This monograph discusses operational sustainment in a secondary theater of war. Essentially, this study asks, given horizontal escalation in a global conflict where central Europe is the primary theater, what is the effect of operational...
Westphal's study consists of four parts. Part I is the selection, education and training of general staff officers in peace and war; this includes training at the War College in peacetime, training at general staff schools during wartime,...
The CENTCOM area of responsibility (AOR) contains many aspects that are strategically vital to the United States, but before the abhorrent attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States military had not permanently assigned a significant...
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea is showing signs that the regime's control of information and its people are weakening. Increasing defections, more public officials taking bribes and a public demonstration against the regime in 2006...
This study investigates whether or not China, with a modernized military, presents a threat to the United States. The U.S. has been deeply engaged in the East Asia-Pacific region since the end of the Second World War. China, with the world's...
This monograph discusses five considerations for campaign planners to use in planning attacks on an enemy's command and control (C2) system. Development of the considerations focuses on the top military and political leadership as the most...
The purpose of this monograph is to determine the adequacy of our current, alliance based, conventional force strategy. The scope is limited to the application of force to achieve the national objectives of deterrence and containment. The problem...
In 742, a predominantly Turko-Mongolian steppe nomadic tribe known today as the Uyghurs migrated eastward from eastern Turkey towards the oases of modern-day Xinjiang province of China; they have remained there for the last 1,268 years. Throughout...
The Indian Army's decisive victory in East Pakistan in 1971 is a widely acknowledged as a sterling example of operational excellence. The Bangladesh campaign, as it is commonly known, is often compared with the German blitzkrieg campaign in World...
The U.S. military's system of duplicative and competitive active duty recruiting contributes to and perpetuates the failure of DOD-wide recruiting efforts. Given the significant changes in the U.S. economy, and the relinquishment of market-share by...
With the exception of Cuba, US-Latin American relations do not have the specter of Communist influence in the hemisphere distorting the thrust of foreign policy. What does remain is the threat of crises that endangers the viability of the fledgling...
The trend in the employment of U.S. forces in contingency operations suggests that the National Command Authority favors air centric responses to military operations. When this trend is coupled with the decreasing likelihood of large-scale armored...
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...
Continuation from I part, contains a narrative of events displaying the facts, seriousness of difficulties encountered, decisions made, results of such and management of the campaign and its effect on the war. Translation by Aage Woldike.
Discusses the experiences of individual soldiers in combat. Discusses Leadership in small units, normal operations, jungle operations and amphibious operations.
Volume II of three parts, tells the condition of the navy at the beginning of the war and consists of the naval operations between Cape Hatteras to Cape Florida conducted in the sounds, rivers, and harbors along the Atlantic coast. Specifically...
Drawing upon the writings of social theorists, expositions on American society, public law, and military doctrine, this study examines the potential for internal warfare in the United States. It also addresses the potential for domestic conflict...