It is the enemy’s will to resist that is the true objective of war. Destruction of his armed forces is a means and not necessarily mandatory to achieve this objective. To save the precious resources of blood and treasure and to assure the...
The dual purpose of this study includes conducting a comparative analysis of historical data and statistically analyzing new data. First, a comparative analysis will be conducted between the results of this study and a 2005 study by MAJ Laura...
Does third party military intervention help or hurt an incumbent government during an insurgency? This study attempts to answer this question by testing prevailing military theories of counterinsurgency in the context of third party intervention...
The Institute of Combined Arms and Support (ICAS), within the U.S. Army Combat Developments Command (USACDC), is responsible for developing the combat doctrine for forces that employ combined arms. In discharging its combat development...
I Field Force effectively conducted operational art from 1965 through 1967 under the leadership of LTG Stanley Larsen in the II Corps Tactical Zone (II CORPS). This accomplishment is all the more noteworthy considering LTG Larsen and his staff...
This thesis identifies the customer service attitudes between the United States Army Information Systems Selection and Acquisition Agency (USAISSAA) and program managers to better understand how to implement Total Army Quality (TAQ) in this agency....
20th Statistical Control Unit, Advance Echelon, Pacific Air Command
This document contains interrogations of Japanese officers to describe the system of reports and records as they existed in both the Army and Navy Japanese Air Forces. Sections on personnel, operations, training, maintenance and supply for both...
This study addresses the mentoring experiences of black and white senior Army officers. Principally, this study investigated the nature of black senior officers' mentoring experiences and the perceived effect of those experiences on their career...
The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of the United States Army’s commitments in the Global War on Terrorism. The reader will understand why the Army is unable to make a major contribution to the Department of Homeland Security. The...
This study investigates the contributing factors of rail congestion at Kansas City Southern Railway's (KCSR) switching yard - Knoche Yard - located in Kansas City, Missouri. This thesis asserts that lack of locomotives, known as power, is the most...
Chaos theory is a poorly understood concept in social science and in military analytical decision making systems. Military decision makers require a multidisciplinary approach of mathematical analysis, modeling and simulation, topology, and...
From Desert Storm to Operation Joint Endeavor to Operation Allied Force, the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar Systems (JSTARS) mission has evolved and expanded following each contingency it was called upon to support. As these supplementary...
Historical Record Branch, Office of Technical Information
This is a historical and statistical summary of the New York Port of Embarkation during 1941. It contains both movements of personnel (by water) and movements of freight (outbound and inbound by Army Transport Service). The principal purpose of the...
This thesis examines the tactical employment of decoys. The Army invested approximately $7.5M into fielding multispectral (visual and thermal) tactical decoys. Initially, many company commanders were reluctant to include the decoys in their...
This study investigates the applications of aviation maintenance data used with the data analysis tools of Total Quality Management (TQM). This is a case study using the aviation maintenance data produced at Helicopter Anti-Submarine (Light) Three...
Military deception is as old as war itself and it adheres to a logical process. This monograph explores how an increased understanding of pattern recognition as part of human decision-making can enhance the effectiveness of military deception...
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the effect that military interventions have on the outcome of an internal conflict. This study employs quantitative analysis to examine interventions on the side of the government by unitary actors and...