My field artillery unit was mobilized to perform a non-standard military police mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. The unit was part of the largest National Guard mobilization from our state since the Vietnam era. The challenges of...
In March 1999, military planners considered contingencies in event that the air campaign to remove Serbian forces from Kosovo during Operation Allied Force was not successful. One of those contingencies was a ground offensive, which presented...
This study concludes that the Air Attack Team Regiment (AATR), as a part of the corps aviation brigade, is the option that provides the Army with the best utilization of the A-10. The AATR combines the two main elements of a highly successful...
The United States Army has a long history of advising foreign security forces with its general purpose force, despite a perception that its special force is the primary force with which it undertakes advisory efforts. Ad hoc selection and...
In recent years, global players such as the United States, the European Union (EU) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have noted Africa's growing strategic importance to their respective interests. Among those interests is the increasing...
Through its history, the United States Air Force has struggled with the most efficient and effective way to provide for its own air base ground defense. This monograph submits a solution intended to end the debate. In an effort to provide the most...
This monograph examines the dimensions of time and space for military operations and the process for synchronization. The specific military operations addressed are: linear warfighting as described in FM 100-5, “Operations,” May 1986;...
Neill, Michael; Lieske, Uwe; Prier, Van; Mulholland, David
Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom make up the bulk of the European Defense Force. Seventeen years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Many within the United States of America (U.S.A.) and...
Neill, Michael; Lieske, Uwe; Prier, Van; Mulholland, David
Thesis: Major European allied forces are not prepared to undertake their growing role of Europe's defense with the reduction of United States forces. Abstract: Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom make up the bulk of the European Defense...
Neill, Michael; Lieske, Uwe; Prier, Van; Mulholland, David
Thesis: Major European allied forces are not prepared to undertake their growing role of Europe's defense with the reduction of United States forces. Abstract: Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom make up the bulk of the European Defense...
How the Army prepares in peacetime, mobilizes for war, fights its first battle, and then adapts to the demand of conflict makes every first battle unique. History has shown that the United States Army has been repeatedly unprepared for the outbreak...