This monograph discusses the utility of the Weinberger Criteria for peace-enforcement decisions into the 21st Century. The mission of peace-enforcement and the new world order require US decision makers to review their criteria for employment of US...
Colonel Frederick Rudesheim was the former commander of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized). The brigade deployed to the port of Corpus Christi and was expecting to go into Turkey when their mission was changed. The initial...
A veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Air Force Major Robert Levin Jr. served with the 39th Airlift Expeditionary Squadron first as a C-130 unit operations officer - from November 2001 to February...
Colonel Frank Hull served as Commander of 1st Armored Division Artillery (DIVARTY) in support of Operation Iraq Freedom. He replaced COL Torrance of the 3rd Infantry Division DIVARTY and served until August 2003 when he was replaced by Colonel...
Colonel John D. "J.D." Johnson deployed to Iraq as the commander of 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division (AD). Prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the 2d Brigade, 1st AD was stationed in Baumholder, Germany. Johnson had been to Kuwait before OIF...
This study seeks to determine the potential causes for unit collapse in combat through a comparison and analysis of two American divisions. The first, the 35th Infantry Division fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918, in World War...