The look into the battle of Kasserine Pass; Where the U.S. Army suffered heavy losses due an inept commander, poor equipment, and training. The Kasserine pass battle in Tunisia was described as when the Amateurs first met the professionals....
This monograph discusses the planning and execution of the 1944 Ardennes campaign, analyzes the reasons for Allied success and German failure, and based on that analysis examines the validity of certain theoretical concepts relating to the practice...
It seems that most of today’s Soldiers have a lack of interest in military history. Have we as leaders failed to impress upon them the importance of the past and the lessons learned? Has today’s op-tempo in keeping up with current operations...
Propaganda and disinformation characterized indispensable components of nineteenth and twentieth century warfare. Examples such as Leni Riefenstahl's “Triumph of the Will” or Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” series made no attempt to honestly...
Thesis Statement: The politicians responsible for deploying U.S. troops to a war zone with an inflexible, ambiguous mission statement, intelligence, and security, led to the death of 241 Marines in Beirut. Discussion: There were 241 lessons learned...
The first major battle of WWII (Kasserine Pass) and the Korean War (Battle of Osan [Task Force
Smith]), resulted in costly and embarrassing defeats for the U.S. military. Poor leadership at all
levels accounted for the lack of military readiness...
What causes a large group to operate in an efficient, effective, innovative manner? Is it the way it is organized, its executive structure, its mechanisms for gathering and disseminating information, its internal communications, its analytic...
This monograph is essentially a treatment of the manpower aspects of military mobilization. Its primary objective is to provide a more comprehensive record of military mobilizations in the United States for the use of General Staff officers and...
This thesis compares and contrasts the field artillery corps of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee. The purpose is to determine which field artillery corps was more effective on the battlefield and why. To answer this question...
The beginning of the 20th century marked a departure point for the United States (U.S.) in several ways. Technological and scientific advances that would continue to influence the U.S. for decades occurred with seeming regularity. For the citizens...
The purpose of this study is to identify relationships between Nazi Macroeconomic policy and its ability to enable genocide. This study uses primary source documentation from newspapers, historical documents and published works to examine Nazi...
Crane Brinton's analysis of popular revolutions offers the strategic and operational planner a valid model for checking the consistency of ends, ways and means, for campaign plans. As a planning tool, Brinton's model fills a gap in FM 100-20, which...
This monograph analyzes the Iran-Iraq War from its inception in September of 1980 through the Iranian Faw Counteroffensive of February 1986. It uses the precepts of operational art to examine the performance of the belligerents in this prolonged...
When major combat operations come to a close, decisive action is paramount. Without deliberate action in subsequent stability operations, there is risk of marginalizing previous victories. Expeditionary economic theory offers a solution for...
Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, the United States has embarked upon many military operations that were not bound by the traditional framework of revolution or insurgency. States formerly held together by the political logic and financial...
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE has become a lightning rod sparking strong debate within the US military. The debate revolves around the subject of decisive military action and which branch of service most contributed to the successful campaign in Kosovo....
This student paper seeks to study, analyze and make recommendations on the assigning, training, and specialized technical test pilots required by the Flight Division, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the battles which occurred in Western Europe during the period 10 May to 17 June 1940 in order to test the hypothesis, "The lack of adequate Command Control Communications in the Allied Armies was one of...
It is known by many that Washington and the politicians within believe that they are more inept at running successful wars than the men and women of the U.S. Military, those who have came up through the ranks in combat. This popular misconception...
Lebanon is in a very volatile and hostile part of the world where animosities have been
fostered over centuries of ethnic and racial conflict. It is a country with a history that dates back
to ancient times. It is also a nation with a long and...