Since World War II many nations, including the United States, have become deeply involved in couterguerrilla warfare. Guerrilla warfare, and consequently counterguerrilla warfare, is expected to be with mankind as long as the breeding grounds for...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the reduction of two major obstacles between 1965 and 1975 facilitated the evolution of formal diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the People's Republic of China. The two obstacles...
The purposes of this thesis are as follows: (1) To determine the requirements of a visual ground to air marking system for use by ground combat or patrol type units in a counterinsurgency environment. (2) To report the results of an experiment...
This study has a two fold objective: First, to evaluate the adequacy of current U. S. Army doctrine for the attack of a built-up area by a ROAD division. Second, in those areas where the present doctrine is found either inadequate or lacking, to...
The objective of this thesis is to provide the reader with a record of the most important developments in the evolution of doctrine for the command and control of organic divisional aviation between 1942 and 1961, and to provide a source of...
The adequacy and timeliness of the dissemination of army pay and fringe benefits information to ROTC cadets and to junior ROTC officers is examined. To obtain data for this study, questionnaires were sent to college ROTC units, to army schools...
The proposition of this thesis is that graph theory should be more widely used by the managers of the U.S. Army. It is a powerful and flexible tool which has been and is being thoroughly researched at the abstract level. Many useful theorems...
The study discussed incentive contracts and cost overruns as related to industrial risk categories. The various aspects of risk considered by the Department of Defense had contract modifications as a common factor reflecting risk. Based on the...
Effective communication on a massive scale between the government and the people of the United States was essential between 1917 and 1919 to mobilize the American people in support of the First World War effort. The pictorial poster is a medium of...
The purpose of this research was to examine objective conditions in two Sub-Saharan African countries to determine if there are recurring circumstances which cause the indigenous military to seize power or factors that preclude military...
Military logistics were extremely important to North Vietnam in the conduct of the Second Indochina War, especially during the period of major United States involvement from 1961 to 1969. This paper sought to determine the extent to which the...
Company A, Corps of Engineers, is the first permanent regular engineer company in the U.S. Army. Congress authorized the company on 15 May 1846, two days after declaring war on Mexico. The company organized at West Point, New York, deployed to...
This study investigates the historical utility of Special Operations Forces (SOF) as instruments of national military strategy. The research concept employs the study of a representative historical example of each of the five current doctrinal SOF...
This study is a historical narrative of Jedburgh teams Hugh, Hamish, Ian, Andy, Ivor, and Alec, which operated in Central France from June through September 1944. The teams consisted of two officers, one French and the other American or British,...
The purpose of this study is to examine the nature of the command and control relationship between Special Forces and conventional forces. Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan serves as a case study in practice and doctrinal application. ...
This study focuses on the leader development process of Pakistan Army at the tactical level, i.e. up to a maximum of seven years of service. It analyzes the present leader development process of Pakistan Army to see its effectiveness to train...
European airpower theorists of the 1920’s and 30’s envisioned the deliberate bombing of civilians in order to affect an enemy nation’s wartime production capabilities and national morale. However, American proponents of airpower were more...
During the first year and a half of the War of 1812 the United States Army fought with little success against a professional British Army and Canadian Militia who lacked troops and supplies due to the ongoing Napoleonic Wars. In October 1813 Great...
President Bush’s Executive Order 13228 establishes within the Executive Office of the President an Office of Homeland Security (OHS). The order directs the OHS to develop, coordinate, and implement a national strategy to secure the United States...
How can the Army train better at the operational level? This question addresses a lack of training at the operational level that has only become apparent in recent years. One of the reasons for such a shortcoming has been the reluctance of the US...