United States military forces are entering the 21st century doctrinally unprepared for the challenges that await. The National Security Strategy of the United States, the National Military Strategy, and Joint Vision 2020 all posit the need for...
Between April and August 1943, the U.S. Army’s II Corps saw two of its division commanders relieved of their commands. Each relief appeared tied to battlefield setbacks. MG Orlando Ward of the 1st Armored Division was relieved after his division...
This monograph examines the US military involvement in the "drug war" since l989, as well as some of the issues that the military officer may have to deal with while conducting counterdrug operations in Peru. In 1989, the Secretary of Defense...
Joint military doctrine has yet to bridge the gap between lessons learned from U.S. domestic disaster relief and application for international disaster relief. The National Response Framework stresses the need for a response architecture...
The U.S. government states that agriculture is its most important non-security priority in Afghanistan and emphasizes the importance of agricultural development in Afghanistan's long-term stabilization and reconstruction. The extent to which USDA...
Current Army force redesign efforts seek to fundamentally change the way tactical commanders conduct reconnaissance on the future battlefield. Cavalry organizations will replace their traditional combat capability with a surveillance capability....
This monograph addresses contemporary raid warfare and the effect it can produce at the operational level of war. "Can operational raids be decisive?" is the question that is researched and answered in the course of this paper. After establishing...
This monograph discusses the importance of learning lessons from a study of operations by the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the American Civil War, using a theoretical model developed by Mr. James J. Schneider in Theoretical Paper No. 3. Mr....
This paper examines the contradiction between the use of depth as envisioned in U.S. Army doctrine and NATO's strategy of forward defense. The Eastern Front campaigns of World War II provide a relevant historical setting for the study of the...
For many countries, the finite nature of fossil fuels is a matter of significant security concerns. Producer and consumer countries alike increasingly see energy supply security as a subject of their security and defense policy. Being strategically...
On 5 November 2002, an armed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) launched a lethal missile strike, killing Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, a high ranking al-Qaeda member and suspected architect of the USS...
This monograph proposes an alternative design concept for the future divisional Armored Engineer Battalion. The research hypothesis is that an Armored Engineer Battalion organized around core battlefield missions would be more effective in...
Intelligence summaries for the Pacific forces for July of 1945. Original document is part of "Periodic summary of enemy trends, 6 July 1945" with call number N4660.
United States Fleet, Headquarters of the Commander in Chief
Part of a series of information drawn largely from action reports for timely dissemination. Discusses a variety of issues including landing operations, air support, naval gunfire, intelligence, logistics, ship to shore movement, landing craft and...
Assesses the bombing results of heavy bombardment units operating under VIII Bomber Command. Looks at accuracy in the theater of daylight bombardment operations.
Contains a staff study of Army tactical air support requirements, a general review of U.S. tactical air support in Korea, 28 June 1950 through 8 September 1950, infantry battalion Tactical Air Control Party, a plan for the coordination of...
Soon after the end of the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the Kurdish people of northern Iraq rebelled against the regime of Saddam Hussein. The rebellion was violently crushed by the Iraqi military resulting in over 1 million Kurdish refugees throughout...
Napoleon's rise to power in the late eighteenth century occurred at a time when the structure of most European armies was based on the paradigm army of Frederick the Great. Napoleon, however, changed all of this and in a few short years transformed...
The United States military remains the dominant post-modern state combatant. Military actions in Kosovo, Bosnia, and the Desert Storm victory validated the theory that information-based technologies are decisive factors in modern military...