United States Army Special Forces (SF) has played a critical role in prosecuting the Global War on Terror. Their ability to wage unconventional warfare remains their trademark. Operations in Afghanistan and northern Iraq demonstrated SF's ability...
Throughout the history of the United States, the American military has integrated capabilities from diverse military units. From the regulars under Washington and the local militias in the American Revolution to the airborne Divisions of World War...
While serving as the HHC, 2-160 First Sergeant during the very first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), I learned some valuable lessons, both positive and negative.
A positive lesson learned follows: The importance of home station...
A U.S. Army reservist and, at the time of 9/11, an assistant district attorney in Clarksville, Tennessee, Major Lance Baker deployed to Karshi-Kanabad, Uzbekistan, then later Bagram, Afghanistan, with the 10th Mountain Division from December 2001...
Historically a distinct cultural and operational rift has evolved between Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Conventional Forces (CF) that devalued the need for SOF-CF integration and for developing common operating procedures and doctrine. This...
Stationed at Special Operations Command-South in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 11th, Major Vincent P. Bramble, with the 20th Special Forces Group, was notified four days later "that they were going to need two SF officers/planners from each SF...
This thesis analyzes the counterinsurgency efforts of the second Batista regime of Cuba, 1952-1958, using the “Sword Model,” developed by Max G. Manwaring and John T. Fishel. The “Sword Model” is a paradigm developed to predict the...
When combat employment is imminent, mission readiness is an innate and obvious function of all personnel in the formation from the senior leadership to the most junior soldier. But during intervals of war, commonly known as “peacetime”, the...
On 9/11, Major David Short was the assistant operations officer for 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, based out of Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia. In this interview, he discusses his unit's activities in the...
Since the events of September 11th 2001, the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has taken the lead in fighting the Global War on Terror. In spite of this new charter, however, USSOCOM continues to conduct operations with antiquated...
The Global War on Terror and the Department of Defense have thrust change upon the Marine Corps and the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). Because the Secretary of Defense mandated that the Marine Corps would create a component in...
Nicaragua de la guerra a la paz. General (R) Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo, Ejército Nacional de Nicaragua; ¿Cómo transitó Nicaragua del Poder Dictatorial al Poder Revolucionario y de éste al Poder Institucional Democrático? Las lecciones negativas...
Changes in the European community in the last year are the most dramatic since the end of World War II. Political changes in the Soviet Union and emerging democratic movements in Eastern European countries signal the accelerated development of a...
Looks at issues involved with the development of daylight formation bombing, the most pressing being bombing accuracy. Techniques available provide a reasonably high degree of accuracy under conditions of fair visibility, but often factors combine...
MAJ Eric Magnell served as trial counsel for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT) of the 1st Infantry Division (ID) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Dagger during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this February 2010...
Since its inception in 1990, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has struggled to balance its roles as both a Major Command in the US Air Force (USAF) and the air component of US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). US Code, Title 10,...
We, as Noncommissioned Officers, carry with us the experience of our numerous assignments throughout our careers. Those experiences, both good and bad, shape the way we view our Soldiers, peers, superiors, and execute our Military Occupational...
This paper is about the Military Transition Team (MiTT) for the 4th Iraqi Army Division and the steps we took to accomplish our mission. Our team was responsible for training, advising, and equipping the Iraqi division for the hand over of battle...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Captain Eric James discusses serving as the operations officer and intelligence officer on a military transition team in Taji, Iraq in 2006...
In this interview, MAJ Stanley Pulley, US Army, Engineer, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a HHC Company Commander in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Pulley describes a typical day, and how he was able to morale as a...