This monograph examines the role of initiative in Soviet operational level command. It seeks to answer the question: Do Soviet operational commanders have the personal initiative and latitude to react to unexpected or changed situations on their...
This monograph addresses how humans think and make sense of the world, and whether the current logic used by the U.S. military is still useful for understanding and influencing a world where complexity continues to increase. Drawing from elements...
Cursory study of war gaming quickly reveals that one of its central problems is the conflict between the requirement of realism in play and the need for rapid and simple assessment techniques. This thesis investigates war gaming methodologies with...
Current and past military commitments in Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and Vietnam have been influenced by military advice to civilian leaders over the past 60+ years. This monograph examines whether today's military processes and culture adequately...
The advent of globalization and the revolution in military affairs necessitates making substantive changes to the Army’s organizational structure. The current traditional hierarchical structure worked well in the Cold War era but is now a source...
Bias caused by organizational culture is a constant companion of military planning. Cognitive models dominated by Newtonian, mechanistic, and reductionist thinking, have all but entrenched bias at the operational level of war where contextual, or...
The Canadian Army currently espouses the ideas associated with Maneuver Warfare as doctrine. Unfortunately, the legacy of Canadian military in the twentieth century does not lend itself to the institutionalization of the mindset required to effect...
"Adequate artillery support is essential for success on the modern battlefield. The efficient use of artillery is prepdicated upon three equally important factors, mobility, ability to deliver effective fire, and communications."
"Adequate artillery support is essential for success on the modern battlefield. The efficient use of artillery is prepdicated upon three equally important factors, mobility, ability to deliver effective fire, and communications."
This monograph reviews the functions, development, and measurement of military discipline in the US Army, and assesses these concepts against the current needs and limitations of the modern battlefield and society. By relying primarily on existing...
This monograph analyzes the manual wargaming portion of the U.S. Army's decision-making cycle in order to determine if the process deduces the optimum course of action. The monograph begins by examining game theory, which is the theoretical basis...
The Luftwaffe's defeat of Allied airpower in the Kasserine Pass in 1943 imprinted the principle of mass upon the US Air Force's organizational psyche. The then Army Air Corps recognized the necessity of consolidating airpower under the command and...
Carre, [?], 13th Infantry Regiment, French Army; Department of the Army, Office of the Quartermaster General
In every period of history all armies have been faced with the problem of supplying soldiers with clothing and equipment, when and where they are required. The table of contents includes information on the following: Roman Legion, French armies,...
The information revolution seems to hold a lot of promise to the U.S. economy and the U.S. military, but rigid bureaucratic hierarchies make it extremely difficult for effective integration of operational fires and information operations (IO). As...
Translated from a French official document of December 1916, information is separated into four parts. Part one concerns selection and concealment of battery emplacements, part two the construction of the different elements of battery emplacements,...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the 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...
The purpose of this study was to measure the attitudes of the middle level career Army officers relative to the concepts of conflict management. The scope of the study narrowed the view to the interpersonal and intergroup levels of conflict. The...
The future will contain a perplexing, complex array of security challenges for Australia. Many elements within Defence struggle with the dialectic regarding what should drive the future structure of the Australian Army, should this be the...
This effort attempts to provide the reader with an understanding of the dynamics and rational context for Iranian Strategic power projection in the 21st century. Using the Iran-Iraq War as a lens through which to examine Iran during a stressing...