With the exception of Cuba, US-Latin American relations do not have the specter of Communist influence in the hemisphere distorting the thrust of foreign policy. What does remain is the threat of crises that endangers the viability of the fledgling...
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina smashed the Southern United States, President Bush ignited a national debate over the role of federal troops in domestic disaster response. This paper is of interest to those military leaders whose opinion Congress...
This monograph began as an investigation to determine if either Effects-Based Operations (EBO) or Systemic Operational Design (SOD) should replace the traditional Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP). It soon became clear that the approaches do...
This volume deals with the organization, armament, equipment, and employment of fixed, railway, and tractor drawn coast artillery, and with harbor defense searchlights.
"The recent development of materiel and the methods of employing it has made it necessary to revise our scheme of national defense, and accordingly the present approved Coast Defense Project calls for a positive defense against enemy landings on...
How should militaries think about social media as a factor in military operations? In this study I examine recent Arab Spring scholarship, with a particular focus on the significant impact of social media on events in Egypt in early 2011. Existing...
This monograph develops a framework for focusing military operations at an adversary's decision making processes by developing the concept of decision space, analyzing theories pertaining to decision making (specifically, Boyd's...
The following special questions are presented for consideration and recommendation by the Educational Advisory Board during its meeting at the General Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, beginning October 20, 1924. They include, in addition...
The purpose of this status report is to present a comprehensive status of all problems, studies and procedures relating to demobilization and postwar planning, as executed or supervised by the Special Planning Division, War Department Special...
The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E.O. 11652,...
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 10, 1930. This provisional manual deals with the employment of large units in both open and stabilized warfare. It is assumed that the enemy is equal in intelligence to ourselves and that he is as well armed,...
This provisional manual deals with the employment of large units in both open and stabilized warfare. It is assumed that the enemy is equal in intelligence to ourselves and that he is as well armed, trained, and supplied. This manual is intended as...
The Board was directed to prepare a plan for the postwar education of officers of the Army. The mission of the educational system for officers of the Army is to provide instruction which stimulates progress in the art of war, and which, together...
This study compares the American doctrine advantages and disadvantages of night attacks with doctrine of foreign militaries. Execution, application, and interpretation of the principles are discussed.
This monograph addresses the issue of Intervention Exit Strategies for U.S. Army forces. U.S Army forces are as of April 1999, involved in Peace Enforcement Operations in Bosnia. It is an open ended operation with no declared termination strategy....
Contains a request for additional students, notes on workload and projects which should not have been assigned to CGSC. It also includes information on programs that add to the workload and proposed program courses.
Issued with the following official number: C.4.M.4. 1931.IX [C.P.D.1(i)]. Minutes of the sixth session (second part) of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Transcripts of discussions, proposals, drafts, ammendments,...