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- Thinking the unthinkable: civil war in Afghanistan.
- Leigh, Ryan M.
- The purpose of this monograph is to explore the operational impacts of differentiating between an insurgency and a civil war. At first glance, the distinction between the two is just a matter of scale, but there are other differences as well....
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- Producing military commanders: a systemic exploration of the development environment.
- Leija, Francisco J.
- The United States Army can improve the quality of the officer corps by enhancing the understanding of how field-grade commanders are developed. The Army has produced some of the finest leaders in history. The leaders produced have been possible due...
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- Retaining Army engineer officers.
- Kolouch, Stephen J.
- Policy and doctrine require the U.S. Army to provide certain capabilities during the conduct of stability operations. The Department of Defense now considers stability operations as critical to success as offensive and defensive operations....
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- Deployment logistics and the impact of seabasing: an Army perspective.
- Zwolensky, Todd S.
- Deployment is one of the hardest and most critical logistical tasks. Since WWII, the development of distribution methods to overcome logistics issues has continued with mixed success. This monograph explores these issues and the methods used to...
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- Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework: a pragmatic tool for Army design.
- Poole, Anthony B.
- A common perspective among U.S. interagency partners today is that any step towards more effective and coordinated responses to contemporary security challenges requires an improved and shared understanding of the nature of the conflict and the...
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- Advising foreign security forces: implications of Korea and Vietnam.
- Bender, Jason M.
- The United States Army has a long history of advising foreign security forces with its general purpose force, despite a perception that its special force is the primary force with which it undertakes advisory efforts. Ad hoc selection and...
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- Predicting future capabilities of the People's Liberation Army Air Forces of China.
- Griffis, Allen
- From 1990 to 2010, China's military experienced a massive modernization effort. U.S. efforts to determine the scale and scope of this effort were incorrect. In the case of the People's Liberation Army Air Forces (PLAAF), advanced technology and a...
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- Engaging the insurgent in negotiation: lessons from Northern Ireland applied to Afghanistan.
- Rapone, David J.
- Outreach, negotiation and cooption may be a vital tool for counterinsurgencies as they transform conflict and facilitate Amnesty, Reconciliation and Reintegration (AR2) of warring elements within a war-torn society. This monograph utilizes a...
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- Defeating the narco-insurgency within the United States.
- Udell, Ivan
- With the U.S. high domestic consumption of illicit drugs, a relationship has formed between transnational gangs and powerful Latin American drug cartels. The ineffectiveness of the war on drugs, along with the high cost of such a program, begs the...
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- Afghan tortoise, Korean hare: advising in hard and soft cultures.
- Farmer, Matthew S.
- With combat formations schedule to begin drawing down in July 2011 and the role of US forces in Iraq already shifting away from the lead, the future of these two nations will grow increasingly dependent upon the indigenous security forces and the...
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- Political generals in irregular war: a necessary evil or just plain evil.
- Snyder, Neil N.
- Irregular wars generate significant internal political debate over appropriate strategy and resource allocation, a function of the relative complexity and ambiguity of irregular wars. This study examines whether operational commanders in the...
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- Impediments to the effectiveness of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
- Allen, James E.
- Within the UN, the "Mogadishu Line" is a reference to the failed UN mission in Somalia in 1992-1993, intended to mark the limit of UN peacekeeping capabilities. The UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been so disastrous that...
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- NATO strategy and out-of-area operations.
- Sendmeyer, Scott A.
- This monograph examines the viability of recent NATO out-of-area operations, specifically in Kosovo and Afghanistan. It illustrates that the complex decision-making bureaucracy of NATO can be a detriment to the capabilities of the alliance and...
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- Dollar's vulnerability and the implications for national security.
- Everingham, Neil C.
- The United States enjoys a significant benefit from the dollar’s status as the predominant international currency. These financial benefits translate into increased state power through autonomy and the ability to shape the rules of the...
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- Systems thinking and design: making learning organizations a reality in the U.S. Army.
- Dennis, Matthew B.
- This monograph examines whether the addition of design to U.S. Army doctrine, along with other changes, can clarify the concept of the learning organization and make it more achievable by operational units at the battalion and brigade levels. While...
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- Communication strategy: proper structure necessary but not sufficient.
- Alexander, Tom, Jr.
- Researching whether properly structured organizations, at combatant commands, develop more effective communication strategy is the purpose of this monograph. Proper structure is defined in current doctrine and key communication literature. Proper...
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- Nothing virtual about it: an emerging safe haven for an adaptive enemy.
- Williams, David M., Jr.
- While it is no secret that Islamic terrorists utilize the internet, the assertion that the internet is a virtual safe haven more important than any geographical safe haven is rarely made. As a result of the expansion of the Internet capabilities...
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- Interaction within the civil-military nexus: an enduring dilemma for professional officers.
- Varney, Lance C.
- Successful civil-military relations pose an enduring dilemma for the professional officer. When civil-military relations fail, the negative implications are far reaching. Professional officers who understand their role within the structure...
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- Bridge of steel, US merchant shipping in World War II.
- Stewart, Jayson L.
- The only feasible method of transporting divisions of personnel and equipment is, and used to be, by sea. What planning, management and coordination of shipping requirements existed within the US Army and civilian agencies prior to and during World...
