This study investigates the feasibility of designing, constructing, and operating a conceptual model of a tactical operations center simulator. The model is intended to simulate performance tasks identified for Army Security Agency company level...
The problem addressed in this thesis is whether United States tactical fighter forces in Europe should train and equip for a multi-role capability or specialize in aircraft and training for a single mission. This question is extremely relevant as...
This study reflects attitudes of students of the CGSC Class of 1978 toward the issue of women in combat. A sample of the Class responded to 57 questions which included demographic discriminators, positive and negative social role perceptions and...
This thesis provides a comparative policy-process perspective of Vietnam intervention. It is comparative in the sense that the Eisenhower administration's policy process in the 1954 Indochina crisis is used as a basis to compare the Johnson...
One of the basic recruiting problems of the U.S. Military Academy today is attracting qualified minority group candidates for attendance. This is particularly true with regard to the black candidate. The purpose of this study is to examine the...
Battlefield casualties are summarily grouped into two categories-the dead, and the wounded. Graves registration teams collect the dead, and ambulances evacuate the wounded. But who decides who is dead? On a battlefield, anyone failing to exhibit...
An exhaustive review of over 200 academic and military sources indicates that decentralized authority and responsibility to competent subordinates improves the upward flow of communications within an organization, thereby contributing to...
The U.S. Army must improve its Code of Conduct training methods. While the code is really a flexible guide to govern POW behavior, the Army teaches the code as if it were an inflexible guide which contains all that the soldier needs to know to...
This thesis is an incomplete historical investigation of the scientific method henceforth referred to as "operations research." The purpose of the thesis is to trace the evolution of operations research in the U. S. Army and to provide the military...
This research project is designed to examine the empirical evidence available to date concerning the reasons for the defeat of the Communist Army of Greece in 1949. This work is the result of this author's endeavor to understand and evaluate why...
The Field Artillery Target Acquisition Battalion occupies a key position among the various agencies involved in the artillery target acquisition problem. As such, the FATAB's organizational structure, mission, and employment doctrine is being...
The U.S. Army has made several changes in its command and control structure that affect the interface relationship of the Air-Ground Operations System and thus the efficiency of the Tactical Air Control System (TACS). The study addresses two of...
Conversion of the United States military to the International System of units is in the very early stages. Little formal planning has been done to articulate the management required to complete the conversion of operational army and air force...
If the United States expects to win a land war in Europe against the Soviet Union, the Army must be prepared to fight on the high technology battlefield. Every battle practice in our existing doctrine needs critical examination to assure...
This thesis deals with the military confrontation between French and Anglo-Egyptian forces at Fashoda, in the Nilotic Sudan, during the period 19 September to 11 December, 1898. It examines the confrontation, on both the French and the British...
The sixteen division force decision is analyzed primarily from the military perspective of its originator, General Abrams. However, the perspectives of the Congress, of the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army, and of the Army staff...
The Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902 was a case of successful United States elimination of an insurgency that had been developing for almost 25 years. By the time the United States assumed sovereignty over the Philippine Islands following the...
Materiel reclamation and salvage operations are vital functions that can substantially reduce logistical costs. Although these functions have a high economic impact, the Army has produced minimal doctrinal guidance on how to internally manage and...
Some noteworthy achievements of lower ranking enlisted men in peacetime often go unrecognized in spite of the commander's desire to do so because there is no existing procedure that will tangibly and appropriately recognize the exact degree of...
This study is undertaken to determine whether it is possible to develop a realistic computerized mathematical model for FM tactical radios operating under the influence of enemy jamming. A simplified model of the single channel communication system...