This paper examined how well does the integration of Military, Other Government Agencies (OGA), and International Organizations (IO) economic functions reduce the operational risks in achieving contingency campaign objectives. It investigated how...
This monograph proposes a four step model for coordination planning between other government agencies (OGAs) and the U.S. Military during military operations. It discusses the need for such a model based upon the operations involving OGAs in a...
Over the past fifteen years, many have argued that the military’s overwhelming battlefield successes stem from the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reformation Act of 1986. While few can debate the efficacy of joint US military operations in a...
This is a Personal Experience Paper of Sergeant Major Daniel J. Clark during his deployment to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF VIII). This article deals with the establishment of the Non-Assisted Recovery (NAR) in Afghanistan. The three main points...
Iraq and Afghanistan have proven that achieving victory in today's ideological conflicts is a task beyond the capabilities of any single U.S. agency. It demands that the efforts of multiple agencies be brought together and coordinated in a whole of...
Operational level commanders and their staffs require relevant and current joint doctrine that articulates the critical function of operational design and its role in the Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP). Since operational design is the...
From April through November 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Thomas Gravlee commanded the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD). In this interview, he discusses the diverse range of explosive ordnance disposal missions his...
The United States Army largely missed the signs that a new threat was approaching, after the end of the Cold War, and was slow to understand and adequately plan for the changes that have since come to fruition. So how does the U.S. Army improve?...
This personal experience paper was prepared to historically document my first deployment to Afghanistan as a member of 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group. During this deployment, I served as the Operation Sergeant, Operational Detachment Alpha...
Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, did the 3 nnd Military Police (MP) Company lack the proper training or was the unauthorized treatment of detainees tolerated? The questions create implications, but who is the implicated; the jr. enlisted, jr....
For five months in the year 2006 Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 361 lead a three hundred man indigenous force throughout the central-eastern border region of Afghanistan. In the early months of Operation Enduring Freedom, United...
With the 720th Military Police Battalion during its June 2003 to March 2004 deployment to Tikrit, Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Rangel served as the executive officer. For his second tour, from June 2004 to February 2005, Rangel was executive...
This work chronicles the challenging task of bringing stability and representative government to the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after the fall of the Baathist regime. Although the plan for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) required US forces to prepare to...
This work chronicles the challenging task of bringing stability and representative government to the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after the fall of the Baathist regime. Although the plan for Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) required US forces to prepare to...
A U.S. Army reservist and, at the time of 9/11, an assistant district attorney in Clarksville, Tennessee, Major Lance Baker deployed to Karshi-Kanabad, Uzbekistan, then later Bagram, Afghanistan, with the 10th Mountain Division from December 2001...
As the military liaison officer (LNO) to other government agencies - mainly the CIA and the FBI - Major Melissa Fozman, based at Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan in Kabul, supported Operation Enduring Freedom from July 2004 through January 2005....
The assistant division aviation officer in the 82nd Airborne Division - i.e., the primary planner for aviation operations - Major Ciro Stefano deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan, in August 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and redeployed...
These are the procedures for the preparation of units for overseas duty, including the process prior to the movement of the unit to the staging area, final inspection by the port authroities, and the filling of the last minute shortages.
The development, establishment and execution to begin the mission of training the future Afghanistan National Army was monumental to say the least. The Soldiers in the unit conducted themselves in such a professional and mission focused attitude...
Ambush! Ambush! The commander yelled as he grabbed for the hand mike to tell higher that we were being hit and hit hard. I’m hit, I’m hit screamed our driver! God it hurts! We’ll worry about that later, just drive fast. I was shooting from my...