Prescribes policies and responsibilities for management and operation of the Army's test and evaluation (T&E) activities identified as the DA Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB). Establishes policies and procedures for providing T&E support...
Complexity theory has attracted considerable interest from operational artists in recent times. However, because it is still an emerging field, there are few -- if any -- historical case studies that show how complexity applies to military...
This monograph analyzes the Army's ability to implement operational culture skills to meet the intent of the vision set forth in the 2009 Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy. First, the monograph reviews Army operations since Vietnam. This...
Croomtheus, Latonya D.; Hamilton, Thomas D.; Hissom, Richard K.; Jamison, Donald C.; Middleton, Michael J.
The National Security Strategy for Homeland Security should be updated because of the perceived failures by the American people. Abstract: Even though there has not been another successful terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001,...
Thesis: Six years after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the continuity of communications between federal, state, and local governments remains a lack of confidence among the American people. The terrorist attacks on September 11,...
In today's increasingly fiscally conscious environment, the Department of Defense must examine new ways of executing existing missions more efficiently. Given the basic core commonality of installation management functions within the current...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2010 CGSC Class. Lessons learned from manually tracking friendly and enemy forces during Operations Desert Storm (ODS) in Iraq and Restore Hope in Somalia, resulted...
Irregular wars generate significant internal political debate over appropriate strategy and resource allocation, a function of the relative complexity and ambiguity of irregular wars. This study examines whether operational commanders in the...
This study analyzes the theories of Pragmatic Communications, Cybernetics, and Perturbation under the framework of the Pragmatic Complexity Model to illustrate how two Presidential administrations beginning in the 20th and 21st centuries used 'new...
Senior USCG leaders consistently recognize significant gaps in officer performance. As a result, leader sponsored studies have delved into the root causes of these gaps resulting in recommendations to resolve the concerns. This paper will define...