Since September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Special Operation Forces (SOF) and Conventional Forces (CF) have be increasingly working together throughout the world against numerous asymmetrical threats. However, operations in Iraq and...
Are Heavy Brigade Combat Teams (HBCTs) effective in counterinsurgency (COIN) operations with the capabilities to clear, hold, build, and sustain success? This research examined the modular HBCT's capabilities to execute the clear-hold-build COIN...
This monograph examines the problem created for control when changes occur to the operational capabilities that enable non-contiguous operations. The problem exists because an operational control structure optimized for non-contiguous operations...
The purpose of this monograph is to illuminate the role in, and support to, operational art by military police brigades and demonstrate their viability as a bridging mechanism to the operating concepts of wide area security and combined arms...
Throughout our military history, Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) have shaped the actions and outcomes of our Army. Increased responsibility and character development within the NCO corps has increasingly led to better-developed and disciplined...
The Marine Corps should expect to fight within a strategic context of complex irregular warfare (CIW) for the near- to mid-term while retaining the ability to fight a major combat operation (MCO). As a result, the Distributed Operations...
Basing is a critical component of American warfare, and the expeditionary posture of the United States military poses challenges to operational planners and logisticians alike. Force projection is a key requirement for the US Army, and the use of...
Throughout its military history, the United States has demonstrated poor institutional memory resulting in a tendency to reinvent the wheel. The development of counterinsurgency doctrine in Vietnam, for instance, yielded valuable knowledge about...
Amphibious warfare is the use of naval firepower, logistics and strategy to project military power ashore. In previous years, it stood as the primary method of delivering troops unto non-contiguous enemy-held terrain.
….today amphibious warfare...
The United States Army recently released a white paper on Concepts for the Objective Force. This force will be capable of simultaneous engagement by air-ground maneuver elements at operational and tactical distances by employing future advanced...
On 14 April 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and LTG David Barno, the senior U.S. commander and senior Army officer in Afghanistan at a town hall meeting with the troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan showed poor leadership. In particular, the...
The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent political decision to apply the National
military power of the United States to combat terrorism around the world have fundamentally
changed the role of the Reserve Components. The roles and...
The challenges of full spectrum operations in a future contemporary operational environment have led to the ever-increasing empowerment of the American Noncommissioned Officer over time. Due to the shift in the Army’s operational concept,...
The lessons learned from past amphibious operations directly affect the United States ability's to respond to and fight the Global War on Terror (GWOT). This paper will focus on amphibious landing in direct support of the campaign in South Vietnam,...
Thesis Statement: Military professionals must read and understand military history in order to reduce the application of past errors. Military history provides us a vast amount of information that we can use to base future decisions on. Mistakes...
The 19th edition of the Army’s capstone operational doctrine. Reasons for Change
• Significant recent operational experience
• Evolving policy and doctrine
• Joint and Army transformation
The Geneva Conventions, along with its Additional Protocols, represent the fundamental documents on which the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) is established. Originally established under the premise of conventional warfare, these documents have also...
This study investigates the effect organizational turbulence caused by frequent changes in task organization has on the company sized elements resident in the sustainment brigades. The study identifies the modular structure of the sustainment...
The security force framework devised for prosecuting a counterinsurgency campaign is essential. A security framework identifies roles and responsibilities for the different organizations that comprise the overall counterinsurgent force. Part of...
Actions taken or not taken by law enforcement agencies, in ungoverned spaces reduce US ability to forestall hostile actions on US soil. The current organization of the United States civil authorities and their limitations to impact "Ungoverned...