The demands of 21st century military operations require an organization that is trained and equipped for independent offensive, defensive, and stability operations. This type of organization, the armored cavalry regiment, is fading from the U.S....
First introduced into U.S. Army doctrine in 1982, the operational level of war developed to remove politics from an inherently political process. American writers absorbed Soviet writing on the subject and translated it into existing doctrine...
In May of 2011 the Canadian Forces introduced new training into the curricula at the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School and select Army Schools. Resilience training consisting of a handful of classroom lectures focusing on theory,...
Office of Strategic Services, Research and Analysis Branch
This is a brief account of nationalist and racial groups which developed in Germany after the First World War, the relation of these groups to the development of Nazi ideology and practice, and the methods by which the Nazi Party coordinated and...
My personal experience started over 20 years ago when I joined the military on Valentine’s Day, 1984. Although my journey took me many different places and job assignments, one of the most rewarding experiences was my last assignment as First...
In this interview MAJ Cheryl Rivera discusses her experiences as an OR nurse PROFIS to the 14th CSH to OEF at Bagram Airfield. MAJ Rivera describes what it was like to work on Bagram and as an individual augmentee to a unit already in country and...
COL (Ret.) Russell Thaden served as the senior US officer and chief of intelligence for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany prior to his deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan during 2003 and 2004 in support...
On VE Day, 8 May 1945, the United States had over three million military personnel in Europe. Through redeployment of forces to the Pacific Theater and demobilization this number dropped to just over 622,000 by 1 January 1946. Staff planners...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War the United States Army’s role in Europe has changed and will continue to change more and more, thus having a significant impact on not only the Army, but also the European continent as a...
Operation Iraqi Freedom, an operation to disarm Iraq of alleged weapons of mass
destruction, is part of the United States efforts on the War on terrorism. During this
Operation, I lead a 53-personnel team which supported the V Corp’s...
As I venture out to become a world famous Army Assistant IG, an extension of the
eyes, ears, voice, and conscience of the commander. I’m an honest broker and a
consummate fact finder. My primary function is to training, inspecting, assisting,...
Increasingly, Canada's military is being called upon to deploy into complex operational environments where it must deal with highly adaptive adversaries seeking to destabilize society through a variety of asymmetric means. Articulating this new...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...