Information Operations has become a controversial subject in the US Army. Whether due to ignorance of actual employment techniques or reluctance to rely on non-tangible means, information operations are often only a “check the block”...
Religious practices in the Army are creating an ethical dilemma for our Soldiers. Both the Oath of Enlistment and the practices of senior officials demonstrate an inability to separate church and state. Therefore, the U.S. Army should discontinue...
Humanitarian operations have and will always be a part of our national interest. It is not only for the betterment of the individual country but it supports our commitment to the international communities as a global power. The recent rise in...
The study of military history in professional development is vital to the military and our Soldiers. The Army needs to incorporate the study of military history at all levels of professional development and encourage our Soldiers to read the...
As design emerges throughout the United States Army’s planning and operational doctrine, the intelligence community must leverage this structure of inquiry to identify and refocus the scope of what is collected, analyzed, produced and...
The evolution of the Armor and Infantry branches into a single functional branch is occurring due to several factors – business efficiencies, tactical integration of movement, maneuver, fires and engagement on the GWOT battlefields, formalization...
This monograph focuses on the geographic component of the contemporary intelligence process at the operational level of war. The concept of coup d'oeil, the intellectual capacity of military commanders to evaluate geography and apply that...
This monograph examines tactical mobility doctrine for light infantry. Restoring mobility to the battlefield became the foremost theoretical issue in the aftermath of the First World War. Mechanization and the increased lethality of modern...
Discusses the movement of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron from Paris, France to near the German border and its actions on the border of Germany from 1-30 September, 1944. Digitized by the Military History Institute.
Describes the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and its operations in Belgium and England during December, 1944. The end of the month marked the 111th consecutive day the squadron had been in direct contact with the enemy along the Siegfried...
Contains information regarding the operations of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (mecz) in Germany from 1-28 February 1945. Includes information about awards and soldiers returning from the hospital during the month. Digitized by the...
Contains information regarding the operations of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (mecz) in Germany from 1-31 January 1945. Digitized by the Military History Institute.
Contains information regarding the operations of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (mecz) in Germany from 1-31 March 1945.The month started with a dismounted river crossing, followed by a five day move to the Ahr River Mid-month the squadron...
Contains information regarding the operations of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (mecz) in Germany from 1-30 April 1945. The month saw the squadron being used extensively on two primary cavalry missions of flank security and mopping-up...
Contains information regarding the operations of the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (mecz) in Germany and Czechoslovakia from 1-31 May 1945. Digital copy is difficult to read; original unavailable for redigitization. Digitized by the Military...
Today’s Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) holds more responsibility than at any time in the Army’s history. The role of the NCO on the battlefield has changed significantly and commanders increasingly rely on the decisions and initiative of...
As an Army and as a Nation we always fight the next war as we did the last, or as Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated in a speech in Colorado Springs in May 2008 "I have noticed too much of a tendency towards what might be called Next-War-itis -...
On January 1, 2004 while serving as the Sergeant Major for Task Force Martin as part of a motor movement along the Jalalabad (J-Bad) road, a bus in front of the United Nations Compound ran the vehicle I was riding in the road. The accident...