You had the challenge of maintaining good order and discipline while trying to keep everything at a minimum while your morals, values, and beliefs influenced the decision. The decision you make will affect all under and around you, it will be a...
With the decline of the Soviet Union, the United States Army has become engaged in a multitude of operations that are different and more complex in nature from those of the Cold War. While still needing to train for full scale conventional war, the...
While serving as the HHC, 2-160 First Sergeant during the very first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), I learned some valuable lessons, both positive and negative.
A positive lesson learned follows: The importance of home station...
While it appears that the role of the U.S. Army is changing from exclusively fighting and winning the nation’s wars to becoming the force provider for numerous support and stability operations, the potential to become entangled in low intensity...
When word came down in November 2004 that the 138th Signal Battalion's Alpha Company - part of the 38th Infantry Division, Indiana National Guard - was going to be sent to Iraq for a 2005-2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom,...
When America was attacked on 11 September 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom in Kandahar, Afghanistan (OEF-A) was formed to fight the war on global terrorism. To support the fight, my deployment to OEF-A with the 82nd Airborne Division Task Force...
Walking, first day of school, learning to drive, and graduating from high school are some of the first life- altering experiences that most of us encounter. Moving out from mom’s house, joining the military, marriage, having a child, and buying a...
King, Benjamin; Dempsey, Martin E.; Combat Studies Institute (U.S.); U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
Victory Starts Here is the history of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command's (TRADOC's) 35 years as the architect of the Army's future. During the first years of the 21st century, "Transformation" became a new buzzword for the Army changing...
King, Benjamin; Dempsey, Martin E.; Combat Studies Institute (U.S.)
Victory Starts Here is the history of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command's (TRADOC's) 35 years as the architect of the Army's future. During the first years of the 21st century, "Transformation" became a new buzzword for the Army changing...
Using the 1983 US invasion of Grenada and the 1992-3 military humanitarian intervention in Somalia as case studies, this monograph shows how post-Cold War operational planning can benefit from the experiences gained from recent deployments. The...
Using Force XXI operational concepts, the US Military expects to overwhelm both high and low technology opponents. If history is any indication, however, apparently low tech forces have the potential at least to tie 'modern,' conventional...
US Air Force Maj Bart Yates served as a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator out of Jacobabad, Pakistan during 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and again operating Predators out of Tallil Air Base, Iraq during 2003 and...
Unified Land Operations: The Evolution of Army Doctrine for Success in the 21st Century. Colonel Bill Benson, U.S. Army; The Army exploits the initiative to gain a position of advantage in unified land operations nested inside joint unified...
Unable to deploy with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment - part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - due to an illness when the unit went to Iraq in early 2004, Major Doug Walter eventually rejoined his comrades in country in July and became...
U.S. military has repeatedly been unprepared to execute its primary mission in various conflicts. The conflicts analyzed are Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Storm. This paper will identify root factors affecting the ability of the U.S....
U.S. Army units have been conducting peace operations in Bosnia since December 1995. There, the environment evolved from being one characterized by peace enforcement operations to one characterized by peacekeeping operations. As part of...
U.S. Army Field Manual 100-5, Operations (FM 100-5), the keystone warfighting manual, lists the culminating point as one of the three key concepts of operational design. It also states that the concept is applicable at the strategic, operational...
Trends at the combat training centers (CTCs) indicate that Aviation officers fail to successfully apply the TDMP. This thesis seeks to identify if this performance discrepancy is due to a failure of the Army's Leadership Development Process (LDP)...
Transformation Vanguard Army vision. The Honorable Louis Caldera, Secretary of the Army, and General Eric K. Shinseki, US Army Chief of Staff Vanguard of the objective force. Colonel Michael Mehaffey, US Army IBCT at Fort Lewis. Major...