This monograph explores how the military battle staff helps the commander develop his vision. The researcher examined how the staff provides information to the commander using the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP). The study then shows how...
British operations during the American Revolution and US military actions during the interventions in Mexico (1914-1916) exemplify factors that contributed and ultimately resulted in either successful or failed execution of strategic goals.
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This thesis examines the feasibility of using biodiesel-blended fuel to operate U.S. Army tactical vehicles within the continental United States (CONUS). The mixed methodology included quantitative and qualitative data, synthesizing two primary...
An unstable global environment where the threat is ambiguous requires warfighters to recognize the difference and interrelationship between seeing and understanding the enemy. This monograph provides an alternative definition which emphasizes the...
Senior Army leaders today struggle to develop adaptive junior leaders prepared to lead in chaotic operating environments. To overcome this challenge, the Army Nurse Corps introduced the Army Nursing Campaign Plan, which is nested in the security...
This monograph discusses whether U. S. Army operational commanders are still susceptible to surprise. The principle of surprise remains an important consideration for campaign planners. Operations Just Cause and Desert Storm relied heavily on...
This monograph investigates the art and science of problem solving and decision making in the operational planning environment. The Army's current problem solving and decision making doctrine found in FM 5-0 (101-5) Army Planning and Orders...
The Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) is the U.S. Army’s single analytical process used to assist the commander and staff in developing estimates and plans for military problem solving. A growing body of research and published works within...
Recently, the Chief of Staff of the Army stated that the United States Army must successfully wield new information technologies to ensure land force dominance into the twenty-first century. Currently, the Army is developing an Information...
As design emerges throughout the United States Army’s planning and operational doctrine, the intelligence community must leverage this structure of inquiry to identify and refocus the scope of what is collected, analyzed, produced and...
Future operational concepts contained in Joint Vision 2010 and the accompanying service level concepts emphasizes full spectrum, full dimensional dominance, allowing the application of force in time and space that cannot be equaled by a potential...
Armies share one common characteristic. An Army cannot recruit its military leaders off the street. Every Army must grow its leaders from the nation's young women and men, nurture the youngsters into mature military leaders, and develop senior...
Campaign planning for major operations including Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) continues to be a challenge for the United States military. This monograph proposes that a major deficiency in current Joint doctrine is the failure to...
This paper examines battle command in relation to three dynamics: technology, leadership, and organization. A historical overview provides insight into the linkage between battle command and its dynamics. A brief case study on battle command by...
Warfare in the modem era will be joint. However, the Armed Forces have been slow to make requisite changes. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 forced change by legislating reforms and ending the internecine...
This monograph examines the role of carrier battle groups in contingency operations. The traditional role of the carrier battle group is to defeat enemy fleets and gain control of the seas. Today's carrier battle groups were designed and built for...
In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the intelligence community saw a dark shadow cast across itself. Though the specific intelligence failures cannot yet be determined, there are some known pieces of information. The success of intelligence...
With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the grip of
superpower strictures loosened resulting in an increase in complexity and dynamism that marks today's security environment. The rapidly changing and uncertain...
The current U.S. Army involvement in Afghanistan requires an expanded field artillery arsenal of weaponry and munitions. This expansion should include rockets, medium and light howitzers, and pack howitzers. These weapon systems offset the...
The purpose of this monograph is to recommend the inclusion of "warlords" into United States military doctrine by defining the nature of a warlord, and by applying historical insights into a conceptual framework through which military leaders may...