provides a theater strategic capability essential to the effective implementation of...
The United Kingdom’s Joint Warfare Publication on Peace Support Operations stresses the need for effective liaison in order to prevent misunderstanding, friction, opposition and escalation of the conflict. Beyond this doctrinal support, little...
Based in Kabul, Afghanistan, and serving as a liaison officer to the Multi-National Brigade, Major Barry Wiltcher was tasked with providing the lash ups between ground forces and U.S. Central Command, to "ensure their missions were nested within...
The United States Army has a long history of advising foreign security forces with its general purpose force, despite a perception that its special force is the primary force with which it undertakes advisory efforts. Ad hoc selection and...
This thesis is a historical study to determine the effect General Order Number 1 and the Force Protection Measures had on Task Force Eagle operations during the deployment of the NATO Implementation Force between December 1995 and November 1996. ...
This study examines how U.S. light infantry battalions transition from warfighting to operations other than war. Within the last several decades, U.S. forces have been actively involved in missions ranging from combat operations to operations other...
As a young Soldier and newlywed, leaving the only home I had known for five years, Fort Bragg for Fulda, Germany. I soon learned that I had far more to learn about the military and myself, than I thought possible. The military overseas is designed...
The challenge facing Army leadership today is to instill rock solid ethics that can withstand the laissez faire approach that society teaches our youth.
In the early spring of 2007 our battalion, the 142nd Military Intelligence Battalion (LING), was busily preparing for a two-week long brigade exercise that we were hosting. We had been hearing some rumblings of a possible deployment to Iraq and...
This paper describes my personal experience and observations as a junior and senior Special Forces Engineer Sergeant during two deployments supporting Operation Provide Comfort II in northern Iraq from 1992 to1993. Although this paper is written 16...
This paper explores the relationship between the Egyptian military and U.S. security assistance forces, and examines long term U.S. interests in Egypt. The author proposes a novel course of action, "active inaction," as a method of addressing the...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
In this second of two interviews, Major Scott Riley talks about being the liaison officer between the 10th Special Forces Group and Task Force 121.1, later Task Force 626, at the Radwaniyah Palace Complex in Baghdad through 2005 in support of...
History illustrates that without unity of command and a mechanism to enable unity of effort, achieving strategic and regional objectives is rare. AFRICOM, a newly established Combatant Command, faces innumerable challenges within the continent of...
Through its security assistance mission in Afghanistan, NATO is reinforcing member countries` collective security at home and providing Afghanistan the chance to build a secure and promising future for its people. The international approach must be...