Information operations: from good to great. BG Ralph O. Baker, U.S. Army; Army must ensure it executes information operations with the same degree of rigor and discipline that it employs in kinetic operations.
The Infantry Squad: Decisive Force Now and in the Future. Major General Robert B. Brown, U.S. Army; The U.S. Army dismounted infantry maneuver squad is today's most decisive force on the battlefield, yet it lacks access to capabilities it needs to...
A special edition of the Combined Arms Center research and publication index (January-December 2005) which contains information on the availability of research products and how to acquire them. Most of the research products listed in this index are...
Surrendering the Initiative?: C2 on the Digitized Battlefield. Captain Jim Dunivan, U.S. Army; On the battlefield leaders make decisions in the midst of great uncertainty, demonstrating adaptability, independence, and creativity as they plan...
Beyond guns and steel: reviving the nonmilitary: instruments of American power.Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates; The secretary of defense says the U.S. must develop a cadre of deployable civilians to strengthen the Nation's "soft" power in...
Transformation Vanguard Army vision. The Honorable Louis Caldera, Secretary of the Army, and General Eric K. Shinseki, US Army Chief of Staff Vanguard of the objective force. Colonel Michael Mehaffey, US Army IBCT at Fort Lewis. Major...
Sep-Oct 2004 Winning the War of the Flea: Lessons from Guerrilla Warfare. Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy, U.S. Army; America's enemies use guerrilla tactics to protract the war in Iraq and to erode America's...
Division XXI Redesign. Changing how we change. Major Jon J. Peterson, US Army Joint venture: both process and product. Colonel Albert F. Turner Jr., US Army ...
Peacekeeping lessons. Peace enforcement operations. Colonel Charles H. Swannack Jr., US Army, and Lieutenant Colonel David R. Gray, US Army Assessing force protection risk. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel...
Unleashing design: planning and the art of battle command. BRIG GEN (P) Edward C. Cardon, U.S. Army, and LT COL Steve Leonard, U.S. Army;With the publication of the most recent edition of Field Manual (FM) 5-0, The Operations Process, our doctrine...
On August 29, 2005, the category three Hurricane Katrina made landfall, and in less than 48 hours the scope of that natural disaster overwhelmed Gulf Coast state and local response capabilities. When the category four Hurricane Rita made landfall...