The United States submarine force underwent significant improvement between the two world wars. In World War I, United States’ submarines sank no enemy ships. A little over 20 years later the United States’ submarine force crippled Japan’s...
The purpose of this monograph was to answer the research question: How can the Army educate the media in operational matters and what benefits might develop from such enhancement? Three areas provided data for this research: historical examination...
The United States' premier expeditionary force in readiness is arguably the United States Marine Corps. The Marine Corps has been winning battles for over 225 years, and, perhaps understandably so, has developed a resistance to organizational...
Layton , Gary L.; Bigger, Murrel; Eckrich, Robert F.
America's negative stand on women in combat deals in myth and not reality; studies on women's physical abilities, personality and interpersonal relationships, plus a look at history, show women are fit for combat.
A close look at women's physical...
Although the end of World War II enabled devastated countries to rebuild and enjoy a time of peace, another bloody war had just started in Lithuania. Lithuanian Freedom Fighters (LFF) fought for almost a decade (1944-1953) against the Soviets who...
The purpose of this research is to investigate Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) ammunition forecasting methods and determine if the current planning method can and will be capable of supporting the future military challenges of the SAF, as part of the...
The future will contain a perplexing, complex array of security challenges for Australia. Many elements within Defence struggle with the dialectic regarding what should drive the future structure of the Australian Army, should this be the...
The Army defines itself by influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization in FM 6-22. I define it as ensuring the small things are taken care of - ensuring...
This is a transcript from a 1994 interview with Sergeant major of the Army Glen E. Morrell (USA-Ret.) for the US Army museum of the noncommissioned officer sergeants major of the ARMY book project.
From March through October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Commander Randall Hodo, a US Navy reservist, served as the preventive medicine officer with the 4th Civil Affairs Group. He discusses his role in assessing wastewater...
The crusade of Nicopolis, in 1396, intended to expel the Turks from the Balkans, but it ended with the disastrous defeat. Sigismund of Luxemburg, the King of Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor, achieved much to fortify the southern border of Hungary...
A U.S. Army reservist, Major Shauna Hauser served under the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) from October 2004 to February 2005 as a J5 police planner. Involved in the training, equipping and reorganization of Iraqi police...
Major Dale Snider, a project manager with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), was assigned to the engineer staff section of Combined Joint Task Force 180 as the leader of a augmenting forward engineer support team (FEST-A) in support...
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gabel deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the 11th Aviation Regiment's fire support officer from January through June 2003, and then transitioned in theater to become operations officer for the 41st Field...
The Army has made several changes to the weight control program. The reason is because the Army population as a whole has gotten bigger when it comes to weight. This is now a dilemma for leaders at all levels. Next our civilian society has gotten...
The impact of the global war on terrorism on the United States Army’s recruiting and
retention numbers have been tremendous. Retention and recruiting data were investigated to
determine if the long war have affected the quality of the Soldiers...
Craig, Steven T.; Vaalmets, Hannes; Valentine, Anthony; Chancellor, Reginald
The Persian Gulf War of 1990, also known as Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm brought turmoil and conflict to a region with enormous uncertainty. The nation states of Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia where in dispute over land, resources and...
To have power and use power to your advantage will assist a country in the accomplishment of their mission. It is very hard to identify who has power and who does not; sometimes countries are secretly negotiating contracts to achieve goals and more...
People face ethical dilemmas every day. While serving as the course manager for the Civil Affairs Advanced Individual Training, I experienced a very difficult dilemma. Guidance from the chain of command conflicted with the Army Values I was...
As Senior Noncommissioned Officers, we have all faced many ethical dilemmas. All of those dilemmas are most likely similar to those of another Sergeant Major. Therefore, instead of recounting a personal event relating to ethics; I will explore what...