This book of notes is designed to provide the artillery survey officer with a handy pocket guide to assist him in discharging his duties during field and combat operations.
This work proposes a novel approach to military transformation, 'Adaptive Transformation,' that accounts for an inescapable reality in the current and future operational environment: uncertainty. Military planners and decision makers have to face...
The premise for this study evolved during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF). It stems from a perception that the combat plan for the Coalition force invasion worked brilliantly but noticeably absent was a detailed plan for transitioning to peace. This...
These Elements have been compiled for the use of the Cadets of the Military Academy. In submitting them to the public, the author does not intend to express the opinion that the work is superior to those, on the same subject, which are now in...
On December 15, 2011, the U.S. mission in Iraq became State Department-led, and all U.S. military activities became the responsibility of the U.S. Embassy's Office of Security Cooperation--Iraq (OSC-I). There are few, if any, well-known examples of...
"The purpose of this 1941 manual is to present in simplified form necessary information for instruction of all military personnel in elementary map and aerial photograph reading."
Gutierrez, John B.; Suri, Frank T.; Carland, Richard L.; Million, Will T.
“Military institutions and their needs (not women’s needs) determine women’s role in the armed forces” (Skaine, 1999, p. 45). Despite various roles in the military of the past, women have earned a more prominent role in current military...
Current DOD and Army policy needs updated to define combat and collocation of women in operations and direct combat on the battlefield. The policies are not clearly understandable. Vague terms, the changing battlefield in the war against terrorism,...
The School of Advanced Leadership and Tactics (SALT) is developing the new Captains level educational model, known as the Mid-Grade Learning Continuum for 2015 (MLC 2015), based on TRADOC's Army Learning Concept for 2015 (ALC 2015). Since 2004, the...
In 1998, Predator became the first Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration to transition into the Defense Acquisition System. When it did, it operated within the Air Force’s rapid acquisition office. Predator operated here until it made its...
With the transition from the Army of Excellence logistics structure to the single logistics command and control of the modular force logistics concept, the traditional command relationship between logistics organizations and the maneuver forces...
The purpose of this research was to identify the SOF unique educational requirements for SF Officers attending CGSC's ILE. This question came to the forefront at the Command and General Staff College when the United States Army Special Operations...
This monograph examines the vital role that operational sustainment plays in the application of critical elements of operational art and operational design. The operational art and sustainment issues examined in this monograph are assessed using...
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...
The United States conducts Host Nation Police Advisory (HNPA) missions, as a subset of Security Sector Reform (SSR), to improve the rule of law and legitimacy of failing and failed states. To develop a more effective HNPA program, the U.S....
The purpose of this manual is to present the doctrine for the combat training and employment of the mechanized reconnaissances, including squadrons of the motorized infantry division and of the cavalry division. This manual covers the functional...