This study examines the coordination of the Joint Phase 0 shaping activities that take place as part of Central Command theater engagement. The focus is on horizontal synchronization across staff elements and vertical synchronization through...
In July 2003, Major Tideman Penland - a JAG officer with the 1st Armored Division - arrived in Iraq to serve initially as the senior legal advisor to the division rear based at Camp Dogwood, and his duties included leading and managing the legal...
Having enlisted in the US Army back in 1994 at the age of 33, Captain Lisa Bloom - a licensed and practicing attorney living in Iowa at the time - later became a special agent in the Criminal Investigation Division and, after graduating from the...
Assigned to the Office of the Judge Advocate General and serving as a representative to the Detainee Task Force from July 2004 to June 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Jane Ellen Bagwell helped "oversee the investigations and the corrections that were...
Responsible for managing the Army's military police force with respect to modernization and deployments, and with sourcing units to meet worldwide obligations, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy L. McConico served as the military police organizational...
From March 2004 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Alan Boyer commanded Fox Troop, 9th Cavalry (F-9 CAV), which operated as the brigade reconnaissance troop for 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. In this interview,...
U.S. military, Department of State, and Iraqi officials face many challenges moving a unified Iraq forward. This paper attempts to answer a critical question: Can local Iraqi grassroots councils facilitate a strategic endstate like achieving...
Major Rob Arnold returned from his deployment with Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) and joined the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team as the military police plans officer in January 2004. In August 2005, Arnold deployed with the 172nd as the...
In this March 2009 interview MAJ Lisa Coleman, Military Police (MP) discusses her 2004-2005 deployment to Iraq as a member of Task Force (TF) 134 as part of the joint operations section (J3). MAJ Coleman describes her integration into theater, her...
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...
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...
This study addresses potential scenarios as to how a North Korean collapse could occur, whether China's military would engage in North Korea, and how China's military might intervene if it did so. First, regarding the likely scenarios for a North...
This study is an attempt to provide a contextual example of many of the concepts and terms of the operational art as demonstrated by the Allies in France during August 1944. The action from Operation COBRA to the Seine River crossings is first...
This study examines what the key issues are governing the creation and employment of operational reserves by AFCENT in its defense against a no or short notice Warsaw Pact attack. The theoretical notion of operational reserves as discussed by...
The United States Army's concept to best leverage new technologies and support expanding mission requirements in the twenty-first century is to field a "Strike Force." The initial Strike Force will serve as an interim headquarters, able to rapidly...
Covers abbreviations, definitions, symbols, channels of command, operation orders, landing tables, air support proforma, meteorological data, landing ships and craft, amphibian and aircraft, dimensions of vehicles and equipment, engineer and...