The history of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, is to a certain extent the history of the Santiago campaign. The detachment was organized on the spur of the moment, to utilize material which would otherwise have been useless, and was...
This annual report from the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office contains the following information: plans and policy; research and analysis (Southeast and Northeast Asia); Joint Commission support; operations and personnel recovery; outreach...
This study is about soldiers of the United States Army. Their dedication and selfless service not only puts them at physical risk but challenges their morality. Their willingness to participate and eagerness to learn gave energy to the class and...
United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
This is the first in a series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Committee) on the threat of homegrown terrorism inspired by violent Islamist extremism. The Committee...
Major Doug Hayes served on a military transition team (MiTT) as a maneuver advisor and the field artillery and effects advisor for 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2007 until March 2008. Hayes...
1LT Michael Johnson begins his interview with an explanation of how the Air Force operates weather terms within the Iraq Theater. He relates how the Air Force places weather terms within the Army Brigade Combat Teams and Divisions, as well as...
MAJ Christopher L'Heureux served with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) as assistant personnel officer (S1) and company commander in Baghdad, Iraq during 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010...
MAJ Phil Bergeron served as the assistant operations officer (S3) and task force fire support officer (FSO) with the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry at Kandahar Air Field (KAF), Afghanistan during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom...
A company commander in 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment from May 2001 to December 2002, Major Matt Tolle was stationed at Fort Irwin, California, where he was part of the opposing force (OPFOR) for units getting ready to deploy in...
In this interview, MAJ Paul Moreshead, US Army, Aviation; discusses his deployment to Iraq as the Deputy Brigade S3 in 2006 through 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Moreshead discusses a the role of an aviation assault...
Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the air and naval forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) recorded the day as “a date which will live in...
This study investigates the capabilities of the United States Government to collect and analyze economic intelligence for possible use by U.S. corporations. Focusing predominantly on the U.S. Intelligence Community it reviews the missions,...
This study seeks to answer the question: How effective were U.N. peacekeeping operations in the disputed areas of "Yugoslavia" in 1992? In doing so, the study embraces three themes. First, it explores the causes of the Yugoslav Conflict. Second, it...
In 1989 the Secretary of Defense directed that DoD would fully support the President's National Drug Strategy which identified the illegal trafficking of drugs as a matter of national security. To support that effort, the Army Counternarcotics Plan...
The problem undertaken in this thesis is to determine the Republic of Korea's (R.O.K.) most viable national defense strategy in the forthcoming decade in the absence or reduction of the American forces stationed in the R.O.K. Three international...
At the end of World War I, and upon the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the German Armed Forces had been drastically reduced by the Allies. The German Navy was stripped of its battleships, submarines, and aircraft. The effort to rebuild began...
This thesis describes an attempt to prove the hypothesis that a threat/opportunity matrix methodology can be used to effectively define targets against which an effort to satisfy long-range informational requirements may be attempted by the use of...
This thesis seeks to determine the proper role of public affairs and the variables which affect its participation in DOD policymaking. The research is descriptive. A search of the literature reveals that participation in policymaking is a proper...
The future of the United States Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) and the Army Corrections Program is under debate. One side argues that the USDB is archaic and too expensive to maintain. The other argues that the USDB is needed to provide the...