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- Legitimacy and penetration in stability operations; setting the conditions for perpetual failure.
- Posgate, Ian T.
- State formation aims to achieve a legitimate monopoly on the use of violence and a legitimate government as perceived by its population. Governments have two principle mechanisms, force and consent, to create the conditions within which it can...
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- Offensive cyber capability: can it reduce cyberterrorism?
- Marshall, Stephen M.
- The subject of cyberterrorism has become a topic of increasing importance to both the U.S. government and military. Offensive cyber capabilities provide a means to mitigate risk to U.S. systems that depend on the Internet to conduct business. In...
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- From 'battle' to the 'battle of ideas': the meaning and misunderstanding of information operations.
- Lowe, Christopher W.
- There is a common view within the United States Army that Information Operations is a military doctrine designed to win a "battle of ideas" within human populations. This monograph refutes this understanding of Information Operations by...
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- Business sector development: a critical component of an operational approach to stability operations.
- Lindberg, Travis J.
- This monograph explores economics, operations research, and systems theory to develop a sustainable approach to building governance and security capacity within the Afghanistan and Pakistan operational environment. This bottom-up approach to...
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- Applying operational art in the space domain.
- Jackim, Z. Walter
- Terms such as "operational art" and "operational level" are prevalent in US military space doctrine. However, no research exists that analyzes the applicability of operational art in the space domain. The use of operational...
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- Does the United States' strategic mobility program support the needs of operational commanders?
- Hilberg, Erik E.
- Does the Department of Defense's strategic mobility program meet the needs of operational commanders? More importantly, what challenges do operational commanders face because of the inability to project certain capabilities? This monograph argues...
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- Conduct and support of amphibious operations from United States submarines in World War II.
- Haggerty, Brian J.
- The U.S. Navy is building Virginia class submarines, and recently completed the conversion of four Ohio class submarines from Trident Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN's) to Guided Missile Submarines (SSGN's). The Virginia class is the first...
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- Refugees and forced displacement: challenges for the military planner.
- Gorreck, Michael A.
- In 2009, conflict, violence and the fear of governmental persecution caused over forty-three million people worldwide, equivalent to the population of Canada, to leave their homes and seek safety elsewhere. Twenty-seven million displaced within...
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- Securitization of Russian strategic communication.
- Ginos, Nathan D.
- The current operating environment faced by the United States military presents many challenges based on the global nature of United States strategic interests. Pursuant to these interests is a need to operate in, and effectively communicate with, a...
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- Unmanned systems acquisition and technology development: is a more integrated approach required?
- Gilge, Eric J.
- Over the course of the last 100 years, historic trends show there has been a clear and steady move towards the use of unmanned systems limited only by the technologies available to make the systems effective compared to manned systems. There is the...
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- Understanding the influence of the Pakistani government in South Asia.
- Chesher, William D.
- This monograph will explore the origins of the Islamic fundamentalist movement in South Asia that can be traced back to the Islamization program during the Zia ul Haq regime in Pakistan. Since 1947, Pakistan's early political administrations were...
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- It matters how you leave: a study of withdrawal and conflict renewal.
- Cameron, Erica, L.
- Given the United States intervention in and intent to withdraw from both Iraq and Afghanistan, the question of whether the conduct of a military withdrawal matters to the renewal of conflict is both timely and relevant. Guided by the National...
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- Engaging the borderlands: options for the future of U.S.-Mexican relations.
- Brown, Matthew M.
- The security of the U.S.-Mexican border is an issue of considerable interest for both countries. The North American Free Trade Agreement has created a web of symbiotic links between the two countries. Unfortunately, this has also presented...
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- Comparing theory and practice: an application of complexity theory to General Ridgway's success in Korea.
- Browne, Eldridge D.
- Complexity theory has attracted considerable interest from operational artists in recent times. However, because it is still an emerging field, there are few -- if any -- historical case studies that show how complexity applies to military...
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- Anticipating the gap: the reality between aim and the object.
- Dougherty, William J.
- The ownership of vast quantities of military power and the ability to project that power globally does not ensure the achievement of the 'ends' desired from a war. Since 1945, the United States and her Western allies increasingly fail to realize a...
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- Adding to the toolkit: three conceptual tradeoffs.
- Austin, Christopher E.
- This monograph shows how understanding three conceptual tradeoffs of complex versus complicated, complexity at large-scale versus fine-scale, and exploration of potential problems versus exploitation of known solutions can help the military...
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- USSOCOM's role in addressing human trafficking.
- Brown, Phillip B.
- Human Trafficking is modern slavery. Its size, global scope, and potential to threaten national security warrants appropriate Department of Defense attention. However, the existing U.S. government institutions tasked to respond to Human Trafficking...
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- Who is responsible for training the civilian members of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs)?
- Sawyer, J. Curtis, II
- The purpose of this monograph is to attempt to determine who is responsible for establishment and enforcement of standards that the civilian members of PRTs must accomplish in training before they deploy overseas. The Provincial Reconstruction...
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- Steady security: consistency in national security strategy ends.
- Wormley, Michael A.
- This paper's purpose is very modest. It answers the thesis question, "Have the ends (interests, goals or objectives) specified in the National Security Strategies (NSS) since 1986, been consistent?" For this study, consistent is defined...
