This paper compares the most recent revisions to Army and Air Force draft basic doctrine. It focuses on the sets of doctrinal frameworks that describe each service's approach to the range of modern military operations and the integrating ideas that...
Many soldiers feel that their fringe benefits are being gradually but steadily worn away. The benefits themselves exert a significant influence on an individual's decision to make the Army a career. This study, aimed at Regular Army officer...
This study attempts to determine when commanders of battalions and lower units should be relieved during combat. The investigation analyzed actual reliefs during the Vietnam era to determine why the commanders were relieved, the availability of...
Scholars and military professionals agree on the importance of economic development during stability operations. They also recognize its complexity. Current policy mandates Army participation in economic development, but how does the U.S. Army...
This study investigates whether the Army should procure the total quantity of Black Hawk helicopters needed to meet Bottom-Up Review Army force structure requirement of four corps and fifteen divisions. Procurement of Black Hawk helicopters was...
Past and future mobilizations and deployments have placed an immense strain on the current capabilities of the Army's Civil Affairs forces. That has resulted in a recognized need for additional Civil Affair structure and capabilities in the Army's...
Causal claims are unavoidable in military affairs. However, causal claims are also insufficient when attempting to understand and intervene in complex environments. Hence, notions of conventional causality must be supplemented with an understanding...
Drug Trafficking Organizations within Mexico have become a challenge to the state and are affecting both Mexican and U.S. citizens within the U.S. and Mexico border region. As the situation continues to spiral out of control, the U.S. military,...
Decisive action by the United States Army places additional weight on construction units particularly in support of construction missions during offensive, defensive, stability or defense civil support authority (DCSA) operations, yet organic...
This monograph posits that the state must structure the delivery of public goods in a sequential and hierarchical basis with safety and security and rule of law providing a foundation upon which the state builds delivery of all other public goods...
This monograph determines the tenets of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW) through a review of current literature. The case studies of Braddock's Campaign, the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution, and the Philippines Insurrection provide...
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) is the most effective method of intelligence gathering to gain actionable intelligence for Soldiers on the ground at brigade and below. There are many methods, and all have advantages and disadvantages in reference to a...
The Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) 2005 decision resulted in the consolidation of Naval Air Depots (NADEPs) and non-deployable Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Departments (AIMDs) to form six Fleet Readiness Centers (FRCs). The...
The most important role the commander plays in any Army unit, According to FM 6-0 Mission Command and Control of Army Forces, is that of combining the art of command with the science of control. This is accomplished through visualizing the...
This research project was designed to answer the question of whether there is a need to have a pool of Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) operators. The question stems from the researcher’s personal experience as a JOPES...
My primary research question is: can social networks assist analysts fight terrorism? My secondary research questions are as follows. First, how does social networking create linkages? Second, how have social networks been used to solve small...
Presidential Study Directive-10 directed executive agencies to improve efforts in preventing human atrocities. Conflict analysis has identified that internal conflict has significant adverse impacts on civilian populations. Apart from increased...
Treaties and agreements for mutual support and defense link the United States and the Philippines. This relationship traces back to the Manila Bay in 1898. In the years since 1898, the United States' role in the relationship between the two nations...
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has improved its surface-to-surface missile capabilities over the last decade by acquiring foreign missile technology. Despite bans on the importation of missile-related items, the People's Liberation Army (PLA)...
This monograph examines the evolution of the British Army's tactics and doctrine during its employment in support of the civil powers in Northern Ireland and compares these evolutions to its conventional warfighting doctrine. The ultimate objective...