This monograph asserts that DoD should establish a Unified Combatant Command (COCOM)-level USLOGCOM. DoD should begin a deliberate 10-20 year process to establish a USLOGCOM. As an intermediate and immediate step, DoD should make the Defense...
In September of 2001, 90% of America received most of their news on the terrorist attacks against the United States from television; a number that would hold steady at 89% throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In April of 2003 while the United...
The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes of the middle level career Army officers relative to the concepts of conflict management. The scope of the study narrowed the view to the interpersonal and intergroup levels of conflict. The...
A confluence of factors led to American engagement in one of Central America's most violent uprisings: the Salvadoran civil war. By the time of President Ronald Reagan's first term as president, the civil war had created social, political and...
Historians generally submit operational art, and modern war for that matter, emerged during the industrial era wars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when national conscription fielded massive armies of corps and divisions. This...
This paper argues that the development and implementation of a counter-insurgency strategy that fully integrates all elements of national power is critical to success in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The paper discusses the flaws in declaring...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2006 CGSC Class. The army's current model for identifying and developing its strategic leaders occurs far too late in an officer's career progression, thus limiting...
The creation of the Afghanistan Army is still very much in the infant stages. In May 2002 the Afghanistan Army was established. Within one year of the activation of the Army NCOs established an NCO course at the Kabul Military Center. Given that...
Through the Army’s centralized promotion system, the most qualified noncommissioned officers (NCOs) selected for promotion. Although most senior noncommissioned officers live the Army’s values on and off duty, a few do not. Some senior NCOs...
This paper discusses the issue and the ethical implications of allowing commercial vendors’ access to our students in the various levels of the Non-Commissioned Officer Education (NCOES) System. We want our Soldier’s achievements recognized. We...
Atrocities committed by the US Soldiers and Marines in Iraq make civilization around the world think that America is not developed enough in the field of human rights. Three examples provided with senior NCOs leaders, a high ranking officer, and a...
Atrocities committed by the US Soldiers and Marines in Iraq make civilization around the world think that America is not developed enough in the field of human rights. Three examples provided with senior NCOs leaders, a high ranking officer, and a...