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- Somali piracy: an age-old solution to a modern day problem.
- Larson, Gregory R.
- The purpose of this monograph is to propose a solution to the problem of piracy off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. This report provides a historical background of piracy and more specifically, the history and the "roots" of Somali...
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- Reasons to improve: the evolution of the U.S. tank from 1945-1991.
- Bailey, Anthony I.
- The American primary tank in the Second World War was inferior to its German counterpart for all but the final months of the war. The U.S. tank evolved and demonstrated its superiority to the world in Operation DESERT STORM in 1991. This monograph...
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- Exporting democracy to Haiti: a military perspective.
- Guerin, Jean-Michel T.
- The United States' democratization strategy since World War II demonstrates an estimated success rate of less than 3%. America currently uses a counterinsurgency / line of effort approach in democratization. This approach seeks to shape an...
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- Improving the ARFORGEN model: an Army National Guard perspective.
- Dziengeleski, Andrew R.
- The purpose of this monograph is to provide a new lens to view the ARFORGEN model, as it has largely been accepted without constructive criticism or analysis of its impacts since its inception in 2006. This monograph is an attempt to synthesize...
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- Atomic bomb: memory and its power on Japanese pacifism.
- Bochat, W. Maria
- Japan's pacifist identity and security practices have deep roots with the atomic bomb. The victims experiences and Japan's preferences in dealing with the memories distinguishes their nation and allows them security opportunities that other nations...
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- Toward a nation-building operating concept.
- DeJarnette, John
- This monograph explores political science theory and contemporary practice to develop a structural framework for nation-building. The generalized framework is predicated on the observation that interagency operations can achieve a degree of...
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- Designing a strategic bomber: evolving operational concepts.
- Gordon, David J.
- Developing a strategic bomber in today's budget constrained environment is a challenging prospect. The design requirements must address conflict across the spectrum and remain relevant regardless of the enemy America faces. The operational concept...
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- Reality vs. myth: mentoring reexamined.
- Livingston, Russell M.
- Transformation and the current operational pace have created less time for senior mentorship. Additionally, mentorship is so loosely defined and understood that it often is mislabeled and wrongly identified. Mentorship could be viewed as such a...
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- Sustaining operational maneuver in the twenty-first century.
- Herbermann, Justin S.
- The purpose of this monograph is to determine if the United States Army can sustain operational maneuver in the twenty-first century. The author determined that the army can sustain operational maneuver but still needs to address four areas. First,...
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- After the countercoup: advising the Imperial Armed Forces of Iran.
- Williams, John D.
- Iran in the 1950s was in the cross hairs of the Cold War power struggle between the US and USSR. Strategically located, Iran became critical in the foreign policy endeavors of the Eisenhower Administration in the Middle East. After the decision to...
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- Battle of the narrative.
- Neate, Mark C.
- On March 20, 2003, a United States led coalition invaded Iraq. The character of this conflict can be defined by the West’s ability to conduct precision strikes, to manoeuvre and to overwhelm the enemy’s command system. Emerging U.K. and U.S....
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- Overcoming resistance: developing an influence strategy for the joint force commander.
- Luther, Kenneth S.
- It is the enemy’s will to resist that is the true objective of war. Destruction of his armed forces is a means and not necessarily mandatory to achieve this objective. To save the precious resources of blood and treasure and to assure the...
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- European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) after ten years -- current situation and perspectives.
- Fischer, Peter
- After ten years the ESDP has reached an important milestone in its development. It is one of the most dynamic policy areas in the framework of the European Union (EU) and is a substantial integration project. Behind this background the study...
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- Illicit drug funding: the surprising systemic similarities between the FARC and the Taliban.
- DeAtley, David L.
- The preponderance of literature and scholarly debate on counterinsurgency (COIN) focuses on the strategic or operational approach: leader-focused; large group-focused; special operations; conventional operations; enemy centric; and the latest,...
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- Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) as an insurgency.
- Carrier, Alain
- This monograph demonstrates that the FLQ was an insurgency through the verification of four characteristics common to five insurgency definitions. The Canadian government’s initiatives and actions simply kept the FLQ insurgency from moving past...
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- Sink or swim: the Marine Corps capacity to conduct a Marine Expeditionary Brigade amphibious assault using expeditionary maneuver warfare.
- Weinstein, Cliff J.
- Since 1991, there has been a significant drop in the number of amphibious ships, a change in the forcible entry concept and a singular military and fiscal focus on the land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The current state of amphibious assault...
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- Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terror.
- Waters, David R.
- The United States is now in the eighth year of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). For America, the war began with the surprise attacks against targets in Washington D.C. and New York City on September 11, 2001. For al Qaeda, the war began centuries...
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- Implementing strategy: the importance of vision, communication, and support.
- Twaddell, Edward S., III
- This study addresses how operational and strategic commanders best implement strategies to accomplish their specific goals by analyzing the three distinct tasks that strategic commanders must accomplish in order to successfully build the support...
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- Institutions and organizations: exploring the interdependencies of legitimacy theory and strategic communication in Afghanistan.
- Hendricks, Beau A.
