The War Department had directed that the history of the military occupation of Germany and Austria in World War II be recorded and interpreted as the events transpired. The Occupation Forces in Europe Series consists of a series of studies,...
The on-going transformation of human resources responsibilities and functions under the army personnel services delivery redesign has increased the workload of human resource professionals in the U.S. Active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and U.S....
The United States Army has a long history of advising foreign security forces with its general purpose force, despite a perception that its special force is the primary force with which it undertakes advisory efforts. Ad hoc selection and...
This monograph describes the evolution of logistics management at the operational level since the end of the Second World War. Examining the history of how the Department of Defense has organized itself at the operational level to manage logistics...
Basing is a critical component of American warfare, and the expeditionary posture of the United States military poses challenges to operational planners and logisticians alike. Force projection is a key requirement for the US Army, and the use of...
CASCOM Support for Desert Shield/Desert Storm Total Army CSS: Providing the Means for Victory by Lieutenant General Leon E. Salomon, US Army and Lieutenant Colonel Harold Bankirer C US Army
Logistics Automation Support for Desert Storm by...
Throughout the history of the United States’ participation in armed conflict three recurring issues have been and will continue to be paramount: logistics, training and intelligence. These three issues are important to the survivability of the...
On today’s modern battlefield, American Soldiers face ever changing threats. It’s
imperative for military leaders of today to study past conflicts to avoid repeating
mistakes. We must study the enemies’ tactics, techniques and procedures to...
Throughout history, particularly in the 20th century, military intelligence, or lack of it, has had a direct impact on the successes and failures of campaigns. No where is this more evident than in the first engagements of unit-size operations at...
Since September 11, 2001, it has been easy and tempting to define U.S. national security strategy solely in terms of the terrorist threat. Some observers would fill the vacuum in the threat environment left by the demise of the Soviet Union by...
The idea of a combined joint engineer element to coordinate and synchronize the engineer effort in a Theater was conceptualized after the experiences of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During my tour of 25 months in Iraq working as a First Sergeant, and...
This paper will briefly explain the deployment of the 15th Military Intelligence Battalion (Aerial Exploitation) to Iraq (LSA Anaconda) from July 2004 – June 2005. The 15th Military Intelligence Battalion mission was to conduct Aerial SIGINT and...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
The purpose of this book is to provide an account, from the point of view of the U.S. Army forces employed, of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait to the withdrawal of coalition forces from southeastern Iraq. Like all...
This study focuses on tactical airpower in south Vietnam between 1961-1968. Some of the issues examined are command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters,...
Cleaver, Frederick W.; Fitzpatrick, George; Ponturo, John; Rossiter, William; Stolzenbach, C. Darwin
This Technical Memorandum ORO-T-64 AFFE is a study that analyzes and evaluates the UN partisan campaign in Korea with the objective of determining ways to improve the conduct of guerilla warfare in the future. The episode of the Korean partisan...
This document is the first of two volumes that examine the Vietnam conflict from the perspective of the theater commander and his headquarters. It traces the story of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), from its establishment in...