This paper will address how Information Operations (IO) and the media have become a primary war fighting capability and are now considered military core competencies. Our goal is to highlight the need to aggressively pursue the execution of...
The Global War on Terrorism, specifically Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, is still a relatively new type of warfare; the war is being fought on a non-linear battlefield and the enemy is constantly changing their tactics and...
Nicarágua: da guerra à paz. General (Res) Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo, Exército Nacional da Nicarágua; Como foi feita a transição do Poder Ditatorial para o Poder Revolucionário e deste para o Poder Institucional Democrático na Nicarágua? As...
Nicaragua de la guerra a la paz. General (R) Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo, Ejército Nacional de Nicaragua; ¿Cómo transitó Nicaragua del Poder Dictatorial al Poder Revolucionario y de éste al Poder Institucional Democrático? Las lecciones negativas...
The U.S. (U.S.) Government’s ability to influence friends and foes around the world has immense strategic implications that can either enhance U.S. strategic objectives or contribute to a loss of U.S. power. Nine years after the beginning of the...
On March 20, 2003, a United States led coalition invaded Iraq. The character of this conflict can be defined by the West’s ability to conduct precision strikes, to manoeuvre and to overwhelm the enemy’s command system. Emerging U.K. and U.S....
Abstract: Transformation has drastically improved efficiency of Army public affairs in operations, with the support of information operations, embedded media, and strategic communications. Army public affairs continue to face key challenges to...
The Arab Spring is an event that has radically shifted the geopolitical landscape in one of the most volatile regions of the world. Many experts and policy makers were caught off guard by the speed and organizational ability of disparate citizens...
Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration chose to pursue a broad, offensive, and preemptive campaign against terrorists and their purported state sponsors, versus executing a focused response against Osama bin...
The proceedings from CSI's fourth annual Military History Symposium held 8-10 Aug, 2006 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and sponsored by US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Topics include security assistance operations, policies, the roles...
Abstract: Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the enemy insurgent forces continue to neglect its moral responsibility to treat humanely United States and Coalition, both military and civilian, forces as Prisoners of War. The treatment...
Failure to understand the cultural terrain can greatly affect the length and severity of a military operation. There are many similarities in the cultural missteps made during United States’ military operations in the conquered and occupied state...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Colonel William Darley was the public affairs officer for Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the Combined Joint Task Force 7 commander, from August 2003 to March 2004. In this interview, he describes his public affairs mission in terms of three...
In the past decade, it has become apparent that the Iranian Government is not willing to give up its Nuclear Fuel Program. Though it claims that its endeavors are merely the pursuit of making nuclear fuel, the threat of an unsupervised Iranian...
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), made up of six monarchies geographically adjacent within the Arabian Gulf area, invited both the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Kingdom of Morocco into its organization in May 2011. The timing coincided with...
The ongoing military operations in Afghanistan underscore the importance of regional stability in Central and South Asia. While much of our attention remains focused on Afghanistan, the unstable nature of Pakistan creates a problematic scenario for...
Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri enticed tens of thousands of Muslims from around the world to travel to Afghanistan, swear allegiance to bin Laden and the cause of Al Qaeda, fight and even die for that cause. Bin Laden united faithful...
The United States is now in the eighth year of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). For America, the war began with the surprise attacks against targets in Washington D.C. and New York City on September 11, 2001. For al Qaeda, the war began centuries...
Criticism and condemnation of al-Qaeda that originate from the worldwide Muslim community present the most formidable challenge to its existence and legitimacy as an organization and movement. There is ample literature that questions whether or not...