This monograph discusses how the current world situation and the Clinton Administration's commitment to the United Nations has made peace operations an important part of U.S. armed forces' missions. The goal of the monograph is to validate current...
Multinational operations under the direction of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) have become the norm rather than the exception. In the light of an emerging partnership between both organizations, the...
Insurgency is a time-honored form of warfare that allows a weaker opponent to subvert the power of a stronger foe. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Spanish guerrillas waged an effective insurgency against the premier army of the...
Non-Governmental Organizations, research and academic institutions, charities, and international organization efforts to track and monitor activities and conditions in high-risk settings provide uniquely useful indicators and warning of possible...
The international community intervened repeatedly in Somalia since the central government fell in 1991. These interventions failed to produce a stable, elected government. Instead, over the last 20 years Somalis faced famine, terrorism, sexual...
American Soldiers need to achieve cultural understanding. On today’s battlefield achieving
cultural understanding will be beneficial to all involved, failure could have repercussions that
could last decades. The role of the Army is ever changing...
This paper discusses my experiences as an Embedded Team Trainer (EIT) in the Ghazni Province of Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom from 15 May 2007 to 10 May 2008. This paper will discuss challenges faced throughout the deployment and...
The challenges the military face is not limited to the typical military battles but also to understanding the culture of the participants and the “Theater of War”. The paper will demonstrate the need for the NCO to understand the successes and...
Thesis: A military force cannot win on the battlefield through the application of force alone instead; it must have an understanding of the cultural environment in which it operates to achieve success. Abstract: The United States military cannot...
Per the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the U.S. Navy intends to increase its presence in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, the size of the Pacific means that U.S-based ships spend a smaller proportion of each deployment available in...
This thesis explored the impact of the Army junior officer development model upon combat effectiveness. The research hypothesis was junior officers do not receive sufficient experiential development prior to implementation as direct leaders, which...
Leadership in the military encourages their subordinates to study military history. Will the
study of military history yield results and should a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) sacrifice
important time out of a busy schedule to study military...
The 1st Marine and 7th Infantry Divisions fought two campaigns in Korea between September and December 1950. These divisions’ levels of unit cohesion prior to and during their employment affected the number of men who became casualties during the...
Americans readily identify Muslim extremism as a viable threat to America. However, they ignore or remain unaware of Christian extremism in the same context, despite the similarities in ideology that advocate violence against Americans. For...
Cathy Williams was an amazing woman that served her country honorably. After all of the racial injustices that she endured in support of the Union Soldiers and as a Buffalo Soldier, she still had pride in her country and the Army. Her service was...
Is there a better way to organize staffs in operational headquarters based on their roles? Following 9/11 in the ensuing Global War on Terror, the sizes of divisions and corps serving as operational headquarters have doubled and tripled,...
As leaders, we have the responsibility to train our Soldiers for war. We accomplish this in a multiplicity of methods. First, we can review the syllabus of the Army's school and training programs and realize that the emphasis of history is part of...
External borders of countries and their internal boundaries regulate how people are governed and taxed, their rights and legal authority, and the freedoms they share within their daily lives. People often form relationships based on where they live...
This thesis examined China's demographic, social, and economic factors, and their effect on China's economic growth. The study used Michael Porter's economic development model and various economic indicators to compare China's economic growth from...
The Soviet invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan is a well covered subject, what is not well covered, is the fact that all communist governments fail regardless of what action is taken.
1. The communist government left after the Soviet Union’s...