This monograph directly addresses design, and incorporates elements of Engineering Design Theory to the codified, social act of campaign creation using art, science, and craft. The monograph gives a definition of design and discusses the...
History is replete with evidence of how change in political, economic, and social conditions forge alterations in a nation's military posture. Today, the forces of change are rampant, especially in NATO's Central European theater. Recent...
Islamic Terrorism in Southeast Asia constitutes the second front in the Global War on Terrorism. Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf, transnational terrorist organizations with ties to Al Qaeda, have frustrated U.S. efforts to eradicate terrorism and...
The status of American culture in the year 2000 indicates a liberalized change in attitude toward lesbians and gays, particularly in the area of military service. However, the military is staunchly opposed to full inclusion of known lesbians and...
Is it important for military professionals to study military history? Military history must be studied in order to better prepare for future conflicts. Military history is a continuum of events that connect past, present, and future. This paper...
Alvin Collum York was born into a very poor farming family in Tennessee on December 13, 1887. He was the third of eleven children. York was a crack marksman as a child. He grew up in the hills of the Pall Mall Valley in eastern Tennessee. The...
The heroic acts of SGT William H. Carney, during the Civil War, set the standards of discipline and determination for all who serve in the military. The Civil War provided yet another stage for African-Americans, still enslaved by America, to fight...
What began as a minor support operation soon became a crisis in Rhode Island. A major winter storm developed along the eastern coastline of the United States. Coupled with a well-planned Department of Transportation contract dispute, the storm soon...
Dunham, Arthur L.; Lewis, Clifford C. Lucas; Willie C.; Swartzentruber; David A.
Training and readiness limitations in Army National Guard units reduce their effectiveness as combat arms elements in early deployment forces.
This paper explores the limitations inherent in part-time forces. It examines the evolution of...
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States. Mt McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America and located in the state of Alaska, received its name in honor of President McKinley. Shot by an anarchist 6 September 1901during his...
SGT Elias D. Moore was one of untold thousands of noncommissioned officers who fought during the Civil War. His story is unremarkable, except for the fact that his eloquence spoke volumes about the daily life of a common soldier. SGT Moore’s...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the reduction of two major obstacles between 1965 and 1975 facilitated the evolution of formal diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Thailand and the People's Republic of China. The two obstacles...
This paper examines the role of British intelligence operations during the American Revolutionary War as they apply to the British defeat at Yorktown. It begins with a brief history of British intelligence prior to the war, discusses strategic...
The USAAF responded to the requirement to keep China engaged against Japan by conducting two distinct air supply operations, a tactical air supply mission to Burma and a strategic air supply effort over the Himalayas to China. The tactical air...
This thesis studies the efforts of the U.S. Military Government in Bavaria to bring about democratic reform and denazification. It focuses on the period from V-E Day on 8 May 1945 to 5 June 1947, when Secretary of State George Marshall first...
Commander's have perennially used light infantry forces during the initial stages of strategic, operational, and tactical scenarios to quickly insert a credible combat force into the applicable area of operations. With the growing complexity of the...
In February 1991, the Allied Coalition forces led by the U.S. achieved a stunning victory over the Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf War. Did the U.S. Military validate the Army's new Airland Battle doctrine with its emphasis on maneuver warfare...
The question this monograph attempts to answer is whether "coercive strategies and their associated defeat mechanisms provide valid courses of action (COAs) for the US against global terrorists networks and nations that harbor terrorists?" The...
The successful management of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 set an unfortunate precedent for crisis management and national security crisis decision-making that persists into the contemporary security environment. The Cold War norm, roughly...
This monograph discusses whether classical military theory as developed by Clausewitz in On War remains relevant in light of military technological advances. The monograph specifically challenges whether the claim that the defense is the...