This research discusses the challenges of providing timely distribution of supplies during hurricane relief operations due to the lack of a designated national in-transit visibility (ITV) system. Historical lessons learned from the hurricane that...
In October 1999, General Eric K. Shinseki, Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA), announced the establishment of an interim force, known as the Interim Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), to fill a perceived void in force capability and strategic...
The present international telecommunications system is a mosaic of different and separate telecommunications systems, each providing services of a limited nature to a specialized community of users. All too frequently these international systems...
This study investigates the joint deployment and rapid distribution tenet of focused logistics and its capability to project forces and equipment into a theater of operations in support of the joint force commander of 2010. The thesis is a...
Within the context of the current US government endeavor to unify its actions and build partner-nation military capabilities in the Global War on Terror (GWOT), this monograph seeks to determine the potential value of utilizing expeditionary...
This monograph describes the evolution of military logistics from 1994 to 2011 within the framework of the tenants of the Focused Logistics concept, assesses the effectiveness of the efforts to transform military logistics from a mass-based into a...
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of several key areas of sealift that are considered essential for the successful employment of sealift in support of national military strategy. These areas are the contribution of sealift to the...
The transformational imperatives of the interim and objective forces challenge the relevancy of the RSOI model. If RSOI is to continue as a valid construct for the projection of future forces, it must be recast so that it, like the interim and...
Assigned to the CENTCOM Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (DDOC) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in 2005-2006, Major Marshal Oller served as an in-transit visibility (ITV) operations officer in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring...
In this interview Mr. Graves relates his experiences arriving in theater as an individual deployer due to his attendance at his Warrant Officer's Basic Course (WOBC). Mr. Graves describes learning the United States Forces-Iraq (USF-I) transition...
The study investigates the effectiveness and efficiency in which the United States Army Europe decreases in size and the United States looks to a continental-based military force, how does Europe fit into the strategic deployment of forces...
Truman This manual establishes doctrine for planning and executing redeployment operations. It describes the redeployment principles, planning, and execution necessary for the Army's role in the power projection strategy of the United States. It...
Before the landings on MINDANAO were wade, aerial
photographs and guerrilla intelligence wore the chief sources of available information concerning the island.
"War and Ethics" is a quandary that faces military forces around the world. Albert Camus, once said "A man without Ethics is a wild beast loosed upon the world." Throughout history, the war fighters were faced with the constant ethical and moral...
In the following paper I will describe to you, and make you
aware of the importance of a Logistician’s job. Without
logisticians, the War Fighters’ job would be hard, their
maneuver space would be smaller and the outcome would not be
very...
This is a handwritten paper based on an oral history interview with Oscar Martinez, Vietnam Vet. It is thirteen pages long. Written by: Vernon L. Klinger, USASMA Class 29. Gleaned from the larger narrative, the information here focuses on Mr....
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...
From April 2003 through May 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, CW3 Mark Brubeck (a CW2 at the time) served as the mobility warrant officer as part of HHC, 4th Infantry Division, in the Division Transportation Office. Brubeck was,...
This study discusses the tactics used by the Germans employing chemical agents in the World War, and present developments in these weapons and possible future developments.