Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under 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 and...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under 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 and...
This thesis is designed to do two things. First, this study examines the evolution of command and control (C2) systems through history. Second, this study examines the Army's current Force XXI digitization initiative. The first part develops the...
90th Anniversary History
Integrating Intelligence and Information: Ten Points for the Commander. Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, U.S. Army; Brigadier General Charles A. Flynn, U.S. Army; The authors provide ten points as an azimuth for...
"Hugo Chavez' strategy of embracing Iran in its quest to build an "anti-imperialist" and anti-American coalition of nations has undoubtedly gained strength in recent years. Beyond the close ties between Venezuela and Iran due to the two countries'...
"Nodes and Codes" explores the reality of cyber warfare through the story of Stuxnet, a string of weaponized code that reached through a domain previously associated with information operations to bring about the physical, and potentially lethal,...
A complete new set of challenges for Swedish security policy has been created by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and Swedish membership in the European Union (EU), as well as in a number of other security policy...
A Missouri National Guardsman, Major Michael Kitchens served with the 40-member 135th Rear Operations Center at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for 10 months, beginning in May 2003. In his force protection unit, Kitchens monitored and analyzed intelligence...
A radical Islamic insurgency named Alshabab has appeared in Somalia in recent years. African Union forces, with the support of the international community are actively engaged to defeat this movement. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM),...
A Royal Australian Corps of Signals officer, Major James Murray served at the Australian National Headquarters, Middle East Area of Operations (ASNHQ-MEAO) from November 2002 to January 2003 - co-located with US Central Command's forward deployed...
A systems perspective is beginning to permeate doctrine. This perspective calls for an analysis of the key systems of an adversary. PMESII is an acronym that stands for political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, and information systems....
A team chief and later executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 305th Field Artillery Regiment - part of 3rd Brigade, 87th Division (Training Support) at Camp Shelby, Mississippi - from 2003 to 2005 Major David Pierce was responsible for the...
Abstract: Actionable intelligence in today’s contemporary operating environment is a lesson that the intelligence community continues to work on. Most important to ensuring that actionable intelligence is in the hands of the combatant commander,...
Advocates of Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS) and the liberal arts share the same goal: cultivation of "agile, adaptive, and innovative" people. Yet, the Army does not have an implementation plan for cultivating these attributes, and its...
After serving as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery Regiment in Operation Iraqi Freedom I where his unit reduced captured enemy ammunition and trained the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling returned to...
After ten years of global conflict with al Qaeda, the time has come to reassess the threat and determine the parameters within which it operates. Questions regarding its continued validity as a threat, its capability to employ synchronized tactical...
Além das armas e do aço: a restauração dos instrumentos não-militares do poder norte-americano. Secretário de Defesa Robert M. Gates; Olhando o mundo hoje, otimismo e idealismo parecem não ter lugar na mesa. Não há carência de ansiedade...
Although Army leadership has proved itself to be adaptable and able to accomplish countless missions with increasing levels of success, weakness does exist in the way we prepare those same leaders for management responsibilities. In particular, the...