This study examines the coordination of the Joint Phase 0 shaping activities that take place as part of Central Command theater engagement. The focus is on horizontal synchronization across staff elements and vertical synchronization through...
This monograph posits that the state must structure the delivery of public goods in a sequential and hierarchical basis with safety and security and rule of law providing a foundation upon which the state builds delivery of all other public goods...
Civil Information Management Systems (CIMS) are emerging as a resource which allows commanders to build a Common Operational Picture (COP) upon which to base their operational planning and execution. Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are a type...
Major General John P. McLaren Jr., formerly the assistant division commander for operations for the 80th Division (Institutional Training), deployed to Iraq in 2005-2006 as commander of the Iraqi Assistance Group. Replacing the 98th Division as...
Introduction By Dan G. Cox and Thomas Bruscino
Failed State: A New (Old) Definition By Major Kenneth D. Mitchell Toward Development of Afghanistan National Stability: Analyses in Historical, Military, and Cultural Contexts By Lieutenant Colonel...
From 2003 through 2005, when the plan for using elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to train the new Iraqi Army was developed and executed, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock was its assistant division commander for operations....
During his May 2005 through May 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Jeffrey O'Sadnick served as the joint staff logistics officer (J4) forward for the Iraqi Assistance Group (IAG). Based at Taji where the Phoenix Academy...
In this February 2009 interview MAJ Richard Sweet, Aviation, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a member of a Special Police Transition Team (SPTT) in 2006. MAJ Sweet discusses his pre-deployment training at Fort Hood, Texas and how his team came...
The division plans officer up until the actual mobilization of elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) - which, in 2004-2005, would assume the Iraqi Army training and advisory mission - Lieutenant Colonel James DiRisio, after...
Major Jon-Paul Maddaloni deployed as a part of a border transition team (BTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January 2006 to February 2007. In this interview, Maddaloni discusses the transition team's predeployment training and...
MAJ James Woods served as the battalion maintenance officer (BM) with the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005 and as an Army military advisor to an Iraqi Army battalion in Kuwait and Baghdad, Iraq...
MAJ Andrew Ryan served with the 53rd Brigade, 14th Division Military Transition Team (MiTT) in Baghdad, Taji and Basra, Iraq during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this July 2010 interview, MAJ Ryan discusses his work...
Driven by his desire to be deployed either to Iraq or Afghanistan, and believing that his Connecticut National Guard unit would not be sent, in late 2004 Lieutenant Colonel Paul Ciesinski got himself transferred to the US Army Reserve's 80th...
Colonel Robert Catalanotti, serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), was the mobilization commander at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, from September through December 2004 and then the base commander at Taji, Iraq, from December 2004...
A reservist serving with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Antonio L. Morales was mobilized and deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 and 2005. Normally assigned as a schools officer with the...
Major Timothy O'Brien served in Operation Iraqi Freedom with a military transition team (MiTT) in 2005-06. Part of a worldwide levy of US Army manpower to support MiTTs, O'Brien came from Fort Benning, Georgia, and the Ranger Training Brigade. He...
From October 2006 through October 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Joseph Chestnut served as the intelligence advisor and executive officer of a military transition team (MiTT), assigned initially to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th...
An Army reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Friedman served as the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team command and control cell's operations officer in Iraq in 2004-2005. In this interview,...