This document focuses on German Christianity and churches under the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), churches under the Nazi regime (1933-1945), church finances, religious education, the clergy, and ecclesiastical statistics.
MAJ Tony Alvarado served as an air battle manager with the US Air Force (USAF) in Iraq during 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this November 2010 interview, MAJ Alvarado discusses some of the differences between the way the US...
In a constantly changing world threatened by ever increasing terrorist acts, American interests, both at home and abroad, require protection provided by great military leaders. In order to produce military leaders who can successfully meet the...
Organized religion has played a significant role in warfare throughout history. From the time Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt into the new Promised Land until 2001 and the undertaking of the Global War on Terrorism, religion in one form or...
This monograph examines the new logistics concepts proposed by the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) to support brigade size and smaller maneuver units. It focuses the analysis on the changes proposed for the support platoons of...
The U.S. Army, after years of false starts and unfilled promises, is about to make good on its commitment to field an unmanned aerial vehicle system at the maneuver brigade level. Called the Shadow 200 tactical UAV (TUAV), it promises to...
As America's collective memory of the Second World War fades, popular history books and the entertainment industry have filled the knowledge gap with accounts from the European Theater. A resurgence in works focusing on the war in the Pacific has...
I would like to submit a couple of ethical thoughts or maybe questions on a subject that makes everyone a bit uncomfortable when brought up in a discussion amongst our fellow brethren homosexuals in the military. The Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy...
Muslim immigrants in the United States share the same characteristics as any other immigrant group coming to America looking for a chance at prosperity. Immigrants form close communities, maintain many of their customs and cultural ties to their...
History of the training of Army Chaplains prior to and during World War II. The addition of numerous chaplains who were National Guard or Reserve required courses in military training and techniques. Presented in 2 volumes, Volume I - to December...
In 1964, United States Army Green Berets were heavily engaged in combat in South Vietnam. They were also involved in the training and employment of Montagnard forces in combat. One of the groups was the Montagnard people. The Montagnards are a...
The year is 1982; the time is 3:00am and another hot muggy morning in South Carolina. The bus has no air conditioning; I am seating in the front right seat next to a bolted window so you cannot slide it up or down. The drivers’ windshield has a...
This Occasional Paper will examine the almost continual efforts of British and Indian soldiers (both regular and irregular) to combat and pacify the Pashtun tribes of the North-West Frontier. It will also examine the tactics employed in the various...
This monograph is an analysis and evaluation of Major General Nathanael Greene’s implementation of compound warfare in the Southern Department from December 1780 until the British surrender at Yorktown in October 1781. Major General Greene was...
Since the beginning of the Republic, various forms of millennial religious doctrines, of which dispensational pre-millennialism is the most recent, have shaped U.S. national security strategy. As the dominant form of millennialism in the U.S....
The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the arrival of a new way of war, as Germany's blitzkrieg had done at the beginning of World War II. But the initial victory soon devolved...
Dr. Thomas H. Henriksen in this publication provides a perspective on the challenging question, "Is leaving the Middle East a Viable Option?" He lays out a convincing argument that historical involvement within the region based on commercial ties,...
In this interview MAJ Mills discusses his deployment to OIF in 2004 as the S2 for 2-7 CAV, 3rd BCT. MAJ Mills goes through the processes that he and his S2 section went through in order to prepare for deployment, deploy, and successfully maintain...
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...