As a part of the response to the Al Qaida attacks on 11 September 2001, the United States found itself having to answer many difficult questions regarding its action in the Global War on Terrorism. One of the most contentious was the use of torture...
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,...
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...
The Army today demands from its leaders certain core competencies. These competencies are developed through institutional training, and operational development. They combine with the Soldiers existing engrained values and abilities to develop the...
A key factor in the failure of the intelligence community is the resistance to information sharing. Organizational culture is an essential link in understanding the resistance to information sharing. Using Edgar Schein’s organizational culture...
It is not good military policy to torture prisoners if we value human dignity. In Iraq, military professionals and non-professionals have to make decisions that have major ethical implications when dealing with captured insurgents. Therefore, we...
This paper explores the problematic decision by the US Government to condone the use of various methods of physical and psychological torture when interrogating prisoners captured since the beginning of the Global War on Terror (GWOT)....
There is little opposition to the fact that in a democratic society we assume liability to
detain and question prisoners in a time of conflict. This has been a pertinent segment of the
country’s biblical mandate in Romans 13:1-7, which is there...
I had been a member of the North Dakota Army National Guard for 25 years and
possibility of getting mobilized was getting greater every month. The Battalion had assisted
another Engineer (Heavy) in their mobilization for Operation Iraq Freedom I...
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...
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...
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...
During Operation IRAQI FREEDOM I (OIF I), U.S. soldiers waged a desperate war against a growing insurgency. Mounting U.S. casualties became the catalyst for a hidden "war within the war." Arrayed on one side of this secret conflict were leaders who...
This paper argues that the rise of India will have a positive effect on nearby Nepal, allowing Kathmandu to foster a more prosperous and democratic state. India, the second most populous country in the world, is rapidly advancing as a regional and...
The FBI has a long history and established culture as the pre-eminent law enforcement agency in the world. Beginning in the late 1930s, the FBI assumed responsibility for espionage and domestic intelligence investigations. Abuses of domestic...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009 -- 01. In this essay, the hypothesis that the essential ethical position assumed by leaders is the most important determinant of, one, the level of...
This guide presents fundamental information and basic techniques for the conduct of Performance Counseling by instructors, tactical officers, and other personnel who may be required to appraise the performance of students and to communicate the...
Interrogation to Torture: Where Is the Line, When Do You Cross It?
When authorities interview prisoners of war or military detainees they rarely just question them, they interrogate them. If we intend to use torture, a framework to guide, limit,...