Major Rick Rabe, a California National Guardsman, served as the operations officer for Task Force Phoenix's Training Assistance Group to the Afghan National Army at the Kabul Military Training Center in 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation...
Major John Ferrell commanded Headquarters Troop, 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry in Kuwait and Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the deployment of his squadron from Germany to Kuwait, the relationship...
In this second of two interviews reference his Operation Iraqi Freedom experiences - the first one covering his March to September 2005 deployment - Major John Polidoro, US Marine Corps, discusses his August 2006 through March 2007 tour as, again,...
In this first of two interviews, Major Richard Feltzer discusses serving as the aviation maintenance officer for Alpha Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment in Kuwait and Iraq from February 2003 through February 2004 in support of...
Master Sergeant Michael Threatt served on an operational detachment alpha from 1st Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, from June 2005 through February 2006 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. In this...
Major Scott Nauman deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom and from June to December 2003 served as the commander of Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry - part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division out of Germany - and had the primary...
Major Steve Sattinger deployed to Qalat, Afghanistan, in the Zabol Province in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as the resident engineer from February to August 2005. He received his commission through the ROTC program at Penn State University...
This paper discusses the Air Corps with respect to the securing and training of the necessary personnel; the idea, development, manufacture, and delivery of materiel; and a combination of the two elements in operations.
This study discusses in detail the operations at Rossignol by the 3d Division against the German Sixth Corps in order to determine the primary causes of the French defeat.
This thesis studies the events that unfolded when three National Guard roundout brigades were activated for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The mobilization process for reserve component units is studied from the president’s decision to...
In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive, three-pronged attack into South Vietnam that was eventually repulsed by South Vietnamese forces, United States (US) advisors and massive amounts of American airpower. The problem is...
This historical study investigates why Union joint operations between army and navy forces on the Mississippi and other western rivers were effective. It examines the development of a joint doctrine at the strategic, operational, and tactical...
This study investigates whether the military decision-making qualities, as framed by the professional Army ethic, are endorsed by the Judeo- Christian values system. The author chose the four values of the professional Army ethic (loyalty, duty,...
Studies of most insurgencies and counterinsurgencies indicate that the struggle primarily has been directed towards winning the hearts and minds of the people. However, in almost every counterinsurgency, the security forces have played a...
This study investigates the decisive factors that affected the Chickasaw Bayou Campaign, General Ulysses S. Grant's first effort to seize Vicksburg. By December 1962 Grant's forces had fought into north central Mississippi. Simultaneously, Major...
This study examines the utility of regionally focusing a light infantry division to maximize its effectiveness for low intensity conflict (LIC). The light infantry divisions (LID) are the US Army's most strategically deployable divisions and train...
This study analyzes criminal investigative activities during World War II and the Viet Nam conflict to determine if there were similar patterns in the framework of command and control, organizational development, support, and investigative...
This narrative recounts the operational history of XIXth Panzer Corps' advance from 10 to 15 May 1940. Its primary focus is directed at the breakthrough at Sedan. The political and military situations influencing the decision makers of the German...
This thesis evaluated the military's role in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1933 1942. The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of the military's involvement in the CCC on national defense, on the economy and to deduce a net...
The 2004 terrorist attack on a Beslan, Russia middle school left more than a hundred innocent schoolchildren dead and many more injured. In this tragedy’s wake, numerous security experts offered American school officials recommendations on how to...