The Joint Non-Kinetic Effects Model (JNEM) is a computer based simulation for training Division and Corps Commanders and Staffs in a manner that accurately replicates the complexities of interacting with civilian populations. The model replicates...
Community-oriented policing is a model for police operations used in many countries. The goal of policing is to provide law enforcement of behaviors that a society considers criminal and to help the society in the process of control of those...
Over the past decade, the United States has focused its military energy on the conduct of Stability Operations. The U.S. Department of Defense raised Stability Operations to the same level of importance as Offensive and Defensive Operations in...
MAJ Mark Battjes served as company commander and Military Transition Team (MiTT) chief in Baghdad, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this October 2010 interview, MAJ Battjes discusses his prior research and...
From January 2004 through January 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Darren Keahtigh served as commander of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division - and was based variously in Baghdad...
During his May 2003 to July 2004 deployment in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Major George H. Sarabia served as a regimental S4, then XO of 2nd Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Based in the heavily Shi'ite Baghdad slum of Sadr City,...
This study examines the threat to internal security posed by violent gangs. This threat was found to be particularly acute in inner-city communities that have over time devolved to a status that the author classified as failed communities. Armed...
Major John Giop served as fire support officer from May 2003 to July 2003 and as a howitzer battery commander from July 2003 to July 2004 with 1st Squadron, 2nd ACR in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, Giop talks about 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...
Monograph examines the use of security barriers and delves into circumstances leading to the removal of security barriers. The purpose was to explore whether there existed specific conditions or criteria for removal of security barriers. Specific...
This document includes information on government and administration (with local government) in Japan. Sections describe instruments of national control over local government, regional administrative councils, prefectures, territorial...
Threats to security within the Asia-Pacific region continue to evolve. Traditional and non-traditional threats to state sovereignty and individuals exist across the region. Despite most recent security challenges being transnational, the dominant...
Policing can be an effective counterinsurgency tool. Police are able to determine the individual needs of each community and address each constituency's concern which in turn enhances the government's legitimacy. The Iraqi Police face the challenge...
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...
In this interview, MAJ Scott Sentell, US Army, talks about his deployment to Iraq as the Command of the Alpha Company 1-8 CAV in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. MAJ Sentell discusses his personal experience with pre-deployment training...
The operations officer for 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment and, later in his tour, the commander of Charlie Company, Captain Bill Coryell and his unit arrived in Iraq in January 2005 and spent the next year based in the Tisa Nissan area of east...
Australian military intervention within the Asia Pacific region in recent years has highlighted the changing strategic environment within the region and the importance of the Australian military, particularly the army, in resolving these matters. ...
Recent operations have forced the United States Army to re-examine the “art” of fighting insurgencies. Although these types of operations are not new to the Army, World War II and the subsequent Cold War diminished any skill or institutional...
This monograph describes military operations in the China Theater from the time of' the outbreak of the Pacific war until the end of 1943. Chapters include information on the second Changsha operation, Chekiang-Kiangsi operation, and operations in...
Major Matthew Scalia commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry in Baghdad from May through September 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Scalia begins by noting that much of their predeployment training focused on stability...