In this interview, MAJ John Chung talks about his deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in 2003-2004 as the logistics officer (S4) for the 1-501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), which later transitioned to...
MAJ Brad Laauwe served as Bravo Company commander with 2-70 Armor in Baghdad, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this February 2009 interview MAJ Laauwe discusses the short notice his unit received about their...
In this interview MAJ Steve Barry discusses his deployment to Iraq during the initial phases of the war. Deployed to Kuwait for six months prior to the kickoff of OIF I, MAJ Barry describes the time he and his tank company spent training in the...
Major Joseph Halloran served as the assistant operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery (2-5 FA) and later as the battery commander for Charlie Battery, 2-5 FA in the Fallujah and Ramadi areas in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi...
Major John Walton commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry around Iskandariyah, Habbaniyah and Fallujah, Iraq from September 2003 through September 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. As he explains in this first of two...
Ambassador James Dobbins is currently director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he served as assistant secretary of state for Europe; special assistant to the president for the Western...
In this first of four interviews conducted with Major James Love concerning his Global War on Terrorism deployments, he discusses his command of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry in the area around Baiji in 2003 in support of Operation...
Major Charles Anderson, in this second of two interviews, discusses his deployment as a civil affairs (CA) team chief to Baghdad, Iraq, initially with 1st Battalion, 37th Armor through 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Anderson had been...
In this second of two interviews, Major David Creasman discusses his deployment in the Ramadi area of Iraq as the intelligence officer for the division artillery (DIVARTY) of the 82nd Airborne Division from 2003 through 2004. A major challenge he...
In this first of three interviews, Major Patrick Pascall, a reservist, talks about his experiences as a civil affairs team leader in the 401st Civil Affairs Battalion in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, from May 2002 through March 2003 in support of...
Major Hurel Johnson deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom as a volunteer from the US Army Reserve to embed as a trainer and mentor with the Afghan National Army (ANA). Turning over Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 75th Division (Training...
From May 2005 through May 2006, Major Omega Harris served as a battalion military transition team (MiTT) leader in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he discusses his predeployment training, his working relationship with the...
In April 2003, Major Wayne Sodowsky deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as the assistant operations officer of the 70th Engineer Battalion, part of 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division - a mechanized combat engineer unit. After doing a...
Major Matthew Scalia commanded Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry in Baghdad from May through September 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Scalia begins by noting that much of their predeployment training focused on stability...
Lieutenant Colonel Daryle Hernandez served as the executive officer for 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry in the Al-Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, from March 2004 to March 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). When the squadron arrived in...
In this second of two interviews, Major Jason Curl discusses his command of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment around Fallujah, Iraq, from August 2003 through April 2004 in support of Operation...
From March to September 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major John Polidoro, US Marine Corps, served as executive officer of the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, and was based at Camp Korean Village...
In this first of two interviews, Major Elmer Bontrager talks about commanding the Headquarters and Service Battery, 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from July 2003 through April 2004 in support of Operation Enduring...
This study discusses the policies and principles the British found to be effective in occupation of Mesopotamia and which conform with US doctrine on this subject.
This historical study investigates the military effectiveness and combat power of Civil War balloons. The categories inherent to military effectiveness include timeliness, accuracy, usefulness, operational considerations, and logistics. Limited by...