For the last decade, the PLA has been building its cyber capabilities and expanding the importance of cyber technology military operations. Observers interpret recent cyber incidents as evidence the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the People's...
This Civil Affairs document gives an overview of the general description of Greek agriculture and a brief regional study broken down into regions- Northern Greece, Central and Southern Greece, along with the surrounding islands. This section gives...
This is a document on the land and people of Thailand. It addresses boundaries and frontier disputes, as well as territorial divisions. Part II gives population statistics, information on immigration and emigration, and finally cultural...
This study is an analysis of the command and control (C2) and organization of divisional and corps engineer units which provide engineer support to the AOE heavy division. The paper assumes that the U.S. Army operations across France and Germany...
This study is an analysis of the critical information requirements needed by the Force Commander to execute AirLand Battle doctrine. It uses the 85 critical information elements documented in the Force Level Information Requirements Plan (FLIRP) as...
This study assesses the adequacy of the Army Command and Control Systems with respect to the significant increases in mobility, lethality, and capabilities of advanced weapons systems. Command and control becomes increasingly important in...
This monograph examines and explores the concept of Commander's Critical Information Requirements (CCIR). The analysis focuses on ways a commander can manage information overload to effectively deal with uncertainty and to ultimately ensure timely...
Abstract: In 1961, the government of South Vietnam (GVN) along with several United States advisors and Sir Robert Thompson, (who was personally engaged with the successful Malayan relocation), began modifying the Agroville Plan into what was known...
This monograph focuses on the geographic component of the contemporary intelligence process at the operational level of war. The concept of coup d'oeil, the intellectual capacity of military commanders to evaluate geography and apply that...
Military leaders face many decisions in planning for successful operations. Leaders prepare for each mission in that operation. They plan for needed equipment and training. They factor in critical elements such as terrain and time. History shows us...
The world is becoming more urbanized and at an unprecedented rate. Some of the greatest factors contributing to increased world urbanization include changes in economies, availability of resources, education, cultural identity and politics. The...
On the evening of Thursday, 14 August 1944, a debriefing conference was held at the Glebe Mount House, Leicester. During the conference each commander present who had commanded a unit the size of a battalion or larger of the 82d Airborne Division...
The Army has begun the process of relearning and integrating deception into doctrine and operations. There is a lack of clarity concerning exactly what deception is and how it should be used. The state of doctrine and training both appear to be in...
Modern communications, data processing systems, and the complexity of modern land warfare have led to the explosion of information in tactical combat organizations. The commander must use this information within a decision process to exploit its...
2nd Company of the 26th Independent Engineer Regiment
This is a story of the Ando Detachment of the Fifth Division in the vicinity of the eastern shore of Patani in southern Thailand (November 15 to December 13, 1941). Chapters include a summary of friendly and enemy conditions prior to battle,...
This paper investigates the need for an Army liaison staff to Congress for strategic matters. The historical and descriptive approaches are used to evaluate pertinent documentary evidence. The Congressional process, as it pertains to military...
In recent years the contemporary operational environment has increasingly included multinational operations, which have fault lines in understanding and visualizing the common operational picture. These fault lines are typically associated with...
Thesis Statement: Domestic Counter Terrorism in accordance with the national strategy lacks personnel, funding, cooperation, and suffers from territorialism making it ineffective in securing our nation from further terrorist attacks. Domestic...