Since 11 September 2001, Americans have asked why America is hated by Arab Muslims. Analysts have offered a variety of explanations but few have identified the basis for this growing anti-American sentiment throughout the Arab Muslim world. This...
India faces formidable challenges in meeting its energy needs and providing adequate and varied energy of desired quality to users in a sustainable manner and at reasonable costs. With a population in excess of one billion, India needs economic...
Today, many analysts predict China’s growing economy and military strength will eventually create a peer competitor for the United States (US). Others fear China’s globally expanding influence will threaten US national security interests and...
Civil-military relations during President William J. Clinton's administration are often credited as being the least harmonious of any American president. It was frequently asserted that civil-military relations during the Clinton administration...
As the United States Army prepares for the 21st Century, few things are as certain as the tremendous influence that emerging technologies will have on military capability. The purpose of this monograph is to establish how you reconcile...
Proceeding from the means and ways they use to overcome the problems within their specific domains, the Army and Air Force have developed different operational perspectives. The differences would not matter if each conducted operations...
Transformation has all the Services reevaluating the way they think about warfare and more importantly, how they can best leverage technology, be strategically mobile and thus relevant to future operating environment. "Getting to the fight "...
In this document, the origin and different tribes of the Philippines are described, as well as home life, religion, life as a citizen, characteristic traits of the Tagalo and Visayas, the Chinese, Moros, Europeans, slavery, language, etc.
It is the responsibility of leaders to teach ethics. Leaders are to teach ethics whether they are competent or not. That leads to another responsibility that we are to educate ourselves as leaders so that we will be competent to teach ethics. Army...
In the wake of September 11, several countries shut down terrorist financial operations and sought to limit the direct flow of funds to terrorist groups through new legislation. This paper will explain anti-terrorism regulations in the United...
Cowan, Carlos; Garrison, John; Lloyd, Jackie; Matta, Julio; Aaron, Mark
Thesis: Maintaining an offensive posture is the best way to defend our nation and the world against terrorism. Islamic terrorists blew up the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. To commit this act of
terrorism, they used a car bomb. Their main...
This paper I will give an example of poor ethical leadership that is prevalent thought the U.S. Army. Leaderships is something that is very subjective. There are all types of leadership and there are many different styles of leaders. It does not...
Thesis: The need to establish a less cumbersome and more agile military can only be attain by a dramatic paradigm shift from our present force structure and configuration. The old way of doing things is antiquated and out of step with the current...
In the recent past foreign policy on security has become an important debate concerning the role played by the USA military regarding international military interventions or peacekeeping missions. Lots of conflicts which occurred in 1990s, for...
The reason for this paper is to discuss the importance of history for military professionals while also presenting the argument that we should always study history from more than one source because what we are taught is not always what is true....
Thesis Statement: The politicians responsible for deploying U.S. troops to a war zone with an inflexible, ambiguous mission statement, intelligence, and security, led to the death of 241 Marines in Beirut. Discussion: There were 241 lessons learned...
The Army has groomed and developed its Soldiers to make critical decisions in the absence of orders. The Army Values, instilled during Basic Training, are the foundation used when making a decision of right and wrong, or facing an Ethical Dilemma....
In this paper, the author contrasts two examples of a military force succeeding or failing in its effort to achieve cultural understanding as it conducted military operations. Several specific examples of a military organization succeeding or...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...