The situation in Europe and the tendencies affecting its future security environment challenge current Swedish policy of neutrality and nonalignment. This study investigates the official policy, the situation in Europe, and the Baltic Region to...
This study explores maneuver warfare theory, naval tactics and if maneuver warfare influences or can be applied to naval tactics and battle. The concepts of attrition warfare and maneuver warfare are investigated. The study is presented from a...
This study focuses on the need for specialist training for mountain warfare. It analyzes the special characteristics of mountain and high altitude terrain which affect conduct of military operations. It identifies the differences between low and...
This is a study of the actions of the senior Confederate commanders at the battle of Shiloh. The senior commander, General Albert Sidney Johnston and his second in command, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, did not come to a complete...
This study investigates the effectiveness of naval aircraft carrier intelligence support to the units of the 10th Mountain Division during its transit to Haiti to participate in Operations RESTORE DEMOCRACY and UPHOLD DEMOCRACY. The study reviews...
This study investigates the desirability of unifying the U.S. Armed Forces into a joint military service. As the U.S. reshapes and downsizes its armed forces for the future, the primary purpose continues to be support for joint operations and a...
This study investigates the reasons for the success of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon in 1813. Four critical principles emerge from U.S. joint doctrine that provide a means to examine coalition warfare: national goals, unity of effort,...
The United States Army is focusing its future on researching, developing, and the acquisition of equipment for a concept called Force XXI. In this new concept, the Army plans to collect and share information using mostly electronic sensors via...
The debate over the service of black Americans in the U.S. Army centered around three questions: Could they serve? Would they be allowed to serve? And, if allowed, in what capacity would they serve? This is similar to modern debates about the...
This thesis examines the intent of Iran's sea power strategy, and discovers that it is a definitive component of a coherent national security strategy of strategic deterrence designed to protect its strategic center of gravity--its oil....
The United States of America played a significant role in the Middle East during the second part of the Twentieth century. The United States has used its power to safeguard its national interests in the Middle East. The results of U.S. foreign...
This study investigates the current proficiency of media skills required for Military Police junior leaders to perform missions in any environment. Currently, junior noncommissioned and company grade officer professional development courses do not...
This research thesis is a study through a military commercial industry partnership to seek whether investments in military modeling and simulation can be easily transferred to benefit commercial industry. This document provides a methodology for...
This thesis proposes that the United States should have a national economic strategy (NES) document to provide direction for the many policymakers who implement the economic instrument of power. With the end of the Cold War, the United States faces...
This thesis is a preliminary study of the spoken language system (SLS) interface under development for the U.S. Army automated planning and asset visibility system called Logistics Anchor Desk (LAD). The purpose of the study is to determine whether...
This study examines a void in current peace operations doctrine--negotiating at the lower tactical level. Current United Nations and military doctrine presents a checklist for conducting meetings but neither explains the theory behind negotiating...
This study investigates the United States Army Infantry training during the Korean War (1950- 1953). It surveys the United States Army training doctrine (before and during the war and current), training memorandums, bulletins, periodicals, observer...
The modern crew station of Army helicopters uses the helmet as an integral component of the aircraft control systems. What was once viewed as a simple device for crash protection now supports devices including night vision goggles, chemical mask,...
This study examines the application of command and control warfare (C2W) as a supporting strategy on the battlefield. It begins with an overview of C2W, discussing its five elements--operations security, military deception, physical destruction,...
This study assesses the efforts of U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), and its service components, to integrate and synchronize new Joint Counterintelligence Force Protection Source Operations (CFSO) doctrine set forth in Joint Publication 2-01.2. To...