Topics include shortage of service troops, training of service troops, management of service troops, and supply discipline. The problem is to determine ways and means of reducing the quantities of supplies and still maintain effective support to...
Topics of this document include warfare, leadership and its means, tactics of the single arms (infantry and its auxiliary arms, artillery, cavalry, additional machine gun organization, pioneers, aerial fighting forces and defense, communication...
Transformation and the current operational pace have created less time for senior mentorship. Additionally, mentorship is so loosely defined and understood that it often is mislabeled and wrongly identified. Mentorship could be viewed as such a...
Transformation Vanguard Army vision. The Honorable Louis Caldera, Secretary of the Army, and General Eric K. Shinseki, US Army Chief of Staff Vanguard of the objective force. Colonel Michael Mehaffey, US Army IBCT at Fort Lewis. Major...
Trauma training is regularly conducted within the military medical community in an environment of increasing scrutiny and pressure to replace animals with inanimate alternatives. This thesis uses the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) animal...
Trends at the combat training centers (CTCs) indicate that Aviation officers fail to successfully apply the TDMP. This thesis seeks to identify if this performance discrepancy is due to a failure of the Army's Leadership Development Process (LDP)...
Turkey and an Army Forward. Lieutenant Colonal Patrick Warren, U.S. Army Europe, and Major Michael Morrissey, U.S. Army Europe; As part of a joint force positioned in central Europe, forward-deployed U.S. Army forces are needed to provide a...
Two previous peacekeeping efforts in Beirut and Somalia, decades apart, progressed into acts of terrorism and irregular warfare. In both conflicts, United States withdrew troops after many costly errors. Another decade later, United States is...
U.S. Army commanders seek to balance the requirements to conduct offensive, defensive and stability operations simultaneously. Within this framework, commanders have also had to balance the conduct of traditional military actions and non-military...
U.S. Army Field Manual 100-5, Operations (FM 100-5), the keystone warfighting manual, lists the culminating point as one of the three key concepts of operational design. It also states that the concept is applicable at the strategic, operational...
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U.S. military activities in Korea included political, economic, and social involvement. In the political spectrum, government, legalities, and public safety are described. Economic topics included natural resources, commerce and industry, and...
U.S. military forces are conducting peace operations more frequently than ever before. Commanders in peace operations are faced with the dilemma of having to provide stability and security in an environment where the use of force is severely...
U.S. military, Department of State, and Iraqi officials face many challenges moving a unified Iraq forward. This paper attempts to answer a critical question: Can local Iraqi grassroots councils facilitate a strategic endstate like achieving...
Ukrainian strategic policy decisions have a direct impact on US policy in Eastern Europe. Ukraine is often at the forefront of political tensions between the US, EU and Russia. The gas crisis of 2009 resulted in the cutoff of natural gas supplies...
Unified Land Operations: The Evolution of Army Doctrine for Success in the 21st Century. Colonel Bill Benson, U.S. Army; The Army exploits the initiative to gain a position of advantage in unified land operations nested inside joint unified...
Unit of command becomes a major issue when both federal and state militaries simultaneously provide Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) within the same area of operations as seen during Hurricane Katrina. Both federal and state militaries...