This monograph looks at the complexity, dynamic nature, and challenges associated with Command and Control ( C2) in Stability and Support Operations (SASO). Since its inception, the Army has been conducting SASO in both foreign and domestic...
Doctrine Center of Gravity Analysis. Colonel Dale C. Eikmeier, U.S. Army; Why are centers of gravity so difficult to identify or define? The Armed Forces have suffered from years of conflicting definitions. Not until 1997 did the services agree...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Stevenson Jr. discusses his November 2005 through August 2006 deployment to Afghanistan during which he served as chief of the Special...
This monograph examines interagency (IA) coordination in executing US foreign policy. The analysis demonstrates that the current IA apparatus is flawed. The system is plagued by lack of oversight and authority to compel compliance. Examining the...
The current inter-agency doctrinal tools to integrate the decision-sharing elements of battle command at the operational level for defense support to civil authority operations are inadequate under conditions of extremely degraded communications....
The Marine Corps should expect to fight within a strategic context of complex irregular warfare (CIW) for the near- to mid-term while retaining the ability to fight a major combat operation (MCO). As a result, the Distributed Operations...
There is a common view within the United States Army that Information Operations is a military doctrine designed to win a "battle of ideas" within human populations. This monograph refutes this understanding of Information Operations by tracing the...
The Army Intelligence Community (AIC) is fully engaged in the Army's Transformation process. However, the AIC's on-going transformation risks overlooking one critical, systemic shortfall - the perennial inability to provide sufficient intelligence...
Stilwell, Richard G.; Kinnes, Ralph; Mohl, John L.; Ugalde, Jesse G.
Examination concentrated on the employment of selected Army personnel or units in underdeveloped countries and in direct working contact with national military contingents to further the latter's effectiveness as the guarantor of internal security...
This study investigates the challenges of planning stability operations following major combat operations. Post-conflict stability operations are difficult to plan and execute if military commanders and campaign planners do not take a comprehensive...
Research conducted on the impacts of C3 force integration is reported. An introduction is provided into the numerous challenges facing the Army division level Signal officer in the 1990s. The challenges emerge from the consecutive modernization of...