This study attempts to serve as a historical study and analysis of the United States Military Assistance Program to Cambodia during the period 1970-1975. The study is focused on the Military Equipment Delivery Team, Cambodia, which was charged with...
This thesis attempts to evaluate the use of leadership principles by the two chief protagonists of the Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War. Several ideas develop as corollaries to the chief theme: 1) Leadership principles will not of...
This study analyzes the decisions of Lieutenant General Frederick Franks during the planning and execution of the ground campaign of Desert Storm. Franks has been criticized for being consumed with the synchronization of his multi-division attack...
Issued with the following official number: C.4.M.4. 1931.IX [C.P.D.1(i)]. Minutes of the sixth session (second part) of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Transcripts of discussions, proposals, drafts, ammendments,...
Volume I of II. This evaluation covers the effectiveness of air operations by examining the employment of aircraft, maintenance, service, supply, engineer, and defense organizations of combat units. Also it includes statistical data of the air...
Transcription of the Conference of Scholars which took place to discuss the American experience in the administration of occupied areas, 1943-1955, and the problems and possibilities of research on the subject, including planning for administration...
"A couple days after September 11, 2001," said Major Roger Crombie, at the time commander of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, part of 10th Mountain Division, "we had an idea that we needed to be ready and that something was...
A key theoretical proposition offered by Clausewitz in On War was that the defense was the stronger form of war over the offense. Members of the military, theorists, and historians have intermittently grappled with this proposition and have tended...
Accounts by General Sepp Dietrich and Colonel Joachim Peiper, Commander of the First SS Panzer Regiment, First SS Panzer Division, and their involvement in World War II, between 1939 and 1945. The account was written by them for the trial judge...
An observation of the U.S. military’s lack of combat readiness and preparation was evident during the Kasserine Pass of 1943 and Task Force Smith of 1950. These are two battle analyses given in the book America’s First Battles which highlights...
As a result of America's national strength and its demonstrated military prowess, US forces are quite susceptible to falling prey to the effects of the "victory disease." The disease, by definition, brings defeat to a previously victorious nation...
As a result of the national strength of the United States (US) and the demonstrated prowess of her military, US forces are quite susceptible to falling prey to the effects of the "Victory Disease." The Victory Disease brings defeat to a previously...
As the face of modern warfare changes, the threat of the appearance of guerrilla forces on the battlefield increases. Whether in the form of insurgent forces or partisan forces employing guerrilla tactics in support of conventional forces, their...
Authors and historians have made the words Market-Garden and intelligence failure virtually synonymous. Is this really the case? Operation Market-Garden, the plan envisioned by Field Marshal Montgomery, would open the gate into Germany and...
By applying Cohen and Gooch's model to the Battle of Mogadishu, this paper has shows that the failure of the TFR mission on 3-4 October 1993 was the result of a system failure. Secretary Aspin received far more blame than he deserved for making the...