This monograph explores the current debates surrounding "hollow forces" and the decrease in the defense budget following prolonged conflict. Leaders' strategic choices, which lead to decreasing resources, sometimes create the perception of hollow...
In our lives, we come across situations on a daily basis that forces us to make choices. The choices we make, whether right, wrong good or bad has a positive or negative impact on our careers, units, our country, and sometimes our families. Ethics...
Within the literature on Systemic Operational Design, discourse is generally treated as a mechanical communicative process. The monograph presents alternative ways to consider discourse, the implications of this for theory of Systemic Operational...
The Military Whistle Blowers Protection Act and how the Army Values plays a role in a unit’s behavior has an overall affect on combat readiness. Investigations of several cases that were brought to light after violations occurred during combat...
The contemporary operating environment and recent increases in asymmetric tactics to counter the conventional military superiority of the U.S. presents significant operational challenges. Recovery forces are vulnerable conducting personnel recovery...
Ethical failures during the current era of persistent conflict have had significant operational costs. To minimize the effects of these operational costs, leaders must morally asses their forces and strive to implement programs to minimize future...
America's credentials around the world is our ability to be ethical. America's actions are watched, observed and reported and, when American Soldiers fail to be ethical, American Soldiers become no different than the foe we are fighting. Murder of...
Although the integration of Blacks into the Army is a success story worth emulating, U.S. Army statistics indicate that Blacks do not participate evenly across officer career fields. In particular, Blacks are under-represented among the combat...
The following monograph is a circumscribed look at the effects of air power on achieving political objectives. It is no way intended to be a commentary on the relative bravery of airmen compared to soldiers and sailors or an attempt to justify...
Recent years have seen the US, UK and other ISAF and Coalition nations enmeshed in protracted, complex and intense campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Resilient and highly adaptable opponents have operated asymmetrically, and amongst the people, to...
The primary role of Army leaders is to promote good order and discipline within their organizations, units, section, teams, and squads. Leaders must be able to develop strategies, establish problem solving principles and techniques. Leaders must...
Forward by Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, Retired: Leaders face enigmatic challenges within our increasingly complex world of international affairs. Foremost among them for the US government is determining how senior officials--policy makers and...
This study investigates the best method for developing character and aligning personal and organizational values in the United States Coast Guard. All five of the military services embarked on comprehensive efforts to develop character and teach...
The United States and its allies depend heavily on energy for their way of life and key capabilities in warfare. The current energy system has served us well for nearly 100 years, but is now shifting out of our favor and is creating strategic...
Every day in the Army, Soldiers and leaders make tough choices. Sometimes the choices are black and white and it is easy to make. Other times the choices might not be that easy to make. A lot of time those hard choices are in the gray area. That is...
This paper seeks to explain what constitutes good ethics and competent leadership. It also shows how an unethical practice causes ethical dilemmas. It contains my explanation about ethics, the importance of today's military leaders, the army...
Increases in deployments place Soldiers in ethical dilemmas more often which contributes to higher numbers of noted cases on ethical abuses. I believe the ethical problems facing the Army today is consistent with the ones faced throughout recent...
Starting in 1991, a consortium of criminologists, social psychologists, and law school professors began researching how jurors in capital cases come to their decisions. This body of work, called the Capital Jury Project (CJP), found several trends...
The purpose of this monograph is to answer the question: Can the Army increase its strategic responsiveness in order to narrow the current gap between Army capabilities and requirements? To arrive at an answer, this paper begins by examining...
The central question of this study is whether the U.S. Army provides adequate training for Special Forces soldiers to make ethical decisions on the battlefield. The value of this study is that it may have an impact on future Special Forces...