This study focused on testing a portion of Kelley and Thibaut's trust-building model. This model asserted that an individual could earn an attribution of dependability by: behaving cooperatively, sharing similar interests, and sharing...
Self-synchronization is an idea that comes directly from Network-Centric Warfare but its foundations lie in complexity theory and the ideas of self-organization and emergent behavior. In order to understand self-synchronization the basics of...
The United States Army can improve the quality of the officer corps by enhancing the understanding of how field-grade commanders are developed. The Army has produced some of the finest leaders in history. The leaders produced have been possible due...
This pamphlet is published as an interim publication pending the preparation of FM 22-10, Leadership, for the use of all agencies of the Army concerned with the subject of leadership. This pamphlet will be of assistance to those concerned with...
This pamphlet is published as an interim publication pending the preparation of FM 22-10, Leadership, for the use of all agencies of the Army concerned with the subject of leadership. This pamphlet will be of assistance to those concerned with...
The goal of all firing-battery training is fire discipline, which amounts to accuracy, speed and dependability, regardless of adverse conditions, in placing fire where called for and when.
In Vietnam, the U.S. Marines was aware of the characteristics of the enemy and knew how to fight the enemy while the U.S. Army did not.
Senior General Van Nguyen Giap led the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Vietnam War. Gen Giap’s...
Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History
In wars involving vast land masses in which the available manpower of a nation is severely taxed it may be expedient and necessary to use "volunteer" forces. It is gathered from this treatise that the basic mistake of the planners was that no...
This student paper studies the relationship between civil and military air transport agencies, past and present, and analyzes the future relationship that should obtain to effect maximum efficient utilization of all air transportation in event of a...
I was fortunate to have received great mentoring from a retired Sergeant Major during my Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp (JROTC) days in high school. He masterfully motivated all his students to define goals in life and taught us to adopt...
The purpose of this thesis is to determine if there is duplication of certain leadership instruction presented to Infantry Officer Basic Course students and if programmed instruction can be used to overcome the defect. Programmed instruction could...
The mission of the Artillery Combat Leader Battalion (ACLB) is to train selected personnel
as noncommissioned officers capable of performing leadership duties appropriate to
their grade and MOS in cannon artillery units in the Republic of Vietnam...
The Artillery Information Service has available for the location of new enemy batteries and for the identification of old ones (a) aerial observation by airplane, (b) aerial observation by captive balloons, (c) terrestrial observation by (1) the...