The U.S. Army has taken cues from those within and outside of the military profession to focus more effort toward understanding culture and its impacts on operations. The institutional Army has consequently committed resources toward incorporating...
The project examined the necessity, and value in assigning knowledge management officers to Army tactical units. Ancillary, supporting research, focused on decision-making, battle command and Army knowledge management. A qualitative methodology,...
The Command and General Staff College endeavors to instill critical thinking as a skill practiced by its graduates. To this end the college has introduced the concept of critical thinking as a class within the core curriculum. Students must take a...
The United States Army presently receives weather forecasts expressed in categorical terms. However, this forecast form limits the useful information that can be communicated to the decision maker. This study investigates the utility of replacing...
The dominance of the U.S. Army’s conventional capabilities has forced our adversaries to generate asymmetric techniques in order to marginalize our advantages. One technique they may pursue is to target our extensive use of information...
This study examines how the American army trained and developed its company-level leaders during the First World War. It highlights the prewar army’s concepts of leadership and explains the limitations of the army’s system for selecting and...
This monograph discusses the implications of learning organization theory on leadership, primarily at the operational level. Learning organization theory is a popular methodology for enhancing the operations of complex organizations. Of particular...
This monograph studies how a theater commander communicates his vision and intent throughout a complex, diverse, multilayered, and multicultural organization. The monograph first focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of communications in large...
Colombia's future hangs in the balance with dire implications for Latin America and U.S. national interests. After almost forty-five years of existential conflict, Colombia has the opportunity to be a peaceful and stable country, which is essential...
The ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that future conflicts may be fought in multiple domains and consist of many interconnected systems. As such, Army officers must possess a firm understanding of their operational environment...
This monograph argues that the idea of nested concepts is an inviolate principle which will be even more critical on the future battlefield. The primary research question is: will the future battlefield's environment still require nested concepts...
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the six dynamics of command; leadership, decision making, information assimilation, visualization, conceptualization, and communication. The primary research question is: Are the dynamics of command...
AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces; Williams, Howard D.
This history of basic military training in the AAF covers the six years from January 1, 1939 to December 31, 1944. The first chapter shows the peacetime accumulation of experience in planning, administration, training, and activation of replacement...
With the ongoing war on terror and the media having more and more unlimited access to interview individual soldiers and their units, an occasion which not long ago was an event unheard of. With this phenomena unfolding right before our own eyes as...
All five services need to study to become effective leaders and prepare better for combat by understanding the basic principles in combat. To be a well rounded leader you must have a plush tool box of experience to choose from when dealing with...
Through-out the history of the U.S. Army we hear many stories of heroic figures and their actions. But ask your fellow Soldiers to name a few heroic Non-Commissioned Officers through-out history. The response will likely be slow in coming.
When we...
As the G6 Sergeant Major for the 143d Expeditionary Sustainment Command, I faced many leadership challenges when we deployed to Afghanistan during 2009. I had to recruit and train additional personnel in order to meet the personnel requirement of...
This monograph analyzes and compares all four periods of enemy offensive activities which lasted well into 1969. Seeking to present the Vietnamese point of view, it assesses enemy and friendly strategies, the reactions and combat performance of the...
Discussion on importance of proper military transportation including plans, units, staffing, staff duties, types of transportation, transport of wounded, transport by rail, sea, and animal, with a review of transport in former British wars.
While working as the Phoenix, Arizona area commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Los Angeles District, Major James DeLapp deployed to Iraq and served from May to November 2004 as the operations officer for the Corps' Camp Victory...