In July 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Sullivan deployed to Afghanistan as the executive officer of 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment and served in this capacity throughout his nine-month tour operating mostly in the country's Paktika...
From September 2001 until June 2002, Major Stephen Howe served as a detachment commander in 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group and then, from July 2002 through December 2003, was the 2nd Battalion logistics officer. Following an Operation...
Major Rich Garey deployed as the commander of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, 10th Mountain Division to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in July 2003. He initially flew into Bagram and then moved his company to two...
The commander of 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Lieutenant Colonel Don Bolduc, in this interview, discusses two significant battles that elements of his unit were involved in while operating in southern Afghanistan in 2005: Siah Chow in...
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Baker of the 82nd Airborne Division spent the first three months of his May to December 2002 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom based in Kandahar, Afghanistan as the Task Force Panther engineer; and then...
Trends in international relations indicate that the United States must prepare to support friendly nations in repelling internal and external threats by assisting them in undertaking essential political, social, and economic reform. At the same...
The United States faces diverse challenges requiring a broad range of flexible capabilities to meet the ongoing security and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, confront aggressive state and non-state actors, and provide humanitarian...
A veteran of two deployments to Afghanistan as part of 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) - the first from January to August 2004 as the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company operations sergeant, the second from June 2005 to February 2006 as an...
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive, three-pronged attack into South Vietnam that was eventually repulsed by South Vietnamese forces, United States (US) advisors and massive amounts of American airpower. The problem is...
As an infantry officer in the 82nd Airborne Division from 2002-2006, Major Keller Durkin participated in three different deployments and describes them in three separate interviews. In the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center, he...
The commander of Charlie Battery, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment, Major Thomas Robinson deployed with his unit to Afghanistan as part of 10th Mountain Division, arriving in the summer of 2003 and then personally redeploying (after...
In the fall of 2004, 2nd Battalion 1st Special Forces Group deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. The Battalion performed its role running firebases, occupying border control points, and running combat operations with indigenous...
Captain Paul Toolan served as the assistant operations officer for 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group while deployed to Afghanistan in 2005. In this interview, he discusses at length four different battles fought by Special Forces (SF) in the...
The U.S. Army Special Forces has used firebases to project a forward presence since the beginning of the Vietnam War. It has proven one of the best ways to get a small element of Special Forces into an area and begin to establish an American...
The Battle of An Loc was one of the most important battles of the Vietnam War. It took place during the 1972 North Vietnamese Spring Offensive, after most U.S. combat troops had departed South Vietnam. The battle, which lasted over two months,...
This is a narrative history of Army lawyers in Vietnam from 1959, when the first judge advocate reported for duty in Vietnam, to 1975 when the last Army lawyer left Saigon. Its principal theme is that, as the Army developed new strategies and...
From April 2004 through March 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Stephen Kolouch served as commander of Charlie Company, 65th Engineer Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. He was additionally...
During the Vietnam War and the years following, there has been a contentious debate regarding the nature of the conflict. Some proponents argue it was an insurgency while others claim it was a conventional war, with each side advocating the...
The current U.S. Army involvement in Afghanistan requires an expanded field artillery arsenal of weaponry and munitions. This expansion should include rockets, medium and light howitzers, and pack howitzers. These weapon systems offset the...
Counterinsurgency and unconventional war have dominated both the intellectual focus and the operational employment of the U.S. Army for the last decade, and are expected to remain a prevalent challenge for the foreseeable future. One of the primary...