The United States Navy has always considered combating piracy a mission and responsibility under international law and tradition. Recently, the importance of this mission has increased markedly. There are two reasons for this. First, the increase...
The threat of biological warfare (BW) directed against our forces is greater today than at any other time in the history of modern warfare. This thesis represents the first attempt to answer the question 'What is an effective design for tactical...
Fatalities inflected by friendly fires on friendly forces are as old as warfare itself. In early 1964, the increased rate of accidental casualties became a matter of grave concern. To ensure continuing command attention and emphasis on this...
This study of military professionalism was conducted by the US Army War College at the direction of the Chief of Staff. The study began on 21 April 1970, and this report was submitted to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel on 30...
The purpose of this circular is to establish a uniform method of reporting the following categories of persons subject to military law, including all persons serving with or accompanying the United States Army in the field, in accordance with...
In the aftermath of the euphoria brought on by our military victory in the Persian Gulf War, is the realization that we still have much to learn. The Persian Gulf War appears to have validated the quality of U.S. doctrine, leadership and military...
The United States employed large numbers of military working dogs as sentries, scouts, trackers, and mine detectors in Vietnam. In mid-1968 an epizootic occurred which threatened the working dog program and led to 250 canine deaths. Military...
The monograph analyses the origins of the use of violence in the name of religion by the Salafist movement in Europe in order to enable identification of key characteristics to shape national strategies of prevention that are appropriate for...
The U.S. (U.S.) Government’s ability to influence friends and foes around the world has immense strategic implications that can either enhance U.S. strategic objectives or contribute to a loss of U.S. power. Nine years after the beginning of the...
From surveys of much of the existing literature on World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, the author has extracted examples of friendly fire involving U.S. ground forces and has categorized them according to types of...
This study examines the factors that cause or contribute to the overloading of dismounted combat soldiers in the Army of the 1990's. This examination considers the body of literature on the subject, primarily post-World War Two, to identify what...
Safety, efficacy, and legal concerns surrounded the Department of Defense (DoD) Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) in the early and mid-2000s. Production capacity, patient refusals, and legal injunctions limited vaccine delivery during...
This study investigates whether or not space Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) applies to 75th Ranger regimental operations when facing non-nation-state adversaries. IPB includes a process in which military commanders and staff...
This monograph investigates US Army potential to operate in a toxic urban environment. The monograph begins by demonstrating the increasing likelihood of urban operations precipitated by global urbanization. Joined with the rapidly growing...
This study is a General Staff analysis and record of the most important operational details of the XIX Corps' successful attack on and penetration through the "Siegfried Line". Topics include a description of the Siegfried Line, plans and...
This study examines a military need for research and development of a malaria vaccine from several aspects: (1) the documentation of the incidence of malaria and the resultant non effectiveness time experienced by American soldiers during two...
Economic and political trends over the last several years have combined to make available combat power a truly scarce resource in this nation, perhaps for the first time since World War II. The trend toward increasing resource constraints can be...
Conference subjects consist of communications, armored troop carriers, liaison planes, food preparation and distribution, mine detecting and disposal, supply replacement, supply means, clothing, body armor, training aids, and War Department...
The United States military, as with any professional organization that is dedicated to be successful must reshape, restructure, reorganized, and transform in order to remain effective. The rationale and dynamic forces behind the initiation of...
After the end of each major conflict in which Unites States military forces have been involved, the U.S. government has significantly down-sized military manpower, funding and equipment, first due to public fear of a large standing army, then as a...