For approximately the past ten years, the Army has been engaged in large-scale counterinsurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. These campaigns have forced the Army to reevaluate how it approaches its role in advising host nation forces. This...
In January 2007, President of the United States George W. Bush announced a strategy called the New Way Forward in Iraq, a departure from the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq announced only thirteen months previous. Additionally, President Bush...
When a Soldier gets an opportunity to achieve a professional goal, it can at times place a Soldier in a personal dilemma of choosing between his Soldiers or accomplishing a professional feat. This is not just a normal feat, but also that of a First...
This book contains a detailed account of the United States Army Reserve 98th Division deployment to Iraq in 2004-2005 and its role in building, training, and advising the new Iraqi Army.
The US Army had difficulty initiating and conducting advisory operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom due to the lack of an institutionalized advisory capability. The need to create an advisory capability after the requirement developed, resulted in...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how the 1st Sustainment Brigade (SB) reduced customer wait time (CWT) in Multi-National Division-Baghdad (MND-B) from October 2007 to January 2008. A secondary objective was to determine what affect...
The 16th Quarterly Report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction SIGIR. 2008 will be a "Year of Transfer" in Iraq, bringing with it the continued evolution of the U. S. program. This evolution means that the Government of Iraq...
Os MARAS e a segurança na América Central. Steven C. Boraz e Thomas C. Bruneau; Na última década, os países da América Central experimentaram o crescimento da violência. Essa mudança ocorreu a tal ponto que a Colômbia deixou de ocupar o...
Military leaders today must continually educate themselves on the prospect of the next conflict or war that United States will encounter. Past conflicts elude a pattern of stability throughout the world. No other time like now, has the Armed Forces...
The experience I will be discussing is my deployment to Iraq working with Iraqi military academy (AI Rustamiyah). I was deployed there from March 18ili, 2004 through March 10th 2005. My assignment at the unit during my deployment was as a Senior...
This is a wartime account that describes logistics support operations carried out from homestation at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). I was assigned as the Group (Brigade) S-4 NCOIC for 5th Special Forces...
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...
This report to Congress is submitted pursuant to the section entitled “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” of House Conference Report 109-72 accompanying H. R. 1268, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on...
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 Dom Clementi, a field artillery officer, deployed to Afghanistan in October 2003 while commanding Alpha Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery. Originally designed to provide direct support fires to the 3rd ACR, Clementi's battery...
Major Dom Clementi, a field artillery officer, deployed to Afghanistan in October 2003 while commanding Alpha Battery, 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery. Originally designed to provide direct support fires to the 3rd ACR, Clementi's battery...
From January to December 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Mark Susnis served on a military transition team (MiTT) assigned to the 9th Mechanized Iraqi Army Division and worked initially as the G1/G4 advisor and then later as the...
In this first of two interviews, Major David Novy, United States Air Force, talks about serving as an engineer on the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) engineering staff throughout Iraq from October 2004 through February 2005...
In support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Colonel Peter "Duke" DeLuca commanded the 101st Airborne Division's 326th Engineer Battalion during the major combat phase and then, from June 2004 through June 2005, served as the J7 engineer for Lieutenant...
From March through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Scott Himes served as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company commander for 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. As part of the division's...