You are well trained and motivated. Ready to take on any mission. If you are in the medical community as I am, this usually means patient care. However, Operation Iraqi Freedom expanded our mission well beyond doctrinal guidelines and even went so...
Writings and communications of General DePuy. In three parts, part I covers the pre-Tradoc years, 1954-1973, part II the Tradoc years 1974-77, and part III, retirement years, 1978-91. In the seventeen years between General DePuy's creation of...
Writings and communications of General DePuy. In three parts, part I covers the pre-Tradoc years, 1954-1973, part II the Tradoc years 1974-77, and part III, retirement years, 1978-91. In the seventeen years between General DePuy's creation of...
World War II is an event in history when the Noncommissioned Officer made significant advances with contributions to the United States military's efforts. In this document I will present event leading up to the war and the conflict and the role of...
World War II had a greater impact upon the NCOs role and status than any other conflict in America's history. Prior to WWII the professional NCO was generally a bachelor whose life revolved around his unit. NCOs were not to be detailed for any...
Women serving in our armed forces should never have to face the tragedy of sexual assault. However, female troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting an insidious enemy in their own camps: fellow American Soldiers who sexually assault...
Women have served in every war from the Revolutionary War to Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. For centuries, women have been demanding equal rights and the equal opportunity to ~ork in, and advance in, all different types jobs open to men,...
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 more...
Within the past few years, there have been a number of reports referring to "Competitive Strategies." In one sense, Competitive Strategies is the Defense "buzzphrase" of the late 80s. However, it is also more. Secretary Weinberger directed DoD to...
With United States involvement in Afghanistan, knowledge of the country is imperative. This "handbook explains a number of basic issues that should be in the knowledge" toolbox of a Marine working with Afghanis or deployed to the country.
With the United States enemies increasing in numbers daily the need to fight campaigns as individual fighting forces is becoming extinct. The President of the United States has seen that the fighting forces of America are a much stronger adversary...
With the United States 19 reliance on rapid power projection, there is little prospect demands on airlift will decrease. On the contrary, today 's significant gap between requirements and capabilities will likely increase as the nation faces new...
With the transition from the Army of Excellence logistics structure to the single logistics command and control of the modular force logistics concept, the traditional command relationship between logistics organizations and the maneuver forces...
With the Transformation of the new Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) it may be the beginning of the end of females in the Field Artillery if some changes are not made soon. Are we on a slow road to removing enlisted females from the Field Artillery...
With the role of the U.S. Army changing from exclusively fighting and winning the nation's wars to becoming more involved in support and stability operations, the potential to become entangled in urban combat has increased tremendously....
With the rise of Al Qaeda and like-minded militant groups, there have been many discussions and misrepresentations of the term Islamic way of warfare. It is important to understand that anything, to be qualified as Islamic, has to have a reference...
With the rapidly changing and unfamiliar global environment, the U.S. Army must require its planners to have an understanding of operational art within the context of their warfighting function and combat power. How can an operational planner...
With the introduction of new capstone doctrine, the U.S. Army should invest more time in the formal education of future leaders. This study demonstrates the importance of operational art, the theory used to develop campaigns and major operations in...
With the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq, Americans are once again discussing the draft. Congressman Charles Rangel has argued that we need the draft to fill the ranks or force disengagement from Iraq and prevent entry into unnecessary...
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States has entered into a time of global politics which has been called "The New World Order.” The profound changes which this new order is causing within the U.S. government, and its military...