Does third party military intervention help or hurt an incumbent government during an insurgency? This study attempts to answer this question by testing prevailing military theories of counterinsurgency in the context of third party intervention...
In the first half of the twenty-first century, China represents perhaps the most critical and complex factor affecting the national security interests of the United States. China’s rapidly rising economic and military power coupled with its...
Military transformation is necessary to keep pace with the ever-changing world and operational environment. To ensure decisive victory in combat, the United States must keep pace with what is happening in the world and be ready to meet both the...
In today's increasingly fiscally conscious environment, the Department of Defense must examine new ways of executing existing missions more efficiently. Given the basic core commonality of installation management functions within the current...
The military, while constant, experienced significant reorganization during the past several years. Equipment, tactics, response capabilities, and overall missions realigned to fight a new and emerging threat, terrorism. While the cold-war error...
The challenges of full spectrum operations in a future contemporary operational environment have led to the ever-increasing empowerment of the American Noncommissioned Officer over time. Due to the shift in the Army’s operational concept,...
Ever since the noncommissioned officer (NCO) corps was established in the Continental Army in 1775, the role of the American NCO has continued to expand and take on greater responsibilities. This is especially true since September 11, 2001. This...
The succession of rapid, long duration deployments has eroded the quality of NCO leadership within the United States Army. The United States Army Non Commissioned Officer Corps has always been considered the “back bone” of Army leadership. The...
The Iraqi Afghanistan war and Vietnam has a lot of parallels that make them similar in nature. The purpose of this paper is to examine these parallels and outline them in order to shed light on what they are and the lessons learned from Vietnam. As...
The American noncommissioned officer (NCO) is empowered in the contemporary force
due to changes in operational necessity, advancements in technology, and pay and incentive
enhancements. The responsibilities of the American NCO has gone from...
The events that took place on the Korean peninsula, north of the Imjin River in the late sixties went virtually unnoticed by the western world. After the cease-fire was declared in 1953, bringing about the end to the three years of armed conflict...
Peacekeeping operations differ from military operations in that the international community is much more involved and resolutions from the United Nations are usually created and followed. Large multi-National forces may or may not be commanded by...
Many of the historical highlights of the United States are connected in one way or another to military conflict. Most of those are well documented, detailing what decisions were made by whom and what resulted from the decision. Some of those...
Throughout history, Armies have used Noncommissioned Officers in critical roles. In some cases, the NCO role is limited, requiring the individual to enforce orders and carry out missions exactly as assigned with little encouragement or allowance...
Although there are credible threats to the United States Global Positioning System (GPS), sustainment of the constellation remains the greatest challenge. As GPS satellites reach the end of their operational life cycle, there is a risk the United...
The United States (U.S.) faces threats from non-states, including terrorist organizations and piracy in the Horn of Africa, all of which are quite different from the super-power threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The U.S....
Faced with geo-political dynamics which were temporarily suppressed during the Cold War, Europeans are again witnessing the confluence of economic instability, ethnic and religious tension, empowerment of a resurgent and influential Germany, and...
This monograph assesses the feasibility of providing tactical units of the U.S. Army’s objective force with specific missions other than conventional combat roles. 2002 information pertaining to the objective force only address conventional...
Coercion theory is traditionally segmented into compellence and deterrence. Recently
theorists have begun to consider coercion comprehensively. This monograph continues that line
of study and defines coercion as the threat of, or use of, elements...
Artillery has gone through two previous evolutions in employment methodology. The first, starting in 1670, saw it evolve from primarily a siege engine, to a precision mobile direct fire support platform. The second evolution in methodology began in...