This monograph analyzes the Iran-Iraq War from its inception in September of 1980 through the Iranian Faw Counteroffensive of February 1986. It uses the precepts of operational art to examine the performance of the belligerents in this prolonged...
This monograph provides an assessment of Iranian warfighting abilities at the operational level during the eight years of the Iran-Iraq War. It also looks at post-war Iranian arms purchases and training exercises to predict future Iranian...
This monograph is an assessment of the performance of the Iraqi Army in selected major operations from 1941 to 1988. Focused primarily at the operational level, this study first describes the Iraqi Army's performance in an abbreviated 1941 conflict...
From January 2005 through January 2006, the 2nd Battalion 299 Infantry’s primary mission was to conduct base defense operations of Camp Victory, Iraq. The mission required manning of four entry control points, 12 perimeter towers, and to manage...
This monograph examines the Iran-Iraq War from an operational perspective. This eight year war represents the Iraqi's only experience with successful operational maneuver. As such, it is likely that lessons learned, particularly in the final...
Lieutenant Commander Scott Starkey served as the assistant navigator onboard USS Enterprise in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and as pilot and squadron operations officer in Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 3 (HS 3) onboard USS Theodore...
Written in French by the Chevalier de Clairac; Translated by Major Lewis Nicola.
Written in the French and translated into English, this book covers the field engineer and fortification of camps. It also includes a treatise on the defects and remedies of sea batteries.
The United States Marine Corps developed Operational Maneuver from the Sea in the 1980s and codified it as a Marine Corps concept in 1996. In brief, Operational Maneuver from the Sea seeks to exploit the sea as maneuver space to defeat access...
In this first of three interviews, Major Tom Chalkley, US Marine Corps, talks about his deployment to the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq as the commander of Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines in October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
The exercise of operational leadership becomes increasingly difficult as technology makes the battlefield more lethal, as the pace of combat accelerates, and as combat forces become more joint and combined. U.S. Army senior level leadership...
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery means - tactical ballistic and cruise missiles - have caused anguish in the West. Few nations are equipped to defend against theater missiles. Theater missiles encompass the broad...
United States. Army. Infantry Division (Mechanized), 24th.
24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) OPLAN 91-3 represents the Victory Division's detailed plan of attack from pre-attack positions along the Saudi Arabian border to the Euphrates River Valley of Iraq.
Lieutenant Commander Chris Stone served onboard the USS Valley Forge as the combat systems officer from December 2002 through May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about providing command and control for...
After selection to MSG, the only thing I could think about was becoming a First Sergeant, for it had been a dream of mine for my entire career. With V Corps Headquarters deploying to Iraq in support of OlD 05-07, I found myself in the right place...
An operations officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division, Major John Henderson - himself a licensed engineer - supported Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from January to June 2004. Working out of Victory Base, Henderson's office...
MAJ Robert Green served as general's aide to the Multi-National Corps - Iraq (MNC-I) deputy commanding general (DCG) at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005, as the assistant battalion operations officer (S3) at Abu Ghraib, Iraq...
Lieutenant Commander Gregory Chapman served as the executive officer onboard the USS Ardent in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) during 2003 and 2004. Joining the ship in April 2003, after they had been operating in support of OIF for a...