This monograph is an assessment of the performance of the Iraqi Army in selected major operations from 1941 to 1988. Focused primarily at the operational level, this study first describes the Iraqi Army's performance in an abbreviated 1941 conflict...
This study examines the influence of ground forces on the conduct and outcome of the Desert Storm air operations. This influence took three distinct forms. First, Coalition ground forces were instrumental in fixing the Iraqis in static positions in...
This monograph examines the Iran-Iraq War from an operational perspective. This eight year war represents the Iraqi's only experience with successful operational maneuver. As such, it is likely that lessons learned, particularly in the final...
Much has been written regarding Iraqi wartime activities at the strategic and operational levels during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), but few of these works address tactical operations. This thesis fills a small portion of that void by examining...
In meeting the challenges of post-hostility Iraq, the area of information operations (IO) has received a great deal of attention. Unlike combat operations, the center of gravity in post-conflict Iraq has been restoration of basic services and...
U.S. military, Department of State, and Iraqi officials face many challenges moving a unified Iraq forward. This paper attempts to answer a critical question: Can local Iraqi grassroots councils facilitate a strategic endstate like achieving...
Recent historical events such as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall and Operation Desert Storm indicate that we are entering a new era of geo-political struggle. The world is no longer dominated by a bipolar struggle between the United States and the...
In this March 2011 interview MAJ James Moore Military Intelligence (MI) describes his surprise deployment on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with the Iraqi Federal Police in Iraq in 2009. After just 15 months of company command MAJ Moore was...
In this March 2011 interview MAJ James Moore Military Intelligence (MI) describes his surprise deployment on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with the Iraqi Federal Police in Iraq in 2009. After just 15 months of company command MAJ Moore was...
In 2003, the United States led a Coalition force into Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein 's repressive Ba 19ath Party regime. Under the provisions of the Hague Regulation of 1907, the Coalition became an occupying power with all of the attendant rights...
The purpose behind this monograph was to explore the moral level of war in the context of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the larger framework of counterinsurgency operations. Operation Iraqi Freedom is a war fought in the moral realm and the resulting...
Family and Future: Five Assignments for Future Leaders. U.S. Representative Ike Skelton; The ranking minority member of the House Armed Services Committee offers assignment advice to Command and General Staff College graduates.
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Captain Pedro Agapay discusses serving on a border transition team as a personnel advisor in Nineveh Province, Iraq from May 2005 into 2006...
Massing Effects in the Information Domain-A Case Study in Aggressive Information Operations Lieutenant General Thomas F. Metz, U.S. Army, with Lieutenant Colonel Mark W. Garrett, U.S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel James E. Hutton, U.S. Army; and...
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, NATO member nations have begun reducing the size of their military forces. Therefore, NATO is faced with responding to crises situations with considerably smaller forces available. To...
In this third of three interviews, Major David Motes talks about being a member of the military transition team (MiTT) for the Iraqi 2nd Motor Transportation Regiment (MTR) stationed in Numaniyah from January through December 2005 in support of...
In January 2007, President of the United States George W. Bush announced a strategy called the New Way Forward in Iraq, a departure from the National Strategy for Victory in Iraq announced only thirteen months previous. Additionally, President Bush...
In this interview, MAJ Matt Simons, US Army, talks about his second deployment to Iraq as part of the Military Transition Team (MiTT) in 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF). MAJ Simons discusses his introduction to the Iraqi Battalion...
Called up in May 2005 and given a June report date for predeployment training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, Maryland-based US Army reservist Captain Christopher Isgrig became cross-leveled into the 80th Division (Institutional Training) and joined...
The immediate goal of this monograph is to determine what contribution VII Corps made to the evolution of operational art in Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait resulted in Iraq controlling much of the world's proven oil...