This monograph analyzes the effectiveness of US Army Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield doctrine to identify and target enemy psychological vulnerabilities. The focus is on the heavy division. First, the monograph evaluates US Army heavy...
This monograph determines the prospects for peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula and the implications of unification on United States' military strategy in Northeast Asia. The prospects for Korean unification are analyzed in the context of...
The lessons derived from the use of attack helicopters in Operation Desert Storm will revolutionize future concepts of land warfare.
A comparison of the current war fighting doctrine with recent observations in Operation Desert Storm,...
The objective of this monograph is to evaluate the performance of U.S. Army intelligence in Desert Shield/Storm. Several limitations or constraints apply. First, the paper is unclassified and, hence, specific details of several important points had...
Ethnic conflict is emerging as the dominant threat to world peace in the post-World War II security environment. The scope and frequency of ethnic conflict threatens world stability and could infringe on U.S. vital interests. The U.S. and the UN...
This monograph analyzes whether the joint/combined information bureau is credible and properly resourced. First, Vietnam is analyzed as an historical example to examine the public information policies that were followed to enhance credibility and...
This monograph discusses the theory and doctrine of war termination and evaluates their application during the Persian Gulf War. It defines war termination across the operational continuum. It develops a theoretical war termination model using a...
This monograph examines a new military mission--peace-enforcement. It does so through a five part strategic process that links national interests and national security strategy to tactical operations. It asserts that US national security strategy...
This monograph examines whether the operational air defense force for theater ballistic missile defense will be capable of conducting operations on future battlefields. To explore relevant issues in this area, historical examples from World War I,...
The multinational corps concept is relevant to NATO as a way of dealing with the changes brought about by the unification of Germany, the impending withdrawal of the Soviet Union's military forces from Eastern Europe and budget constraints in NATO...
This monograph addresses the question of whether the U.S. Army can fight and win the nation's wars when those wars bear little or no resemblance to World War II. The question isolates a problem America's military has faced several times since World...
This monograph discusses the potential for a strategic airlift strategy-capabilities mismatch by the year 2000 as the Department of Defense reduces and restructures its ground, air, and sea forces and concurrently refocuses its strategy for the...
This monograph examines the concept of tactical-surprise and its use by raiding forces in Operations Other than War (OOTW). It discusses the nature of the OOTW environment and its relationship to the creation of tactical surprise. Surprise is...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the viability of combined arms brigade employment in AirLand Operations. As criteria, the study imposes the Operational Operating Systems (OOS) contained in the April 15, 1990 TRADOC Pam 11-9, Army Programs...
This study chronicles and evaluates the evolution of military-media relations to determine whether the Persian Gulf War public affairs policies were a compromise between Vietnam and Grenada policy experiences. It provides new insights into the...
This thesis reviews US national security strategy (NSS) and US military engineering assistance (MEA) to Peru to see if MEA is employed consistent with NSS. It identifies and classifies US strategic interests in Peru. Finding US interests at stake,...
This monograph examines the heavy division Military Intelligence (MI) battalion's capability to provide the division commander accurate and timely information for tactical decision making. The monograph begins by discussing why modern war and Army...
This monograph examines the legacy that has been passed down from the personal recollections made by the Commanders-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command regarding planning and/or execution of full spectrum operations in Panama. The focus of this paper...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...