This study explores the evolution of technology and the aerial dogfight. It looks at how technology has tried unsuccessfully to eliminate the need for aircraft to engage in close-in aerial combat know as "aerial dogfights," to achieve air...
This study investigates the effect of the U.S. sponsored Counter-Drug effort of the 1980s and 1990s on the bilateral relationship between the neighboring South American Republics of Ecuador and Colombia. The historical U.S.-Ecuadorian-Colombian...
This study investigates the effectiveness of current Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) doctrine in relation to U.S. Army doctrine of air maneuver. The thesis’ main focus is Corps and Division level SEAD operations in support of...
This study investigates the original needs for and development of counterfire techniques in World War I. Concentrating on the experiences of the British and the Americans, the examination explores techniques of counterfire and their failures or...
This study is a critical analysis of the operations of the 18th Infantry as a part of the 1st Division in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The author states that the lesson to be learned is that advance of veteran infantry in the face of determined...
This study is done against the background of a new recognition in the Commonwealth Caribbean of the defense needs of the region. It will examine the historical background of the regions threat, problems of regional interoperability and problems of...
This thesis deals with the military confrontation between French and Anglo-Egyptian forces at Fashoda, in the Nilotic Sudan, during the period 19 September to 11 December, 1898. It examines the confrontation, on both the French and the British...
This thesis examines the British experience in Iraq from 1914-1926. Britain invaded Iraq to secure its oil interests and to protect its lines of communication to India. The British initially defeated Ottoman forces and captured the Basra vilayet...
Through examination of case studies of past emergency and disaster events occurring in Kansas, Indiana, and North Dakota, recommendations have been derived designed to improve the efficiency of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. The...
Throughout human history, people have migrated from one place to another across the globe. Since the creation of nation-states, the migration of people has been seen as emigrating from one country and immigrating to another. Immigration has...
Using the 1983 US invasion of Grenada and the 1992-3 military humanitarian intervention in Somalia as case studies, this monograph shows how post-Cold War operational planning can benefit from the experiences gained from recent deployments. The...