Over the past decade the study of resilience in humans has increased in multiple fields. During the 1970s, resilience was viewed as a trait that one was born with, but over the years this idea has decreased in popularity and resilience is now...
Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
This paper analyzes the relevancy of the terms center of gravity and decisive points at the operational level of war in communist insurgencies. It begins by proposing acceptable meanings for the terms center of gravity, decisive points, subversion,...
Current U.S. military doctrine for organization of joint and combined staffs evolved from World War II. This paper examines military history and the modern business world to derive principles for organization of today's joint and combined staffs...
This monograph examines the utility of amphibious operations as a form of maneuver at the operational level. With the U.S. Army restructuring from a forward deployed force to a combat ready contingency force, forced entry operations become...
This monograph examines three World War II campaigns. The 1941 German Operation "Barbarossa" (Central Army Group), Soviet Belorussian Campaign of 1944, and Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945 are used to illustrate five operational logistics...
This monograph examines the value of doctrine and compares various approaches to doctrinal development. The paper is based on the premise that US Army doctrine changes so rapidly that there is no common understanding of our basic doctrine. The...
In this author's opinion, the United States Army is not doing enough to prepare combat organizations for the inevitability of casualties. This thesis proposes the following primary research question: How can United States Army combat organizations...
This report addresses the viability of the concept of creating massive terrain obstacles, and whether our doctrine adequately supports the concept. It is written from the perspective of a maneuver planner focusing on mid and high-intensity...
As the U.S. Army continues to refine its operational doctrine, the performance of higher headquarters in meeting the requirements of that doctrine becomes a critical factor in the successful prosecution of modern war. This study examines the...
The purpose of the study is to determine whether a regional headquarters concept would improve the National Guard’s ability to accomplish Homeland Defense and Civil Support with greater efficiency and effectiveness. In order to make that...
This monograph examines the validity of the comparison between the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict and the ongoing war on drugs. With the implosion of Soviet-styled communism, many Americans have come to view illicit drug use and the...
This study is about intelligence at the operational level. Specifically, it discusses intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) and its relationship with campaign planning. At the tactical level of war, the Army feels rather comfortable...
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze whether or not the current doctrine for the inclusion of interagency coordination in a Joint Task Force or equivalent headquarters is adequate. The analysis engine used is two case studies that highlight the...
Cómo la Inteligencia Emocional puede Influir Positivamente. Gerald F. Sewell; EN OCTUBRE de 2006 la doctrina revisada del Ejército se hizo oficial con la publicación del Manual de Campaña (FM) 6-22. El nuevo marco conceptual presentado en el...
The Army has revised the definition of Military Leadership six times since the first field manual on Leadership was published in 1948. As a learning organization, the Army recognized that times and the world climate changes, so do the demands...
The United States Army can improve the quality of the officer corps by enhancing the understanding of how field-grade commanders are developed. The Army has produced some of the finest leaders in history. The leaders produced have been possible due...
This is our seventh edition of the CGSC Foundation News and it has been one of our toughest editions to put together. So many great things are happening in the Foundation and at the College we have a hard time doing justice to it all with the space...
This monograph examines the operational level of war, a concept rediscovered by the United States Army with the publication of the 1982 version of FM 100-5 and reinforced by the appearance of the succeeding version in 1986. Military doctrine and...
This monograph analyzes Soviet and U.S. Army rotary wing aviation to determine their respective capabilities to support the execution of operational level war by Soviet and U.S. commanders. In order to analyze operational level capabilities, a...