Wargames have long been used to educate soldiers in the art of war. Today, diminishing resources and expanding technologies have made the games an indispensable feature of the US Army's formal training and education system. Much has been written...
Warrant Officers are the Army's technical experts, and provide commanders with detailed information in their area of expertise. The traditional Warrant Officer path is very narrow and focused, however the Army has recently begun offering broadening...
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Global War on Terrorism have raised the interest of the United States Government in insurgencies and counterinsurgencies. There are many different types and classifications of insurgencies. Two major types are...
Wartime correspondents are a valid and critical aspect to obtaining the overall picture of war and military conflicts. This paper examined the roles of embedded and unilateral reporters during wartime and answers the two questions; how do the media...
We have all heard the saying the “Perception is Reality”. This statement is especially salient when discussing military operations in a post conflict environment. The implications of the perceptions of the local populace during the transition...
We have made decisions as a nation that we cannot erase, but have we made decisions that have wounded our ethical heritage is the question. The United States of America is currently waging a war on terrorism and is this war based on decisions that...
We have seen the Army initiate drastic changes in order to maintain its personnel given the high operation tempo it faces as we continue to fight the global war on terrorism. We have also seen the Army drastically decrease its numbers after the...
We live in a rapidly changing world where the difference between noncombat and combat roles has become blurred by the asymmetrical threat of modem warfare. Given this changing world, the rational for not allowing women to voluntarily serve in...
Baldonado, Frederick P.; Blore, Andrew W.; Jones, Walton; Phelps, Rufus III; Richards, Walter L.
We will discuss in this paper the Noncommissioned Officers Education System (NCOES) and the fact that it needs a serious overhaul. The NCOES needs to power down the POIs so that noncommissioned officers are learning ahead rather than behind or at...
We, as leaders and Noncommissioned Officers are the backbone of the United States
Army. The Army’s success is based largely on the success of the Noncommissioned
Officer Corp. Our success in garrison and triumph in battle can be attributed to...
We've all heard the stories ofArmy recruiters that have resorted to dishonest practices in order to put a would-be recruit in the service. While the majority ofrecruiters are hardworking, honest individuals, there are those that bend the truth,...
We've seen in movies such as "Glory", "The Buffalo Soldier" and others movies showing blacks fighting on the union side during the Civil War. However, there are other black soldiers who fought in the war that history tends to forget: The Black...
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) pose a new and significant threat to American security. The nation does not presently possess the ability to adequately deal with this threat. Congress has tasked DoD to develop capabilities to deal with this...
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) pose a new and significant threat to American security. The nation does not presently possess the ability to adequately deal with this threat. Congress has tasked DoD to develop capabilities to deal with this...
Webster states ethics is, "a system of morale values, the principle of right or good conduct." Ethics is dealing with right and wrong and the principles of motives and ends. Society plays a huge role in the development of individual ethics. An...
Webster's Encyclopedia Dictionary of the English Language defines "war" as "armed conflict between nations, tribes or other groups." The same dictionary defines "terrorism" as "the policy of using acts of inspiring terror as a method of ruling or...
Were we ready? As we boarded a C-17 enroute to Kandahar, Afghanistan the men of 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group looked and acted ready to go fight the nation’s war, but some leaders secretly asked themselves, did we do everything we could...
West Africa is ripe for democratic development, but chronic instability impedes progress. This thesis describes the causes and extent of instability and concludes that the military is a major contributor. The question is how to prevent the military...
What a tough concept, this thing we call ethics. What are ethics and how and when do we decide to enforce them? Webster’s, defines ethics as a system of moral principles, or the branch of philosophy dealing with right and wrong and the morality...