Through-out History, since the beginning of the Noncommissioned Officers’ corps
inception in 1775, the Army has empowered its Noncommissioned Officer (NCO). The
standardization of the Noncommissioned Corps duties and responsibilities has been...
Over the past 128 years, three factors have lead to the ever increasing empowerment of the American Noncommissioned Officer. MG Emory Upton, NCOES and training are these factors. These factors have led to better trained Soldiers, with the ability...
Three major causes for the empowerment of the Non-Commissioned Officer of today’s Army are
emergence of small unit tactics, education and training as well as legislation and regulations.
Small unit tactics emerged to adapt to weapons...
Throughout our military history, Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) have shaped the actions and outcomes of our Army. Increased responsibility and character development within the NCO corps has increasingly led to better-developed and disciplined...
Usison, TeodSince the earliest days of recorded history, nations have been warring with one another.
These wars are fought in battle with tactics consistent with the most technological advancement
in weaponry of the era. As new innovations in...
The work addresses the problem of the concept of national will. Present concepts are held to be inadequate because they arbitrarily separate national will from the political decision-making process and because they are psychologically unsound. As a...
History illustrates that without unity of command and a mechanism to enable unity of effort, achieving strategic and regional objectives is rare. AFRICOM, a newly established Combatant Command, faces innumerable challenges within the continent of...
The response of U.S. foreign policy to the volatile rise of global jihadism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has been sweeping and multifaceted. One key pillar of U.S. strategic response has been the active promotion of Western representative...
This monograph explores cohesion as it applies to combat service support (CSS) soldiers. The exploration begins with the construction of a base camp constructed of materials from the study of infantry cohesion. While building the base camp the...
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...
The United States today finds itself in an era of persistent irregular conflict, the root cause of which may be illegitimate governance within failed or failing states. The resulting instability will likely require future U.S. military and civilian...
This monograph examines the Arab Spring in light of the past half century of efforts in transnational Arab identity formation and thus considers its links to Arab Nationalism and Pan-Islamism. Then, with a focus on Syria and the sectarian nature of...
Terrorism is a real threat to the lives of the citizens of the United States and of her allies. Osama bin Laden’s organization sponsored the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole which resulted in seventeen dead U.S. sailors, dozens of injuries,...
Discussion of France. This section covers the national government, provincial and other governmental units, local government, special units of government, special units of government, political parties and other organizations of political...
Office, U.S. Secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff
The minutes of the Combined Chiefs' meeting at the major conferences touch on virtually every policy and strategy issue of World War II, from initial troop deployments to counter Axis aggression, through the debates about the location and timing of...
The NCO Corps stood up shortly after the Army formed in June of 1775 and NCOs modeled after the NCOs in the continental European era. Those NCOs were the disciplinary, masters of drill, and overall managers of the troops much like the NCOs serving...
Since the dawning of the military, the creation of ranks formed and military tactics surfaced. Roles between the Officer and the Non-Commissioned Officer developed; the Officer Corps assumed that it became the business of the military, leaving the...
The American noncommissioned officer (NCO) is empowered in the contemporary force
due to changes in operational necessity, advancements in technology, and pay and incentive
enhancements. The responsibilities of the American NCO has gone from...
Today’s Army increasingly looks and depends on the NCO Corps. This trend will and must
continue as the Army transforms the force thru multiple methods. We can learn thru our past
why the NCO Corps is an essential part of the on-going...