Using the Joint definition of operational art, and in the context of the historical development of operational art, evaluation criteria are developed to examine an historical naval operation of sufficient extent and scope to have required some...
This monograph looks at the reasons to change the national military strategy to a win-hold-win strategy from the existing win-win Two-Major Regional Conflict (MRC) strategy, and then examines naval strategy and doctrine in the context of the...
Troops in occupied positions increase their combat effectiveness by works of an engineering nature called field fortifications. This manual describes field fortification methods and gives details of construction of entrenchments, emplacements, and...
While both air and ground based fire support have proven themselves to be an invaluable and overwhelmingly lethal force in conventional combat, they have struggled to deal with the extreme complexity, density, and constraints of the Urban...
The lack of a successful Standardization Program for Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) equipment and components of ships in the surface force costs the United States Navy hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Approximately half of the...
This study analyzes the relationship between Greece and NATO. The investigation focuses on Greece's accession into the Alliance, its eventual departure from the Organization, the current situation between Greece and NATO, and an assessment of the...
Cursory study of war gaming quickly reveals that one of its central problems is the conflict between the requirement of realism in play and the need for rapid and simple assessment techniques. This thesis investigates war gaming methodologies with...
The rise of industrialization coupled with the growth of technology have contributed to creating a complexity to modern warfare that far exceeds the primitive conditions of earlier periods. Defined as the creative use of distributed operations for...
This regulation prescribes new policies, responsibilities, and procedures for Army military construction, including major military construction, unspecified minor military construction and Army family housing construction programs, and the...
Headquarters, Department of the Army; Headquarters, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
This manual is a dual-Service US Army and US Marine Corps publication introducing new terms and definitions and updating existing definitions as reflected in the latest editions of Army field manuals and Marine Corps doctrinal, warfighting, and...
The purpose of this is to show how the United States Army combined arms operations are necessary to obtain success on today’s battlefield. Combined arms operations have greatly evolved from the American Revolutionary War to today’s Global War...
Military Intelligence, (MI), has been an integral part of combat operations in America since before the Revolutionary War, but we are only discussing its importance from the Revolution to present day. We specifically cover the Revolution, Civil...
Hampton, Walter K.; Jones, Vurgess Y.; Reynolds Jr., Harold; Wilder, William S.
Even though we are doing drug testing and education, is that enough to keep the American Soldier from using drugs? Should the Army have more involvement on the war on drugs and how can Army Leaders prevent this issue from affecting our Soldiers?...
Drugs are a threat to our nation’s security. The military has been task to help combat the war on drugs. The Department of Defense developed a drug strategy and established the goals and objectives. To be effective in the drug war a certain...
Counter Insurgency Operations conducted in Kosovo by Special Forces ODA 086 in conjunction with the Polish-Ukrainian Battalion underscores how quickly a Peacekeeping mission can turn into a COIN mission. Insurgent forces along the Macedonian border...
This paper will cover a near death experience I had during an open water infiltration training exercise and the lessons I learned from it.
This near death experience happened during a dive requalification for our battalion. On this day we were...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...