The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the U.S. counter-insurgency operations in the Philippine Insurrection (1898-1902) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003 -Present). The military operations, problem sets, and style of warfare...
The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the U.S. counter-insurgency operations in the Philippine Insurrection (1898-1902) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003 -Present). The military operations, problem sets, and style of warfare...
The comparison of the present day Iraq war and the Philippine-American War (1899-1902) provide two similar counterinsurgency campaigns on what tactics and measures are effective in defeating an insurgency. Both Iraq and the Philippines had large...
Brida, Jan; Challis, John; Hudson, Keith; Ketchum, Robert E.; Palfreeman, Jason
The allied force invasion on to the beaches of Normandy was the most successful joint offensive operation in the history of warfare. German leader Adolph Hitler led the axis forces on a march across Europe and felt he had the world at his...
Lane, Darryl; Kraus, Kenneth; Lacks, William; Marten, William; Miller, Richard
The two pillars of the National Security Strategy create a clear objective for our nation to defeat its enemies. The first pillar promotes democracy and works to end tyranny. The idea of ending tyranny gives our military clear objectives to engage...
Thesis: Our nation's efforts to end tyranny and promote democracy world wide creates a clear objective to support the two pillars of the National Security Strategy and defeat America's enemies. The President's National Security Strategy is broken...
Amanzai, Ziaulhaq; Armour, David E.; Boettcher, Jesse D.; Sutphin, Thomas D.
Thesis: Despite claims of a “War for Oil”, the main reason for the delay in our troop withdrawal is Iraq’s lack of democracy. Abstract: The United States does not have a policy of imposing Democracy in countries that it has liberated. Our...
Thesis: Long after the insurgency ends and Iraq has imposed a functional democracy and working constitution, the U.S. will maintain a large presence of combat forces in Iraq because of U.S. oil interests. The success of Iraq’s democracy and...
The military and governments that represent nations continually fail to understand the cultural differences between them and the nation they are at war with. Understanding a country’s culture could be the determining factor whether the conquering...
Throughout the years the empowerment and ownership of leadership has shifted severely to the Noncommissioned officers (NCOs) of the American Army. NCOs way of conducting business in order to accomplish the mission has led to difficult decision...
The United States Armed Forces has a rich and storied history involving military
engagements both foreign and domestic. It is this history that provides leaders valuable
information concerning lessons learned before, during and after these...
This paper will discuss the comparison between the insurgencies of the Indians Wars and the Battle of Mogadishu. Insurgent wars have been waged throughout history and the United States itself was founded, when we as Americans were the insurgence...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of studying military history by soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and officers alike. It first discusses the importance of history as a tool to guide current and future decisions. I will...
The concept to utilize small-embedded teams of military advisors to assist foreign security forces is not new. The transition team mission of advising, coaching, mentoring, teaching, and training the Iraqi Army is supportive in the success of...
War crimes/atrocities are more prevalent in the modem era (1940-present) than in prior periods of history. War by its very nature is a murderous affair, and is often an extremely dirty and cold-blooded activity. After all, the goal of war is to...
When a person enters the Army, that Soldier brings their upbringing with them. We try and indoctrinate and matriculate them into a larger family, but there will always be those earlier influences that will affect decisions. As Soldiers it is...
Turning on the local news report or reading a newspaper about the ongoing war overseas, we see some of the ugly and evil sides of the war on terrorism. Just about every few months there is a story released by the media in which U.S. soldiers are...
On the surface, the Battle of Hastings might appear to be just another conflict of many in the history of England to decide who would rule England. In a sense this is true. However, the final result was that, under William, more than under any...
This is a true story about First Sergeant Steven Stout who went almost his whole career
without ever facing any combat, but with the events that followed after 11 September
2001, that all changed. As a young kid growing up in Memphis, TN., I had...
Fifteen years has passed since the United States Armed Forces along with the United Nations Coalition Forces defeated the Iraqi Army and liberated Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm. Only 100 hours of ground combat was needed by the United States...