- If the Department of Defense (DOD) better understands what legitimacy is, how strategic communication affects it, and how a prolonged counter-insurgency affects the legitimacy of specific Afghan and US institutions, we will be better prepared to...
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- Seizing the strategic communication initiative.
- Kramer, Keith A.
- The United States military has conducted counterinsurgency campaigns against violent Islamic extremists for the last eight years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. However, communication-minded, technology-savvy, insurgencies...
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- Disengagement operations: context, violence, and spoilers in a new Phase IV construct.
- Kleisner, Theodore W., II
- The U.S. Armed Forces has a long and rich history of expeditionary operations followed by military disengagements. A historically small U.S. military is repeating this history today in two wars that are stretching it to the limits of its personnel...
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- United States military theorists: a study of patrons and interests.
- Kilbride, Bryan R.
- The United States has been home to several influential military theorists who changed how the United States and other countries protect national interests, train, equip, and fight wars. Among these theorists are A.T. Mahan, Billy Mitchell, and more...
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- Army's role in airspace command and control of the warfighter's airspace.
- James, Randy P., Jr.
- The Army’s role in the Joint Airspace Command and Control system is not adequate to support combat operations effectively on the current and future battlefields of the United States Joint Force. The current and future battlefields of the United...
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- Sine Qua Non: expanding the operational art form to incorporate interagency function.
- Highfill, John D.
- This paper provides a critical analysis and assessment of interagency-Department of Defense (DOD) support during combat operations, specifically stability operations during or post-conflict. The general reluctance of the Department of Defense to...
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- Culture and identity: critical considerations for successful state-building endeavors.
- Hilaski, Paul J.
- The attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, originating from Afghanistan, and the earthquake in January 2010 that devastated Haiti illustrate the different dangers that weak and failed states represent to the international...
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- Chinese strategic art: a cultural framework for assessing Chinese strategy.
- Kuniyuki, Kaname K.
- This monograph examines the ambiguities of Chinese strategic and military thought and introduces a new concept of Chinese Strategic Art to help analysts understand how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) thinks about and practices strategy. This...
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- Army Amateur Radio System: 1925-1941.
- Hedberg, Scott B.
- This monograph conducts a historical study of the Army Amateur Radio System, the predecessor to the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS). In 2009, the Department of Defense changed the MARS mission to support homeland security functions by using...
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- Adapting to the uncertain nature of future conflict.
- Kuchan, Joseph P.
- It is not known against whom or where the United States Army will fight next, nor is it clear what the nature of that conflict will be. What is relatively certain is that the United States Army will likely initially get it wrong, regardless of its...
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- Bombing of Brittany: solving the wrong problem.
- Heathman, Jeremiah S.
- As a result of the Allied bombing campaign against Nazi submarine bases during the Second World War, the cities of Brest, Lorient, and Saint Nazaire were nearly completely destroyed. Despite thousands of bombing missions, all three submarine...
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- This is who we are: the politics of identity in twentieth century Iran.
- Harris, Thomas E.
- Since 1925, Iranian governments purposefully shaped the Iranian national identity in an attempt to socially prioritize membership in nationalist and religious social groups, over others such as ethnicity or profession. Further, successive Iranian...
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- Size matters: how big should a military design team be?
- Hammerstrom, Michael L.
- While the literature on the size of small groups and teams is extensive, there is little research on design team sizes and no formal research or analysis on the size of a military design team. This monograph investigates the optimal team size and...
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- Army National Guard and civil support operations: closing the interagency gap at the local level.
- Herrera, John D.
- Currently, an interagency gap exists between local civil authorities and tactical military forces preparing for and conducting all phases of domestic civil support operations. The gap exists for two primary reasons: (1) military forces operate in a...
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- Air Force’s combat aircraft: a future holding onto the past.
- Greaney, Gordon P.
- America’s AF has adopted a strategy that reduces and then modernizes its remaining legacy fleet of combat aircraft. The strategy attempts to free up the necessary funding required to procure a modernized AF with all stealth bombers and fighters....
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- Mapping the human terrain in Afghanistan.
- Golinghorst, Kevin R.
- From the initial invasion in 2001 through the ongoing counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army has been challenged with truly understanding the socio-cultural dynamics of the local populace which has become known as the...
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- Pursuit of precision in the field artillery.
- Garcia, Manuel R.
- Artillery has gone through two previous evolutions in employment methodology. The first, starting in 1670, saw it evolve from primarily a siege engine, to a precision mobile direct fire support platform. The second evolution in methodology began in...
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- Form follows function: sixty years of Army Force Generation and structure.
- Frambes, Timothy R.
- Extending from the Cold War through the current Era of Persistent Conflict, the Army implemented a number of force structure changes in response to the existing and predicted strategic environment. Similar to the architectural standard phrase that...
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- Situational ignorance: the UN and security sector development in Timor-Leste.
- Foura, Paul B.
- The United Nations (UN) intervention in Timor-Leste in 1999-2005 has been critically acclaimed as a “model” peacekeeping operation. By temporarily assuming sovereign powers on behalf of Timor-Leste, the UN Transitional Authority in East Timor...
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- Rethinking third-party intervention into insurgencies: the logic of commitment.
- Miller, Zachary L.
