Thesis Statement: Asymmetric warfare changes the way we fight and the roles of the noncommissioned officers. Abstract: The advance technologies, growth of transnational threats, and globalization have affected the world of peace. Noncommissioned...
The United States today finds itself in an era of persistent irregular conflict, the root cause of which may be illegitimate governance within failed or failing states. The resulting instability will likely require future U.S. military and civilian...
From the birth of the noncommissioned officer in 1775 during the rise of the Continental Army, the role of the noncommissioned officer has continued to evolve. Friedrich von Steuben was the first officer to truly understand the importance of...
Rule of law is in force when an individual is secure in their own person and property, the state is bound to law, and human rights and fundamental freedoms are protected by the state. Rule of law doctrine for the United States Army is in its...
This study investigates the science of change management and seeks to discover how well the Army handles the process of leading and managing change. Using John Kotter's eight step process for change management (CM) as a benchmark model, this...
Many important factors have led to the ever-increasing responsibilities of the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) over the years. We can examine many different reasons for this and the consequences of these shifts in some cases have caused drastic...
Strategic communication is a relatively new and currently evolving concept in the U.S. military, and it is currently not widely understood what role, if any, leaders at the tactical level have in it. In order to determine what role tactical-level...
In an age predominated by states but rife with non-state actors, failing states, increasingly fluid boundaries, disenfranchised yet interconnected populations, and increasingly self-aware cultures, the United States must develop a foreign policy...
Social media has become an additional element within the operational environment within which nearly anyone with an Internet connection can participate. The speed at which participants can add content, truthful or not, to that battle space has...
Despite the complexity of the Contemporary Operating Environment, the United States is still wedded to a national security system created in 1947. The United States places itself in jeopardy by using a system created at the end of World War II for...
The status of American culture in the year 2000 indicates a liberalized change in attitude toward lesbians and gays, particularly in the area of military service. However, the military is staunchly opposed to full inclusion of known lesbians and...
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...
Organizational transformations are inherently difficult to achieve in any public or private sector. As such, there has been a significant body of writing developed primarily in business and the military as to how to achieve successful...
Today's Army is undergoing significant change, completing its modular transformation and adopting mission command as a war fighting function in an effort to meet the needs of a constantly adapting enemy and uncertain environment. Mission command is...
Thirteen individuals were killed and thirty-two individuals were injured in the Fort Hood shooting. The U.S. Army bearing the wound left a nation questioning how one of their own military members could be accused of such catastrophic events. In the...
General Laurence S. Kuter served as both an operational planner and commander during the Second World War. As a planner, he co-authored Air War Plans Division Plan 1 (AWPD-1); the basic strategy upon which the United States Army Air Forces waged...
The American Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) has performed in important positions since the Army was created. While the NCO has performed highly in every aspect, they have not been acknowledged for their leadership skills on the battlefield like the...
The three most important factors that have led to the ever-increasing empowerment of the American noncommissioned officer over time are: regulations, modernization, and education.
The journey has not been a smooth one however, many obstacles have...
This research sought to determine the degree to John P. Kotter's 1996 model of Leading Change for transforming businesses could be applied to the Army's current Transformation initiative. The research used three historical examples--Ridgway's...
This time period in American history was vital to the American NCO’s
advancement in the military. The American NCOs would prepare themselves to face the
ever increasingly challenge to take responsibilities at higher levels during battle....