Major Rob Arnold returned from his deployment with Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) and joined the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team as the military police plans officer in January 2004. In August 2005, Arnold deployed with the 172nd as the...
MAJ Michael Whiddon served on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) in Taji, Iraq during 2007 and 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this February 2011 interview, MAJ Whiddon discusses his pre-deployment training, the mission of his...
The United States Army needs doctrine that addresses strategic communication based upon emerging design concepts while incorporating existing principles of strategic communication and narrative theory together with an updated communication theory....
MAJ Brennan Cook served as the Security Company Advisor to the 3rd Motor Transport Regiment (Iraqi Army) in 2006 and 2007 in Al-Kisik, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this 11 August 2009 interview, MAJ Cook discusses the...
In this interview, MAJ David Park, US Army, Infantry; discusses his deployment to Afghanistan as part of a Validation Transition Team (VTT) in 2008 through 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Park describes his mission with...
Fighting identity: why we are losing our wars. Michael Vlahos; Our enemies understand that "it is in the living of war's mythic passage" that identity will be truly realized. We, for our part, blunder blindly on, fitting ourselves to their...
One of the hardest things to do, for some individuals, is to make an honest self assessment of yourself. It is even harder when the assessment is on how you’re living your life and whether or not you're being ethically correct. As I take a look...
Since its founding in 1775, the Army has transformed to meet ongoing threats to America’s national security and world stability. Most of these transformations occurred at the end of a major conflict. In our generation’s time, we have seen two...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been and...
Major Joseph Chestnut was the leader of a 120-man task force serving as a tactical human intelligence team in Kirkuk and Tuz, Iraq, from December 2003 through February 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about...
MAJ Timothy Diley served as the Brigade Fires Coordinator of 18th Brigade, 5th Iraqi Division Military Transition Team (MiTT) at Kirkush Military Training Base, Diyala Province, Iraq during 2008 and 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)....
In this interview, MAJ Andrew Turner, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a Company Commander in 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Turner describes his reaction to arriving in country and discusses a couple of...
A veteran of two deployments to Iraq - during OIF I and OIF II - Major William Highberger was assigned first to Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion, as a civil affairs Alpha Team leader in support of the 75th Ranger Regiment. After the...
Insurgency and counterinsurgencies differ from conventional warfare in that military strength alone cannot bring success. Insurgencies are "people's wars" as the insurgent forces are dependent on the population for manpower, intelligence,...
The United States Army faced an officer shortage while mobilizing before World War II. General George C. Marshall, pushed for the creation of Officer Candidate Schools as a method to bridge the officer personnel gap. OCS generated the largest...
This monograph provides the context for a better understanding and appreciation of the difficulties U.S. military planners face in their labors to develop an effective plan to 18win the war. 18Winning the war 19 is not as simple as defeating an...
This monograph determines the prospects for peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula and the implications of unification on United States' military strategy in Northeast Asia. The prospects for Korean unification are analyzed in the context of...
Can the United States successfully impose democracy by force without resorting to the same level of total warfare it waged on Germany and Japan in the Second World War? The hypothesis for this research is that the U.S. can successfully force...
As war veterans retire from the military, the U.S. Army transitions to a generation of soldiers with no combat experience. This monograph examines this phenomenon of combat inexperience and assesses the tactical implications for the Army. To...
Commanders and other leaders in the Army must constantly consider how their organization is changing and how it must change to remain relevant and effective in its combat roles. When planning and conducting an organizational change, these...