- Since the end of World War II, there have been nearly one-hundred insurgencies of significant size, many of which featured interventions by third-party military forces. While many theories contribute to an explanation of why a government wins or...
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- Problem reframing: intelligence professionals’ role in design.
- O’Brien, Candice E.
- As design emerges throughout the United States Army’s planning and operational doctrine, the intelligence community must leverage this structure of inquiry to identify and refocus the scope of what is collected, analyzed, produced and...
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- From red cliffs to Chosin: the Chinese way of war.
- Pangelinan, James G.
- This monograph examines Chinese warfare and suggests that three and a half millennia of Chinese military history have produced a distinctive and enduring Chinese way of war. While the art and science of war in China have evolved considerably...
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- Irregular forces in counterinsurgency operations: their roles and considerations.
- Rieper, William E.
- The purpose of this monograph is to determine the ideal practices for militias and irregular forces in counterinsurgency operations. This study specifically addresses those groups organized by a legitimate sponsor such as the Host Nation or one of...
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- Improving interagency coordination and unity of effort: an organizational analysis of the contemporary provincial reconstruction team.
- Rogan, John H.
- This research seeks to answer one primary research question: What organizational and institutional factors are hindering effective interagency coordination and unity of effort within the contemporary Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)? To answer...
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- New direction toward a more secure America.
- Lairsey, Johnny M., Jr.
- The security of the United States is an enduring dilemma that if not properly addressed will leave the nation vulnerable to existing and future threats. The attacks of September 11, 2001 were a stark reminder of our vulnerability. Despite the...
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- From the Andes to the Hindu Kush: Colombian airpower lessons for Afghanistan.
- Maher, William J.
- Airpower is an asymmetric means for the application of government counterinsurgent force against enemies of the state. The high cost of investment in aircraft and the high technology training of maintainers and aircrew make a viable air force a...
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- Training and advising foreign militaries: we've done this before.
- Pierce, David S.
- The United States has a long history in the development of foreign militaries. Over the past eight years, the United States spent an insurmountable amount of time and resources developing the Iraq and Afghanistan Armies. Yet, in 2003, political...
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- Algerian perspectives of counterinsurgencies.
- Laguna, Jose R.
- Recent scholarly work has devoted much attention to analyzing the French counterinsurgency war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962. The United States military has taken many of the lessons and principles offered by authors such as David Galula and Roger...
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- Development of Marine Corps junior officers during the Interwar period and its relevance today.
- Martin, James T.
- Generals Lewis Walt, Raymond Davis, and Lieutenant General Victor Krulak had highly successful Marine Corps careers beginning with their commissioning in the 1930s. The purpose of this monograph is to examine their development as young officers...
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- Meeting Canadian forces expansion goals through retention.
- Nixon, Michael A.
- Service as a member of the Canadian Forces (CF) in 2010 is very demanding undertaking. The commitments the CF is fulfilling, both domestically and internationally, have placed a tempo on the CF that has not been witnessed in the decades since the...
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- Army transformation: optimizing command and control for the 21st Century.
- Niemi, Jeffrey S.
- 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...
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- Toward greater understanding: the Jihadist ideology of Al Qaeda.
- McPhillips, Patricia E.
- Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri enticed tens of thousands of Muslims from around the world to travel to Afghanistan, swear allegiance to bin Laden and the cause of Al Qaeda, fight and even die for that cause. Bin Laden united faithful...
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- Failed state: a new (old) definition.
- Mitchell, Kenneth D.
- This monograph posits that the state must structure the delivery of public goods in a sequential and hierarchical basis with safety and security and rule of law providing a foundation upon which the state builds delivery of all other public goods...
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- Indigenous police forces in counterinsurgency.
- Mungie, Timothy R.
- Given the importance of security force assistance in an era of persistent conflict and the need for counterinsurgency operations, what makes indigenous police forces effective in counterinsurgency? This monograph proposes that, if the Army faces an...
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- Increasing airpower's effectiveness: applying the U.S. Army's operational design methodology to airpower in warfare.
- Serfass, Shawn A.
- This monograph examines whether or not the current U.S. Army Operational Design methodology could increase the effectiveness of airpower. Analysis of existing design literature provides a common understanding of the U.S. Army’s design methodology...
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- Airspace command and control in the contemporary operating environment.
- Russell, Christopher J.
- Airspace command and control in the combat zone is becoming more complex due to the proliferation of unmanned aircraft, and the introduction of host nation and civilian aircraft. The ability to deconflict and integrate multiple airspace users...
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- Balancing operations security and openness: understanding the military/media relationship in the modern media environment.
- Sessoms, Jesse T., II
- The military/media relationship is historically tenuous. While both the media and the military play a role in the preservation of American freedoms, the military depends on operations security for many of its functions while the media demands...
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- On the brink: instability and the prospect of state failure in Pakistan.
- Sentell, David S.
- The ongoing military operations in Afghanistan underscore the importance of regional stability in Central and South Asia. While much of our attention remains focused on Afghanistan, the unstable nature of Pakistan creates a problematic scenario for...
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- Restructuring civil affairs for persistent engagement.
