From February 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Ted White served as the support operations officer for the 357th Corps Support Battalion, US Army Reserve, based in Tallil, Iraq. In this interview, he discusses...
Major Jon Baker served as commander of Charlie Company, 82nd Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) until roughly February 2002. Baker was stationed in Kandahar Airbase and...
Major Richard Feltzer, in this second of two interviews, discusses commanding Alpha Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment in Tikrit, Iraq, from September 2005 through October 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He talks about the...
Major Jeff Schrick deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003 as commander of G Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, XVIII Airborne Corps, out of Fort Polk, Louisiana. He deployed his unit on four days notice on 27 C-5s. They flew into...
Major James Tenpenny deployed to Afghanistan in April 2006 as aide-de-camp to the commanding general of all coalition forces in country, Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry. He spent most of his time circulating the battlefield with Eikenberry and...
Major Rich Garey deployed as the commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, 10th Mountain Division to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July 2003. He initially flew into Bagram and then moved his company to two...
Major Tim Kreuttner deployed to Iraq in March 2004 as the commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division in support of stability operations during OIF II. He concentrated his unit's training on...
In making a comparison of the British intelligence of the Egyptian expeditionary force in the Palestine campaign, under the command of Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby gives a staggered group of centers of collection to the rear. The study conveys a most...
This study proposes to show that it is the direct responsibility of the regimental commander, the battalion, and company commander to mold the qualities required of commanders and good leadership at an early stage of the junior officers career.
This paper discusses the impact of French and German artillery on the development of US Army artillery, both in materiel and its tactical importance to the infantry. Future progress in mobility and communications is covered.
This study outlines the influences that the outcome of the Vietnam War had on American foreign policy in another insurgency situation in the Republic of El Salvador during the formative years of that policy, 1979 to 1984. The presented concept...
This study traces the historical origins, evolution, and continuing influence of liberal and conservative political ideology on American Defense policy. The study concentrates on a comparison of the periods 1783-1800, the military debates of the...
The current NATO Special Operations Forces (SOF) capability is an ad hoc force which does not provide a synchronized, integrated Special Operations response capability to the alliance. There is no standing NATO SOF combat force or Command and...
This thesis studies the events that unfolded when three National Guard roundout brigades were activated for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The mobilization process for reserve component units is studied from the president’s decision to...
The German General Staff launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 assuming the eastern campaign would last only three months. However, within six months after the initiation of hostilities the Red Army blunted the Wehrmacht’s attack outside the...
Suicide terrorism is re-emerging as the dominant tactic in asymmetric warfare. Al Qaeda in association with affiliates in the greater Salafi-jihadi movement conduct suicide terror or martyrdom campaigns against strategic and operational targets....
In 1997 the last separate divisional tank battalion was deactivated, leaving no habitually assigned tank battalion or company to any of the Army's light forces. The Army's interim fix has been to assign an Immediate Reaction Company from anyone of...
This study focuses on how commitment among army officers, having between five and fifteen years of commissioned service, may be impacted as a consequence of the army's current drawdown. It was hypothesized that officer commitment would decline as a...
This study addresses the role of senior leaders as mentors in the Army's leader development process. Principally, this study investigated the proper role of senior leader mentoring as a viable component of the Army's leader development doctrine. It...
This study investigates Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard's command and control of Idaho's Nez Perce War of 1877. The Nez Perce War of 1877 aroused a wide range of emotions in the public and military. While most Easterners labeled the army as...