Written as a textbook for the General Service School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, this volume contains lectures on military government, American military government in Germany, and the four military governments in Mexico, one of which is a...
World War I and the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) have a lot of similarities. In both wars the United States had to grow their fighting force to meet the wars requirements. The United States had to modernize their equipment to provide additional...
Within the UN, the "Mogadishu Line" is a reference to the failed UN mission in Somalia in 1992-1993, intended to mark the limit of UN peacekeeping capabilities. The UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been so disastrous that more...
Within the context of current US government efforts to integrate, synchronize and unify actions to secure US national interests against current threats, this paper will assess the current capability of the Department of Defense to plan for Phase 0...
With the U.S. high domestic consumption of illicit drugs, a relationship has formed between transnational gangs and powerful Latin American drug cartels. The ineffectiveness of the war on drugs, along with the high cost of such a program, begs the...
With the recent claimed phased withdrawal of the Vietnamese occupation forces from Cambodia in September 1989, it may appear that ASEAN has at last attained what it had sought for at the UN for the last decade since the Vietnamese invasion in...
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Hood resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and entered the Confederate Army as a resident of Texas. Originally appointed a first lieutenant he served on the Virginia peninsula in 1861 and received rapid...
With the exception of Cuba, US-Latin American relations do not have the specter of Communist influence in the hemisphere distorting the thrust of foreign policy. What does remain is the threat of crises that endangers the viability of the fledgling...
With the decline of the Soviet Union, the United States Army has become engaged in a multitude of operations that are different and more complex in nature from those of the Cold War. While still needing to train for full scale conventional war, the...
With our participation in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) since 2001, the Army has had a shortage of NCO’s to fill critical positions in its ranks. Many Soldiers have been deployed on several rotations since 2001 and that has begun to take its...
With Lithuania as case in point, this thesis utilizes extensive primary and secondary materials to examine the pros and cons inherent in the participation of small nations in multinational operations. The examination begins with a discussion of the...
With a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastating the country of Haiti in January 2010, the U.S. military along with various organizations from countries around the world responded by providing assistance to the island nation. The mission of the Joint...
While the Persian Gulf War confirmed the political and strategic utility of using ballistic missiles as a terror weapon, the effect of ballistic missiles on tactical operations has received much less attention. Despite growing evidence of...
While serving as Chief of the 484th Terminal Control Pre-Mobilization Soldier Readiness Processing Team, established soon after 9/11, I spearheaded a team effort which identified shortfalls in combat readiness, troops deployment and mobilization...
While both air and ground based fire support have proven themselves to be an invaluable and overwhelmingly lethal force in conventional combat, they have struggled to deal with the extreme complexity, density, and constraints of the Urban...
When the United States declared war on Kaiser Wilhelm's government on April 6, 1917, the U.S. Army underwent a profound growth and transformation to conduct combat operations against the German Imperial Army. Since the U.S. Army grew from 125,000...
What is the probability for renewed conflict in the Sinai region in light of Egypt's recent revolution? This monograph examines that question by analyzing Nasser's Free Officer revolution of the 1950s that led to 1956 Suez Crisis (Nasser era) and...
What began as a minor support operation soon became a crisis in Rhode Island. A major winter storm developed along the eastern coastline of the United States. Coupled with a well-planned Department of Transportation contract dispute, the storm soon...
Westphal's study consists of four parts. Part I is the selection, education and training of general staff officers in peace and war; this includes training at the War College in peacetime, training at general staff schools during wartime,...