The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relevance of Adaptive Campaigning to recent Australian Army operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The context for Adaptive Campaigning is set by reviewing Australia's way of warfare and the evolution of...
A tactics instructor at Fort Benning, Georgia, when he received a tasking to lead an 11-man military transition team (MiTT) that would be responsible for advising an Iraqi light infantry battalion, Major David Voorhies deployed in February 2006 on...
In this March 2011 interview MAJ James Moore Military Intelligence (MI) describes his surprise deployment on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with the Iraqi Federal Police in Iraq in 2009. After just 15 months of company command MAJ Moore was...
In this March 2011 interview MAJ James Moore Military Intelligence (MI) describes his surprise deployment on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with the Iraqi Federal Police in Iraq in 2009. After just 15 months of company command MAJ Moore was...
Major Scott Nauman was a member of one of the first military transition teams (MiTTs) in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon returning to Iraq from post-company command and mid-tour leave, Nauman filled a tasking in support of the Coalition Military...
Major Chris Smith, an Australian Army officer, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from May to December 2006 as the operations officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), a light infantry battalion. In the months...
In January 2007, President of the United States George W. Bush announced a strategy called the New Way Forward in Iraq, a departure from the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq announced only thirteen months previous. Additionally, President Bush...
Major Charles St. Clair was a military transition team (MiTT) chief assigned variously to the Iraqi 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Division and the Iraqi 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November...
In this second of two interviews, Major Tom Miner, US Air Force, discusses his deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, as commander of the 824th Security Forces Squadron from June through December 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He talks about how...
Major Blaine Wales served as the national police transition team (NPTT) chief for 1st Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police (INP) Division in Taji, Iraq, during 2006 and 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. After not being...
Major Lee Williams volunteered to go to Iraq and reported into Fort Riley in June 2006. After two years as an intern to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then attending graduate school at Georgetown, he figured it would be good to get back to the...
Major Mark Gilmore deployed to Iraq for his second tour of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom as the leader of a military transition team (MiTT) in September 2006. He reported first to Fort Riley, Kansas, to undergo immersion training at FOB Victory,...
Sergeant Major Michael Clemens was right in the middle of the Army transformation process when he was told his unit would be going to Iraq. His unit was converting from an Infantry unit into a Cavalry unit. He deployed to Iraq in August 2006 as...
Major Charles St. Clair was a military transition team (MiTT) chief assigned variously to the Iraqi 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Division and the Iraqi 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from November...
MAJ Kenny Kuniyuki served as the assistant brigade intelligence officer (S2) with the 1st Brigade, 1st CAV during 2004 and 2005 in Sadr City in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In the first of two January 2009 interviews, MAJ Kuniyuki...
To succeed in the Long War, the United States and its allies will need to develop new strategic approaches, adaptive operational concepts, and more cost-effective methods of coalition and Interagency coordination. As was the Cold War, the Long War...
Major Johnny Austin, British Army, deployed for a second time to Iraq in October 2005 for a nine-month tour with his unit - 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - serving as the battalion operations officer. Normally part of 7 Armoured...
Major Marty Deckard, a Field Artillery officer, deployed to Iraq in February 2007 and redeployed in February 2008 as a border transition team (BTT) chief. Upon being notified of his deployment while instructing at the Captain's Career Course,...
Captain Shawn O'Brien served on a military transition team (MiTT) initially with the 9th Iraqi Army Division's Logistics and Administration (L&A) Battalion and then later with the 1st Motor Transport Regiment in the areas of Al Rashid and...
In this first of two interviews, Major Brian Russell, US Marine Corps, talks about commanding a military transition team in Anbar Province from December 2006 through December 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi freedom. He discusses how the...