Education has been the foundational cornerstone to every profession and continues to be so in the 21st Century. As a profession, the military is obligated to conduct not only training but also education of the keepers of the profession, the officer...
At the time of this interview, Major Hans-Jorg Dochtermann was a veteran of two deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the first from January to July 2003 as the battalion fire support officer for 3-7 Infantry, part of 1st Brigade...
What started in 1995 as a one year commitment of NATO troops to implement the Dayton peace accord in Bosnia and Herzegovina has developed into a still ongoing mission there since 1996, an additional mission in Kosovo since 1999 and several minor...
This monograph examines whether the operational air defense force for theater ballistic missile defense will be capable of conducting operations on future battlefields. To explore relevant issues in this area, historical examples from World War I,...
What can we learn from past leaders that is important enough to be included in the new Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 6-22? Leadership principles the Army has used to date are inadequate. This monograph reviews some of the most revered generals in...
To curtail the Nazi war machine, the United States and its Allies began a long bombing campaign over Germany’s major cities in World War II. The five-year bombings were highly effective and contributed to the unconditional surrender of the Nazi...
This paper surveys the topic of human factors in the form of a taxonomy. Human factors are and always have been of vital concern to the military commander, and are essential elements in the functioning of all organizations. Military literature does...
Multinational operations under the direction of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) have become the norm rather than the exception. In the light of an emerging partnership between both organizations, the...
In its 130 years of service to the US Army, CGSC transitioned numerous times as an academic center of officer learning. In its early years, the Applicatory School of Cavalry and Infantry, was known derisively as the "kindergarten" where lieutenants...
This is Occasional Paper 31 which surveys the U.S. Army's approach to media relations from the Spanish-American War to the first Gulf War; it surveys how the U.S. Army communicated its missions to the American public during periods of conflict...
The World Factbook is produced annually by the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency. The data are provided by various components of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of the...
The World Factbook is produced annually by the Directorate of Intelligence of the Central Intelligence Agency. The data are provided by various components of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Bureau of the...
This index is a list of 108 monographs written by the students of the Second Year Course in solving Individual Research Problem No. 6, Series X, 1929-1930.
This paper discusses the history of motor transport being integrated into the movement of military units and into military operations, with comments by various high commanders as to the organic assignment of motor transport.
In the past few years the number of terrorist events and activities throughout the world has increased dramatically. Many of these terrorist actions have been directed against the United States or other members of NATO Alliance. This increase in...
This study examines the validity of Clausewitz's conclusions about the defense on the future battlefield. It discusses the correctness of the adoption of Clausewitz's ideas in the operational manuals of the American and German Army (Field Manual...
This monthly summary of enemy dispositions from 1943 describes enemy order of battle, ground, air, and naval dispositions, air order of battle, and enemy naval bases and base forces in the Southwest Pacific area. There is a section on the G-2...