The United States Army has spent substantial resources and effort developing a cohesive plan for adapting to the changing world environment of the twenty-first century, commonly called ‘transformation.’ The Army has experimented and fielded new...
This monograph determined that the tactical and strategic experience of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) since 1981 was relevant to the future operational environment of the U.S. Army. The IDF’s experiences are relevant because the Israeli Army...
This monograph considers the utility of constituting both a striking force and a supplemental tactical reserve when conducting a mobile defense. It considers the conclusions of a 1993 Combined Arms Command (CAC) study of the mobile defense which...
This thesis is a case study of the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange and asserts the compulsory expulsion effectively prevented genocide of Orthodox Christians living in Asia Minor. To support this argument historical evidence leading up to...
This thesis reviews all commentary on the US response (or lack thereof) to the 1994 Rwanda genocide to identify suggested US responses to a similar situation that may occur in the future. Purpose is to develop a course of action for the US...
This study includes a discussion of the plans of operation for the allies with the evaluation that the plan was sound and in using forces and resources on an attack on all fronts.
This study discusses the 32nd Division encounter with gas warfare in the advance to Fismes and covers types of gases, military operations, German Army movement, and analyzes the actual attack.
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
As of Spring 1999, the United States Army continues discussing the design of the Army After Next and the need to create an operationally significant force capable of deploying rapidly, conducting distributed operations using maneuver and firepower,...
A tactical study of chapters I and III, by author, Major Petibon, translated from French with annotations by General Gamelin concerning the division in a withdrawal and the division in the attack in a combined offensive action.
The Just War Theory comes from traditional Christian views, that the use of force, or violence, can be used to intervene to protect or even kill to protect the innocent. This controversial view directly effects today's justification of the use of...
This monograph explores the problem of mission creep. The trend toward ethnic and regional unrest has characterized the world security environment since the breakup of the former Soviet Union. The United States has struggled to find its place in...
Operation Desert Storm was fought with an immature counter-TBM weapons system, without joint or service AMD doctrine, and without the benefit of joint training. Twelve years later Army AMD forces took to the battlefield once again as part of a...
On 28 March 2001, the United States Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory's embedded "think tank," the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, announced its intentions for developing a follow-on volume of the Small Wars Manual. This Small...
Turkish Culture had a profound influence on the conduct of its counter-insurgency campaign against the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). The independent variables shaping Turkey’s response to the insurgency were a unique brand of nationalism,...
United States Army Corps of Engineers, 7th regiment
A history of the 7th engineers, 5th division during the World War. The information was taken from Divisional Reports, Regimental Operation Reports, and other official papers.
To relate how Joint Task Force Seven assembled, organized, and dircted the components of this effort--in short, how Operation Redwing became a reality, is the purpose of this account.
Office of the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
The suitability of the helicopter as a weapons platform was initially studied by the Army in 1955. In the intervening years all Army armed helicopter programs, with one exception, have been modifications or derivatives of aircraft designed for...