World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the...
World War II had a greater impact upon the NCOs role and status than any other conflict in America's history. Prior to WWII the professional NCO was generally a bachelor whose life revolved around his unit. NCOs were not to be detailed for any...
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1919. The Allies on one side and the Central Powers on the other fought the war. No...
World War I represents the first time that the United States Army Medical Department successfully supported a mass army overseas. The system established served as a model for those used in subsequent wars. By studying the support for the American...
Without a hospitalization capability, battalion medical care is limited to primary care and combat resuscitation. The U.S. Army has traditionally dispatched doctors to battalions. After the Vietnam War, the Army studied this practice critically....
Within the UN, the "Mogadishu Line" is a reference to the failed UN mission in Somalia in 1992-1993, intended to mark the limit of UN peacekeeping capabilities. The UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has been so disastrous that more...
Within the Contemporary Operating Environment (COE) Special Operations Forces (SOF) have become a integral component to the overall strategy of the United States Armed Forces. The impacts by SOF are felt both internally and externally as their...
With the varied and seemingly endless demands created by the Global War on Terrorism
(GWOT) and the Army's transformation, leaders are selecting courses of action that bring their professional ethics into question due to shortages of personnel....
With the U.S. high domestic consumption of illicit drugs, a relationship has formed between transnational gangs and powerful Latin American drug cartels. The ineffectiveness of the war on drugs, along with the high cost of such a program, begs the...
With the rapidly changing and unfamiliar global environment, the U.S. Army must require its planners to have an understanding of operational art within the context of their warfighting function and combat power. How can an operational planner...
With the Nation in a state of unlimited emergency, the undersigned submits the attached report covering the period from his assignments as Chief of Staff on September 1, 1939 to July of, 1941.
With the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq, Americans are once again discussing the draft. Congressman Charles Rangel has argued that we need the draft to fill the ranks or force disengagement from Iraq and prevent entry into unnecessary...
With the end of the Cold War, the threat of imminent conflict diminished greatly. The United States, no longer immediately threatened by any nation, significantly decreased defense spending and reduced its military forces. However, the number of...
With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the grip of
superpower strictures loosened resulting in an increase in complexity and dynamism that marks today's security environment. The rapidly changing and uncertain...
With the decline of the Soviet Union, the United States Army has become engaged in a multitude of operations that are different and more complex in nature from those of the Cold War. While still needing to train for full scale conventional war, the...
With the current fielding of the AH-64 Apache and the Light Helicopter (LH) on the horizon, Army aviation will possess some of the finest tools of war ever known to mankind. To capitalize on our quality equipment, we must develop sound doctrine...
With the commencement of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), the U.S. military entered a new age of combat. Taking the battle directly to the terrorists and insurgents in their home countries, the military has suddenly found itself operating in a...
With the 720th Military Police Battalion during its June 2003 to March 2004 deployment to Tikrit, Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Rangel served as the executive officer. For his second tour, from June 2004 to February 2005, Rangel was executive...
With our participation in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) since 2001, the Army has had a shortage of NCO’s to fill critical positions in its ranks. Many Soldiers have been deployed on several rotations since 2001 and that has begun to take its...