FM 3-0 Operations: the Army's blueprint. General William S. Wallace, U.S. Army; TRADOC's commander introduces the newest version of FM 3-0, Operations, the Army's guide to operating in the 21st century.
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) is an increasingly complex and challenging aspect of maritime warfare. Technologically advanced countries such as Germany, Sweden, and France continue to develop advances in diesel submarine technology that make these...
This study discusses the infrastructure by contrasting the challenges faced by our national and military leaders in three crisis areas: NEEDS, FUNDING, and MANAGEMENT. NEED is the gap between current conditions and required/desired conditions....
Cause for hope: economic revitalization in Iraq. Paul Brinkley, Deputy under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation; An interagency initiative, the Task Force for Business and Stabilization Operations is helping to quell insurgent...
This paper argues that the development and implementation of a counter-insurgency strategy that fully integrates all elements of national power is critical to success in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The paper discusses the flaws in declaring...
TRANSCRIPT: General Petraeus on the way ahead in Iraq. General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army; "Hard but not hopeless": The new commander of Multi-National Forces-Iraq assesses the war and previews the way ahead.
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
Are the US Air Force and US Army envisioning, and thus preparing for, the same future of warfare? This paper analyzes this question through examination of the common canon of military theory shared by the services, leadership statements, funding...
The essence of Cuba's strategic assessment comprises two phenomena. One is the diffusion of political power. The ruling elite is finding it increasingly difficult to control events to the extent that they once did. Power is shifting downward, being...
The purpose of this monograph is to investigate the relationship and linkages between insurgencies and the illicit narcotics trade in general; to examine the specific root causes and influences on the drug trade and insurgencies in Colombia and...
Afghanistan looms as the key foreign policy challenge for the Obama administration. Under the previous Bush administration, foreign policy was driven primarily by security considerations, and Afghanistan was viewed a frontline state in the Global...
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has struggled to define a strategy for waging the Global War on Terrorism. From a military perspective, clearly the Bush administration wished to prosecute the war as a series of offensive campaigns,...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
Human intelligence (HUMINT), which is the oldest of the intelligence disciplines, has through the course of the twentieth century, been less emphasized by the U.S. Army relative to the technical disciplines of signals intelligence (SIGINT) and...
This regulation prescribes policies, procedures, and management responsibilities for furnishing, operating, maintaining, repairing, and improving representational quarters, that is, housing occupied by general and flag officers, civilians of...
The transformation of the United States Army to the concepts of the Objective Force brings to question many of the Army’s current operational policies and methods. One such area is the way in which the Army prepares for operations. Current unit...
Political and media pundits have labeled the current period of post Cold-War world order the Pax Americana, reminiscent of the Pax Romana that occurred from 27 BC- 180 AD, during the zenith of the Roman Empire. It is the view of many that since the...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...