Effective operational transitions are crucial for success, but recent interventions indicate that U.S. forces, and the Army in particular, struggle with planning and executing the transition to post-combat operations. By developing and applying a...
In spite of experience that shows post-conflict stability operations are inevitable, the U.S. military places more emphasis on winning the fighting and less on the decisive post-combat phase. This has resulted in increased risk to the mission and...
This monograph discusses the recent changes in the Warsaw Pact threat and the resultant impact upon U.S. military strategy. The paper outlines the requirement for the Army to look for new and innovative ways to establish itself as a viable element...
This monograph provides a definition of military geography as it relates to the application of operational art, and a recommended framework for the assessment of the influence of military geography in operational level planning. Its focus is the...
This monograph examines U.S. Army intelligence doctrine as it relates to operational intelligence in the post Viet Nam era. Until recent changes incorporated the concept into written doctrine, intelligence writings did not explicitly address this...
Since the passage of the National Security Act of 1947, Congress has tried to correct the recurring problem of fractured command authority and poor cooperation between the services. Changes in 1958 and the recent Defense Reorganization Act of 1986...
This monograph deals with decision making in contingency operations. It begins with the observation that contingency operations are the most frequent method by which the United States projects power worldwide. Studying three areas which appear to...
This monograph explores the issue of whether or not the United States Army should have an institutional mechanism to collect, interpret and apply the lessons of operational combat in order to correct the inevitable errors of peacetime planning and...
Between the years of 1980 – 1992, civil war raged in El Salvador between the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a Marxist revolutionary movement, and the government of El Salvador (GoES). This monograph answers the following...
Though the United States military has excelled in winning wars, it has not enjoyed the same success at "winning the peace". That requires a coordinated effort from several Departments and agencies of the United States government-- an Inter-Agency...
The U.S. intervention in Cuba in 1906, commonly referred to as the Second Intervention, began on September 28, 1906 with the resignation of the Cuban president and his cabinet and ended on January 28, 1909 when the U.S. relinquished control of the...
During the Vietnam War and the years following, there has been a contentious debate regarding the nature of the conflict. Some proponents argue it was an insurgency while others claim it was a conventional war, with each side advocating the...
Recent scholarly work has devoted much attention to analyzing the French counterinsurgency war in Algeria from 1954 to 1962. The United States military has taken many of the lessons and principles offered by authors such as David Galula and Roger...
A compilation of ten essays that narrate the history of the fort and illuminates the important contributions made to this country by its peoples, events, and institutions. Each essay was written by a member of the Combat Studies Institute, the ...
The institutional self-study of the US Army Command and General Staff College which constitutes the College's application for membership status in the North Central Association as a masters' degree-granting institution. The self-study was developed...
For the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), this 2005 Self-Study Report for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools concludes the first comprehensive review in a decade of the...
This article is from the Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Jan-Feb, 1910, vol XLVI, no. CLXIII, p 1-24. The author defines pacification thus: Pacification includes all means, short of actual war, used by the...
The purpose of this status report is to present a comprehensive status of all problems, studies and procedures relating to demobilization and postwar planning, as executed or supervised by the Special Planning Division, War Department Special...
Operation 'ECLIPSE' was planning and preparations for operations in Europe in the event of German surrender. The objects of Operation Eclipse are to carry out the sphere of responsibility of the Supreme Commander in Europe. Provisions for this plan...
Explains the mission of the Seventh Army in the primary and secondary phases of "Eclipse." Upon the surrender of Germany or the collapse of the German forces, the Seventh Army will advance with maximum speed to seize the area of...