This exploratory study attempted to estimate how the issues of cost and quality would be affected by employing an online solution as one method of accomplishing the Army ROTC military history requirement. Background on the Army ROTC program and the...
In 1917, General Pershing dictated General Orders, No. 8 creating the staff organization of the American Expeditionary Forces and subordinate army corps and division staffs. The new structure was developed in response to modern field conditions and...
This monograph examines some of the doctrinal, procedural and technological basis for the future U.S. Army, to find whether concepts within the Force XXI/AAN designs may be applied to the Norwegian army. It compares and contrasts the two armies to...
Current operations indicate that improvements are warranted within our Battle Command (BC) planning method to support complex and ill-structured problems. Several modified approaches have been reviewed and synthesized into a general theoretical...
Introduction by the author: "Like many book projects this one took a different direction then originally intended. I started out with the idea of writing a book on military knowledge management for military knowledge management professionals. A...
Successful leadership requires clear communication between team members, yet globalization of our society has introduced the reality of directing teams who are often not co-located. In the military environment, distributed teams are increasingly...
The Army Learning Model is the new educational model that develops adaptive leaders in an era of persistent conflict. Life-long, individual-based learning will blend together self-development, institutional instruction, and operational experience...
The age of reductionism is over, new laws of physics are being discovered, and the old theoretical constructs are being replaced with new understanding. The modern operating environment in common with the world of physics has changed. This change,...
The defense and intelligence community initiatives to create persistent surveillance capabilities and enable access to the resultant continuous data streams will create significant change in the joint force and partners operating across the domains...
This monograph explores the online community and its new relationship to the Army educational system. Over the past six to seven years, online communities such as CompanyCommand.army.mil have established themselves as means of communication for the...
This monograph addresses the question, “Does one battlefield framework fit all environments?” The 1993 version of FM 100-5, OPERATIONS, prescribes the deep, close, and rear (DCR) battlefield framework. Evidence presented in this monograph...
This study investigates the Internet as a potential tool as well as a threat to the operational planner. The Internet is changing how information is stored, processed transmitted and utilized. The Internet is affecting the way people and nations...
Training Training or performance improvement? James B. Ellsworth Battle command: replicating the CTC experience. COL Ronald L. Bertha, US Army Training imperatives for reserve forces. BG Ronald S. Mangum, US Army From TFS to KALT:...
This study considers how commanders exploit the ABCS (Army Battle Command System) to achieve information dominance (ID) on today’s conventional battlefield. The work examines how ABCS is used by commanders and staffs to achieve information...
A gap exists between how logistics planners and operational planners see the military environment. This leads to asynchronous planning and flawed solutions. The central theme necessary to merge these two worlds is the common operational picture. By...
There is a need for a computer program to automate the computation of safety data to provide timely support for field artillery systems. As training areas are reduced in size and units strive for realistic training, the timely computation of safety...
There is a need for a computer program to automate the computation of safety data to provide timely support for field artillery systems. As training areas are reduced in size and units strive for realistic training, the timely computation of safety...
Calendar Year 2009 was an eventful year. Five major developments dominated the activities at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy: 1) the successful change of command in June from COL Donald Gentry to CSM Raymond Chandler, III; 2) the realignment...
In our Army today we must remain trained and ready to deploy at any time. Our world is different today, and as an Army, we are deployed in several countries. A large number of the United States Armed Forces are deployed in support of Operation...
Afghanistan once had a well-developed and productive agricultural sector. As late as 1978, the country was self-sufficient in cereal grains and had a strong export market for horticultural products. It also produced industrial crops such as cotton...