In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
Ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have underscored the necessity of conventional military forces to adequately prepare for stability and reconstruction operations (SRO) in the aftermath of major combat operations (MCO). In the case of...
Snyder, James M.; Historical Sub-section C-3, United States Constabulary
The preparation of this study was directed in order that a record of the problems and lessons involved in the organization, training, and operation of the U.S. Constabulary be available for future study. This document details constabulary planning...
The final report discusses sales and settlements; the second section gives a review on organization and functions, sales, settlements of claims, and a conclusion.
The thesis looks at the interventions of US forces in the Caribbean nations of Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Grenada between 1898 and 1998. It considers these interventions against the background of the relationships that Caribbean nations...
In April 1994 a genocide took place in Rwanda that led to the death of more than 800,000 people. This study analyzes the French Noncombatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) “Amaryllis” in Rwanda, conducted in order to rescue European citizens, who...
The term Medical Civic Action Program (MEDCAP) is often utilized as the sum total of the understanding of medical engagements conducted by the medical formations of the US military in the current environment. When utilized, the term MEDCAP quite...
This monograph discusses the necessity for conducting humanitarian demining during the initial stages of a peace operation in a region contaminated with landmines. The removal of landmines will be an essential task as part of a peace operation in...
An allied force must be considered as a whole, made up of balanced component forces. To acquire that balance, or for political reasons, it may be necessary to place troops or units of different allied nations under the same command in Corps and...
The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E.O. 11652,...
Human intelligence methods such as the use of battlefield informants and interrogations of enemy prisoners are time-tested methods used by military forces to obtain actionable intelligence; however, military forces must employ these techniques...
The 31st Combat Support Hospital (CSH) with a proud legacy of patient care, embarked on a life saving mission to Iraqi during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. The CSH separated into two teams; one went to Balad and the other to Baghdad. Despite the...
A failure to achieve cultural understanding during military operations in Vietnam and Iraq led to escalated combat engagement and weak native governments. A misrepresentation of the enemy, a misunderstanding and lack of respect for the local mores...
The following pages are some of my personal experiences while stationed at Camp Liberty,
Iraq, for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 05-07. Events are in chronological order to the best of my reconciliation. I will discuss pre-mobilization alert and...
United States Special Operations Command, History and Research Office; Partin, John W.; Rhoden, Rob
"After years of unrest and fighting, six warring factions in Liberia agreed to a cease fire and a peace accord in August 1995. Leaders of the six factions joined together and formed the council of state. The cease fire lasted only a short time,...
United States Army, European Command, Historical Division
Part of an annual historical narrative of the activities of the U.S. Army of the Occupation in Germany. This is part of The Occupation Forces in Europe Series, published by the Historical Division of EUCOM. Discusses changing attitudes towards...
Major Joel Gilbert served as an infantry line company commander in the Alaska Army National Guard - the first combat unit in the Alaska Guard to go to a combat zone since World War II - and mobilized with the 29th Brigade from the Hawaii Army...
Lieutenant Colonel (P) Sharon Leary served as the commander of the 115th Forward Support Battalion which is part of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, during her March 2004 through March 2005 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi...
This study compares the United States use of military power to achieve political aims in Lebanon 1958 and the Dominican Republic 1965. The study uses the Strategic Analysis Model, developed at the Command and General Staff College, to integrate...
In 2003, the United States led a Coalition force into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein 's repressive Ba 19ath Party regime. Under the provisions of the Hague Regulation of 1907, the Coalition became an occupying power with all of the attendant rights...