What is success in war? Who defines success? A review of past theorists such as Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Jomini and Clausewitz along with modern scholars such as William Martel, Azar Gat, and J. Boone Bartholomees produces a model for understanding...
How can the Interagency Conflict Assessment Framework (ICAF) be improved in order to better understand the operational environment? The application of the ICAF requires good intellectual habits that encompass an appreciation for abductive reasoning...
In 1986, the US Army published a revision of FM 100-5, Operations, that, for the first time, clearly linked military theory and its doctrine. In this manual, a term defined by Carl von Clausewitz as the hub of all power and movement, the center of...
People in modern societies are generally becoming more risk aversive. Whether risk is perceived to include uncertainty or not, form two differing schools of thought within literature and doctrine. Risk aversion is viewed as a challenge in most...
Las fricciones del campo político e informaciones ejercieron una influencia directa sobre las fricciones en el campo militar al permitir reducirlas y contribuir al éxito de la operación. El 16 de Diciembre de 1996, quinientos invitados, entre...
First introduced into U.S. Army doctrine in 1982, the operational level of war developed to remove politics from an inherently political process. American writers absorbed Soviet writing on the subject and translated it into existing doctrine...
This is a study on public health and sanitation in French Indo-China. Chapters include contents regarding the public health department (organization, water, sewage, insects and animals important to man- control of), medical facilities (hospitals,...
Nicaragua de la guerra a la paz. General (R) Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo, Ejército Nacional de Nicaragua; ¿Cómo transitó Nicaragua del Poder Dictatorial al Poder Revolucionario y de éste al Poder Institucional Democrático? Las lecciones negativas...
La Mara Salvatrucha y la seguridad en América Central. Steven C. Boraz y Thomas C. Bruneau; Los países de América Central han presenciado un tremendo crecimiento en el nivel de violencia en los últimos cinco años, tanto así que Colombia ya no...
This monograph examines the question can modern metaphors, based on late twentieth century nonlinear scientific thought, better explain concepts described by Clausewitz, using early nineteenth century linear scientific thought. Clausewitz...
Are the US Air Force and US Army envisioning, and thus preparing for, the same future of warfare? This paper analyzes this question through examination of the common canon of military theory shared by the services, leadership statements, funding...
While the nature of war does not change, the conduct and methods available to wage and win wars does. This appears to be the case with respect to hybrid war, an evolving type of war that the United States may soon face. The definition of hybrid war...
The fundamental root cause behind the military defeat of Poland in 1939 is not the result of fighting the combined armies of Germany and the Soviet Union. Rather, the failure is attributed to Poland's political hubris of pursuing its strategic...
A.T. Mahan's 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power on History presented a theory of sea power that proclaimed the capital ship-centered battle fleet essential to any great maritime nation's long-term prosperity. Mahan also formulated a beguilingly...
The United States Marine Corps developed Operational Maneuver from the Sea in the 1980s and codified it as a Marine Corps concept in 1996. In brief, Operational Maneuver from the Sea seeks to exploit the sea as maneuver space to defeat access...
On 12 October 1999, the U.S. Army began a journey down a new path to innovation, when General Eric Shinseki presented his vision of Army Transformation at the 45th annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army. In this speech, General...
Irak: esperando a Godot. F.J. Bing West; En la obra de Samuel Beckett titulada Esperando a Godot, los dos protagonistas, ambos vagabundos, esperan en vano a un tal Godot para que les ofrezca dirección a sus vidas. De igual manera, los mandos del...
Manual de Campaña 5-0: ejercer el mando y control en una era de conflicto persistente. Coronel (R) Clinton J. Ancker, III, Ejército de EUA, y Teniente Coronel (R) Michael Flynn, Ejército de EUA; Nuestro Ejército, como parte de una fuerza...