The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
One of the worst disasters in Nebraska's history led to Operation Snowbound in the winter of 1948 through 1949. Operation Snowbound was a humanitarian mission conducted by the Fifth Army as well as other organizations and whose goal was to provide...
Second of two volumes, field intelligence reports arranged chronologically by date then hour as received from each reporting headquarters, corps, division and miscellaneous units or commands operating with the First Army.
Abstract: The Department of Defense and the military have found that building and maintaining a relationship with the media is critical to the management of information describing the War in Iraq. As a nation fighting the Global War on Terrorism,...
Anatomy of a Successful COIN Operation: OEF Philippines and the Indirect Approach. Lieutenant Colonel Gregory Wilson, U.S. Army; Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines offers a template for how to succeed in counterinsurgency.
As operations in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrate, America's adversaries are capable of manipulating domestic and international media with lies, distortion and propaganda disseminated via the internet or media outlets. The U.S. military's inability...
Colonel William Darley was the public affairs officer for Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the Combined Joint Task Force 7 commander, from August 2003 to March 2004. In this interview, he describes his public affairs mission in terms of three...
From April 2004 through April 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Cathy Wilkinson commanded the 28th Public Affairs Detachment (PAD). In this interview, she begins by explaining how she took command only about 45 days before her PAD...
From October 2002 through January 2003, CW4 Nate Jones served as the air and missile defense planner with 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, Task Force Cobra, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Then, from January until May 2003, he moved to Turkey for...
From the Crimean War through the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, the military and the media have had a dynamic relationship that has changed throughout history. Many of the changes in this relationship have been based on technology,...
In an effort to explain how the military can better engage the media, this paper provides insights to the question, “How can the U.S. military proactively engage the domestic media in the planning and execution of military operations?” By...
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...
In this first of two interviews concerning his Global War on Terrorism experiences, Lieutenant Colonel Bentley Nettles discusses his August 2003 through February 2004 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, during which...
In this interview LTC Hance describes his involvement in the building of his Task Force Headquarters for deployment. He describes how he worked with the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) G1 to identify potential fillers for the unit, and...
In this interview MAJ Crawley relates some of the organizational difficulties he observed resulting from the reorganization of the 38th CAB's Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) into a modular aviation brigade headquarters prior to...
In this interview MAJ Spring Kivett discusses her 2007 deployment to Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division (ID) as part of the surge. Initially slated to deploy as the Information Operations (IO) plans officer MAJ Kivett was given the unique...
In this interview, LTC Matt Green, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployment to Iraq as Team Chief for Military Training Team (MiTT) in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). LTC Green discusses his experience witnessing car bombs and...
It would probably be best to state the first amendment which is the core directive for military and media relationships. 1ST Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or...