As the aide-de-camp to Major General Buford Blount - the 3rd Infantry Division commander during the ground combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Major Erik Berdy observed division-level planning and execution from June 2002 to August 2003. In...
The Army is entering an era of unprecedented change evidenced by emerging information age technologies, globalization, and the rapidly changing security environment unleashed by the ending of the Cold War. Futurists are describing the twenty-first...
This paper explores the capacity of an airborne division to inflict operational shock in mid to high-intensity conflict as part of a Joint Task force (JTF). The United States faces a multi-faceted and complex security environment in its new role as...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2006-02. So what is this thing called 'luck,' where in one instant what appears to be bad luck suddenly becomes good luck in one fell swoop. Is luck just...
From 2003 through 2005, when the plan for using elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to train the new Iraqi Army was developed and executed, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock was its assistant division commander for operations....