The purpose of this monograph is to determine if the Army missed an opportunity to reduce a level of command as a part of Army Transformation. This monograph demonstrates that the Army failed to maximize Transformation and reduce a level of command...
Is there a better way to organize staffs in operational headquarters based on their roles? Following 9/11 in the ensuing Global War on Terror, the sizes of divisions and corps serving as operational headquarters have doubled and tripled,...
The current budgetary constraint on the Department of Defense only exacerbates the increasing concern over long term officer professional development in this era of persistent conflict. Looming budget shortfalls are forcing the Army to reduce...
Security force assistance operations: defining the advise and assist brigade. COL Philip Battaglia, U.S. Army, and LT COL Curtis Taylor, U.S. Army; In security force assistance operations, the only real way to measure success is by the quality of...
In December 2006 following the events of 9/11, the United States Chief of Staff General Perter Shoomaker testified before Congress on the importance and sweep of Army transformation. Since World War 11, our Army has been one of the most significant...
The transformation of Army Public Affairs has improved its efficiency in the operational environment. The evolution of Army Public Affairs since World War One has been dramatic. Due to transformation, the Army is manning Brigade Combat Teams with...
The Army Transformation Plan (ATP) is designed to increase the Army’s war-fighting capabilities by making it a joint and expeditionary ready force. The goal of the ATP is to maintain ready current and future forces and provide organization,...
Although the Army understands and recognizes the need for change and transformation, throughout history the Army has made significant efforts to change in the midst of war. The current Global War on Terrorism is not the exception as evidenced in...
The recent publication of the Army Operating Concept 2016-2028 (AOC) and the Future Concept for Fires (FCF) conceptualizes doctrine for the Fires War Fighting Function (WFF). These documents introduced the concepts of Combined Arms Maneuver (CAM)...
Army commanders on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan lead their forces using a computer-enhanced communications network allowing them to stay connected with dispersed elements and maintain a high level of situation awareness (SA) of their...
The purpose of this monograph is to analyze the employment of fires brigades (FiB) in the global war on terror and determine if fires brigades are being utilized fully and in their doctrinal role. The US Army developed FiBs to replace the previous...
The United States Army is currently at a major crossroads with respect to training. Experiences from the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the introduction of Army Field Manual 3-0, Operations, and its equal importance placed on offensive...
Policy and doctrine require the U.S. Army to provide certain capabilities during the conduct of stability operations. The Department of Defense now considers stability operations as critical to success as offensive and defensive operations....
Should the US Army allocate an Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP) graduate to the Brigade Combat Team’s plans cell in light of a decade of doctrinal changes and modularity? This monograph analyzes a decade’s worth of change in the US...
Much has changed in the U.S. Army over the last decade. Transforming to a modular, brigade-centric force included a transition of operating concepts as well. Just as ground maneuver brigades transformed to be more versatile, adaptable, agile,...
The Infantry Squad: Decisive Force Now and in the Future. Major General Robert B. Brown, U.S. Army; The U.S. Army dismounted infantry maneuver squad is today's most decisive force on the battlefield, yet it lacks access to capabilities it needs to...
Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template. Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason, America lost in Vietnam because of a failure to establish legitimacy and the inability to protect the people from insurgents. The same failures...
The current U.S. Army Transformation process has experienced several changes due to operational commitments in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and different perceptions about required military capabilities among political and military authorities....
FM 90-26, Airborne Operations, states, "The strategic mobility of airborne forces permits rapid employment to meet contingencies across the operational continuum anywhere in the world." Arguably, the strategic mobility of the United States Army...