Agora que Estamos Saindo do Iraque, o que Aprendemos? Coronel Craig A. Collier, Exército dos EUA; Em 19 Ago 10, a última Unidade de combate (4ª Brigada Stryker da 2ª Divisão de Infantaria) deixou o Iraque, quando a Operação Iraqi Freedom...
The Niger Delta region is the nerve of the Nigerian economy. The region has witnessed series of conflicts largely due to the oil resources therein. Violent militancy in the Niger Delta assumed a new dimension in the mid nineties as the residents...
This research discusses the challenges of providing timely distribution of supplies during hurricane relief operations due to the lack of a designated national in-transit visibility (ITV) system. Historical lessons learned from the hurricane that...
Today's operational environment consists of uncertainty, chance, friction, and complexity. Change and adaptation that once required years to implement must now be recognized, communicated, and enacted far more quickly. To effectively respond to the...
As originally conceived in World War I, combat reporting from tactical aircraft has the potential to provide critical information concerning friendly operations and enemy activity to enhance situational awareness, supporting force protection and...
Strategic communication is a relatively new and currently evolving concept in the U.S. military, and it is currently not widely understood what role, if any, leaders at the tactical level have in it. In order to determine what role tactical-level...
Purpose. Identify key aspects of the Command Supply Discipline Program (CSDP). Commanders must become actively involved in their units to ensure successful development, implementation, and maintenance of the CSDP. 2. Facts. Commanders' time is...
This exploratory study attempted to estimate how the issues of cost and quality would be affected by employing an online solution as one method of accomplishing the Army ROTC military history requirement. Background on the Army ROTC program and the...
The 2008 National Defense Strategy identifies promoting security as one of the nation's strategic objectives, using Security Force Assistance (SFA) as a method to build partner capacity. The primary threat addressed is violent extremist...
Since 2007, when President Felipe Calderon declared his government's war on the drug trafficking organizations operating in his country, the level of narcotics related violence has increased dramatically. The violence, which had been largely...
This thesis explores the applicability of current US counterinsurgency doctrine in Joint Publication 3-24, Field Manual 3-24 and Field Manual 3-24.2 to the Lebanese Hizballah and Taliban insurgencies. In particular, this thesis examines the Cold...
Starting in 1991, a consortium of criminologists, social psychologists, and law school professors began researching how jurors in capital cases come to their decisions. This body of work, called the Capital Jury Project (CJP), found several trends...
The United States declared drugs to be a clear and present danger to the country and proceeded to wage a war on them that was both justified and temporarily successful from 1970 through 1990. Although not prepared for this mission at first, the...
The research question investigates how policy relates to the influence of threats, law, and treaty. It investigates how policy influences strategy, capabilities, resources, and evaluation of policy execution in order to understand how space policy...
This paper examines the role of British intelligence operations during the American Revolutionary War as they apply to the British defeat at Yorktown. It begins with a brief history of British intelligence prior to the war, discusses strategic...
Initially, this research addresses the Department of Defense's doctrine that separates the Homeland Security mission into two distinct but interrelated mission areas, Homeland Defense and Defense Support for Civil Authorities. Subsequently, it...
On board U.S. Navy, Military Sealift Command and the U.S. Coast Guard vessels, Inspection and Survey routinely conduct inspections. The successful completion of these Inspection and Survey (INSURV) inspections has always been considered a major...
The work achieved by Marshal Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934) in Morocco between 1912 and 1925, while he served as the résident général, occupies a special place in French military history. Lyautey's work still applies today, and is...
During Operation Rolling Thunder, the United States Air Force was unprepared for the introduction of the SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile system into the North Vietnamese integrated air defense system (IADS). Following a series of aircraft...
The rise in the number of intra-state conflicts, following the end of the Cold War, and the reluctance of traditional extra regional actors to intervene, have thrust upon the region the onus of resolving its own conflicts. This determination to...