This study examined the conditions which brought about the organization and growth of anti-communist vigilantes, and their impact on the counterinsurgency effort and society in the Philippines. The analysis aimed at determining a suitable role for...
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...
The majority of the Iraqi and the American public want the U.S. military to reduce its number of combat troops in Iraq. These Soldiers know that we cannot leave until the job is finished. Part of that job is ensuring that Iraq has a stable,...
Rules of Engagement (ROE) in Iraq are to protect coalition forces from insurgents. Some incidents escalated to a point where vehicles were shot in the engine, disabling the vehicle, others shot through the window, killing everyone inside. With...
This study examines the suitability of current U.S. military assistance to Philippine ground forces. The research hypothesis is that the scope and form of current military assistance to the Philippines is not optimum and that more, or different,...
In the past 8 years since September 11, many improvements have been made to the National response capabilities; however, the "all hazards" approach is still inadequate to respond to a moderate pandemic outbreak. Shortcomings of our fragile...
This research discusses the high murder rate in Jamaica as a consequence of gang activity. It higlights the negative impact of gangs in regard to national security. The complexity of the gang problem is identified by describing the gangs'...
The partisan war in the Revolutionary War South demonstrated the vital linkage between the civil and military authorities. In the policies created to persuade the people of the righteousness of the American cause and neutralize opposition, the...
In 2003, the United States led a Coalition force into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein 's repressive Ba 19ath Party regime. Under the provisions of the Hague Regulation of 1907, the Coalition became an occupying power with all of the attendant rights...
The extensive use of propaganda by all belligerents during World War I created sensitivity to the relationship between modern communications technologies and the manipulation of public opinion. Government elites and academicians were so concerned...
The U.S. Armed Forces has a long and rich history of expeditionary operations followed by military disengagements. A historically small U.S. military is repeating this history today in two wars that are stretching it to the limits of its personnel...
Two centuries of philosophy and war have informed the latest evolution of the definitions of strategy and operational art defined in the Department of Defense's Joint Publication 1-02. By harmonizing the relationship between strategy and...
Phase III Operation Iraqi Freedom has shown our military’s propensity to focus on major combat operations (MCO) often at the expense of post-MCO security and reconstruction. Without clear doctrinal guidance of how to establish effective security...
This monograph argues that an interventionary operation in South or Central America involving a joint task force consisting of at least a U.S. Army brigade is likely to occur by 2005. It describes the nature of the military organization necessary...
Judge Advocate General officer Major Laura Klein is a veteran of three Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first - for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I - as the brigade legal advisor for the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Kirkuk; the second, as...
This study analyzes the counterinsurgency efforts of the Peruvian government to defeat the Maoist Shining Path movement. An examination of the government response within the context of the Peruvian environment reveals the government's failure to...
This study examines the potential for improving success in Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) by assigning proponency (doctrine, training, institutional expertise) for MOOTW to the United States Special Operations Command. The thesis uses...