Mistreatment of civilians not party to a large-scale, violent conflict is not new. The perceived lack of empathy for civilians (historically and presently) points to ambiguities about who the enemy is, rules of engagement, as well as the ongoing...
This monograph examined the relationship between junior and senior U.S. Army officers. In 2000, Thomas, E. Ricks, a reporter for the Washington Post, wrote an article contending that there was a rift between the junior and senior leaders in the...
Chavez, Paula; Proctor, Andre; Glover, Carrie; Dryer, Steve; Russey, Ira
Thesis: The four factors of leadership are the foundation for a leader to build upon; these are; the led, the leader, the situation and communication. Failure to adhere to these four factors caused the death of Corporal (CPL) Pat Tillman and its...
Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made land in the New Orleans Parishes of Louisiana in the United States. Ten to twenty feet of seawater and chemicals from area industrial plants covered the area. Some residents took supplies for a few...
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...
Jones, Priscilla D.; Air Force History and Museums Program
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned cool and clear, with sunny skies all along the eastern seaboard. For Air Force aviators like Lt. Col. Timothy "Duff" Duffy of the 102d Fighter Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, the day held the...
In 1993, the Bottom-Up Review (BUR) concluded that the United States could fight and win in two nearly simultaneous major regional conflicts (MRCs). Nearly simultaneous required that the two MRCs be spaced at least 42 days apart to allow adequate...
Currently Britain and America are engaged in an unprecedented struggle against global terrorism. This new, complex and challenging threat is proving difficult to overcome and the struggle against it, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, is not...
The national will of the United States, and other democratic nations, is far more vulnerable today than in the past. Changes in society and technology have allowed enemies to adapt. The character of war has evolved into a more unorthodox type of...
Is it possible to determine how close an army is to collapse? Are there indictors that give warning that the force is reaching the limits of its endurance? With the U.S. Army in its seventh year of sustained combat in the War on Terror with no end...
This monograph posits that the state must structure the delivery of public goods in a sequential and hierarchical basis with safety and security and rule of law providing a foundation upon which the state builds delivery of all other public goods...
This monograph explores the American media's influence on ethical military policy and attempts to understand the complex relationship between the United States' military, the American media, and U.S. policy makers in the context of a changing...
The small wars fought by the French in Algeria and the United States in Vietnam provide lessons for the United States military to use today. Although neither France nor the United States met their strategic objectives, their command and control...
As a result of the national strength of the United States (US) and the demonstrated prowess of her military, US forces are quite susceptible to falling prey to the effects of the "Victory Disease." The Victory Disease brings defeat to a previously...
Thomas, Luther; Hamilton, Neal; Hunt, Harold; Peavy, Kevin; Weis, Daniel
The role of the Reserve Components (RC) is to support the Active Component in times of war and national emergencies. They do this by supplying the Active Component with trained, well-equipped units and soldiers (CALL 92-2). Reserve Component...
As we observed the situation in the world today, we see some very disturbing signs that things are not going the way they should. In our highest level of government we see leaders who are being relieved of their duties for violating ethical...
In this interview, MAJ Michelle Tope, US Army, PSYOP, discusses her deployment to Iraq as a detachment commander in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Tope describes her reaction to arriving in country talks about her experience...
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the relationship of the operational commander with the media in the context of theater operations. The importance of maintaining the passion of a nation-state to conduct military operations to attain...
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.