This document contains a G-2 special study of Iwo Jima. There is an index to standard map symbols, starboard center and profiles of beaches, a vertical photograph of the southern half of the island with beaches superimposed, situation maps, and...
With combat formations schedule to begin drawing down in July 2011 and the role of US forces in Iraq already shifting away from the lead, the future of these two nations will grow increasingly dependent upon the indigenous security forces and the...
My personal experience paper will demonstrate how leaders who have touched my life during different military assignments and deployments have shaped my military career. It will also show how I utilized what I learned from those leaders when I...
This is a transcript of an interview with Sergeant Major of the Army Leon L. Van Autreve (USA- ret.) conducted in 1994 for the Sergeants major of the Army History Project.
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
MAJ Karrie Patterson served as company commander of Charlie Company, 260th Infantry in Kuwait during 2004 and 2005 in support of both Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this November 2008 interview, MAJ...
This monograph examines the question of what will happen on the Korean peninsula if North Korea collapses without a fight. In 1996 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) appears to be on the verge of disintegration due in large part to...
The drug war has failed to achieve conditions that reduce the influence of illicit drugs abroad or at home. The National Drug Control Strategy is the U.S. President’s policy document that outlines the administration’s plan to reduce the...
The attached lessons learned in the tactics of jungle warfare were obtained from the United States Marines and Infantry on Guadalcanal and are a result of interviews which are attached in the document. There is an attachment to this document (a...
This paper describes my experience while deployed to Ghanzi, Afghanistan, Task Force Phoenix 7 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). I will briefly address the Pre Mobilization Training and my day to day mission as the Non Commissioned...
Africa in general and sub-Saharan Africa in particular, continues to experience armed conflicts engineered by political elites that cause untold suffering and underdevelopment. The many years of armed confrontations often end in military...
The U.S. National Security Strategy states that peaceful resolution of the Korean conflict with a non-nuclear, reunified peninsula will enhance stability in the East Asian region and is clearly in the strategic interest of the United States. The...
The changing face of war: into the fourth generation. William S. Lind, Colonel John Schmitt, US Marine Corps, Colonel Joseph W. Sutton, US Army, Colonel Keith M. Nightengale, US Army, and Lieutenant Colonel G.I. Wilson, US Marine Corps...
Armour is acknowledged by all the leading authorities to be a necessity for the defense of positions of such importance, that the safety of the State would be compromised by their loss or destruction, and a perusal of the following pages will show...
This is a transcript of a taped interview with Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge, conducted by Sergeant Major Erwin H. Koehler (United States Army, retired) for the Center of Military History, United States Army and the United States...
The following is a brief personnel experience paper about my pre-deployment and deployment for 12 months to Balad, Iraq while serving as the HHC 507th Corps Support Group, Senior Food Operations NCOIC.
My name is Willie D. Shinholster; I have deployed three times during my 25 years of military service. I want to share a deployment experience during Operation Iraqi Freedom-I from 15 April 2003 to 18 July 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. I was the First...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...