Transformation is the buzzword of the new millennium for the United States military complex. The future of the Department of Defense and the individual armed services are now at stake, whether current transformational efforts stem from internal...
This monograph examines the question: Should the CAS distribution process, as practiced under the ATO system be modified to task organize distributed USAF assets into the corps organization for a definite period of time or task? It proposes a...
Corps engineer battalions have acquired more responsibility to provide support across the spectrum of conflict in the areas of mobility, countermobility, survivability, and general engineering. The various organizational designs of corps engineer...
Military writers believe that future warfare is about to undergo fundamental change. Due to extremely sophisticated intelligent weapons and the lack of economic resources, countries are moving away from mass conscripted draftee armies toward...
This paper is an academic examination of the need for the formation of a multinational Regional Security System (RSS) Coast Guard Unit. It concludes that among RSS operational level maritime forces leaders, there is a common perception that the...
This status report, which includes seven appendices, sets forth the planning assumptions, problems, and summarizes the studies and the progress which have been made regarding the problems of demobilization. Discussed are the following: status of...
The minutes of the Combined Chiefs' meeting at the major conferences touch on virtually every policy and strategy issue of World War II, from initial troop deployments to counter Axis aggression, through the debates about the location and timing of...
The diversity of future threats, the distances imposed upon a US based force, and declining fiscal and manpower resources, has forced an emphasis on rapidly deployable contingency forces. The Air Force, in light of this changing economic and...
This monograph examines the feasibility of utilizing the proposed Air Attack Division as an operational contingency force. In the future U.S. Army forces may have to rapidly respond to a variety of contingencies anywhere in the world. Currently the...
The US Army is currently attempting to modify its forces of today in order to provide a more relevant force to Commanders in Chief. The US Army Strike Force concept provided an opportunity to develop and test new ideas in providing a more rapidly...
In 2015, the USAF plans to start its first class of F-35A Initial Qualification Training (IQT) students immediately following their graduation from Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training (SUPT). This class will signify the beginning of F-35A...
This thesis examined the suitability of creating regionally and functionally aligned National Intelligence Centers to consolidate the foreign intelligence collection and analysis capabilities of America's intelligence community. It assessed the...
This monograph highlights the lack of a doctrinal course of action development process for creating campaign plans. Such a process is needed due to the inexperience of both senior leaden and middle-grade staff officers with the operational level of...
This monograph examines the adequacy of doctrinal decision-making procedures for the operational level of war. These doctrinal procedures are found in emerging joint doctrine. For these procedures to be adequate, they should: provide a rigorous...
This article is intended to show the results of the planning, transportation, action, and conclusions drawn from the Ryukyus Campaign. This is not intended as a record of events, or report, but rather as a general discussion of the 711th Tank...
This regulation prescribes procedures and responsibilities for publishing certain Department of the Army policies, practices and procedures in the FEDERAL REGISTER as required by statute, and for inviting public comment thereon, as appropriate....
The purpose of this monograph is to determine if the Army missed an opportunity to reduce a level of command as a part of Army Transformation. This monograph demonstrates that the Army failed to maximize Transformation and reduce a level of command...
This monograph answers the question: Is the term, decisive operations, as defined in the Final Draft of Field Manual (FM) 100-40, Tactics, consistent with Joint and U.S. Army doctrine? This monograph concludes that the definition for decisive...
Enclosed are first 38 pages of Report of the Us. Defense Advisory Committee on professional and technical compensation, Volume 1. (UC 74 A4 1957) This is known as the Cordiner Report. It is important in NCO history since the committee, in 1957,...