This monograph explores both U.S. Army and Israeli Defense Force battalion level, battle staff doctrine within the framework of the battlefield operating systems. The principle research question is "what is the optimum battle staff organization to...
This monograph discusses the adequacy of U.S. Army leadership doctrine for preparing officers to lead on the future battlefield. Current leadership doctrine focuses on command climate, unit cohesion, and team building. While important, these areas...
This story involves a U.S. Army Special Forces, Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) deploying to southern Mindanao immediately following the 9/11tragady. Upon arrival to Zamboanga, intelligence personnel informed the detachment that the Abu-Shielf...
The United States has significantly increased the deployment of missile defense systems, specifically Patriot and Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (Aegis-BMD), to the Persian Gulf over the past six years. The increase from no missile defense assets...
This study is a historical analysis of two definitive periods of the conflict between Israel and Egypt - the War of Attrition between July 1967 and August 1970, and the period of "No Peace, No War" between August 1970 and 6 October 1973. The study...
Since the end of the Cold War there has been an increased willingness for countries to engage in coalition operations for peacekeeping, peace enforcement and resolving regional conflict. Coalition operations have increasingly become the primary...
My name is SGM Ray Charles Thornton. I have been in the military for 19 years and my MOS is 92A. I deployed to Iraq with 71st CSB, out of Bamberg, Germany as the S-3 NCOIC. This is my personnel experience while deployed to Q-West, Iraq.
In our Army...
This paper proposes a working theory of operational art as practiced in counterinsurgency war (i.e., modern war). The underlying hypothesis of the paper is that operational art in modern war uses different logic than that used in conventional war....
This monograph offers a way of thinking about counterinsurgency tactics. There are five salient propositions that bind the paper. First, tactical success in a Phase II insurgency (such is the nature of the Salvadoran insurgency) is defined as the...
African-American Soldiers have remained vigilant and on-point since receiving the right to serve. From the Buffalo Soldiers to the Tuskegee Airmen African-American Soldiers have served their country served in many wars and conflicts with pride....
Both the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies have placed a great emphasis on Armored and Mechanized formations as the key to winning a major conflict on a modern battlefield. It is a well recognized fact that the Soviet...
In their 225 year history the United States Army’s Non-commissioned Officer (NCO) Corp have established themselves as technical experts, small unit leaders, trainers and the guardians of Army standards. It is hard to draw a comparison between the...
From the Korean War to the most recent deployment to Haiti, each time the U.S. Army has begun an operation, the operational logistics organization has been pieced together adhoc. In the force projection, U.S Army, division support commands (DISCOM)...
Nearly every armor force in the world has fielded, is fielding, or is designing a 3-man tank. This paper deliberately steps away from the purely technical argument associated with this effort. It seeks to find out if the United States Army is...
Research Question: how will U.S. national security policy be affected by terrorist exploitation of the Internet and related information technologies? Information operations are nothing new; they have been used in military operations throughout the...
This thesis is about contemporary Romania and its adherence to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The object of research and analysis is to determine the extent to which Romania, as a NATO member, constitutes a reliable military ally...
Increasingly, since the end of Desert Storm, the Army National Guard (ARNG) has conducted more overseas missions with fewer resources. In operations since the events of 9/11, mobilizations are at their highest levels since World War II. The ARNG...
This monograph examines whether or not the United States Armed Forces should be unified in order to ensure jointness. Unlike the unification compromise of 1947, this proposal eliminates the separateness of the services. The impetus for developing...
Tactics used in combat are methods to allow a country to engage and defeat the enemy in battle, whether it is another country or surrounding states and cities. There have been many forms of tactics in wars and battles. A leader must decide the...