In this November 2012 interview, MAJ Kelly French, US Army, Adjutant General; discusses her six-month deployment to Afghanistan as a mentor for National Military of Afghanistan Academy (NMAA) in 2010 through 2011 in support of Operation Enduring...
An Iowa National Guardsman with Delta Company, 234th Signal Battalion (a corps mobile subscriber equipment asset) Captain David Broomhall - a first lieutenant at the time - served as the movement officer during the unit's 2004-2005 deployment in...
During her March 2003 to March 2004 deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM as part of Combined Joint Task Force-76, Major Deitra Korando - an intelligence officer with the 25th Infantry Division - served initially as a battle major in...
Major Matt Kinkead served from February 2004 to February 2005 in Iraq as commander of the 2nd Brigade Reconnaissance Troop, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. In country, his unit functioned like a reserve unit, and as such they moved...
Colonel John Singleton Mosby led the most successful partisan campaign during the Civil War. Major General J. E. B. Stuart, the Confederate Cavalry commander, allowed Mosby to form an unconventional unit with nine volunteers in December 1862. Mosby...
Language competence has long been recognized as a required skill in the collection and analysis of intelligence. Previous experience in coalition warfare and current efforts at multilateral defense reveal the need for facility in other languages in...
As a result of the fall of the Government of South Vietnam in the spring of 1975, more than 100,000 refugees fled that country. The majority of all refugees under United States control were processed through Camp Orote, an interim refugee center on...
The purpose of this monograph is to determine the conditions necessary for a successful counteroffensive. The study seeks to identify these conditions through historical analyses of four of the greatest counteroffensives of modern military history:...
This monograph examines the Army’s future operational level logistic support in an effort to determine whether or not the Army can successfully execute its Objective Force transformation without an aerial-based sustainment and distribution...
This monograph analyzed whether Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck used operational art to defeat British forces in the East African campaign of World War I. British forces were superior in quantity of men and equipment, but slow moving and...
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the six dynamics of command; leadership, decision making, information assimilation, visualization, conceptualization, and communication. The primary research question is: Are the dynamics of command...
Looks at the radio, starting with the theory underlying the radio system of communication. Moves into damped wave radio telegraphy, undamped wave radio telegraphy and radio telephony. Includes a description of radio equipment and a description of...
This document addresses the following topics regarding Japanese defense against amphibious operations: tactics and organization; beach obstacles, barricades, and mines; fortifications and airfields; Japanese coast defense guns; dual-purpose,...
Looks at the radio, starting with the theory underlying the radio system of communication. Moves into damped wave radio telegraphy, undamped wave radio telegraphy and radio telephony. Includes a description of radio equipment and a description of...