This monograph examines the scavenger logistics concept of tactical sustainment in an effort to determine whether it can be a viable alternative or supplement to future U.S. Army tactical sustainment operations. By the author's definition, tactical...
This monograph explores the capability of army tactical headquarters to fight and sustain combat brigades and task forces simultaneously. Its focus is on the tactical transportation shortfall which exists in the army today, the impact of this...
Since the end of the Cold War the United States Army has found itself conducting more and more operations that fall under the category of "Military Operations Other Than War” (MOOTW). Additionally, our National Security Strategy states that these...
This is a recommendation that par 9, Sec VIII and par 10, Sec XVI, War Department Equipment Board (Stilwell Board), Tab A, be modified prior to approval by the War Department, include high velocity and flat trajectory as the primary characteristic...
This paper will discuss the comparison between the insurgencies of the Indians Wars and the Battle of Mogadishu. Insurgent wars have been waged throughout history and the United States itself was founded, when we as Americans were the insurgence...
As the United States enters the 21st Century possessing the greatest conventional war
fighting machine on the planet, we find ourselves facing fewer and fewer conventional
opponents. Instead, we enter a new era in which secular extremism and...
This paper discusses the history and formation of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps in the United States Army from the years 1775 to 1865- including a chronological order of the duties, weapons, formations, and training used during this time. It...
In June 1993, shortly after the United Nations forces transitioned control from UNITAF, I deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia to support UNOSOM II with PSYOP operations. This was the first time the U.N.’s mandate had ever allowed for peace...
“Brave Rifles! Veterans! “You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel” Quote by General Winfield Scott. The 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment is one of the last Cavalry units I have been assigned to that maintains their long...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
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...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
This document offers information on the testimony of witnesses, gives extracts and supporting documents, military characteristics, and details of report and implementation of War Department Equipment Board report on armor.
Major Alex Sharpe, commissioned through the Reserve Officers Training Corps, mobilized for Afghanistan from the California National Guard in 2004. A 30-day training cycle at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, preceded his deployment in May 2004 as an...
Gulf War images of oil soaked birds and burning oil wells continue to generate academic research on the environment as both a victim and a weapon of war. The resulting literature has sensitized policy makers and military leaders to the...
Case studies of the 1982-1983 U.S. intervention in Beirut and the 1992-1993 U.S. intervention in Somalia are juxtaposed with the theoretical framework and tenets of the operational art as proposed by Dr. Schneider of the Army School of Advance...
This paper is a theoretical analysis of the changing nature of warfare at the tactical level due to the increased use in deep operations of deep-looking intelligence assets and highly lethal and precise weapons. The extension of an extremely lethal...
The purpose of this monograph is to recommend the retention, modification, or abandonment of certain concepts of the current elements of operational design based on their continued validity within the contemporary operational environment. Military...
Reconnaissance is a tradition cavalry role. Pamphlet focuses on the mission of mechanized cavalry to provide higher commanders with accurate, complete and timely information. This pamphlet is second in a series of accounts of the work of cavalry...