The thesis addresses the development of the current Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). This topic was chosen because the international community, in consultation with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, has established 2014...
With combat formations schedule to begin drawing down in July 2011 and the role of US forces in Iraq already shifting away from the lead, the future of these two nations will grow increasingly dependent upon the indigenous security forces and the...
The aim of my paper is explain what lead up to the birth of a stronger Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) CORP in Afghanistan during the creation of the Afghanistan National Army (ANA). In support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), I was tasked to...
For most of his January to November 2005 deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Major Christopher Plummer served as the training and fielding officer for the entire Afghan National Army (ANA), focusing on marksmanship, small unit...
A veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Air Force Major Robert Levin Jr. served with the 39th Airlift Expeditionary Squadron first as a C-130 unit operations officer - from November 2001 to February...
An individual augmentee on a two-month rotation between February and May 2005 with the Office of Military Cooperation-Afghanistan, Major Brent Novak - at the time the chief of West Point's Leader Development Branch - was tasked with helping to...
Major Craig Bukowski is a Medical Service Corps officer with prior enlisted experience as a combat engineer and truck driver in the Army Reserve, the Army National Guard and the Regular Army. On September 11, 2001, he was serving as commander of a...
Using a methodology consisting of identifying the policy and associated strategy for the initial Afghanistan war period compared to the policy and associated strategy for the current Afghanistan war, the study identifies strategic composition...
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...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under 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 and...
The commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when he was given the opportunity to lead an embedded training team (ETT) to Afghanistan, Colonel Dominic Cariello arrived in theater in February 2006 and, during his...
From January 2006 through January 2007 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Darryl Schroeder - an individual augmentee from the 4th PSYOP Group - served as part of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan and was tasked with...