"Procedure words, commonly referred to as prowordsl, are the simplest elements of a radio operator's language. They consist of a word or a combination of words, each with a definite menaing, intended to expedite the operaiton and control of a...
The US needs a strategic partner in Asia to promote both regional stability and the security of the US homeland and to prevent the rise in the influence of a powerful Asian state from opposing US interests. Therefore, one must have a better...
This study analyzes the theories of Pragmatic Communications, Cybernetics, and Perturbation under the framework of the Pragmatic Complexity Model to illustrate how two Presidential administrations beginning in the 20th and 21st centuries used 'new...
Army operational doctrine addresses the range of full spectrum operations across the spectrum of conflict. Full spectrum operations include offensive, defensive, stability, and support operations. Missions in any environment require Army forces who...
Civil Information Management Systems (CIMS) are emerging as a resource which allows commanders to build a Common Operational Picture (COP) upon which to base their operational planning and execution. Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) are a type...
"The pamphel presents a course in Radio Operating Procedure (Voice) in general and as applied to procedure with SCR 194 specifically. The principles of voice procedures are the same for all radio sets employing voice communications."
This thesis explores a possible model to help predict the participation of countries in coalitions aimed at military interventions. The model is composed of six factors drawn from modern political science and international relations theories, as...
This monograph sets out to prove that Geoffrey Blainey's theory about a disagreement over relative power between nations explains the causes of the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991. Blainey describes the diplomatic crisis leading to war 'like a crisis...
With information technologies increasingly shaping the environment in which U.S. military forces operate, Joint Vision 2020 and other recent DoD literature highlight the fundamental importance of achieving "decision superiority "--essentially, ...
This paper attempts to develop a coherent group of previously uncodified basic concepts, military communications principles, to provide qualitative theoretical linkage in support of the tenets of U.S. AirLand Battle Doctrine. Further, the proposed...
This monograph studies the challenges facing the U.S. Navy in 2009. It is principally an historical study that attempts to draw a parallel between today's strategic environment and past environments. The historical analysis focuses on past maritime...
The current inter-agency doctrinal tools to integrate the decision-sharing elements of battle command at the operational level for defense support to civil authority operations are inadequate under conditions of extremely degraded communications....
As with a local insurgency, the Global War on Terror requires the US and her allies to win the support of neutral, wavering and hostile audiences in addition to defeating an enemy. At the tactical and operational levels of war, those audiences...
The strategic and operational environment in which the United States military will operate in for the foreseeable future is characterized by its complexity. Historically the United States military has taken a linear approach to understanding the...
The United States Army can improve the quality of the officer corps by enhancing the understanding of how field-grade commanders are developed. The Army has produced some of the finest leaders in history. The leaders produced have been possible due...
For this Civil Affairs document, three main sections include the Bismarckian Empire (1871-1918), the Weimar Republic (revolution and the new array of forces, period of consolidation, and the end of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's rise to power),...
This manual implements AFPD 11-2, Flight Rules and Procedures. As a Joint Departmental Publication (JDP), it identifies the Air Force as executive agent for the DoD NOTAM System; describes the system and its relation to the Federal Aviation...
Regulation prescribes policies, operating tasks, and steps governing the Official Military Personnel File; the Military Personnel Records Jacket; the Career Management Individual File; Army Personnel Qualifications Records and Military Personnel...
This thesis is a comprehensive study of tactical voice communications traffic engineering. It proposes an outlined traffic engineering procedure to configure the field army common user voice network as efficiently as requirements and limited assets...
This monograph examines the need to retool the military decision making process (MDMP) as the U.S. Army transforms to the future force. Although the MDMP is the current doctrinal framework to decision making and planning at the tactical levels, it...