A reservist with the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Colonel Doug Shipman was an advisor to two separate Iraqi divisions and to the Nineveh provincial police chief in 2004-2005. In this interview, he voices frustration at the information...
A US Army Reserve quartermaster officer assigned to 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment - an institutional training unit headquartered in Culpeper, Virginia - First Lieutenant Mitchell Wander was mobilized in May 2005, assigned to the 80th...
A veteran of two deployments to Iraq - during OIF I and OIF II - Major William Highberger was assigned first to Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, as a civil affairs Alpha Team leader in support of the 75th Ranger Regiment. After the...
An Active Guard Reserve soldier assigned to the 4-80th Chemical Training Battalion when he received orders sending him with the 80th Division (Institutional Training) on a military transition team (MiTT) to Sinjar, Iraq in 2005-2006, Sergeant First...
Após Fidel: qual será o futuro das relações entre os Estados Unidos e Cuba? Dra. Waltraud Queiser Morales; Apesar do fim da Guerra Fria duas décadas atrás e dos obstinados desafios em busca da segurança pós-11 de Setembro, quando os...
As officer in charge of the 101st Airborne Division Main in Iraq from March to May 2003, Major Susan Arnold - a JAG officer - was involved with targeting and rules of engagement issues during the major combat phase of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. After...
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...
Assigned as the first sergeant of Dragon Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment for two separate tours of duty in Iraq, Master Sergeant Daniel Hendrex, in this interview, provides detailed information on his and his unit's involvement in...
At the time he was mobilized for service in the Global War on Terrorism, First Lieutenant Karl Maier, an Army reservist, was serving as commander of Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, a training support battalion within the 80th...
Attached to the 10th Special Forces Group during two separate deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom - the first from March to May 2003 with 2nd Battalion, the second from January to June 2004 with 3rd Battalion - Major Steven Nosbisch...
Captain Jon M. Trolla served in two rotations as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). He first served six months at Camp Victory in Baghdad as a battle captain then served as the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) engineer for Task Force Freedom, a...
Cause for hope: economic revitalization in Iraq. Paul Brinkley, Deputy under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation; An interagency initiative, the Task Force for Business and Stabilization Operations is helping to quell insurgent...
COMMANDANT’S SUMMARY: In 2007, transformation proved to be the key for the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The Academy sought to continue transformation in the Noncommissioned Officer Education System, in the increased use of distance...
During the 101st Airborne Division fight from Kuwait to Baghdad in March and April 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Henry A. "Hank" Arnold served as officer in charge of the division's assault command post, responsible to the commanding general (CG) and...
First Lieutenant Jeremy Burke, a reservist from the 80th Division (Institutional Training), served on a military transition team (MiTT) in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Normally a company executive officer acting as a company commander, he...
First Sergeant Richard Gano Jr. is a 23-year Army veteran and was deployed from 16 November 2003 through 23 October 2004 as the first sergeant for Bravo Troop, 1-14 Cavalry, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Before deploying, he predicted that...
FM 3-0 Operations: the Army's blueprint. General William S. Wallace, U.S. Army; TRADOC's commander introduces the newest version of FM 3-0, Operations, the Army's guide to operating in the 21st century.
In command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, also known as the "Ready First" Brigade, COL Sean MacFarland, deployed his command from Central Germany to Iraq in March 2006. The Ready First Brigade assumed control of western Ninewah Province...
In the wake of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, T.E. Lawrence's description of counterinsurgency (COIN) analogous to "eating soup with a knife," has new meaning in our contemporary military. It describes our kinetic conventional army (the knife)...
In this first of three interviews, Major Kellie Rourke talks about serving as the intelligence officer in the 101st Airborne Division’s forward command post and as the intelligence officer for the 101st Aviation Brigade in Kuwait, Mosul and...