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This work is the continuation and revision of a project started in 2006 with the publication of In Contact! by the Combat Studies Institute. The original concept was to present a series of military vignettes in a style similar to the widely used...
In this interview MAJ Mack McCarthy, Infantry, discusses his 15-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003. MAJ McCarthy brings up his pre-deployment training, issues the organization faced in leaving so quickly,...
In command of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry - part of 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division - and then, mid-tour, becoming a brigade civil affairs officer, Major Scott Carpenter supported Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through...
In this interview MAJ Leif Hansen discusses his 2006 deployment to Iraq with the 25th ID from Hawaii. MAJ Hansen had just taken command of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry prior to going to NTC and just before their deployment to Iraq. ...
Major Joseph Chestnut was the leader of a 120-man task force serving as a tactical human intelligence team in Kirkuk and Tuz, Iraq, from December 2003 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about...
MAJ Mark Barton served as the chief targeting officer at Combined Joint Task Force 76 (CJTF-76) at Bagram Airfield (BAF), Afghanistan during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and as assistant operations officer (S3), then...
During his February 2004 to February 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Chris Budihas spent the first four months as commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment out of the 25th Infantry Division; and...
La escasez de recursos vitales: retos, riesgos y amenazas. Brigada Salvador García Herreros, Ejército de Tierra Español; No son pocos los analistas y expertos que piensan que para finales del presente siglo la humanidad tendrá que hacer frente...
Major Nicholas Dickson, US Army, supported the 25th Infantry Division as a Civil Affairs (CA) Officer, serving in Kirkuk, Iraq in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. MAJ Dickson discusses his pre-deployment training, and the fact that it was not...
In this third of three interviews, Major Greg Ford talks about serving as the intelligence officer for 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in the Kirkuk region of Iraq in 2005 and 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. An initial problem...