The statement of “Rewrite this NCOER Sergeant, because you will ruin this NCOs career should never be heard”. Throughout the Army to many NCOs hear this everyday from their senior NCOs. Many of these NCOs have done the right thing and completed...
Introduction: Senior noncommissioned officers must read, write, and speak effectively. If they cannot, and overwhelming experience tells us that too many cannot, they will not function effectively on the battlefield. At the very foundation of war...
This monograph examines the utility of long-range surveillance human intelligence as part of a larger intelligence gathering system. The paper proposes that even with the acquisition of high-technology intelligence gathering systems, such as...
CJTF-HOA developed a course of action to win the War on Terror in the Horn of Africa. Because of the mission, resources available to the task force, and the nature of the conflict, the command chose a course of action that used Information...
The historiography of doctrinal change in the US Army that began with the publication of the 1976 version of FM 100-5, Operations, and ended with its replacement in 1982, settles on a general claim of controversy and rejection as the source of...
This monograph examines the insurgency conducted by the Southern States during the last part of the American Civil War and the early period of Reconstruction, specifically from the time period of Sherman's march to March 1867. The paper proposes...
This paper deals with the writing of doctrine and focuses on the efforts of General DePuy, the first TRADOC commander, to forge a coherent fighting doctrine for an increasingly complex Army in a time of turmoil. While the author praises DePuy's...
The United States must revise and fully implement its homeland defense strategy, in particular, at the Southwest border. The nation's security strategy and defense doctrine now recognize a broader range of threats not only to the national security...
This monograph examines the application of special operations forces (SOF) as a means to achieve strategic ends across the operational continuum. In war, political constraints are minimal, and a theater commander-in-chief (CINC) is allowed to...
For the twenty-first century Army to successfully operate in the dispersed and isolated battlefield of the future, soldiers must be highly committed, well trained, and led to successfully transition, without pause, across the full spectrum of...
First introduced into U.S. Army doctrine in 1982, the operational level of war developed to remove politics from an inherently political process. American writers absorbed Soviet writing on the subject and translated it into existing doctrine...
As the Army prepares the new FM 100-5 this monograph analyzes chapter two of the current draft, the theory of operational art. The latest draft FM 100-5 has failed to create a common understanding, and therefore cannot serve as doctrine. There are...
Topics in this report include college organization, the doctrinal effort, resident and nonresident instruction, administration and operations, activity missions and functions, and areas for special emphasis.
The mission of the US Army Field Artillery School is to promote readiness through the
development of operational concepts, doctrine materiel requirements, organizations,
and soldier proficiency; prepare combat and training developments and training...
The purpose of the following study was to secure from a panel of German experts a critical analysis and evaluation of the United States Army basic tactical doctrines as contained in the field service regulations (FM 100-5) on operations. Chapters...
This unclassified study evaluates the intelligence support the Army received from national intelligence agencies during JUST CAUSE and the Gulf War by using the seven characteristics of intelligence quality found in Joint Pub 2-0. The new national...
This study addresses the operational use of Ultra intelligence information during the preparation and execution of Operation Shingle or the invasion by Allied forces at Anzio 22 Jan 1944. At the heart of this discussion is the controversy over...
This project focuses on integrating flying requirements,
duties, and training accomplishments on a microcomputer to produce an optimized weekly flight schedule. The thesis includes research for and examination of earlier attempts to solve this...