Stationed at Special Operations Command-South in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on September 11th, Major Vincent P. Bramble, with the 20th Special Forces Group, was notified four days later "that they were going to need two SF officers/planners from each SF...
A veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Air Force Major Robert Levin Jr. served with the 39th Airlift Expeditionary Squadron first as a C-130 unit operations officer - from November 2001 to February...
From January through December 2005, Major James Schreiner served as a joint staff planner in the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan CJ7 engineer directorate. More specifically, in the first half of his tour, he was the lead engineer planner for...
During his August 2003 through July 2004 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Trent Darling deployed to Afghanistan with the 8th Psychological Operations Battalion and, initially, served as the liaison officer to the joint...
In this second of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Stevenson Jr. discusses his November 2005 through August 2006 deployment to Afghanistan during which he served as chief of the Special...
The commander of the 57th Field Artillery Brigade, Wisconsin National Guard, when he was given the opportunity to lead an embedded training team (ETT) to Afghanistan, Colonel Dominic Cariello arrived in theater in February 2006 and, during his...
In this third of three interviews covering his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Edward Croot, US Army Special Forces, discusses his July through December 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF),...
Ms. Karen Malzahn, a Foreign Service officer, was the deputy principal officer in the US Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, when she volunteered to serve with a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From her commitment in the fall of...
Major Steve Sattinger deployed to Qalat, Afghanistan, in the Zabol Province in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as the resident engineer from February to August 2005. He received his commission through the ROTC program at Penn State University...
The primary purpose of this study is to determine how surprise can be achieved today at the operational level of war. Two supporting questions are answered as well. These are: What are the theoretical and historical foundations for the concept of...
This thesis investigates the rapid defeat of the Taliban Regime by a US-led coalition and the ability of the Taliban to survive, reorganize, and form an insurgency movement. This paper contends that there are an important set of interrelated...
This monograph examines the operational commander and his information requirements. Specifically, this paper attempts to identify the core elements of information which the operational commander requires to support his decision-making process. The...
Part 1 of 2. General von Kuhl's Genesis, Execution, and Collapse of the German Offensive in 1918 represents a special edition of the author's report which he rendered as professional expert to the German Parliamentary Committee of Investigation of...
Supplements Volume 7 of the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the war of the rebellion. Contains information scattered across other volumes regarding the campaign. Contains reports ad correspondence found outside volume seven,...
Report of the operational plans and orders of the V Amphibious Corps for the invasion and occupation of Iwo Jima, reports from G1 through G4, special staff sections, CO corps troops, division reports, and communications which are contained in...