A newly promoted lieutenant colonel when his Army Reserve unit - the 489th Civil Affairs (CA) Battalion, based in Knoxville, Tennessee - was tapped for service in Afghanistan, Colonel Don Amburn deployed in early 2002 and, once in country,...
From the time 9/11 hit until June 2004, when he left to join the 1st Cavalry Division already in Iraq, Major Lee Overby served with 3rd Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) at Camp Shelby, Mississippi - specifically in the field artillery...
From the summer of 2002 until he left to attend the Command and General Staff College in the summer of 2005, Major Greg Bodge served at Fort Leavenworth's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) as the National Guard liaison officer. This...
Lieutenant Commander Stephen Weincko served onboard the USS John C. Stennis in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2002, again later as the mission commander of a P-3 flying out of Bahrain in 2005, and finally in support of Operation...
The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
The following is a group interview conducted with three former 1st Infantry Division soldiers concerning their experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Jason Bell served from February 2004 through March 2005 with Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron,...
In this third of three interviews reference his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Jason Warner discusses his February to November 2006 deployment to Afghanistan, during which he served initially as the military intelligence company (MICO)...
Assigned to the 8th PSYOP Battalion, Major Robert Haupt has deployed twice in support of the Global War on Terrorism, first in the summer of 2003 as a liaison to Combined Joint Task Force 180 in Afghanistan, then from July 2004 to April 2005 as...
Lacking the technological resources to compete with Combined Forces Command (CFC) conventional forces, the NKPA has compensated for their technological weaknesses by greatly increasing the number of forward-deployed conventional units, cannon and...
This thesis focuses on development of a Command, Control, and, Communications Countermeasures (C3CM) planning architecture for corps level operations. Initially, the research describes previous uses of C3CM in recent wars and reviews the lessons...
This thesis examines whether or not current doctrinal staff planning activities can be better synchronized at battalion and brigade level. Using doctrinal, historical and current data collected from the National Training Center, the study focuses...
This thesis provides an analysis of the revolutionary impact the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) had on developing joint doctrine for deep operations. ATACMS provides US joint force with the ability to execute deep strike missions against...
This thesis addresses the tactical decision-making process to determine if decision point tactics is a function within the procedure of tactical decision making, which satisfies the tactical decision-making process by providing a suboptimized plan....
This thesis describes how field artillery fires should be planned and executed in a counterinsurgency fight. Based upon historical research, there are numerous missions that the field artillery community can and must be able to execute in a...
This study examines the adequacy of the Military Decision-Making Press (MDMP) for use by Special Forces (SF) staffs at the battalion/group level while planning multiple and simultaneous operations. The research is prefaced by stating the MDMP, in...
This field manual (FM) is a doctrinal guide to Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC) operations. It is intended for use by the AAMDC commander and his staff as well as the commanders and staffs of Army, joint, and multinational elements that...
The purpose of this manual is to provide doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) for intelligence and electronic warfare (IEW) in support to low-intensity conflict (LIC) missions. It further provides doctrine and TTP for the...
Provides a generic concept and procedures for Theater Air Ground System (TAGS) operations. It is a primer for all planners to facilitate the integration of air operations and ground combat operations. It offers readers a basic understanding of...
This publication describes the joint targeting process and provides tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) for targeting surface (land or sea) time-critical targets (TCTs). It describes specific procedures for joint force components in the...