This thesis seeks to illustrate both the benefits and limitations associated with using road building in COIN campaigns in South Asia, as well as highlight factors that should be considered from planning through long-term use. When employed in a...
Recent scholarly work on the history and significance of logistics suggests logistics is 90% of the business of war. Logistics enables the deployment of armies to war and their subsequent movement and sustainment during war. As such,...
MAJ Craig Jayson served as the aviation liaison officer (LNO) for 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division and as company commander of Bravo Company, 25th Aviation Brigade in Kandahar and Shindand, Afghanistan during 2004 and 2005 in support of...
Since 2001, the capabilities of the Afghan state have been a priority on the world stage. The reign of Amir Abdur Rahman, who established the current state of Afghanistan, is critical in understanding the development of the current state, and the...
Lieutenant Colonel Steven Baker of the 82nd Airborne Division spent the first three months of his May to December 2002 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom based in Kandahar, Afghanistan as the Task Force Panther engineer; and then...
Mr. Gregory Burton, Foreign Service, US State Department, volunteered for duty as a member of a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Afghanistan. From duty in 2005 as an economic officer with the American Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, Burton...
Joint Doctrine, explicitly, and Army Doctrine, implicitly, recommend that military commanders and staffs exercise systems thinking in operational planning and execution. However, current Military Doctrine fails to fully explicate and apply a...
A member of the 66th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron and an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter pilot, US Air Force Major Dirk Johnson deployed to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, as part of Operation Enduring Freedom from May to September 2002, serving as the...
After September 11, 2001, commonly referred to as 9-11, the 5th Special Forces Group out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky quickly isolated and mobilized to Afghanistan. Their mission was to hunt down both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar and to...
The U.S. Army Special Forces has used firebases to project a forward presence since the beginning of the Vietnam War. It has proven one of the best ways to get a small element of Special Forces into an area and begin to establish an American...
From April 2004 through April 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan, Major Derrick Johnson served as commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) for 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Light), based in Kandahar. In...
In command of the Long Range Surveillance Detachment (LRSD) out of the 110th Military Intelligence Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Major Robert Schexnayder deployed to Afghanistan from July 2003 through May 2004. Initially working in the border...
This thesis is about contemporary Romania and its adherence to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The object of research and analysis is to determine the extent to which Romania, as a NATO member, constitutes a reliable military ally...
This paper seeks to answer the question, “What role should the militaries of the US and their NATO allies play in the counter-narcotics effort in Afghanistan?” This monograph shows the United States (US) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
In this first of a two-part interview covering his 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Jason Shelton talks about being a team leader from the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion and working in Uruzgan Province...
MAJ Brian Heverly served with the 716th Military Police (MP) Battalion and the 561st MP Company in Bagram, Spin Boldak and Khost, Afghanistan during 2004 and 2005 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In the first of two March 2010...
The commander of Charlie Company, 326th Engineer Battalion - part of 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Task Force Rakkasan) - Major Mark Quander deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from January to July 2002 and notably...
After 9/11, America sent in its first combat Soldiers after the regime that was responsible for an attack on America that will forever shape history. TF Rakkasan was some of the first Soldiers called to strike back at the Taliban and Al Qaeda...
With United States involvement in Afghanistan, knowledge of the country is imperative. This "handbook explains a number of basic issues that should be in the knowledge" toolbox of a Marine working with Afghanis or deployed to the country.