The end of communism changed the global strategic environment marked by a bipolar world and replaced it with uncertainty and a readily defined threat. Over a relatively short period of time, a multipolar world began to emerge while academia and...
The military/media relationship is historically tenuous. While both the media and the military play a role in the preservation of American freedoms, the military depends on operations security for many of its functions while the media demands...
This monograph determines the role and current posture of the United States Army, and specifically its intelligence corps, in Department of Defense (DoD) Intelligence Community (IC) implementation and execution of Intelligence Campaign Planning...
Since its inception, the intelligence community (IC) has had several persistent problems that continue today--information sharing, activity coordination, and validity of analysis. As a result of 9/11, the IC was closely scrutinized. The findings of...
Jack L. Tilley was born on December 3, 1948 and grew up in Vancouver, Washington. SMA Tilley was a people person who liked dealing with others; his main goal was to enjoy life. Not a particularly scholarly student, Tilley was a sports enthusiast...
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.
SMA (RET) Tilley has been arguably one of the most influential Sergeant Major of the Army in history. He started his career as many of us did, by enlisting for a term to explore what the Army had to offer. SMA (RET) Tilley was born in Vancouver,...
This paper will cover my experience as the United States Army Special Forces Command (USASFC(A)) G-3 Advisor to the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the rapid transformation of that unit in response to OEF and OIF mobilizations. The 20th...
In three and a half years, SMA Tilley traveled more than 700,000 miles to 200 CONUS and OCONUS locations, visiting approximately 200,000 soldiers. At nearly every stop, he seemed to be refueled from an endless supply of energy. He captivated...
This monograph examines the current organizational structure and employment of the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Reserve Force, to research the possibility of increasing force readiness through command reorganization and implementation of a reserve...
Through the process of critical review, the purpose of this monograph is to analyze the history of physical readiness training and assessment in the United States Army. Although the evolution of Army physical readiness training (PRT) doctrine...
Religious practices in the Army are creating an ethical dilemma for our Soldiers. Both the Oath of Enlistment and the practices of senior officials demonstrate an inability to separate church and state. Therefore, the U.S. Army should discontinue...
Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA) Tilley began his career just intending to be a good soldier. He had no ambition to be anything special in the Army. He saw action in the Vietnam War and served in varied position as an NCO that prepared him, without...
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...
Lessons learned from operations in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past ten years indicate that the Army is fighting in an environment that requires a change in how organizations gather, analyze, synthesize, and produce intelligence. "Top-down"...
The purpose of this monograph is to ascertain what organizational changes within SOF would enhance unified direction in the Global War on Terrorism? In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the United States Government began developing its...
The Global War on Terror and the Department of Defense have thrust change upon the Marine Corps and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Because the Secretary of Defense mandated that the Marine Corps would create a component in...
As the military liaison officer (LNO) to other government agencies - mainly the CIA and the FBI - Major Melissa Fozman, based at Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan in Kabul, supported Operation Enduring Freedom from July 2004 through January 2005....