Officership Officership: The Professional Practice. Colonel Don J. Snider, U. S. Army, Retired The Army Officer as Warfighter. Major Paul Yingling, U.S. Army, and Major John Nagl, U.S. Army The Army Officer as Servant. Major Suzanne...
Thirteen individuals were killed and thirty-two individuals were injured in the Fort Hood shooting. The U.S. Army bearing the wound left a nation questioning how one of their own military members could be accused of such catastrophic events. In the...
Over the last two decades, the United States Army has funded boards, panels, and studies that have recommended an emphasis on cognitive development training over technical training. This research reviews the current Reserve Officers Training Corp...
Senior Army leaders today struggle to develop adaptive junior leaders prepared to lead in chaotic operating environments. To overcome this challenge, the Army Nurse Corps introduced the Army Nursing Campaign Plan, which is nested in the security...
Trust is an essential element that forms the core of the professional military ethic. As a foundational concept, trust, from an organizational perspective, facilitates the lasting commitment to meet strategic aims. Trust involves the expectation...
The topic of the thesis is profession of arms and the role of the officer corps in it. In particular, the thesis looks at the Slovenian Armed Forces Officer Corps. The topic was chosen because the answer to the question whether a military is able...
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...
Force Projection Reach: Leveraging Time and Distance. Brigadier General John M. Custer, U.S. Army Putting Knowledge Reachback into Practice. Scott W. Lackey, Ph.D., 2003 Winning War a World Away. Colonel Jerry Johnson, U.S. Army, and...
Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom arguably demonstrated that the US Army dominates conventional conflict. This lethal capability of US forces was forged against a Cold War threat focusing on combined fires, swift military defeat of the...
The Department of Defense (DoD) has long recognized the need for interservice cooperation in warfighting and has been slowly evolving to structure, train, and equip the forces to facilitate this joint cooperation. Today, joint cooperation is even...
This study examines how the Officer Education System (OES) prepares small-unit leaders. The research design for this thesis proposes to answer the overarching question: Does the addition of the Basic Officer Leader Course (BOLC) produce better...
During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, the Army demonstrated its unrivaled ability to overmatch an enemy in a conventional mechanized conflict. In less than six weeks, the Army, as part of the American led coalition, destroyed the Iraqi...
Leadership and the attributes of great leaders have long been topics of study within the professional military education system, yet the subject of sustained, integrated and systemic leader development has only recently received substantive...
This study seeks to understand the influence of U.S. military reform on U.S. civil-military relations functioning within a zone of cooperation or conflict between political and military realms during times of war. It seeks to demonstrate how...
The purpose of this research was to identify the SOF unique educational requirements for SF Officers attending CGSC's ILE. This question came to the forefront at the Command and General Staff College when the United States Army Special Operations...
In the years 1902-1904 the U.S Army was engaged in a conflict with insurgents in the Philippines. This insurgency arose, partly, in response to economic, political and cultural conditions that deprived the indigenous Philippine population of the...
Lieberman, Joseph I.; Collins, Susan M.; U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
On November 5, 2009, a lone attacker strode into the deployment center at Fort Hood, Texas. Moments later, 13 Department of Defense (DoD) employees were dead and another 32 were wounded in the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11,...