This study examines tactical deception capabilities in the U.S. Army. The research question asks, “what should be the capabilities of the heavy division in Europe to perform tactical deception in defensive operations?” The study first analyzes...
This paper discusses the nature of war and warfare. It contends that unclear policy objectives and a lack of strategy contributed to strategic defeats in Vietnam and Somalia despite tactical successes. This was in part the result of a tendency to...
This monograph analyzes the use of deception by the Germans and Soviets in the battle of Kursk. It uses a paradigm consisting of: commander's aim, intelligence, centralized control, synchronization and operations security to determine why Soviet...
Controlling the population in any counterinsurgency is critical to the success of the counterinsurgent. Three historical theorists, Sir Robert Thompson, David Galula, and Robert Trinquier all agree on this pertinent issue. Success in Malaya hinged...
Planning and executing deliberate deception is critical to an Army unit's success on today's battlefield as well as the battlefield of the future, Informational Warfare makes the concept of obscuration or concealment of tactical operations...
This monograph discusses whether U. S. Army operational commanders are still susceptible to surprise. The principle of surprise remains an important consideration for campaign planners. Operations Just Cause and Desert Storm relied heavily on...
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...
The introduction briefly relates the background and need for the practical analysis of combat power. A review of doctrine highlights a lack of practical "how to" for the analysis of combat power. The monograph reviews the Force-Ratio method and...
This study examined what U.S. Army heavy brigades should accomplish when conducting reconnaissance during offensive operations, what they actually accomplish, and why there is a shortfall. Doctrinal literature from the capstone how to manual FM...
The purpose of this monograph is to answer the question of what lessons over the past ten years of US air operations have foreign militaries integrated into their doctrine and organization to counter US air dominance. By examining the air campaigns...
This monograph examines the adequacy of current jungle and infantry doctrine in addressing the conduct of night operations in a jungle environment. Daytime jungle operations already have much in common with night operations in general due to the...
This monograph answers the question "What is the operational significance of the employment of fortified regions for NATO and the United States?". The background for the reintroduction of fortified regions into the Soviet force structure of the...
Is the nature of winning at the operational level different than that of the tactical level? The author explores this question and determines that there is a fundamental difference that cannot be explained by the combat power model presented in FM...
This monograph examines operational level logistics and deception in an effort to determine whether a coherent deception plan can be formulated undergirded by creative logistical arrangements that will allow the commander to deceive an alert...
In the years since WWII the subject of deception has received scant attention in the U.S. Army when compared to other subjects relating to warfighting. Consequently our doctrine for deception lags behind other developments, especially at the...
This monograph is a doctrinal and historical analysis of river crossings by the United States and the Soviet Union. Initially, there is a discussion of the impact of AirLand Battle doctrine has on river crossings which concludes that the hasty...
"The greater our knowledge and understanding of the Communist theory of insurgency -as they themselves see it -the greater the probability of our ultimate victory." This document discusses the following topics: modern insurgency- the new tactic of...
This study investigates the doctrine of command and control warfare at the tactical level of war and examines whether or not this doctrine is an appropriate activity for Army corps. The work examines the concept of command and control warfare, the...