Since 2001, U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft have flown combat sorties with abnormally high flight durations while participating in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. These longer sortie durations have added previously unanticipated...
This monograph investigates Khalid Bin Waleed's seventh century (AD 633-634) campaign against the Sassanid Persian Empire in Mesopotamia to trace the evidence that substantiates application of modern characteristics of operational art. The question...
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 monograph discusses the United States Army's force generation posture in regards to contingency operations in an immature operational theater. It seeks to determine if the Army's current force generation system is adequate to support force...
The United States is now in the eighth year of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). For America, the war began with the surprise attacks against targets in Washington D.C. and New York City on September 11, 2001. For al Qaeda, the war began centuries...
In many respects, America’s military, economic and diplomatic situation in 1991 resembled Great Britain’s in 1919. Rather than reduce global commitments, the end of the Cold War saw an increase in a number of global interests, many which would...
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations
This report examines officer in-residence professional military education (PME) as a critical investment in the most important element of our military -- people. The primary purpose of PME is to develop military officers, throughout their careers,...
After accumulating mishap data from the 1990's, accident investigations are revealing that pilot error causes approximately 80% of aviation mishaps. But, apply a bit more aggressive critical analysis into the type of human errors occurring...
PURPOSE. "This regulation prescribes policies and procedures relating to the : Military Pay Administration Quality Assurance Program,
hereinafter referred to as the " Quality Assurance Program," or "this program," in implementation of AR:11-37.
G-1 plans for the Luzon Campaign were formulated while the Leyte Operation was still in progress and incorporated lessons learned from experience gained during the latter operation. Conferences were held by the Army G-1 with the G-1's of the major...
The mission of the Artillery Combat Leader Battalion (ACLB) is to train selected personnel
as noncommissioned officers capable of performing leadership duties appropriate to
their grade and MOS in cannon artillery units in the Republic of Vietnam...
This pamphlet deals with the tactical functions of field artillery commanders, the tactical disposition and maneuver of field artillery units, and the tactical application of field artillery fire. The principles of employment of artillery in the...
We of the Artillery Hunt are looking forward to the opportunity to welcome you to the 1973 Artillery Hunt Horse Show. Our show has been awarded a Star Rating, by the American Horse Shows Association, for the past four years.
"The efficient employment of Field Artillery is predicated upon three equally important factors: Mobility, the ability to deliver timely and effective fires, and signal communication. This memorandum, which deals with the later, discusses in...