This personal experience paper covers my second deployment to Iraq OIF 3. The following events, reconsolidation of equipment in Kuwait, Convoy to Camp Sykes, Operation Restoring Hope make up the content of this paper. My name is Stephen D. Tillman,...
The time has come for another significant shift in air mobility culture. Historically, this culture had three subcultures, intratheater, intertheater, and air refueling. These subcultures existed due to gaps between operating environments. The gaps...
The major factor in determining what award to issue a Soldier is often not the act of heroism or the performance of duty. Instead, it is based on the rank the Soldier possesses and the award system becomes a shell of what it is intended to be....
From our inception, our Army Non-Commissioned Officer Corps has grown in credibility, capability, and technical and tactical proficiency in pace with our Nation. Starting from small groups of Corporals and Sergeants that were little more than...
During Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) VII and VIII, Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry operated as the brigade rapid mounted reaction force throughout Regional Command East (RC-E) and South in Afghanistan. This paper tells of how our unit moved in-between...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
The Italian Army developed a sound and unique combined arms doctrine for mechanized warfare in 1938. This new doctrine was called the “War of Rapid Decision.” It involved the use of mechanized warfare in the Italian version of the blitzkrieg....
The main thesis of this monograph is that these same basic guidelines for maximizing interagency cooperation and for focusing military capabilities on establishing security and providing for the establishment of basic services that underpin the...
This monograph examines and analyzes two encirclement operations from the Russo-German Front of 1944 in order to determine their costs and benefits to the overall campaigns. Military theorists expect successful encirclement operations to produce...
This monograph examines why Great Britain and her allies proved unable to subjugate German forces in East Africa during World War I despite their significant advantages in personnel and material. Great Britain proved unable to subjugate German...
Over the past decade, the United States has focused its military energy on the conduct of Stability Operations. The U.S. Department of Defense raised Stability Operations to the same level of importance as Offensive and Defensive Operations in...
Since 2001, the capabilities of the Afghan state have been a priority on the world stage. The reign of Amir Abdur Rahman, who established the current state of Afghanistan, is critical in understanding the development of the current state, and the...
There is a healthy debate about hybrid warfare in American military journals and publications. Much of this discussion describes hybrid threats as a nascent phenomenon, citing the Israeli Defense Force's 2006 struggle against Hezbollah militants in...
Wars have been studied from every viewpoint from the most abstract to the intensely personal. In the case of Major Joseph C. Barto III's Task Force 2-4 Ca -"First In, Last Out": The History of the 2d Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, During Operation...
It is the purpose of this study to examine the economic, political, and social conditions of the Philippine Islands that bred communist sympathies and the associated Hukbalahap insurgency. It examines the procedures the Philippine government...
Wars have been studied from every viewpoint from the most abstract to the intensely personal. In the case of Major Joseph C. Barto Is Task Force 2-4 Cav-"First In, Last Out": The History of the 2d Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, During Operation...
Contains the "joint security plan, refugee processing center resettlement operation, Fort Chaffee, Arkansas" prepared by the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. This plan reflects the status of law enforcement and security planning for...
Volume I contains data on enemy personnel and unit strengths and a listing of accepted units for the current month. Volume II contains information on retroactive strength, infiltration, and infrastructure for all the months prior to the current...
During Operation Phantom Fury (Al Fajr) in November 2004, the combined-joint assault to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Colonel Michael Shupp commanded Marine Regimental Combat Team 1. In this interview, focusing squarely on the battle itself -...
This study attempts to serve as a historical study and analysis of the United States Military Assistance Program to Cambodia during the period 1970-1975. The study is focused on the Military Equipment Delivery Team, Cambodia, which was charged with...