Although the Bible teaches that killing another human being is wrong, an ethical dilemma exists for a Christian who faces a situation where taking life may be justified. This ethical dilemma has existed for centuries and the theological struggle to...
While the literature on the size of small groups and teams is extensive, there is little research on design team sizes and no formal research or analysis on the size of a military design team. This monograph investigates the optimal team size and...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how confident Soldiers continue to reenlist.
Soldiers that have confidence in themselves, their leader, and the Army continue to reenlist
for continued service and this has made an incredible impact on the...
This thesis assumes that the United States will continue to utilize unmanned combat robotic systems in the current operational environment (COE). The United States' military's increased use of unmanned robotic systems will not significantly change...
Decisive action by the United States Army places additional weight on construction units particularly in support of construction missions during offensive, defensive, stability or defense civil support authority (DCSA) operations, yet organic...
There have been stories of courageous deeds and battles through military history. History teaches soldiers to analyze. History offers us a storehouse of information on how the military behaves and also helps us evaluate ourselves in peacetime. The...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Soldiers become confident. Soldiers’
confidence is built through training, leadership, and technological advances which is evident
through the success of the Army Retention Program. A comparison of any...
Baldonado, Frederick P.; Blore, Andrew W.; Jones, Walton; Phelps, Rufus III; Richards, Walter L.
We will discuss in this paper the Noncommissioned Officers Education System (NCOES) and the fact that it needs a serious overhaul. The NCOES needs to power down the POIs so that noncommissioned officers are learning ahead rather than behind or at...
The purpose of this paper is to express my personal thoughts on the ethics of the military and how they affect Soldiers and civilians today. I will address the broad scope of past history and present events regarding the ethics and standards of the...
In today’s military females make up approximately 15% of Active Duty, 21% Reserve Component, and 14% National Guard. More than 40,000 American women have served in Iraq. Women have been historically noted in combat roles as early as 1429, when...
In an ever challenging, unstable military crisis laden world; there is not a better substitute available to military professionals than the lessons learned from the study of military history. There are more historical lessons to be learned than any...
“By personal study of history and the art and science of leadership, one understands
what worked and what did not. In a letter to his son on the eve of D-Day, George S. Patton
wrote: “To be a successful soldier you must know history. Read it...
The events leading up to and during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM gave me the opportunity to lead men at a level that most NCOs will never encounter. Not all NCOs will lead from the front in every war, but they all should know how to and be willing to...
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...
Empirically-Based Leadership: Integrating the Science of Psychology in Building a Better Leadership Model. This paper is the first place winner of the General Douglas MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition at the Command and General...
In recent years, global players such as the United States, the European Union (EU) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have noted Africa's growing strategic importance to their respective interests. Among those interests is the increasing...
The Arab Spring has demonstrated the power and potential of social mobilization and collective action as a form of political warfare in support of unconventional warfare strategies. This power and potential is not isolated to the Arab Spring or to...
In today's increasingly fiscally conscious environment, the Department of Defense must examine new ways of executing existing missions more efficiently. Given the basic core commonality of installation management functions within the current...
What caused the agricultural manpower shortage in World War II? Historians have proffered a variety of explanations that attribute linear causality to a handful of independent variables. No scholar, however, has attempted to study the manpower...