- Simpson, Samuel K., II
- Since the end of the Cold War, growing state and global instability, particularly in undergoverned regions of the world, has led to increasing requests from ambassadors and combatant commanders for civil affairs forces to conduct missions in...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Power and stability: promises and perils of an economically strong China.
- Stonestreet, Kreg S.
- In the first half of the twenty-first century, China represents perhaps the most critical and complex factor affecting the national security interests of the United States. China’s rapidly rising economic and military power coupled with its...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- U.S. Cavalry: still relevant in full spectrum operations?
- Watson, Andrew J.
- The demands of 21st century military operations require an organization that is trained and equipped for independent offensive, defensive, and stability operations. This type of organization, the armored cavalry regiment, is fading from the U.S....
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Achieving operational adaptability: capacity building needs to become a warfighting function.
- Walker, Eric L.
- Eight years of persistent conflict and increasing engagement requirements across the globe have followed the end of the Cold War. Appropriately, leaders and theorists recognize the professional military obligation and importance of adapting...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Future of professional officer education in the German Armed Forces.
- Walter, Torsten
- In 2004, the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr released a concept for the realignment of field grade officer development. The concept claims to respond to the requirements of the contemporary and future operating environment and attempts to ensure...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Organizing for operational deception.
- Weaver, Warren S.
- The operationalization of Military Deception (MILDEC) requires a unique combination of resources, detailed intelligence, significant preparation, operational security and secrecy to achieve maximum effects. It requires close synchronization...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Unity of effort in an irregular environment: empowering the joint force commander.
- Reineke, Myron J.
- The United States today finds itself in an era of persistent irregular conflict, the root cause of which may be illegitimate governance within failed or failing states. The resulting instability will likely require future U.S. military and civilian...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Engineer support to the brigade combat team.
- McGee, Dennis J.
- The recent transformation in the Army to a more expeditionary modular force, focused on brigade combat teams (BCT), has brought with it significant challenges to the engineer regiment. The simultaneity called for in the Army’s operating concept...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Malvinas: the Argentine perspective of the Falkland's conflict.
- Zarza, Leonardo A.
- This monograph addresses the Malvinas/Falklands conflict from the Argentine perspective. Leaders must understand all sides of narratives in order to frame the right problem in armed conflicts. Existing Anglo-American literature does not reflect the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Why is the United States losing the war of words in the Global War on Terror? Identifying causes of failure in U.S. communication strategy.
- Roach, Alfred S.
- The U.S. (U.S.) Government’s ability to influence friends and foes around the world has immense strategic implications that can either enhance U.S. strategic objectives or contribute to a loss of U.S. power. Nine years after the beginning of the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Middle Eastern geographies of World War I.
- Riely, James G.
- Military history demonstrates the vital role that geography plays in the planning, execution, and results of any conflict. This project espouses a comprehensive notion of geography that encompasses both physical and human contextual...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- China's energy security: the grand "hedging" strategy.
- Lee, Stacey L.
- In the late 1970s, a group of reform minded Chinese, led by Deng Xiaoping, enacted a series of economic reforms that catapulted China into the global spotlight. The key to sustaining the dynamic growth is access to petroleum resources. The central...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Operational impacts of the Global Network Enterprise Construct.
- Nelson, John
- The purpose of this monograph is to examine the operational impacts of the Army’s transformation of network enterprise management on the signal community, particularly the impacts upon Division and Corps G6 personnel. The Global Network...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Go big or go home: employing America's heavy force.
- Magee, Robert E. L.
- Many authors have begun to write that the heavy force has no role in the future contemporary operating environment – especially where internal political-militia groups rely on guerrilla tactics. The US heavy force is an integral part of...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Narco-crime in Mexico: indication of state failure or symptoms of an emerging democracy?
- Nava, Juan P.
- The increasing volume and manner of violent deaths in Mexico nearly doubled in 2009 to just over seven thousand. Mexico appears capable of devolving into a failed state status where an insurgency threat could potentially thrive. These indices...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Lawfare: the Columbian case.
- Padilla, Juan M.
- The terrorist groups in Colombia have applied Mao’s theory of protracted people’s war, seeking to use all available means of struggle to achieve their revolutionary goals by counteracting government policy. One way that Fuerzas Armadas...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Uyghur movement: China's insurgency in Xinjiang.
- Patrick, Shawn M.
- In 742, a predominantly Turko-Mongolian steppe nomadic tribe known today as the Uyghurs migrated eastward from eastern Turkey towards the oases of modern-day Xinjiang province of China; they have remained there for the last 1,268 years. Throughout...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Communication in leadership redux.
- Smith, Ken
- 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...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Connecting the dots: enduring challenges in the nation's information sharing environment.
- Valledor, John C.
- Since the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the nation has seen the largest expansion and reorganization of government since the National Security Act of 1947, transforming the nation’s homeland security system around, amongst other things,...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Expanding the Qawm: culturally savvy counterinsurgency and nation-building in Afghanistan.
- Slaughter, Sean R.
- This monograph investigates culture and society in Afghanistan and recommends an operational approach leveraging a blend of formal and traditional institutions, working with the propensity of the Afghan system, and building capacity and legitimacy...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Shari'ah compliant finance: toward economic Jihad.
- Nalette, Kevin R.
