This paper addresses the current misunderstanding surrounding the term known as strategic maneuver. Strategic maneuver is considered many different things to include: preclusion operations, moving units from theater to theater, and the use of...
Col. John Boyd, USAF (Ret),famous for developing the OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) loop model, spent most of his adult life trying to convince the U.S. military establishment of the merits of his theory for maneuver warfare later called the Boyd...
Communicating official messages to soldiers within the United States Army is an endeavor that leaders at every level have conducted since the inception of the organization. Army doctrine links communication to leadership via the terminological...
This monograph examines the legacy that has been passed down from the personal recollections made by the Commanders-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command regarding planning and/or execution of full spectrum operations in Panama. The focus of this paper...
For many years, the U.S. Army recognized the need to share information or lessons gained from training and actual combat operations. During World War II and the Korean War, the Army published “combat bulletins” in an attempt to share combat...
A veteran of multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq with 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment as both a company commander and as the battalion logistics officer (S4), Major Scott Green, in this interview, discusses each in depth, beginning...
Research Question: how will U.S. national security policy be affected by terrorist exploitation of the Internet and related information technologies? Information operations are nothing new; they have been used in military operations throughout the...
Military command-and-control structures must adapt to the environment in which they operate. Following World War II, command and control evolved to meet the conditions of the postwar era. Sixty years later, the international system has again...
In the last ten years, the United States military has dealt with emerging counterinsurgencies in multiple operational theaters. To deal with the complex nature of counterinsurgency, organizational planning and operational processes increasingly...
Sun Tzu asserts that success is not winning every battle fought, but subduing the enemy's will without fighting. Nevertheless, modern military thought fails to distinguish an enemy's will-to-fight from their means to do so, limiting the ways...
This monograph examines the current organizational structure and employment of the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Reserve Force, to research the possibility of increasing force readiness through command reorganization and implementation of a reserve...
The U.S. Armed Forces needs a new organization capable of remaining competitive in an ever-expanding global information environment, adapting to reach both illiterate and technologically-savvy audiences of the 21st Century, developing information...
American history includes more than 200 years of recorded military success and failures. From the Revolutionary War to the those operations under Global War on Terrorism, the military leaders and warriors of the United States, have implemented...
Major Brad Johnson served as the intelligence officer for 1st Battalion, 13th Armor in Iraq from March through August 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this email correspondence interview, he discusses American jurisdiction over...
Lieutenant Colonel Larry Wilson served as the intelligence officer for 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq from August 2003 through August 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the different units which...
This work is the regimental history of a single Confederate infantry regiment that conducted its military operations entirely in the western theater of the American Civil War as viewed through the lens of unit cohesion. The methodology used to...
Regional studies Africa's security issues through 2010. William Thom Threat kingdom. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Flynt, US Army Under new ownership -- it's Panama's Canal. Colonel William W. Mendel, US Army,...
The study of military history is an important responsibility of those in the profession of arms. By learning from an organization’s past mistakes and past successes it allows for future operations to have positive results and tighter unit...
May of 1990 was one of many milestones in what has been nearly a 30 year career as a Army Reserve soldier. That month I received a promotion to Sergeant First Class and after just eleven short years would soon be challenged to lead in the roll of...
Christians and Muslims have been in conflict since Muslims established themselves 610 years after the death of Jesus Christ. The conflict came to a head during the events leading to the Crusades and the Crusades themselves. Both sides committed...