In an effort to explain how the military can better engage the media, this paper provides insights to the question, “How can the U.S. military proactively engage the domestic media in the planning and execution of military operations?” By...
Wartime correspondents are a valid and critical aspect to obtaining the overall picture of war and military conflicts. This paper examined the roles of embedded and unilateral reporters during wartime and answers the two questions; how do the media...
The embedded reporter program in Operation Iraqi Freedom was a huge undertaking, requiring extensive planning and coordination to organize and implement. The Department of Defense (DOD) invested much time and resources to help give the media...
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Mrs. Victoria Clarke, initiated the embedded news media program. The intent was for the public to see directly through the media what happened at the...
This paper describes some events and lessons learned during my deployment to Baghdad. Iraq 2007. I have when possible listed the events in chronological orders as they happen. I will discuss the problems encountered while conducting embedded...
On November13, 2004 a young U.S. Marine corporal shot and killed a wounded insurgent during the battle of Fallujah. What isolated this enemy engagement from hundreds of others that took place in this battle was that the insurgent was unarmed and it...
In response to media restrictions during first Gulf war, the Pentagon decided to embed media reporters with combat units from the onset of U.S. forces move from the border of Kuwait to Iraq in 2003. Media reporters were extremely helpful in getting...
In Mosul, Iraq, from January 2004 to January 2005, Captain Angela Bowman was the executive/operations officer for the 139th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a 20-soldier split-state Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard unit headquartered in...
Commanders always require a large amount of data in order to maintain situational awareness, a very complicated endeavor especially during deployments in Iraq or Afghanistan with subordinate units spread across the country. The Battle Command...
In meeting the challenges of post-hostility Iraq, the area of information operations (IO) has received a great deal of attention. Unlike combat operations, the center of gravity in post-conflict Iraq has been restoration of basic services and...
Long having an interest in going and seeing for herself “the places that were being presented as the biggest challenges to American foreign policy,” journalist Anne Barnard – formerly the co-Iraq bureau chief for the Boston Globe in 2003-04...
This monograph examines how the U.S. Army can restructure the decision making process to release initiative on the battlefield. Army tactical units execute missions on a chaotic, uncertain, and disorderly battlefield. Leaders' actions are guided by...
Understanding and leveraging the media has become critical for operational level commanders conducting urban combat operations. The insatiable public appetite for information has created conditions where tactical actions can have severe strategic...
Leaders are responsible for setting the ethical climate whether deployed or not deployed. When we as leaders fail to train Soldiers to live the Army Values and embed our Warrior Ethos instead of just reciting them, Soldiers will not be influenced...
Leaders are responsible for setting the ethical climate whether deployed or not deployed. When we as leaders fail to train Soldiers to live the Army Values and embed our Warrior Ethos instead of just reciting them, Soldiers will not be influenced...
With the explosion of internet use and the availability of real-time world-wide information, U.S. Soldiers now find themselves in a new kind of combat. Today's combat is one where every action is judged, not just by fellow comrades-in-arms, but by...
The Department of Defense and the military have found that building and maintaining a relationship with the media is critical to the management of information describing the war in Iraq. Specifically, embedded journalists have played a major role...
COMMANDANT’S SUMMARY: In 2007, transformation proved to be the key for the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The Academy sought to continue transformation in the Noncommissioned Officer Education System, in the increased use of distance...
I served as Forward Operating Base (FOB) Force Protection Noncommissioned Officer in Charge (FP NCOIC) during OIF III from January 20, 2005 to January 9, 2006. Serving in that position as a Field Artillery Senior Sergeant (13Z5) gave me an...
This paper seeks to answer the question, “What role should the militaries of the US and their NATO allies play in the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan?” This monograph shows the United States (US) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization...