Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
Contains a series of essays on various military campaigns and operations during World War II and the Vietnam War. All of the documents illustrate both the historical interest of the officer corps and the variety of tactical situations that can be...
Language competence has long been recognized as a required skill in the collection and analysis of intelligence. Previous experience in coalition warfare and current efforts at multilateral defense reveal the need for facility in other languages in...
This study attempts to determine why Hispanic cadets are not being commissioned in the same proportion as their enrollment in ROTC would suggest. Currently, Hispanics comprise four percent of the nation's ROTC cadets, yet only one percent of the...
Seven years have passed since Soviet Party Chief Brezhnev proposed the need for a system of collective security in Asia. Investigation reveals that Brezhnev's pronouncements on this subject were not propaganda exercises designed to secure...
This study attempts to identify manpower alternatives available for sustaining the All Volunteer Force, or providing a replacement structure should voluntary programs prove inadequate. It further focuses on the implications of a draft for the...
Joint Vision 2020 prescribes the goal of creating a force for 2020 and beyond that is "dominant across the full-spectrum of military operations." Full-spectrum dominance implies access to, freedom to operate in, all domains, in other words,...
A compilation of documents containing original unedited statements made by German officers and officials relating their estimates of the impact of air power on the German war machine.
The following report is the result of a lengthy interrogation of Hermann Goering by officers of the Air P/W Interrogation Detachment. Questionnaires prepared by USSTAF and Air Ministry were used during this interrogation.
This manual provides the framework for understanding low-intensity conflict (LIC) at the battalion and brigade levels to include the definition and nature of LIC, the military's role, imperatives, and operational categories. It also provides...
FM 100-5 is the Army's keystone How to Fight manual. It is consistent with NATO doctrine and strategy. FM 100-5 provides operational guidance for use by commanders and trainers at all echelons. It forms the foundation of Army service school...
This handbook contains general military instructions for cadets; covers Army organization, duties, discipline, operations, training, drills, hygiene, and first aid. Includes photographs and illustrations.
"Since 1978, the United States has been committed to the reinforcement of NATO, within ten days of a decision to do so, with six additional Army divisions, sixty additional tactical squadrons, and one Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), plus...
A debate is raging within the defense community about the pattern of future war
and how best to prepare for it . One idea gaining acceptance is the concept of hybrid war. The term hybrid war as currently understood has multiple meanings and...
A number of dramatic international events have significantly altered the strategic environment facing the U.S. These changes have led to a shift in operational focus away from Europe to a wider range of contingencies in other areas of the world....
Adultery is a controversial subject in the United States (US) Army because the majority ofUS society sees it as nothing more than a civil affair. If US society and the governing laws view this matter as a private matter and legal issue. why...
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...