- This monograph discusses the relevant components of the Islamic financial sector, otherwise known as Shari’ah Compliant Finance, in order to gain a better understanding of an industry quickly spreading around the globe and the greater...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- From the "little red book" to the "purple" book: transforming intelligence into a profession one page at a time.
- Stone, Andrew B.
- Ethics-based decision-making problems perennially plague the U.S. Intelligence Community. Attempts by Congress and the Executive Branch to inculcate in the individual Intelligence Officer a sense of responsibility to both the organization and...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG): a model for success?
- Tabb, John D.
- The United States Army is deeply involved in advisory missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, efforts that have met with mixed success. As the Army searches for new and innovative approaches to the problems of advising indigenous forces, it may be useful...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Liberty and lethality: integrating MC-12W Liberty and light attack/armed reconnaissance aircraft operations.
- Tittel, Steven J.
- Responding to comments made by the Secretary of Defense in April 2008, the United States Air Force began procuring thirty-seven C-12 class aircraft to augment existing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems already operating in the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Detachment 101 in the CBI: an unconventional warfare paradigm for contemporary special operations.
- Wenner, Randall D.
- Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services’ development of unconventional warfare doctrine in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II presents the practitioner of unconventional warfare a worthy model of consideration for our...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Enabling learning through the assessment process.
- Willey, William T.
- The problem facing practitioners of emerging Army doctrine is how to expand the use of assessments beyond detailed planning to support conceptual planning during design. This raises the question, will the use of assessments enable the commander to...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Amnesty, reconciliation and reintegration: conflict termination in counterinsurgency.
- Williams, Patrick J.
- Few insurgencies are resolved by military means alone. Insurgents, by definition, pursue political ends and resolve to accomplish those objectives by means of violence. Today the United States and her Allies are engaged in two distinct...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Leveraging capabilities: the integration of special operation forces and conventional forces.
- Finfera, Richard M.
- Since September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Special Operation Forces (SOF) and Conventional Forces (CF) have be increasingly working together throughout the world against numerous asymmetrical threats. However, operations in Iraq and...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Do the principles of war apply to cyber war?
- Farmer, David B.
- The purpose of this monograph is to examine whether the Principles of War, as defined within the U.S. military's Joint Publication 3-0, Joint Operations, can be applied to cyber war. Since 2005, the U.S. military recognized cyber conflict as a new...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Provincial reconstruction teams and good governance.
- Ebbighausen, John H.
- The United States has witnessed a change in its approach to warfare. The former approach focused on breaking the enemy's will to fight while leaving the governing process intact. The new approach focuses on replacing the standing government with a...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Agroterrorism: minimizing the consequences of intentionally introduced foreign animal disease.
- Dykes, James P.
- The United States agricultural industry generates more than $1 trillion in annual economic activity and provides an abundant food supply for the United States and other countries. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States government has recognized...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Toward development of Afghanistan national stability: analyses in historical, military, and cultural contexts.
- Dessaso, Christopher D.
- American policy in Afghanistan has evolved since the initial engagement of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. It has become increasingly clear that strategic focus must include a plan to concentrate upon and continue development of a stable and secure...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Hybrid power: mobility air forces and foreign policy.
- Davis, Russell O.
- This monograph introduces a method of better capturing the interaction of hard and soft power termed "Hybrid Power." Hybrid power captures the essence of simultaneity as hard and soft power is exerted by a single element to create the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Practicing strategic leadership without a license.
- Danikowski, David A.
- This research examines existing leadership theories, doctrine, and practices to determine the appropriateness of institutional preparation and development (education and training) of future Joint leaders for holistic, systemic, problem...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Marching toward the metaverse: strategic communication through the new media.
- Cunningham, Timothy C.
- Traditional models representing how messages are communicated through traditional media are inappropriate for depicting how they are communicated (or, rather, exchanged) through the new media. The former depict monologic (one-to-many) communication...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Command and control of airpower in irregular warfare.
- Chambers, J. Ian
- The Luftwaffe's defeat of Allied airpower in the Kasserine Pass in 1943 imprinted the principle of mass upon the US Air Force's organizational psyche. The then Army Air Corps recognized the necessity of consolidating airpower under the command and...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Army's 21st century quandary: preparing for today or looking at tomorrow?
- Bohnemann, Edward T.
- The Army's Operational Concept emphasizes that Army forces must be prepared to conduct a combination of offensive, defensive, and stability or civil support operations to create opportunities and achieve desired results. The 2010 Quadrennial...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Civil war and intervention: lessons remembered from the Lebanese Civil war and the U.S. response.
- Crawford, Michael A.
- The 1975 Lebanese Civil War was one of the most disastrous and costly civil wars in modern history. The human toll of the "First Phase" of the war was immense, with estimates of 40,000 dead, 60,000 wounded and 600,000 Lebanese civilians...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Stability operations in the Colombian Army: a case for implementation of new doctrine.
- Correa, Juan C.
- Colombia has been involved in an internal conflict since 1949 following the assassination of the popular liberal political leader, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. Afterward, the two radical political parties, liberals and conservatives, began a bloody...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Improving security force assistance capability in the Army's advice and assistance brigade.
