Beginning in the Korea War, through Vietnam and continuing with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, US forces have been involved in combat typified by close, sharp actions - often without the doctrinally prescribed firepower to support the...
Should the US Army allocate an Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP) graduate to the Brigade Combat Team’s plans cell in light of a decade of doctrinal changes and modularity? This monograph analyzes a decade’s worth of change in the US...
Today, women can serve on American combat ships, to include command. However women are not permitted to serve on submarines or to participate in Special Forces programs such as Navy Seals. Women are barred from serving in Infantry, Special...
This paper will illustrate a sequence of events that unfolded to meet a situational crisis in the Sangin District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan during my deployment for Operation Enduring Freedom in 2005-2006. I will illustrate the difficulties of...
The deployment of a US Ground-based Mid-course ballistic missile Defense (GMD) within what Russia considers its rightful sphere of influence is an unacceptable challenge to Russian national security. Russians, according to Makhmut Gareev, believe...
This paper provides a critical analysis and assessment of interagency-Department of Defense (DOD) support during combat operations, specifically stability operations during or post-conflict. The general reluctance of the Department of Defense to...
Organizational transformations are inherently difficult to achieve in any public or private sector. As such, there has been a significant body of writing developed primarily in business and the military as to how to achieve successful...
With operations in Iraq complete and an ongoing transition in Afghanistan, what is the role of the heavy armor force in the Army of 2020? This thesis analyzes the capabilities of the current heavy force through the lens of the current strategic...
Manual de Campanha FM 5-0: exercício do comando e controle em uma era de conflito persistente. Coronel Clinton J. Ancker III (da Reserva Remunerada), Exército dos EUA, e Tenente-Coronel Michael Flynn (da Reserva Remunerada), Exército dos EUA;...
My deployments were both challenging and fulfilling. My initial deployment was to Bosnia in 1999 for six months. Bosnia was a non-combat environment and was an easy deployment. My second deployment was to Iraq. I was stationed in Tikrit as an...
The modem Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) is the true leader on and off the battlefield. The modem Army has transformed over the last 200 years and evolved into an all-volunteer professional Army far superior than that of Armies past. The Army...
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the limited availability of trained medical personnel and the lack of adequate medicine and equipment hampered medical support. Insufficient care not only of the wounded, but the lack of treatment and...
The history of the noncommissioned officer between 1925 and 1945 was a time of great turbulence, not only in the responsibility, but also in the authority of noncommissioned officers. The time between World War I and World War II saw a huge...
Alvin C. York was born December 13, 1887 in a two-room log cabin in Pall Mall, Tennessee, and raised in a rural section of Fentress County. The third oldest of a family of eleven children, the York family survived through farming, supplemented by...
During my tenure here at the Sergeant's Major Academy we have received numerous Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) history briefs. Many of the NCO history briefs have been on a Medal of Honor recipient and their specific act(s) of heroism and gallantry....
Audie Leon Murphy was the son of poor Texas farmers that did not own the land they worked. He later became the most decorated U.S. Army Soldier of World War II. During his three years enlistment in the Army, “Murphy received every decoration for...
If we look back at America's history, a large part of our creation came from foreigners across the globe. Today's tribute will focus on a European born and naturalized citizen of the United States, General Fredrick Baron Von Steuben. His...
During the Continental Army there was a great need for trained Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) on the battlefield. The earliest trace of education can be seen when a Prussian officer, Friedrich Von Steuben came to Valley Forge. He saw many...
How far, as leaders, must we place ourselves in the middle of Soldier matters extending into off duty hours? Many times more over, some senior leaders take an extra step toward the gray side of instructional guidance that calls into question the...
We as senior NCOs must exemplify ethical conduct to be effective and credible in our profession, but living by a code of ethics is not always easy. Many people are tempted to behave unethically because sometimes it is the path of least resistance....