Abstract: On 2 August 1990, the Iraqi Republican Guard invaded Kuwait and seized control of that country. As a result of the invasion, the United States responded by deploying U.S. forces to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia in support of Operation...
History provides durable blueprints: “what to do,” and sometimes, more importantly,
“what not to do.” In the end, each lesson can be summed in one word: preparation. As long as
warfare exists, its principles, leadership, strategy, and...
This is an in depth study into Operation Restore Hope and Operations Joint Endeavor. In 1992, President Bush sent more than 24,000 troops to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. This was a major commitment of US power, which was solely intended to...
Thesis: President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was correct politically and wrong tactically. Abstract: This paper will determine that President Truman’s decision to drop the bomb was correct politically and incorrect...
The most important factors leading to the change of the American noncommissioned officers’ roles in the United States Army were the changes of weapons and tactics on the battlefield, World War II, and the noncommissioned officer education system...
Noncommissioned Officers’ (NCO) limited influence in the beginning towards training, education, and upholding standards in the United States Army resulted in the disappointments in early combat action. This taught the following leaders to learn...
With the changes of the capabilities of the armored vehicles from World War I some people have seen the need for change. Then with the Germans start of World War II using the blitzkrieg type of war fair to overpower their foes and America seeing...
Railroads have played an important part in wars throughout modern history. Today, the contributions rail can make to America's national defense include U.S. commercial rail help with mobilization of military units stationed in the United States....
Little emphasis is being placed upon military railroading today by Defense Department planners. Rail is overshadowed by motor transport and theater air when it comes to supporting large unit operations. In doing that, logisticians may be...
Railroads have played a key role in the conduct of war for well over a century. Few can dispute the contributions rail has made at the strategic and operational levels of war. Tactical use of railroads, however, is an entirely different matter....
This monograph attempts to determine whether the current United States (US) five paragraph field order is the best format to use when transmitting the commander's intentions, combat information and tasks to battalions of smaller tactical units....
The purpose of this paper is to examine the current drug war and to determine if an operational artist's approach to planning and problem solving is applicable for the United States in its war against drugs. This paper is significant because the...
To make decisions and to synchronize all available resources properly, the brigade commander requires timely and accurate intelligence and combat information. This monograph examines the issues surrounding the absence of an organic tactical...
For many years the Northern Region has been considered of secondary importance to NATO theater military operations. But with the buildup of Soviet forces on the Kola Peninsula and within the Northern Fleet, Soviet regional TVD operations now have...
The purpose of this monograph is to determine the adequacy of our current, alliance based, conventional force strategy. The scope is limited to the application of force to achieve the national objectives of deterrence and containment. The problem...
This paper proposes a working theory of operational art as practiced in counterinsurgency war (i.e., modern war). The underlying hypothesis of the paper is that operational art in modern war uses different logic than that used in conventional war....
This monograph offers a way of thinking about counterinsurgency tactics. There are five salient propositions that bind the paper. First, tactical success in a Phase II insurgency (such is the nature of the Salvadoran insurgency) is defined as the...
This monograph discusses the importance and growing role of air defense in the "lower" end of the conflict spectrum. There is root a broad understanding in our current doctrinal literature of the increasing air threat in “low-intensity...
This study analyzes the Palestine Campaign of 1918, fought between the British led Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the German-Turkish Army Group, Yilderim. The campaign serves as an historical illustration of the theory of operational...
This monograph examines whether or not the structure of the current U.S. Army Light Infantry Division is consistent with the demands presented by deployment and employment across the broad spectrum of conflict. The U.S. Army has expended a...