Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template. Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason, America lost in Vietnam because of a failure to establish legitimacy and the inability to protect the people from insurgents. The same failures...
These are a collection of prisoner of war documents with languages and translations in English, German, Italian, French, and Japanese. Topics include the convention between the U.S.A. and other powers- amelioration of the condition of the wounded...
Section I contains a report on air and naval campaigns against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-wide support of the war from June 1964 to July 1968. It discusses command structure, Rolling Thunder Operations, Naval surface operations and Pacific...
The 16th Quarterly Report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction SIGIR. 2008 will be a "Year of Transfer" in Iraq, bringing with it the continued evolution of the U. S. program. This evolution means that the Government of Iraq...
This document is a story of the final Indochina struggle and eventual and tragic collapse of the South Vietnamese (Vietnam War timeframe). Chapters include information on U.S. organization for a cease-fire, decline of U.S. support, strategic raids,...
The future of the Marine Corps resounds in Operational Maneuver from the Sea. This doctrine demands complete mastery of the littoral battle space to project amphibious combat power farther and faster than ever before. Critical to the success of any...
Series of reports on the clearing of an area between the Maas River and the Roer River in Germany by the Brittish 21st Army Group. It contains a narrative, mission planning, reports on enemy defenses, operational instructions, and a report on the...
This manual supersedes FM 100-5, 1944.It contains the doctrines of leading troops in combat and the tactics of the combined arms. It constitutes the basis of instruction of all arms and services for field service. Appendix includes index, a...
Operations manual covering organization, arms and services, the exercise of command, combat intelligence, reconnaissance and counterintelligence, security, troop movements special operations, airborne operations and lessons of the Pearl Harbor...
Both joint and Air Force doctrine are clear on the intent of the US to use effects-based targeting in military conflicts for the foreseeable future. The Air Force embraced this concept as early as World War II, but has met with mixed results. This...
This study investigates the institutional roles and the functions of the Dominican Armed Forces in their National Security Plan of 2005. Using the Klepak Threat Analysis Method this study analyzes the traditional threats to the Dominican Republic...
Arthur D. Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation
This study is the result of several months of academic research by a group of mid-career professionals participating in an alternative educational program with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) that focused on issues related to...
Baldauskas, Saulius; Jenks, Stephen E.; McCrary, Kevin E.; Ruiz, Jesus
Thesis: Our Government is failing to protect us from terrorism attacks thru our borders. Our borders remain unprotected, terrorist can enter undetected and cause harm to our country.
This monograph explores the role of Coast Guard law enforcement detachments (LEDETs) abroad in the post-Cold War, post-9/11 strategic security environment. Drawing on the work of National Defense University and Thomas Barnett, the author finds that...
At the U.S. southwest border there exists the intersection of two distinct cultures, economies, political systems, and ideas of what comprises the national security interests of the U.S. and Mexico. Those security interests stem from a desire to...
In this study battlefield interdiction in modern warfare is evaluated and recommendations for the effective use of airpower for this purpose are made. A future war will probably be against the Soviet Union or one of its client states. Soviet...
This study assesses the Colombian opium and heroin production threat to the U.S. since it was first perceived in about l990. It compares and contrasts the production of heroin to that of cocaine, including the cultivation, processing and...
The United States declared drugs to be a clear and present danger to the country and proceeded to wage a war on them that was both justified and temporarily successful from 1970 through 1990. Although not prepared for this mission at first, the...