This photo album contains pictures of Yemen from April to July 1946. The black and white photographs vary in subject matter and include landscapes, people, soldiers, road and street scenes, camels resting, villages, members of the Special U.S....
From October 2005 through April 2006, Major Darren LoRé served as a mobile training team (MTT) leader in Yemen, assigned to train a Yemeni counterterrorist unit. He begins his interview by discussing the predeployment training he and his team...
Since the death of the Prophet Mohammad sectarian violence has existed in the Middle East. This monograph details the history of the Sunni - Shia split and explains the origins of the violence still present today. This conflict presents...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
This story happened when I was a corporal in my first squadron on Suqatra Island, Republic of Yemen. I learned how important NCOs not only for deployments but also for the mission itself. It was my obligation to let the process of elections keep...
This is a written report from Yemen during the stay of the Special Diplomatic Mission in 1946. It addresses topics like Yemeni philosophy, law enforcement, schools, libraries, qat, the Yemeni Army, succession to the throne, Seif el Islam Abdallah,...
Usama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, declared war on the United States in a statement issued in August 1996. With the words, "It is a duty now on every tribe in the Arab Peninsula to fight in the cause of Allah and to cleanse the land from...
This monograph examines the role of contemporary media, especially television, in the Middle East and the United States. The object is to highlight similarities and differences, with an eye to selective comparative analysis. To preclude voluminous...
This study examines how Saddam Hussein's past has shaped his political outlook and how he has used power to make that outlook a reality. His past is reviewed in terms of Iraq's social environment during his youth and his early political career to...