Synchronization, "the ability to focus resources and activities in time and space to produce maximum relative combat power at the decisive point," is a tenet of US Army doctrine. This monograph reviews the concept of synchronization at the...
With the advent of Field Manual (FM) 3-24, Counterinsurgency, a debate has arisen concerning the manual's origins and its applicability to today's insurgencies. Critics, such as Colonel Gian Gentile, claim that the manual is overly influenced by...
The purpose of this research paper is to provide answers to a series of basic questions as a first step in addressing some of the details necessary to implement the Joint Force Land Component Commander (JFLCC) concept in a theater of operations or...
Using histories, after action reports, interviews, and doctrinal manuals this study examines intelligence requirements for support to domestic civil authorities in civil disturbance operations and evaluates the adequacy of tactical intelligence...
This monograph analyzes the military decision making process in terms of time management in order to determine if a timeline will expedite the process. The monograph begins by establishing the importance of time and time management in planning....
This study examines the proposed 1991 CGSOC curriculum to determine if it is structured to educate and train future AirLand battlefield commanders. First, this paper develops a "Command Process Model” and uses theoretical and historical analysis...
This study investigates whether the Military Intelligence Battalion, organic to the Army of Excellence Heavy Division, is equipped, organized, and has the optimal command and control relationships to support in accordance with current doctrine....
Current U.S. military doctrine identifies the “center of gravity” (COG) as one of the key elements in theater and operational design planning. Since Karl von Clausewitz formalized the COG concept in On War, military planners have used it as a...
Course of action analysis is a critical step in the traditional military decision making process. During this step, planners determine the suitability, feasibility, and acceptability of a possible solution. Common staff procedures for analyzing...
This monograph proposes a conceptual approach to operational synchronization intended to address the post Cold War planning environment. Synchronization has a dual nature as both a process and an outcome, and joint doctrine calls it the...
This monograph examines the potentially of creating a rapid deployable joint task force augmentation cell (DJTFAC) in the newly created United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM) to facilitate providing military support to civil authorities (MACA)...
This thesis examines the lethality of laser-directed energy weapons in causing structural failure to mechanically loaded laminated composites in helicopters. The analysis is based on a three-dimensional numerical finite element model of a...
This study researches the positioning of the current Heavy Division Bridge Company to best support River Crossing Operations. Numerous changes in force structure, size of the force, and optimum use of engineer capabilities have raised valid...
The purpose of this paper was threefold. First to introduce basic pulse modulated radar theory while concurrently identifying those analytically descriptive parameters and environmental factors which should be considered in realistic radar...
This study reviews U.S. Army leadership doctrine published during the period 1951 to 1990 and presently emerging in 1997. It focused on the Army's change in the use of the terms religion, spirituality, and faith as printed in the Army Field Manual...
This monograph seeks to define what a Decision Support System (DSS) is to the military decision-maker, suggest some evaluation criteria, and propose a sample decision-making aid. It examines the current doctrinal or academic work in that arena. The...
¿Cediendo la iniciativa? C2 en el campo de batalla digitalizado. Capitán Jim Dunivan, Ejército de los EE.UU.; En el campo de batalla los líderes toman decisiones en el medio de una gran incertidumbre, demostrando la capacidad de adaptabilidad,...
This thesis examines the methods that the United States Army Intelligence Center (USAIC) uses to train the Army’s intelligence analysts. Rapidly changing world conditions require that the Army train its intelligence analysts to correctly identify...
This study examines whether the BCT is adequately trained to properly employ CA teams in the contemporary environment by examining past contingency operations, current Army doctrine, and CA doctrine. Additionally, this study obtains information...
The United States (U.S.) faces threats from non-states, including terrorist organizations and piracy in the Horn of Africa, all of which are quite different from the super-power threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The U.S....