The joint force commander (JFC) and his staff are increasingly challenged with emerging complexities of the 21st Century security environment. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the joint force command environment, trying to assess the...
After accumulating mishap data from the 1990's, accident investigations are revealing that pilot error causes approximately 80% of aviation mishaps. But, apply a bit more aggressive critical analysis into the type of human errors occurring...
Unmanned aircraft (UA) today are among the most rapidly growing weapons systems in the Department of Defense (DoD). Over the past decade, technology has enabled the inherent advantages of the UA to be brought to the battlespace. Successful...
The Army is currently embarking on a major peacetime modernization program. As the drawdown comes to a close, the Army is about half its former size and is confronted with a far more complex strategic environment. Virtually any place the Army may...
Over the past decade the study of resilience in humans has increased in multiple fields. During the 1970s, resilience was viewed as a trait that one was born with, but over the years this idea has decreased in popularity and resilience is now...
This monograph seeks to determine under what conditions an operational commander might employ strategic airpower in his campaign design. This journey begins first by exploring the linkage between strategy, operations, and tactics. Next, U.S. Army...
Discusses "Area Saturation Operations," a tactical concept of area search which employs a system of extensive combat patrolling in enemy controlled areas in the Republic of Vietnam. Specific operations conducted by elements of the 2d Infantry...
The end of the Cold War brought a change in role for a majority of the armed forces of the western nations. The operational emphasis moved from defensive posturing and expected total war, to employment possibilities across the whole spectrum of...
This study is a General Staff analysis and record of the most important operational details of the XIX Corps' successful attack on and penetration through the "Siegfried Line". Topics include a description of the Siegfried Line, plans and...
United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
The "Handbook for military support of pacification" has been developed as a basic reference document designed for use by United States forces, Republic of Vietnam forces, and Free World Military Assistance Forces operating in the Republic of...
The current inter-agency doctrinal tools to integrate the decision-sharing elements of battle command at the operational level for defense support to civil authority operations are inadequate under conditions of extremely degraded communications....
Policing can be an effective counterinsurgency tool. Police are able to determine the individual needs of each community and address each constituency's concern which in turn enhances the government's legitimacy. The Iraqi Police face the challenge...
This essay describes the operations of a US Army infantry battalion as it prepared for combat at its home base in Europe and fought in northern Iraq during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The actions described were carried out by the 1st Battalion...
On 29 April 1975, Operation Frequent Wind was executed, and 1373 American citizens, 5595 Vietnamese and Third Country Nationals were successfully evacuated by helicopter from the American Embassy Saigon and the DAO compound. Status of events,...
Armed Forces Information and Education, Department of Defense
Summarized in this handbook are certain basic techniques and procedures which have evolved out of several years of combat operations against the enemy. The guidance was to increase the effectiveness of U.S. forces and preclude a repetition of past...
This study considers the implications of video datalink (VDL) on the AC-130. Gunships use infrared and low-light television sensors, and synthetic aperture radar to search for and to identify target for close air support and interdiction missions....