The National Security Strategy of the United States of America of September 2002 (NSS) aims “to help make the world not just safer but better.” In order to achieve this ambitious challenge, The NSS defines the following goals on the path to...
The United States Government established provincial reconstruction teams (PRT) in early 2003 with the intent of spreading ISAF effects throughout Afghanistan. The mission of the PRTs was and is to increase economic and governance capacity in a...
Due to its haphazard partition from British Colonial India and a series of internal and external destabilizing events throughout the last six decades, Pakistan has been plagued with varying degrees of instability that leave it today on the edge of...
The policy of the United States is not of colonization, but to assist countries in creating self-sufficient democratic governments that lead to regional stability, and our policy in Afghanistan in no different. The bloody history in Afghanistan and...
Abstract: In this work I wanted to show problems caused by transformation of an Army of salvation to an Army of occupation. It is closely connected with the subject of Cultural Awareness. I will describe how it influences military operations and...
The mission for the Joint Coordination Center resulted from a meeting between the US government and members of the Pakistan Parliament, which took place on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore, Roosevelt, in August of 2008. As part of the Global War...
From December 1, 2008 to January 9, 2009, thirty-two students from Staff Groups 16A and 16B at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) conducted an operational level study in order to recommend a course of action for the Afghanistan Campaign...
Volume II of II, this volume serves as an introduction to the study of the Arab-Israeli crisis from the socio-political, historical and military points of view. It takes for its starting point a definition of the crisis as the conflict of two...
Throughout the history of the United States, the American military has integrated capabilities from diverse military units. From the regulars under Washington and the local militias in the American Revolution to the airborne Divisions of World War...
The purpose of this monograph is to provide an in-depth study of how the U.S. miscalculation of Iraqi will to fight during the planning of Operation Iraqi Freedom contributed to post major conflict operational problems. The specific nature of these...
This thesis investigates the rapid defeat of the Taliban Regime by a US-led coalition and the ability of the Taliban to survive, reorganize, and form an insurgency movement. This paper contends that there are an important set of interrelated...
Today’s modern warrior should invest vast amounts of time and effort studying military successes as well as failures to better apply lessons learned to today’s battlefield. To elevate our understanding, we must take an in depth look into the...
Military Police will need to continue to adapt and overcome unconventional warfare in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) by developing new doctrine and skill sets to successfully outmaneuver the enemy on today’s modern battlefield. Military...
The use of Actionable Intelligence on the battlefield has directly led to the success of the United States Army in both the Battle of Vera Cruz Mexico, 1914 and the Invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. The United States Army has always depended on...
From shortly after its inception, Al Qa’ida has sought sanctuaries from which it could safely operate and provide support to Islamist groups around the world. It found one in Sudan from 1992 to 1996, in Afghanistan from the late 1980s to 2001,...
Can the United States successfully impose democracy by force without resorting to the same level of total warfare it waged on Germany and Japan in the Second World War? The hypothesis for this research is that the U.S. can successfully force...
Currently, the United States finds itself in a very similar predicament to what Great Britain experienced after emerging from the First World War as she set about the governance of a growing empire during the interwar period. With the stated intent...
This monograph addresses the question, "Is the 1999 edition of FM 100-25, Doctrine for Army Special Operations Forces, adequate to integrate the actions of special operations forces (SOF) and conventional forces on the contemporary battlefield?" ...
The contemporary operating environment poses distinctly different challenges for military commanders and planners than traditional conflicts. Non-contiguous battlespace exposes lines of communication to enemy action, unlike the linear battlespace...