This study investigates the emergence of a unified Germany within the context of European integration and the security effect it has on an increasingly interdependent world order. These issues are very fluid, yet their nature will be critical to...
MAJ Eric Crispino served as fire support officer (FSO) with 2-22nd Infantry and battery commander of Alpha Battery, 3-6 Field Artillery in Shkin and Kandahar, Afghanistan during 2003 and 2004, and as a curriculum developer at the National Military...
This study examines the possible role of European security institutions in future crises, in relation to the ongoing changes in Europe. The study outlines the security environment, explaining typical European interests and the need to defend these...
Then the first sergeant of Charlie Company, 2-187 Infantry, Sergeant Major Eric Crabtree relates his experiences during Operation Iraqi Freedom, focusing especially on his participation in Operation Rifles Blitz during November 2003 in the Al Qaim...
In this June 2009 interview MAJ Eddie Curry interviews former Marine Corps SGT Derrick Colclasure on his experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). SGT Colclasure deployed two times to Iraq; once to Fallujah and once to Al Taqaddam. SGT...
Currently the deputy chief of staff, G6, of the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Edward Castle was involved as a project officer in the training and advisory effort in Iraq in 2004-2005. Alerted that their Reserve unit would be...
This monograph examines how AirLand Battle doctrine defines and utilizes the term initiative, and how initiative can be achieved at the operational level of war. It concludes that, while doctrine defines initiative as “setting the terms of battle...
MAJ Eddie Cook served as the 3-325th Airborne Infantry Regiment (AIR) chaplain in As Samawah and Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this August 2010 interview, MAJ Cook discusses his calling to...
In this first of three interviews concerning his Global War on Terrorism deployments, Major Edward Croot, US Army Special Forces, discusses his January to May 2002 tour in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, during which he served in 3rd...
In this wide-ranging interview focusing on his January 2005 through January 2006 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel (P) Edward Cardon discusses his service as the commander of 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and his area...
A combat engineer officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Major Ed Chamberlayne is a veteran of two Global War on Terrorism deployments, the first from June to December 2003 to Iraq where he was in charge of a forward engineer support team...
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is implementing a strategy to ensure its viability into the future, known as Future 35. The strategy focuses on two overarching themes of organizational reform and capability renewal. The strategy was developed...
In this interview, LTC Eric Carpenter, US Army, JAG, discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as a Chief Operation of Law in 2003 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). LTC Carpenter discusses his professional position, being sick during...
This monograph examines the integration of Information Operations (IO) during Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Iraqi Freedom (OIF). As a rule, most commanders considered IO ineffective because IO was unable to respond to the complex...
Since gaining independence in 1991, Ukraine has regularly espoused a willingness to participate in greater European integration. Despite initiation of a political dialogue between the European Union and Ukraine, however, and the signing of a...