The creation of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2003 was a monumental, yet incomplete organizational step towards integrating border protection operations. Customs and Border Protection is constantly improving integration and unity of...
The United States Marine Corps developed Operational Maneuver from the Sea in the 1980s and codified it as a Marine Corps concept in 1996. In brief, Operational Maneuver from the Sea seeks to exploit the sea as maneuver space to defeat access...
In 1996, Joint Vision 2010 (JV2010) established a template for transforming the armed forces that continues to define sustainment transformation within the U.S. Army, while the publication of Network Centric Warfare in 1999 provided the theoretical...
While it appears that the role of the U.S. Army is changing from exclusively fighting and winning the nation’s wars to becoming the force provider for numerous support and stability operations, the potential to become entangled in low intensity...
In all its modern wars the United States has fought as a member of a multinational coalition. Multinational operations are a key component of the National Security Strategy of the United States, which is built on the imperative of engagement....
The mechanized task force commander contends with many factors that define his environment. To assist him in contending with this environment, he employs a command and control system consisting of personnel, communication, equipment, facilities,...
In an age predominated by states but rife with non-state actors, failing states, increasingly fluid boundaries, disenfranchised yet interconnected populations, and increasingly self-aware cultures, the United States must develop a foreign policy...
There is a strong institutional push in the Army today emphasizing technology and systematic command processes over human ability as keys to battlefield supremacy. This argument discounts the historically vital role of the ground tactical...
This monograph examines the relationship between the United States Army's physical fitness program and the physical combat readiness of the combat arms soldier. Linking together physical fitness standards, physical training, and combat readiness is...
Throughout mankind’s history of waging war he has struggled between “total war” and the use of “rules of engagement”, to ease the very real conscience of the Soldier and, in the present day United States, the political conscience of the...
Forward by Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, Retired: Leaders face enigmatic challenges within our increasingly complex world of international affairs. Foremost among them for the US government is determining how senior officials--policy makers and...
The United States and Iran have been in conflict since the Iranian Revolution. Iran is seeking to increase its power in the Middle East while America is seeking to maintain its own power in the region while simultaneously containing Iran’s...
Recent military interventions in Haiti, Somalia, Iraq, and elsewhere confirm the axiom that it is possible to win every battle and yet still manage to lose a war. Although the United States has developed a method of warfare that can produce...
A gap exists between how logistics planners and operational planners see the military environment. This leads to asynchronous planning and flawed solutions. The central theme necessary to merge these two worlds is the common operational picture. By...
The Way Ahead. Chief of Staff of the Army General Peter J. Schoomaker and Major Anthony W. Vassalo, U.S. Army; Our Army is serving a Nation at war, so the way we approach our duties must reflect the seriousness of an Army at war. American soldiers...
So You Want to Be an Adviser Brigadier General Daniel P. Bolger, U.S. Army Bolger, one of the Army's top advisers in Iraq, offers a vivid description of what it is like to train Iraqi security forces.
This manual is a guide for the commander the field and personnel of artillery searchlight battery. It will assist the commander in developing the battery into an efficient, smooth working unit capable of operating effectively in combat.
"It is clear that we face major threats on the modern battlefield with a relatively small quantity of field artillery. It follows that we must optimize the use of all indirect fire support resources available."
"The efficient employment of Field Artillery is predicated upon three equally important factors: Mobility, the ability to deliver timely and effective fires, and signal communication. This memorandum, which deals with the later, discusses in...