From Desert Storm to Operation Joint Endeavor to Operation Allied Force, the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar Systems (JSTARS) mission has evolved and expanded following each contingency it was called upon to support. As these supplementary...
This thesis examines the warfighting capabilities of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). Joint STARS effectiveness in DESERT STORM is examined as a case study. Additionally, an analysis of Joint STARS against the...
This manual is published to serve as a reference and guide for the survey computer in accomplishing geodetic and topographic survey computations; to standardize the methods and procedures for completing these computations; to standardize tabulation...
United States Antiaircraft Artillery School (Camp Davis, N.C.)
"The purpose of this publication is to outline methods of land navigation and artillery orientation that will be applicable in any hemisphere, that will permit the determination of direction with more precision than may be expected by means of a...
Communicating official messages to soldiers within the United States Army is an endeavor that leaders at every level have conducted since the inception of the organization. Army doctrine links communication to leadership via the terminological...
This analysis examines the validity of using miniature wargaming to study the American Civil War. The analysis specifically examines the miniature wargame rules, STARS*N*BARS III. The goal is to determine whether Civil War combat can be accurately...
Focus is placed on the importance of morale, that it is a function of command (even a weapon of war), and that every officer who commands men must be responsible for the well-being (mental, spiritual, and physical) of his men. Music, soldier shows,...
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...
The United States Army continues to execute counterinsurgency operations in support of the Global War on Terror in Afghanistan. However, inculcating a counterinsurgency ethos into the Army continues to be a challenge. The Army’s reward system,...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
This regulation prescribes policies, responsibilities, and procedures for providing threat support to the Army's force, combat, materiel, and training development processes. It provides guidance on the purpose, content, and focus of threat...
Through the study of past military experiences, especially the examination of common lessons from differing conflicts, implications for future warfare can be revealed. Common counterland lessons from three major US conflicts are the focus of this...
The Sergeant Major of the Army serves as the Army Chief of Staff’s personal adviser on all enlisted-related matters, particularly in areas affecting Soldier training and quality of life. The Sergeant Major of The Army devotes the majority of his...
A study of General Walton H. Walker's career offers a lens through which to view the evolution of Army training doctrine, revealing its strengths and weaknesses over a period of nearly four decades. However, an understanding of the skills necessary...
Not all history should be about the guys people want to emulate. Andy Rooney, a World
War II Public Affairs NCO, has called Soldiers fighting in OIF "economic victims." Andy Rooney is known to millions for his witty television essays, "A Few...
Office of the Chief of Staff, General Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, General Staff: First Section
The manual is a guide of supplies and equipment for the separate organization commanders of an infantry regiment and divided into two sections. First section is mobile equipment to be carried by the individual soldier, second section is the trench...