This study examines four potential courses of action for transforming the Combat Training Centers (CTCs) to provide adequate training for the Objective Force. The Combat Training Centers examined in this study (the National Training Center at Fort...
The objective of this study is to determine if the German "blitzkrieg" and Fall Gelb of 1940 were an expression of operational art. Despite the mythology surrounding Fall Gelb, the campaign does not constitute a major breakthrough in operational...
This training memorandum and digest of combat experience and battle lessons from the Sicilian campaign represents a summary of the major lessons from the land operations in the Sicilian campaign; it has value in the training of units and...
Presents the problem of underground facilities for storage in the Zone of the Interior and develops principles which should govern the development and use of such facilities in peace and war.
alternate command post. Study determines the tactical communications necessary for control of the division and analyzes communications resources available at selected headquarters.
This study assesses the utility of specialized units for Operations Other Than War (OOTW) as opposed to relying on conventionally trained Army units. The assessment is based upon three major sources. First, the thesis determines if there is...
The need for helicopter aeromedical research is examined from several aspects: (1) a historical review of aeromedical research from the beginning of flight to the establishment of an Army helicopter aeromedical research laboratory in 1962; (2) the...
Current Army doctrine lacks a security metrics paradigm similar to the infrastructure paradigm SWEAT-MSO. Because of this, commanders, staff, subordinates, other government leaders, and the media lack a simple and common set of terms to use when...
There is no shortage of people who disagree with the current state of world affairs and who are prepared to use violence to change them. Are they mindless fanatics, doomed to fail? Or do they have a clever and covert plan with reasonable chance of...
This thesis examines the Iowa class battleships and whether they hold utility for the future. There is a myriad of writings concerning the history of the battleships and the arguments both for and against. The author uses this history to determine...
United States armed forces have historically fought alongside allied forces, and are currently engaged in several multinational operations around the world. Most, if not all, future U.S. military peacekeeping, combat, or stability operations will...
One week after the armed forces of the United States and Great Britain hit 85 percent of their targets during the four days of Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, Iraq again challenged the United States by firing surface to air missiles at...
This study assesses the validity and general utility of metaphors used in military theory and doctrine to describe the nature and role of information in military operations. The monograph is an extension of the author's earlier work (Physical...
What causes a large group to operate in an efficient, effective, innovative manner? Is it the way it is organized, its executive structure, its mechanisms for gathering and disseminating information, its internal communications, its analytic...
MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968--1973, is the second of two volumes that examine the Vietnam conflict from the perspective of the theater commander and his headquarters. It traces the story of the Military Assistance...
The U.S. Armed Forces operate two separate undergraduate helicopter pilot training (UHPT) programs: the Army Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) Training course and the Navy Undergraduate Helicopter Pilot Training program. For over twenty years,...
This thesis asserts the Army does not define missions in terms of resources consumed, in sufficient detail to assist decision-making. This is primarily the result of the current budget structure which restricts resource classification to broad...
Joint military doctrine has yet to bridge the gap between lessons learned from U.S. domestic disaster relief and application for international disaster relief. The National Response Framework stresses the need for a response architecture...
Many soldiers feel that their fringe benefits are being gradually but steadily worn away. The benefits themselves exert a significant influence on an individual's decision to make the Army a career. This study, aimed at Regular Army officer...
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...