Many Presidents determined that the war on drugs was a direct and critical threat to our nation’s national security. President Reagan made it a national priority and made it policy to involve the United States Military. Reagan focused on South...
Stearns, Henry; Bartosch, Mark; Majors, William; Powers, Mario; Cockrell, Mario
The United States Military is the most well equipped and trained force to deal with the war on drugs. We must take the threat of illegal drugs attacking the very fiber of our nation as serious a threat to our national security, as weapons of mass...
An ethical dilemma in today’s military world is how to react on war crimes committed by direct adversary on the field. That question is hard to respond. Sometime, Soldiers are facing directly with war crimes on fields, and only Soldiers by...
The Army has opened up more Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) for women. Some of these MOSs place women almost directly into combat. Despite the fact that women are serving admirably alongside their male counterparts in Iraq and are...
This occasional paper is a concise overview of the history of the US Army’s involvement along the Mexican border and offers a fundamental understanding of problems associated with such a mission. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the historic...
Lieutenant Commander Brandon Sellers served as a pilot for an F-18 Hornet in Carrier Air Wing Five onboard USS Kitty Hawk from March through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about being part of the Navy's...
Part one of the three-part interview with Major Ronald Large of the Military Police Corps deals with his deployment to Israel as commander of the 92nd MP Company prior to the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the mission to guard Patriot...
Part two of the three-part interview with Major Ronald Large covers his February 2004 through January 2005 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, during which he served as initially a battle captain and then operations officer...
Part three of the three-part interview with Major Ronald Large covers his August through December 2006 deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, during which he served as the 16th MP Brigade operations officer responsible for...
From March to May 2003, Major Michael Doherty served as the Headquarters Support Company (HSC) commander for 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Once in northern Iraq working with the Kurdish Peshmerga,...
In this second of two interviews with Major Michael Doherty concerning his Global War on Terrorism experiences, he discusses his work on the Force Planning and Integration Team in the Department of the Army, Military Operations-War Plans Division...