During Operation IRAQI FREEDOM I (OIF I), U.S. soldiers waged a desperate war against a growing insurgency. Mounting U.S. casualties became the catalyst for a hidden "war within the war." Arrayed on one side of this secret conflict were leaders who...
The main thesis of this monograph is that these same basic guidelines for maximizing interagency cooperation and for focusing military capabilities on establishing security and providing for the establishment of basic services that underpin the...
The prosecution of war has always been tempered by constraints, both real and artificial. These constraints are described by Clausewitz as the factors which prevent the conduct of absolute war. These factors include moral and professional codes of...
This document gives insight into the organization of the POW camp system. It discusses prisoner of war labor, food, clothing, medical service and hygiene, Russian treatment of POWs, attitudes of German prisoners of war, propaganda, cultural work,...
Influenced by hundreds of years of war in which each conflict introduced some tactic or technology more powerful and terrifying than the last, in the 20th Century, the “civilized” nations of the world united to give war a set of humane rules by...
As a part of the response to the Al Qaida attacks on 11 September 2001, the United States found itself having to answer many difficult questions regarding its action in the Global War on Terrorism. One of the most contentious was the use of torture...
The purpose of this monograph is to evaluate international efforts at coercive diplomacy aimed at stopping the fighting in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. According to Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies at King's College,...
This monograph explores the non-lethal technologies available to and currently being used by the individual soldier and Marine, and focuses on the impact these technologies have on the individual's ability to apply lethal force when the situation...
The war on terror takes many forms, whether it's sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, agents into foreign countries or investigating threats at home. These are accepted by the American Public as necessary for securing our country. What America...
The following are section titles contained in the document: martial law, military jurisdiction, military necessity, retaliation; public and private property of the enemy, protection of persons (especially of women)/religion/arts/sciences;...
Multi-national force-iraq commander's counterinsurgency guidance. General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army; General Petraeus outlines the essential tasks necessary for successful counterinsurgency operations in Iraq.
"The purpose of the plan is to provide modernization recommendations for the M270 Family of Munitions Rocket and Missile Systems fired either from the Multiple Launch Rocket System, M270, or other future launchers such as the lightweight High...
"The recent development of materiel and the methods of employing it has made it necessary to revise our scheme of national defense, and accordingly the present approved Coast Defense Project calls for a positive defense against enemy landings on...
Interrogation to Torture: Where Is the Line, When Do You Cross It?
When authorities interview prisoners of war or military detainees they rarely just question them, they interrogate them. If we intend to use torture, a framework to guide, limit,...
Thesis: The Confederate Army achieved victory at the battle of Spotsylvania despite an overwhelming opposing force, through leadership, combat experience, indomitable spirit, and the will to fight and win.
Terrorists have caused the United States of America to enter a war against terrorism. Some argue that the enemy combatants have been tortured. During Operation Iraqi Freedom many United States Soldiers who became captured were tortured and some...
When the why is strong enough, the how will be found, torture of terrorist suspects is against the Geneva Convention and could ultimately increase terrorism attacks. Article 2 of the Geneva Convention says; "no exceptional circumstances whatsoever,...