The study investigates the effectiveness and efficiency in which the United States Army Europe decreases in size and the United States looks to a continental-based military force, how does Europe fit into the strategic deployment of forces...
This study analyzes the United States's ability to defend its troops and strategic interests from theater ballistic missile attack. Defense against these weapons requires a flexible mobile weapons system which may be deployed to any region of the...
This thesis investigates the significance, theory and practice of tactical signal security (SIGSEC) during the Ardennes Offensive of 1944-1945. The work includes a brief introduction to the offensive and to the history of SIGSEC, and examines how...
Current Special Forces doctrine is very limited concerning the conduct of guerrilla warfare combat operations in urban environments. The focus of the current doctrine is on conducting combat operations in rural environments. The material...
This study examines NATO enlargement and its potential effects on the Republic of Italy. Initial emphasis falls on context, with stress on Southern Region security issues and NATO enlargement in general. The analysis extends to the likely impact...
This study examines the historical development of the landing craft and the roles and missions of the landing craft air cushion (LCAC). In examining the development of the modern landing craft from Gallipoli to Operation Desert Storm, a conclusion...
This study addresses the viability of large scale amphibious operations within the context of the missions required of amphibious forces in today's threat environment. In the past, massive fleets carrying tens of thousands of troops characterized...
This study examines the threat to internal security posed by violent gangs. This threat was found to be particularly acute in inner-city communities that have over time devolved to a status that the author classified as failed communities. Armed...
This study investigates the doctrine of command and control warfare at the tactical level of war and examines whether or not this doctrine is an appropriate activity for Army corps. The work examines the concept of command and control warfare, the...
This thesis examines the intent of Iran's sea power strategy, and discovers that it is a definitive component of a coherent national security strategy of strategic deterrence designed to protect its strategic center of gravity--its oil....
This study analyzes the decisions of Lieutenant General Frederick Franks during the planning and execution of the ground campaign of Desert Storm. Franks has been criticized for being consumed with the synchronization of his multi-division attack...
This study investigates the role of armor in military operations other than war (MOOTW). MOOTW missions are likely to be the most prevalent operations conducted in the foreseeable future by the U.S. military. Consequently, it is important that the...
This study investigates the current proficiency of media skills required for Military Police junior leaders to perform missions in any environment. Currently, junior noncommissioned and company grade officer professional development courses do not...
In most democratic countries that are not engaged in conflict one can expect debates regarding the amount of the gross domestic product (GDP) that is spent on national security. The issue is even more significant in small states with limited...
This study investigates the barriers to adopting commercial products relating to aircraft avionics with the Department of Defense after the passage of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) of 1994. There has been a strong emphasis from...
This thesis proposes that the United States should have a national economic strategy (NES) document to provide direction for the many policymakers who implement the economic instrument of power. With the end of the Cold War, the United States faces...
This study examines the historical utility of the Ranger units since World War II. The research concept employs the study of three representative historical examples from World War II, Korea, and Ranger operations during Operation Just Cause....
This study assesses the Colombian opium and heroin production threat to the U.S. since it was first perceived in about l990. It compares and contrasts the production of heroin to that of cocaine, including the cultivation, processing and...
This study explores a comparison of World War II submarine wolf packs and modern attack helicopter battalions. Descriptions of submarines using continuous employment, an attack helicopter technique, against mercantile convoys in the Pacific in...
This thesis investigates the utility of conventional military intervention by Western powers in achieving their short-term foreign policy aims. Through a survey of the literature of political-military coordination, case studies of contingency...