The defense and intelligence community initiatives to create persistent surveillance capabilities and enable access to the resultant continuous data streams will create significant change in the joint force and partners operating across the domains...
Years of U.S. Army involvement in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have underscored the complexity of contemporary operating environments. This complexity within the current operating environment requires U.S. Army leaders not to make simple...
The Army Learning Model is the new educational model that develops adaptive leaders in an era of persistent conflict. Life-long, individual-based learning will blend together self-development, institutional instruction, and operational experience...
Many authors in recent years have written about the Army's reaction to change. They have explored the topic from various perspectives; some look at bureaucracy, others at culture, and still others look at the increasing speed with which the Army's...
An American military presence has been prevalent on the Korean Peninsula since the end of World War II. As Korea attempted to recover from decades of bitter Japanese rule, internal struggles and politics led to the division of Korea into North and...
In the late spring of 1916 the First World was at a virtual standstill for both sides of the conflict. In the west the German army was undertaking the siege of Verdun and the battle of the Somme with the British. The French and British armies were...
It has been said that experience will always win over strength. Nothing is more true to the fact than the Non-Commissioned officer (NCO) during the Korean War. It would not be just experience that would lead to great success of the NCO, but many...
Since the inception of the United States Army, the NCO rank and structure has had its turmoil. Movies always portray an officer as the one in charge and making all the decisions. Unfortunately, this is a prominent perception in the minds of the...
Post-Cold War nuclear weapons accountability weakened after the fall of the former Soviet Union enabling smaller factions to become more formidable and created a greater need for arms control. With the onset of many new nation states acquiring or...
Patterson, Chris; Nock, Leslie; Post, Rick; Byron, Elvis; Logsdon, Keith
Abstract: The proliferation of nuclear weapons between the United States and the former Soviet Union created the need to control further development and production of the same. The former leaders understood the potential of weapons of mass...
Personnel procurement and organization strength plays a vital role in the principal of war “Economy of Forces”. The Department of Defense in conjunction with Congress and many other entities mandate the management of the personnel strength for...
The U.S. has been repeatedly unprepared to execute its primary mission at the outbreak of hostilities. Use two examples to identify the root factors affecting the U.S. military’s readiness to perform its primary function during the initial stages...
“The real war will never get in the books,” is a phrase credited to Walt Whitman as appearing in his Drums Tap and contains his ideas on what can be expected in the many histories anticipated to follow the conclusion of the Civil War. The...
This paper describes key ideology, troop leadership, motivation, and use of equipment to promote high morale within a platoon element which resulted in high morale and a successful deployment during OIF. I have, where possible, described key...
Major Johnny Austin, British Army, deployed to Iraq in the spring of 2003 as the mortar officer and a platoon commander with 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers as part of an armored battle group. His parent unit was the 7 Armoured Brigade...
The U.S. Army's first Future Combat System (FCS) equipped Brigade Combat Team (BCT) becomes fully operational in 2015. Concern for the possibility of combined arms capability gaps between planned FCS capacities and those required to defeat the...
On the night of Wednesday, 28 April 1965, at approximately 1900 hours, the Sixth Marine expeditionary unit commenced operations in the Dominican Republic. For the first time since 1924 the United States Marines were back in that troubled nation....
Certain nations are growing unprecedented wealth from oil and gas revenue and large trade surpluses, and are investing at unprecedented levels in other countries via Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). SWFs continue to increase rapidly in quantity, size...
On July 12, 2006, Israel went to war with Hezbollah in response to the killing and capture of Israeli soldiers along the southern Lebanese border. Believed at the time by many in the West to be an overreaction to a relatively minor border incident...
The Korean people are exposed to diverse threats from terrorist organizations at home and abroad despite the government‘s recently increased efforts to cope with terrorist threats. The 9/11 attacks were an important turning point in terrorism and...