Romania represents a reliable NATO member and an emergent democracy among the Eastern European countries. In 2004, Romania became a NATO member and will be integrated in the European Union in 2007. However, these achievements required Romania to go...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the subject of African American United States Army officers and their service in the combat arms branches. The research uncovered the complex roles that African American combat arms officers assumed during...
What is the probability for renewed conflict in the Sinai region in light of Egypt's recent revolution? This monograph examines that question by analyzing Nasser's Free Officer revolution of the 1950s that led to 1956 Suez Crisis (Nasser era) and...
For this Civil Affairs document, three main sections include the Bismarckian Empire (1871-1918), the Weimar Republic (revolution and the new array of forces, period of consolidation, and the end of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power),...
This study investigates the constitutional legitimacy of the Chilean presidency under Salvador Allende from November 1970 to September 1973. The analysis focuses on the significant factors that influenced decisions, policies, and programs which...
How can the Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework (ICAF) be improved in order to better understand the operational environment? The application of the ICAF requires good intellectual habits that encompass an appreciation for abductive reasoning...
In 1981, the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas, published an excellent selected bibliography of periodical articles and dissertations on Dwight D. Eisenhower compiled by Robert D. Bohanan (see Bibliographies and Indexes). This author's...
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), Headquarters
Decree no. 198-SL/DUHC of 24 December 1966 (governing the reorganization of village and hamlet administration). Chapters contain information regarding the village people's council (including organization and authority), the Village Administrative...
This thesis examines Brigadier General Henry A. Wise's involvement in the Western Virginia Campaign of 1861. This Confederate defeat resulted in the Federal occupation of a large, strategically important section of the Confederacy in the first year...
This report consists of interviews with Dr. Ivan J. Birrer about his career at the Command and General Staff College. On 30 June 1978, Dr. Birrer retired from his position at the Command and General Staff College after completing more than 30 years...
In the United States, politics is primarily dominated by two political parties; the Republicans and the Democrats. They wage political warfare on one another every election year, and the time leading up to it. But, not everyone in the country...
The professional study of military history is not enough to prevent the repetition of history. Human beings are systematically designed with flaws. As human beings; we are receptors that learn as we go. Thus, as we learn from infancy to adulthood;...
Pope, William H.; Bridgman, Teddy; Jackson, Nadine; Fauntleroy, Kevin; Clark, Robert L.
Thesis: Combined United States forces and Government agencies prevent the capture of Saigon during the Tet Offensive and the aftermath. To keep history from repeating itself, we can only hope that the lessons learned and the sacrifices made by U.S....
Thesis Statement: The politicians responsible for deploying U.S. troops to a war zone with an inflexible, ambiguous mission statement, intelligence, and security, led to the death of 241 Marines in Beirut. Discussion: There were 241 lessons learned...
Everything started in late 1998 when I was called to ensure a job as a driver instructor inside Noncommissioned Officers (NCO) Training School for Land Forces. NCO Training School for Land Forces was my former military school where I was teaching...
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...
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...
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...