Lieutenant Colonel William Brooks served in the 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery (ADA) as the operations officer in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through June of 2003. In this interview, Brooks relates...
The commander of 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment during Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr), Lieutenant Colonel William K. Mooney Jr. and his unit of 16 UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters conducted daily logistics runs in support of this November 2004...
In this interview LTC Husing discusses his deployment to OIF with the XVIII Airborne Corps headquarters to serve as the assessments officer in charge (OIC) in the corps operations (C3) as XVIII Airborne Corps assumed the mission of the...
This interview with Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus covers his command of Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) from June 2004 through September 2005, and deals specifically with the deployment of the 98th Division...
Lieutenant General R. Steven Whitcomb has commanded Third Army and Army Forces, United States Central Command in Iraq and Kuwait from October 2004 through the present in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Whitcomb begins the interview by...
Lieutenant General Richard F. Natonski, United States Marine Corps, commanded the 1st Marine Division and the ground combat element of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), including substantial US Army forces, during Operation Al Fajr to...
I will try to relay the experience of the mobilization of 16 soldiers who made up the 2nd BDE Embedded Team Trainers (ANA). The timeline will begin one month prior to the mobilization and end with our departure to Afghanistan. I will include issues...
The United States has been engaged in active conflict against Violent Extremist Organizations for over 11 years. This has given the U.S. the ability to effectively track and target hostile organizations before they could materialize enough manpower...
This thesis examines the question of the scarcity of petroleum-based fuels early in the Twenty-First Century and the DOD policy and programs to meet this shortage. Based on the fact that petroleum fuels as we know them will not be available early...
The Army is entering an era of unprecedented change evidenced by emerging information age technologies, globalization, and the rapidly changing security environment unleashed by the ending of the Cold War. Futurists are describing the twenty-first...
This paper explores the capacity of an airborne division to inflict operational shock in mid to high-intensity conflict as part of a Joint Task force (JTF). The United States faces a multi-faceted and complex security environment in its new role as...
This study deals with the historical evolution of the Muslim uprising in Mindanao and how the present Muslim secessionist groups; the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),...
The mythology surrounding the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Polje, in present-day Serbia, is the foundation for the Serbian cultural identity and is a prism through which Serbs view and interpret the past, present, future. The mythology, created out of...
Congress governs the United States Armed Forces by writing laws for the Department of Defense (DoD) to implement. In 1993, Congress passed a federal law banning homosexuality in the armed forces. The DoD created a policy to implement the law, but...
The prejudice and bias of awarding awards to low density MOSs is an ethical dilemma facing many units in today's Army. Before I give specific examples let’s look at the word ethics and its true meaning. Ethics is clearly defined as doing the...
Thesis Statement: The US Military used for patrolling the border is illegal and contrary to the mission of the Armed Forces. Discussion: The military is the most capable organization in the US to provide this function. Conclusion: To secure our...
The United States Army recently released a white paper on Concepts for the Objective Force. This force will be capable of simultaneous engagement by air-ground maneuver elements at operational and tactical distances by employing future advanced...
This document contains historical background for U.S. / Belgian hostage evacuation operation in the Congo, planning, a cover plan, command and control, overflight clearance and base rights problems, personnel and logistics, public information...
The challenges of multinational land operations are to integrate various force contributions that are different in organization, capability, and size. This situation creates problems for smaller nations with limited ability to provide larger scale...
During the war years, the Republic of Vietnam and the United States pursued a common goal; their armed forces fought against the same enemy, under the same campaign plan, with the same weapon systems, and in the same environment. The strategic...