This paper examines the potential for military working dogs to support Special Operations Forces (SOF). Modern technology has not eliminated the operational prospective for the military employment of dogs. Canine olfactory superiority, advanced...
This thesis conducts an analysis of the United States Army’s changes in tactical logistics organizations and doctrine from 1999 to 2006 and compares them against published literature to determine if changes made have been revolutionary in nature...
Stability operations are not a recent phenomenon, but have been particularly common since the end of the Cold War. All the major deployments of the US Army since 1991 have involved such operations. In all these deployments, the US Army has been...
This study examines how the American army trained and developed its company-level leaders during the First World War. It highlights the prewar army’s concepts of leadership and explains the limitations of the army’s system for selecting and...
This manual supersedes the 1939 version. The 1941 edition of FM 100-5 encapsulates the state of Army doctrine on the eve of America’s entry into World War II. This is the doctrine the Army took into the great Louisiana maneuvers of 1941. Later,...
This thesis reviews all commentary on the US response (or lack thereof) to the 1994 Rwanda genocide to identify suggested US responses to a similar situation that may occur in the future. Purpose is to develop a course of action for the US...
My personal experience paper is going to look at deployment from a different perspective that most deployments do not often address or refer to. This is the mission and experiences of being a First sergeant for a rear detachment of a forward...
This paper presents a demonstration of the failure to appreciate the necessity of exhaustive logistical planning in peacetime preparation for war and of providing the means necessary to execute such plans, and to show the unsoundness of unbalanced...
This document was compiled under the direction of the editorial staff of the Review of Reviews. Topics include America's principles for world settlement, weapons of war, cost of war, Germany (industrial/political structure), the selective draft,...
This study discusses the 32nd Division encounter with gas warfare in the advance to Fismes and covers types of gases, military operations, German Army movement, and analyzes the actual attack.
This study discusses the 33rd Division encounter with gas warfare along the Meuse and covers types of gases, military operations, use of gas masks, and analyzes the actual attack.
This study discusses the 42nd Division encounter with gas warfare in the Argonne offensive and battle at the Ourcq and covers types of gases, military operations, use of machine guns, and analyzes the actual attack.
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
When America entered World War II, both men and women felt the surge of patriotism.
Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Anny Auxiliary Corps (later renamed
Women's Anny Corps) in 1942, and hundreds of women were able to join in...
This study investigates the likely optimal force structure for the 82nd Airborne Division in 2010, in light of future doctrinal and strategic requirements. As the United States strategic reserve, the 82nd Airborne Division has a requirement to be...
Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
Congress governs the United States Armed Forces by writing laws for the Department of Defense (DoD) to implement. In 1993, Congress passed a federal law banning homosexuality in the armed forces. The DoD created a policy to implement the law, but...
Explains the mission of the Seventh Army in the primary and secondary phases of "Eclipse." Upon the surrender of Germany or the collapse of the German forces, the Seventh Army will advance with maximum speed to seize the area of...
Threats to peace, violations of security and challenges to world order, which led to the creation of the United Nations (UN) in 1945 will continue. States and state-like entities will continue to approach the UN with their grievances. The...