The current American way of life supports the fact that many people currently in the Army show a lack of responsibility and discipline. The Drill Sergeants have to begin the process after the recruit enters the military and upon arriving at a unit...
As leaders, we must remain relevant while enforcing the Army's standards. The standards we carry on and off duty derive from traditional Army standards. As Senior NCOs, those we lead and mentor observe our actions. Soldiers are not the only one who...
Soldiers today find themselves in combat ethical decisions. There have been many instances in which a Soldier has to make a quick decision on whether or not to engage an enemy or suspected enemy. With global implications at stake, it is important...
At a time of war we are faced with countless ethical decisions on a daily basis, one of them is the way that each Soldier is recognized for their individual performance, or accomplishments. This can be completed immediately, or a later date. As it...
The Senior Enlisted Selection Board has been proven to be collectively as the most reasonable complete selection system in the military. Many of overseas regimes have used it as a replica for their own promotion system. The areas of concern where I...
The Army has always promoted their values which could be considered ethics. Values such as loyalty, duty, respect, selfless-service, honor, integrity and personal courage poses a question in today's army are they still strong and are we teaching...
NCO's confidence can be affected in several ways. One of the most concerning problem is the short transition between a new Soldier and NCO. Some of the new Soldiers become NCOs after two years after their enlistment. I wonder how effectively they...
The United States Army is the great institution it is today because of the professional and personal ethics of its Leaders. In keeping with the Army's principles the success of the institution weighs heavily on ethics coupled with integrity, so...
This monograph reviews the highly successful U.S. deployment to Operation Desert Storm, explores current strategic mobility initiatives, and critically examines ongoing initiatives to eliminate strategic lift shortfalls. It includes a comparison of...
This monograph discusses the merit of using Cordon and Search as a method to train infantry battalions in preparation for possible deployment to perform OOTW activities. Using one training event to generically prepare infantry units to perform OOTW...
This monograph examines Soviet operational centers of gravity during Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Specifically, the examination focuses in two areas: (1) German planning for Operation Barbarossa; (2) the...
Today the United States confronts an uncertain world. The strategic environment has changed. It no longer has one main enemy and a military force to confront that foe. Instead, the United States must be prepared to deal with a multiple of possible...
This paper discusses the nature of war and warfare. It contends that unclear policy objectives and a lack of strategy contributed to strategic defeats in Vietnam and Somalia despite tactical successes. This was in part the result of a tendency to...
The monograph evaluates the viability of quick decisive victory as a principle of U.S. military strategy. Modern concepts of quick decisive victory form the cornerstone of present U.S. military strategy. These concepts originated from the...
This monograph discusses the change in the use of mass by U.S. operational artists. As GEN Donn Starry observed, use of military force is based on certain operational concepts. If this is true and the traditional US concept of mass is in limited by...
This monograph examines the proposed doctrinal command and control interface between the heavy division and the forward Corps Support Battalion, a newly proposed multifunctional battalion. The purpose is to determine if the prescribed interface...
This monograph discusses operational sustainment in a secondary theater of war. Essentially, this study asks, given horizontal escalation in a global conflict where central Europe is the primary theater, what is the effect of operational...
The Interim Strike Force Headquarters organizational concept has emerged as the experimental platform upon which the U.S. Army will examine how to reorganize the Army in the near term to meet the conflicting demands of National Security Strategy,...
This monograph is a case study examining the substitution of the Cold War strategy of large forward deployed military forces and nuclear deterrence for the Post Cold War strategy of global engagement and leadership and the implications of that...