- Cook, Brennan
- The U.S. Army’s renewed emphasis on developing organizations to conduct Security Force Assistance (SFA), particularly the Advise and Assist Brigades, is indicative of both increased operational requirements in Iraq and Afghanistan and renewed...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Commander's emergency response program: a model for future implementation.
- Condrey, Jason W.
- This monograph examines the execution of the Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) by operational forces and offers a methodology to better its execution. This study asserts that CERP is a necessary and appropriate program for operational...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Standing joint task forces; resourcing relics.
- Bushman, John M.
- The Standing Joint Task Force today serves as an enduring organization of the national security environment. Of the numerous Standing Joint Task Forces operational around the world, this paper examines two whose missions support defense of the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Blue moon rising?
- Burks, William H.
- The purpose of this monograph is to examine what institutional challenges exist within the Air Force that prevent the service from producing leaders competitive for Geographic Combatant Command positions. The author proposes the Joint Force Air...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Defense acquisition reform: doing the same thing all over again.
- Buettner, Zachary J.
- The Defense Acquisitions System (DAS) supports the defense of our nation by developing and procuring weapons systems for the Armed Services. Unfortunately, the DAS frequently fails to produce the weapons systems within budget or on time. Thus, the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Military advice and civil-military relations.
- Bennett, Douglas W.
- This monograph examined three of the variables that impact the civil-military relationship with regard to understanding how military advice is received by civilian leadership -- combat military experience of civilian leaders, political expertise of...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Searching for the essence of red teaming: linearity, overcoming rationality, toward sensemaking.
- Bell, Jesse W., III.
- The strategic and operational environment in which the United States military will operate in for the foreseeable future is characterized by its complexity. Historically the United States military has taken a linear approach to understanding the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Gauging the fullness of our full spectrum operations.
- Archambault, Matthew T.
- Officer education is a major component in the preparation for the next war. The Command and General Staff College (CGSC) is the Army's principal institution for educating field grade officers. War's chameleon nature sometimes denies and frustrates...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Adapting the doctrinal discourse on campaign planning to the reality of current conflicts.
- Andres, Mark C.
- The historical examples of World War I, World War II, Korea, and the 1991 Gulf War are the basis of the current Joint and Army campaign planning doctrine. These conflicts highlight the requirement to centrally plan campaigns that efficiently...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Understanding and developing adaptive leadership during pre-commissioning.
- Albrecht, Joseph H.
- In complex operational environments marked by uncertainty, lethal threats, and long term commitments, the Army's junior officers shoulder a burden that requires critical thinking and a willingness to exercise initiative and make decisions. In light...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Unfocused energy: a strategic approach to U.S. communications in Afghanistan.
- Crow, Trampes C.
- Over the past decade, the U.S. government struggled consistently to establish a solid foothold in the global marketplace of ideas. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks and through two persistent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Cogadh na Saoirse: British intelligence operations during the Anglo-Irish War (1916-1921).
- Heatherly, Christopher J.
- The United States Army's study of counterinsurgency operations is limited, with few notable exceptions, to those that occurred in the Third World from 1950 to the present day. Few American officers, NCOs or soldiers are familiar with other...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Challenging the application of PMESII-PT in a complex environment.
- Ducote, Brian M.
- Military officials often utilize the PMESII-PT acronym (Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical Environment, and Time) as an analytical start point to assess an operational environment. However, the linear...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Homosexuality, manliness, and the United States Army.
- Dayhoff, James C.
- This monograph investigates the nature of the resistance within the United States Army to the inclusion of homosexuals into the wider force and the preparation necessary at the macro level for potential social change should Congress repeal US Code...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Towards a theory on the design of adaptive transformation: a systemic approach.
- Cepeda Lucas, Luis Francisco
- This work proposes a novel approach to military transformation, 'Adaptive Transformation,' that accounts for an inescapable reality in the current and future operational environment: uncertainty. Military planners and decision makers have to face...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Military role in reconciliation.
- Buckeye, Terrence H.
- Reconciliation remains an elusive concept in both domestic and international contexts as well as academic and governmental contexts. The military role in reconciliation remains even more elusive. As such, this monograph seeks to clarify what the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- How thin is the ice?: the potential for collapse in today's Army.
- McLamb, Joseph S.
- Is it possible to determine how close an army is to collapse? Are there indictors that give warning that the force is reaching the limits of its endurance? With the U.S. Army in its seventh year of sustained combat in the War on Terror with no end...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Learning over time: using rapid prototyping, generative analysis, experts, and reduction of scope to operationalize design.
- Marr, John J.
- Based on experiences with long-duration operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States Army recognizes the need for commanders and their staffs to have new tools and ways of thinking to deal with complex problems. The specific approach the...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Unconventional counterinsurgency: leveraging traditional social networks and irregular forces in remote and ungoverned areas.
- Litchfield, John D.
- The Sunni tribal uprising against Al Qaeda in Iraq, known as the Anbar Awakening, was the decisive event in the counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq. To capitalize on discontent between the Sunni population and Al Qaeda, U.S. commanders on the ground...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs
- Defining war in 21st century America.
- Hickok, William O., VI.
- It is dangerous to assume that in today's operating environment, a universally accepted definition of what war is, and what war is not, is readily available. While most Soldiers and policy makers claim to know war, "knowing it when they see...
- School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs

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