The National Guard's origins trace back to the militia of the first settlements in America. Since its inception in 1636, the National Guard has played vital role in the nation's defense from the Revolutionary War to the most recent conflicts in...
In October 2007, SGM Anthony Naste and Operational Detachment Bravo (ODB) 9510 trained and worked with the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit in Babel Province, Iraq. This story will enlighten others to an experience of what can happen at the...
MAJ Chad Rambo served as the G2 Operations Officer with the 82nd Airborne Division in 2003 and as the Intelligence Officer with the 4th Brigade (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division in 2006 on two separate deployments to Iraq in support of Operation...
MAJ Jon Myers served as the assistant operations officer (S3) with the 503rd Military Police (MP) Battalion in Mosul, Iraq during 2003 and 2004, as company commander of the 118th MP Company, Airborne in Babel Province, Iraq during 2004 and 2005,...
Operation Anaconda, a subordinate operation to Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002, was notable for difficulties in integrating US air and ground forces in order to bring combat power to bear on a stronger than originally anticipated foe. In the...
Seeing Red: Creating a Red-Team Capability for the Blue Force. Colonel Gregory Fontenot, U.S. Army, Retired; Red teaming, a structured process executed by trained and practiced team members, is uniquely suited to...
From the summer of 2002 until he left to attend the Command and General Staff College in the summer of 2005, Major Greg Bodge served at Fort Leavenworth's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) as the National Guard liaison officer. This...
Over the past decade, the U.S. government struggled consistently to establish a solid foothold in the global marketplace of ideas. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks and through two persistent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan the...
A special edition of the Combined Arms Center research and publication index (January-December 2005) which contains information on the availability of research products and how to acquire them. Most of the research products listed in this index are...
Units are going to suffer casualties in combat. It is important how the unit reacts and overcomes these traumatic events. In Iraq, Crazy Horse Troop suffered its first two causalities at the same time; this was a traumatic event for everyone in the...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
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...
MAJ Blake Price served as a platoon leader with 2nd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment in Sinjar, Iraq during 2003, as platoon leader with a Pathfinder company in the 101st Airborne Division in Kirkuk, Iraq during 2005 and 2006, both in support of...
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 current U.S. Army involvement in Afghanistan requires an expanded field artillery arsenal of weaponry and munitions. This expansion should include rockets, medium and light howitzers, and pack howitzers. These weapon systems offset the...
This monograph analyzed whether Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck used operational art to defeat British forces in the East African campaign of World War I. British forces were superior in quantity of men and equipment, but slow moving and...
Eight years of persistent conflict and increasing engagement requirements across the globe have followed the end of the Cold War. Appropriately, leaders and theorists recognize the professional military obligation and importance of adapting...