90th Anniversary History
Integrating Intelligence and Information: Ten Points for the Commander. Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, U.S. Army; Brigadier General Charles A. Flynn, U.S. Army; The authors provide ten points as an azimuth for...
Americans are safer today than at any time in the past six years because of the successes of the National Strategy for Homeland Security. Government agencies share intelligence and threat information and communicate better than they ever have. Our...
As of November 2006, the United States (US) military maintains custody of over 15,000 detainees at four theater interment facilities and one strategic internment facility. With such large populations, there are significant risks of creating radical...
As the United States (U.S.) establishes better control of the border, traffickers and smugglers continue to develop advanced methods and employ new tactics to counter enforcement technology. Investigating how emerging technologies in aerial...
Beginning in 2009, the United States and many of its NATO-ISAF partners dramatically raised their levels of effort in Afghanistan. The "Afghan Surge," as it came to be known, was most evident in the number of additional US and allied troops that...
Beyond guns and steel: reviving the nonmilitary: instruments of American power.Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates; The secretary of defense says the U.S. must develop a cadre of deployable civilians to strengthen the Nation's "soft" power in...
During his 2004-2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, "I was with III Corps," said Lieutenant Colonel Mark Tolmachoff, "which at the time was the base element of Multinational Corps-Iraq." In this interview focusing initially on...
Esperar por Godot no Iraque. F. J. Bing West; Ao longo dos próximos anos, nossas forças permanecerão engajadas em combate no Iraque com a missão ambígua de não contar com o apoio da maioria dos políticos americanos. Esta tensão entre a...
External borders of countries and their internal boundaries regulate how people are governed and taxed, their rights and legal authority, and the freedoms they share within their daily lives. People often form relationships based on where they live...
FM 3-0 Operations: the Army's blueprint. General William S. Wallace, U.S. Army; TRADOC's commander introduces the newest version of FM 3-0, Operations, the Army's guide to operating in the 21st century.
From January 2004 through March 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jerry Diamond served initially as the logistics officer for the 312th Military Intelligence Battalion and then later as the commander of Alpha Company, 312th MI. In...
From November 2004 through July 2005, Major Jeff Buck served as aide-de-camp to the commanding general of Task Force 134, which was responsible for theater-level detainee operations in the country of Iraq and had oversight of the facilities of Abu...
Globalization has changed many security, economic, political, and social conditions that shape world behavior; which in turn has produced a new paradigm for warfare that is fundamentally different from the industrial aged warfare paradigm that the...
Group Thesis: Despite billions of dollars in expenditures and current government policy, our nation's borders remain unprotected and the US Military should assume an expanded role in their protection.
Hawaii’s Homeland Security. Major General Craig B. Whelden, U.S. Army
Transformation Transformation under Attack. Lieutenant General Frederic J. Brown, U.S. Army, Retired Enabling Operational Maneuver from Strategic Distances....
Humans have used traditional tracking "skills" to follow a quarry (human or animal) since the beginning of existence. "Visual Tracking, at its very basic level is the natural predatory hunting instinct of man." Even with this history, the...
I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January of 1983 and shipped to Boot Camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in September of 1983. I served as an avionics technician in VMA(AW) 533, deployed to the Mediterranean on the USS
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In the first of two interviews, Major Chad Hackley talks about commanding Alpha Company, 110th Military Intelligence Battalion in Kandahar, Afghanistan from August 2003 through May 2004 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He discusses the...
In this interview MAJ Steve Barry discusses his deployment to Iraq during the initial phases of the war. Deployed to Kuwait for six months prior to the kickoff of OIF I, MAJ Barry describes the time he and his tank company spent training in the...
In this March 2009 interview MAJ Lisa Coleman, Military Police (MP) discusses her 2004-2005 deployment to Iraq as a member of Task Force (TF) 134 as part of the joint operations section (J3). MAJ Coleman describes her integration into theater, her...