The two main sections of this document on public safety in the Philippines address law enforcement before and after warfare. For before the war, topics include the origins and development of the Philippine Constabulary, contemporary organization...
With the exception of Cuba, US-Latin American relations do not have the specter of Communist influence in the hemisphere distorting the thrust of foreign policy. What does remain is the threat of crises that endangers the viability of the fledgling...
This is a study of the present puppet government in the Philippines. The origins of the government, the constitutional basis upon which it rests, the structural outlines of the Office of President, of the Assembly, and of the Judiciary, the conduct...
The purpose of this study to determine the viability of the IPB process as a decision making tool. In order for IPB to be of practical use in decision making it must reduce uncertainty in a timely manner. Today's fluid battlefield belongs to the...
Recent historical events such as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and Operation Desert Storm indicate that we are entering a new era of geo-political struggle. The world is no longer dominated by a bipolar struggle between the United States and the...
Desde el año 2001 hasta el presente se han asignado los artículos en nuestro índice anual a la materia o materias más adecuadas sin vincularlos con la materia o materias de los años anteriores. Debido al hecho de que aun no hemos actualizado...
Ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have underscored the necessity of conventional military forces to adequately prepare for stability and reconstruction operations (SRO) in the aftermath of major combat operations (MCO). In the case of...
Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services
Extracts from short wave radio broadcasts from Tokyo, Manila, and other affiliated stations, from January 1 to April 1, 1944. Broadcasts included programs covering politics, the military, economics, and social and cultural affairs.
El Salvador is coming to the end of a civil war that cost more than 80,000 lives. This thesis surveys the factors which led to this war and, soon thereafter, to United States involvement. The historical, economic, social, and political development...
Irak: esperando a Godot. F.J. Bing West; En la obra de Samuel Beckett titulada Esperando a Godot, los dos protagonistas, ambos vagabundos, esperan en vano a un tal Godot para que les ofrezca dirección a sus vidas. De igual manera, los mandos del...
The U.S. Army is quite possibly one of the greatest armed forces in the world. Every man or woman is a volunteer who joins on his or her own free will. An elite cadre of Noncommissioned Officers transforms young recruits from normal citizens to...
Operation Just Cause was the result of a culmination of unethical practices by the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the most feared man in South America and in his own country of Panama. The US had to acknowledge that the man they dealt with,...
On 19 December 1989, the United States launched an invasion on a sovereign nation to end the dictatorship of Manuel Noriega. President Bush stated to the nation that there was four reasons why this invasion needed to take place. The reasons were to...
Calendar Year 2009 was an eventful year. Five major developments dominated the activities at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy: 1) the successful change of command in June from COL Donald Gentry to CSM Raymond Chandler, III; 2) the realignment...