This study examines the Integrated National Police as it is
presently organized and study its operational employment in Philippine: government efforts against Communist insurgency. Recent developments in the Philippine local police system have...
MAJ Paul Culberson served as the engineer planner with the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul, Iraq during 2003and 2004 and as headquarters and headquarters company commander of the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division in Tikrit, Iraq during 2005 and...
Colonel Mark Hurley was division support command (DISCOM) commander for the 1st Cavalry Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 10 March 2004 until 9 March 2005, located in Taji about 30 miles north of Baghdad. Prior to deploying, Hurley had...
A Batalha de Taji e o comando em combate em movimento. Major-General Raymond T. Odierno, Exército dos EUA e Tenente-Coronel (Res) Edward J. Erickson, Exército dos EUA; Durante a Batalha de Taji, em 16 de abril de 2003, o comando em combate na 4ª...
Dr. Joseph J. Collins is a professor of national security strategy at the National War College. He previously served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability operations from July 2001 through July 2004, under the George W. Bush...
Commander Transport Squadron Twelve, US Pacific Fleet
Landing attack orders containing ship-to-shore movement, control plan, beachmaster plan, communication plan, intelligence, smoke plan, medical plan, boat pool plan, pontoon causeway and barge plan.
During the Cold War, combined arms heavy force tactics dictated that forces should avoid urban areas when possible. However, since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, heavy forces have fought in every urban area in Iraq. The United States...
Commander Group Two, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Details preparations for the operation, supporting operation and movement to the objective. Gives a general narrative of the assault phase and a chronology of operations. Additionally the report gives information gunfire support, air support...
In this interview, MAJ (Ret) Paul Conway, US Army, Infantry; discusses his voluntary deployment to Iraq as part of the National Police Transition Team in 2007 through 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Conway shares why he chose...
This report covers the naval phases of the amphibious operations in connection with the mounting, movement, and landing of the Tenth Corps assigned to the occupation of the Kure-Hiroshima and Matasuyama areas of Japan, following the termination of...
From February 2003 through March 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Calvert served as the operations officer for 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "We essentially owned the entire Al Anbar Province," he said, an area...
Historians tend to agree that Ramon Magsaysay's leadership and his relationship with Edward Lansdale are two of the most important features of the Philippine governments campaign against the Huks from 1946-1954. Yet the nuances of his leadership...
Colonel Ralph Baker currently serves as division chief (J5) for the Middle East on the Pentagon Joint Staff. During the ground war phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, he was in charge of the V Corps tactical command post and subsequently took...
Driven by his desire to be deployed either to Iraq or Afghanistan, and believing that his Connecticut National Guard unit would not be sent, in late 2004 Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ciesinski got himself transferred to the US Army Reserve's 80th...
This monograph examines the utility of a methodology designed around an organization's information processing requirements as a means for structuring combined forces in operations other than war (OOTW). The hypothetical basis of the methodology is...
Lieutenant Colonel Shane Lee served as the executive officer of 1st Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment - part of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division - in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April to July 2003. In this interview, he...
As the communications subject matter expert for the Rapid Equipping Force in support of both Operations ENDURING FREEDOM and IRAQI FREEDOM, Major Paul Craft - formerly of the Army Signal Center - was responsible for procuring "any new gear that was...
Master Sergeant Luis Jackson Jr. currently works in the Office of the Chief of Armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky. He participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2004 through February 2005 first as the scout platoon sergeant, Headquarters and...
Lieutenant Colonel John Bullion is the branch chief of the Policy and Forces Section, G3, Special Operations Division, in the Army Operations Center in the Pentagon. He was not in Iraq during On Point II's timeframe, but did serve as deputy team...