Turkish Culture had a profound influence on the conduct of its counter-insurgency campaign against the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). The independent variables shaping Turkey’s response to the insurgency were a unique brand of nationalism,...
The purpose of this paper is to describe the manner in which The Engineer Service of First Army provided the engineer support necessary to assault successfully the Normandy beaches, and to move the Army across France, Belgium and Germany to the...
The title of this study affords only an approximate indication of its scope. It is a historical and critical description of a German organization, the Army Administration, which had no exact counterpart in any of the Allied armies. In addition to...
The response of U.S. foreign policy to the volatile rise of global jihadism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks has been sweeping and multifaceted. One key pillar of U.S. strategic response has been the active promotion of Western representative...
The need for security assistance through coalitions and logistics remains important for achieving success in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and in the US Government’s (USG’s) promotion of democracy. Coalition or international logistics are...
The purpose of this monograph is to recommend the inclusion of "warlords" into United States military doctrine by defining the nature of a warlord, and by applying historical insights into a conceptual framework through which military leaders may...
Part two is titled "Period of the Tunisian, Sicilian, and South Italian campaigns" (December 1942 to December 1943). Topics include information about supply staff organizations, transportation staff organizations, finance staff organizations, and...
To relate how Joint Task Force Seven assembled, organized, and dircted the components of this effort--in short, how Operation Redwing became a reality, is the purpose of this account.
This thesis examines how the Iroquois Confederacy dealt with the centrifugal and centripetal forces it experienced in its over 300 year existence. Chapter 1 outlines an overall introduction to the subject. It also shows how important both...
The work achieved by Marshal Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934) in Morocco between 1912 and 1925, while he served as the résident général, occupies a special place in French military history. Lyautey's work still applies today, and is...
A history of the American Revolution documented from letters written to and by George Washington and other general officers, ministers of Congress, and others in public stations.
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 thesis aims to analyze the insurgency in Ukraine, organized shortly before WWII and led by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during WWI and in the years immediately after WWII. The main goal of this analysis is to determine if...
Current Navy transformation is largely characterized by technology associated with Network Centric Warfare or NCW. New technologies and systems, however, often fail to live up to promised potential due to organizational resistance. The research...
The militant Lebanese Shia Group Hezbollah (Party of God) has evolved into the largest and most professional terrorist groups in the Middle East. The political wing has been successful at placing several representatives in the Lebanese Parliament...
The U.S. intervention in Cuba in 1906, commonly referred to as the Second Intervention, began on September 28, 1906 with the resignation of the Cuban president and his cabinet and ended on January 28, 1909 when the U.S. relinquished control of the...
This is a study of the present puppet government in the Philippines. The origins of the government, the constitutional basis upon which it rests, the structural outlines of the Office of President, of the Assembly, and of the Judiciary, the conduct...
General Marshall has stated that a knowledge of the causes and the events leading up to the present war and of the principles for which we are fighting "is an indispensable part of military training and merits the thoughtful consideration of every...
General Headquarters, United States Army Forces, Pacific
U.S. military activities in Korea included political, economic, and social involvement. In the political spectrum, government, legalities, and public safety are described. Economic topics included natural resources, commerce and industry, and...