Captain Alain Samples started her career in the military as a transportation platoon leader in a National Guard transportation company. Samples was subsequently selected to attend flight school, after which she was assigned to a National Guard air...
This monograph demonstrates that the FLQ was an insurgency through the verification of four characteristics common to five insurgency definitions. The Canadian government’s initiatives and actions simply kept the FLQ insurgency from moving past...
This thesis is built on research guided by the primary research question: Does the European Union (EU) possess effective military crisis management decision-making mechanisms to plan and execute peacekeeping missions without external assistance?...
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was a cataclysmic international event. Because of the devastation suffered during the genocide, a focused effort at repairing the social fabric of the nation had to take place. The case shows how Rwanda overcame the...
Afghanistan looms as the key foreign policy challenge for the Obama administration. Under the previous Bush administration, foreign policy was driven primarily by security considerations, and Afghanistan was viewed a frontline state in the Global...
The termination theories developed since the Korean War that influenced the development of joint doctrine are confusing and contradictory. Joint doctrine therefore did not address the military's role in obtaining US national interests in the...
This thesis reviews all commentary on the US response (or lack thereof) to the 1994 Rwanda genocide to identify suggested US responses to a similar situation that may occur in the future. Purpose is to develop a course of action for the US...
A renaissance for military justice. LTC James A. Mounts, Jr., USA, and CPT Myron G. Sugarman, USA ,br> The Hamlet evaluation system. COL Maurice D. Roush, USA
In this paper, the author questions cost effectiveness analysis as a valuable management tool (when used to choose among weapon systems), and if it is, wonders why is there an apparent reluctance on the part of certain elements of the military to...
"You have been sent to the U.S. Army Artillery and Guided Missile School as a student officer for training to fit you for command, staff, or special staff duty with artillery units. The purpose of this booklet is primarily to tell you how the U.S....
The United States Army Sergeants Major Academy has grown extensively from the early days of 1972. The year 1986 marked an end of the old Academy and beginning of the new. As the new Academy building rose in the West Texas sun, many changes began...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
This study focuses on tactical airpower in south Vietnam between 1961-1968. Some of the issues examined are command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters,...
This study is the culmination of a US Army War College study effort to draw strategic lessons from our Vietnam experience. Using Clausewitzian theory and the classical principles of war, the book attempts to place the Vietnam war in domestic...