This report contains information drawn from action reports of amphibious operations on Iwo Jima. Included is a narrative of events, naval gunfire, air support, military intelligence, ship to shore movement, landing craft and logistics.
This work asks two questions. Is the National Security Strategy (NSS) of 2002, The Global War on Terrorism, (GWOT) a policy of containment and why does it matter? This work identifies the NSS as a policy of containment by comparing the national...
A Theater Special Operations Command (SOC), a sub-unified command, advises combatant commanders on the capabilities of Special Operations Forces (SOF), provides SOF for employment, and integrates SOF fully into theater plans by planning,...
Force caps and related command and control issues had a considerable influence on the conduct of operations in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. This paper attempts to answer the question, "Did force caps prevent ground component...
One goal of the United States (US) is a capabilities-based joint force designed to quickly achieve success along the continuum of conflict ranging from peace operations to war.' In support of this goal, US Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) authors...
The attack helicopter battalions within the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) sequentially transition to the AH-64D beginning January 1999 and lasting through May 2002. During this period, air assault operations will be conducted with three...
The Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) celebrated their twentieth anniversary in the Sinai Desert in 2002. During the past twenty years there has hardly been a shot fired in anger between Egypt and Israel, the antagonists the MFO is charged...
This study assesses how different US Presidential administrations have approached the national security strategy report. It focuses on the elements of continuity and the elements of change between selected national security strategy reports from...
This paper is a survey and analysis of the external military interventions in Sierra Leone between 1993 and 2002. It includes a brief history overview of the country and the start of civil war in 1992. Details of the interventions cover the...
This bibliography, the fourth in a series on the United Nations, contains only English-language monographs published between 1945 and 2002. It does not include articles from journals or any titles that were published by or under the auspices of the...
The chief of patient administration for the 86th Combat Support Hospital attached to Task Force 261, Major Rachele Smith deployed with the unit to Karshi-Kanabad, Uzbekistan, in December 2001, supported Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from there - with...
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...
The supply company commander in the 82nd Forward Support Battalion, which supported the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment - part of the 82nd Airborne Division - Major Wesley Wright deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002. "At that...
The commander of Tactical PSYOP Detachment 980 - part of Charlie Company, 9th PSYOP Battalion - Major John Adams deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines (OEF-P) from May through August 2002. Attached to 1st Special Forces...
In this first of two interviews regarding his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Major Scott Pierce, US Marine Corps, discusses his role as executive officer of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which was stood up as a battalion landing team (BLT) for...
Major Larry Burris commanded Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division during the opening days of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Commanding for 22 months, Burris deployed his company to Kuwait attached to 1st...
Lieutenant Commander Dan Davidson, US Navy, deployed to the Global War on Terrorism in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) from November 2002 through June 2003. A naval supply officer, Davidson, who received his...
Major Jon Baker served as commander of Charlie Company, 82nd Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) until roughly February 2002. Baker was stationed in Kandahar Airbase and...
Major Ronny Johnson deployed to Kuwait as the commander of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry to support Operation Desert Spring in October 2002. He thought he was taking his unit for six months, but all that changed when forces started...
Major Jackie Jones, a signal officer, served in an intelligence billet on the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force (CJSOTF) staff at Al Udeid Airbase, Qatar, beginning in early 2002. As the J2, then deputy J2, Jones helped build the...