The purpose of this monograph is to examine the concept of Commander’s Critical Information Requirements (CCIR) and determine if the doctrine is suitable for particularly complex operations like counter-insurgency operations (COIN). Commanders...
The purpose of this study is to determine why intelligence officers acting as battalion S-2 have difficulty predicting the enemy. It hypothesizes that two causes: lack of experience of the principal officers conducting IPB and inadequate emphasis...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
This paper is about African American individuals who won the Medal of Honor, SGM Christian A. Fleetwood, Sergeant William H. Carney and Ordinary Seaman Robert Sweeney. This is their story and the heroic acts that earned them this prestigious award.
The purpose of this research paper is to point out some of the ethical problems that exist between the media and the military. Does an ethical problem exist between the media and the military? The hypothesis of the author is that there is an...
This monograph explores the American media's influence on ethical military policy and attempts to understand the complex relationship between the United States' military, the American media, and U.S. policy makers in the context of a changing...
Information and the ability to wield it is a key aspect of national security. Two years after the United States Information Agency (USIA) was terminated and merged into the State Department, the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 reminded the US...
Central Asia has become the forefront of US and Chinese foreign policy since its independence in 1991. The US foreign policy toward Central Asia focuses on security, economics and energy and has not changed since its development in the mid...
Extending from the Cold War through the current Era of Persistent Conflict, the Army implemented a number of force structure changes in response to the existing and predicted strategic environment. Similar to the architectural standard phrase that...
This is Occasional Paper 31 which surveys the U.S. Army's approach to media relations from the Spanish-American War to the first Gulf War; it surveys how the U.S. Army communicated its missions to the American public during periods of conflict...
This thesis determines that the military should not mandate the adoption of the Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP) as the single planning model at the operational level of war. Although it is both technically possible and feasible to adopt the...
This study analyzes the factors effecting the organization and employment of the U.S. Army’s Howitzer Improvement Program (HIP). Since the semi-autonomous HIP evolved from the venerable M109 howitzer, the purpose of the study is to surface...
This study analyzes the impact of risk taking and risk avoidance by the opposing operational commanders in the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. General McClellan’s superior force lost this campaign primarily as a result of his...
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 first of three interviews, Major Tom Chalkley, US Marine Corps, talks about his deployment to the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq as the commander of Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines in October 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
This study focused on testing a portion of Kelley and Thibaut's trust-building model. This model asserted that an individual could earn an attribution of dependability by: behaving cooperatively, sharing similar interests, and sharing...
This monograph finds that the US Army's decision making process taught in its schools and branch courses relies too heavily on an iterative analytical method called the Deliberate Decision Making Process or DDMP. Within this process there exists a...