Muslim immigrants in the United States share the same characteristics as any other immigrant group coming to America looking for a chance at prosperity. Immigrants form close communities, maintain many of their customs and cultural ties to their...
The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast efforts by the U.S. military to transform. An analysis will identify key factors that led to the need to transform, key policies enacted to effect the desired transformation, the leading forces...
After World War Two the United States moved into a position of global pre-eminence. The Bush doctrine of pre-emptive and preventive action, expressed in the 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategies, holds that this level of relative power...
This paper analyzes several military events, and analyses how they have influenced doctrine and tactics in the Army: use of torture in the Franco-Algerian War; the Abu Ghraib Case; Vietnam War.
This paper will compare and contrast counterinsurgency in the American Indian Wars and the Vietnam War; including three examples from each, and offer insights that can apply to the Global War on Terrorism. As senior military leaders it is...
This purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast two insurgencies. I will compare the Apache insurgency and the insurgency in Iraq. I will talk about their failures and success. These two situations are very similar and it seems like the U.S....
This monograph discusses operational sustainment in a secondary theater of war. Essentially, this study asks, given horizontal escalation in a global conflict where central Europe is the primary theater, what is the effect of operational...
This Civil Affairs handbook details the issue of propaganda in Europe during the Second World War. Headings include principal German propaganda agencies operating abroad, propaganda in combat and communication zones, transition from propaganda in...
This paper will compare and contrast three insurgent wars fought against two of the world’s greatest super powers. The Vietnam and Iraq wars saw insurgents fighting against the United States and the Soviet war in Afghanistan. These wars differed...
This paper compares and contrasts two examples of a military force succeeding or failing in its efforts to achieve cultural understanding as it conducted military operations. It focuses on the Plains Indian wars and the conflict in the Philippines...
The central question of this monograph is a simple one: does the Army's current imagery (IMINT), and measurements and signatures intelligence (MASINT) surveillance architecture, at echelons division and below, meet the requirements for supporting...
Before humans could write, there were wars and heroes to write about. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast three wars to today and lessons learned: Revolutionary, World War II (WW II), and Vietnam to our current war. The military...
The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the successes and failures of the British Army engagement in a counter-insurgency operations in Malaya, from 1948 – 1960, and Cyprus, from 1955- 1959. Counterinsurgency is a human...
This paper compares and contrasts two examples of military force succeeding or failing in its efforts to achieve cultural understanding as it conducted military operations: the Vietnam War (conflict) and the war with Iraq. Cultural change in the...
The command and control of today's intratheater airlift system, as seen in doctrine and in application, is complicated and conflicted. As the Army continues its transformation to the modular force, requirements for responsive and flexible...
The reoccurrence of unconventional war is just as relevant today as it was years ago. I will compare the counterinsurgency fight that we face today as compared to the same fight during Vietnam and parts of the Indian War. Although the United States...
This ‘compare and contrast’ essay argues the case for studying military history. It examines three reasons why the study of military history is important to noncommissioned officer education: 1) leadership; 2) military tactics; and 3) military...
The United States has committed to training and equipping the Afghan National Army. This mission is executed primarily by conventional American soldiers, who naturally transfer much of their martial culture to their Afghan partners. This study...
The noncommissioned officer has evolved from traditional manual labor to critical thinkers and successful leaders. Advanced technology, education, political acknowledgements have been contributing factor. NCOs are responsible for fulfilling not...
This paper will cover some changes that the military has made to transform into a better fighting force. Efforts by the U.S. military to transform occurred during a time of change as the need to adapt arose during the various conflicts that the...