A sense of urgency is necessary by leadership anytime war is imminent. This is important from the first activating phone call until the ship is boarded to come home. From the beginning, you as a leader must force soldiers to do what they believe...
A veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, Air Force Major Robert Levin Jr. served with the 39th Airlift Expeditionary Squadron first as a C-130 unit operations officer - from November 2001 to February...
As we all know the United States Army has been changing for years and years. Why has it been changing so rapidly? It has changed from years back to just yesterday. Learning from the past defeats and successes allows the United States Army make...
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kenneth Kilbourne served as the officer in charge of the tactical human intelligence (HUMINT) section of Alpha Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion, in Iraq in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this...
I was a First Sergeant in the famed Second Infantry Division from April 2002, until July 2003. Security measures were high on all military installations due to the frequent civil unrest in the Republic of Korea. Political tension was rapidly...
Major combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) were a great success; however, the theater logistics system has come under an enormous amount of criticism from both warfighters and logisticians. Leaders at all levels of command have...
Organized crime is becoming a large-scale business that is conducting global commerce for the trafficking of illegal services and products as well as developing the associated supply chains. Criminal organizations are conducting commerce across...
Recent world events in Iraq have highlighted the power of insurgent groups in battling a more powerful opponent like the United States. Some reports have characterized the insurgency in Iraq as a technology-empowered, network-centric organization...
Since man’s initial contact with space in 1957, the U.S. and Russia have flirted with putting weapons in space. Today, two camps exist in the space weapons debate: sanctuary and weaponization. The sanctuary camp argues that space should remain...
The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review directs the Military Services to develop, within their general-purpose forces (GPF), the capability to conduct security force assistance, more specifically to train, advise, and assist foreign security forces....
The Army has begun the process of relearning and integrating deception into doctrine and operations. There is a lack of clarity concerning exactly what deception is and how it should be used. The state of doctrine and training both appear to be in...
The Global War on Terror (GWOT) requires that the military modify its methodology for conducting global operations. The military is transitioning from primarily lethal-focused offensive and defensive operations to full-spectrum operations that also...
The operations officer for 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Iraq from April through July 2003 and then, from July though August 2004 the division deputy G3, Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Hensley begins this interview by discussing his visibility on...
The United States once again demonstrated its capability to defeat any nation state’s military forces as evidenced by the actions of the Joint Forces of the United States in the decisive victory in Iraq. However once again, we see that the...
This document defines a way US military leaders can prepare for and conduct military operations through the lens of cultural awareness. It provides a method for helping military commanders, staffs, and trainers engage successfully in any type of...
What is the probability for renewed conflict in the Sinai region in light of Egypt's recent revolution? This monograph examines that question by analyzing Nasser's Free Officer revolution of the 1950s that led to 1956 Suez Crisis (Nasser era) and...