What are ethics? I looked up the definition at Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and the definition is as follows "Ethic: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation: a set of moral principles or values."...
What can we learn from past leaders that is important enough to be included in the new Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 6-22? Leadership principles the Army has used to date are inadequate. This monograph reviews some of the most revered generals in...
What caused the agricultural manpower shortage in World War II? Historians have proffered a variety of explanations that attribute linear causality to a handful of independent variables. No scholar, however, has attempted to study the manpower...
What causes a large group to operate in an efficient, effective, innovative manner? Is it the way it is organized, its executive structure, its mechanisms for gathering and disseminating information, its internal communications, its analytic...
What could have made the Military Police (MP) and Marine Security Guard (MSG) response more effective, averting negative media coverage and public opinion? The Tet Offensive has been widely acknowledged as the turning point of the United States...
What ethical responsibility do government-housing tenants have in regards to conservation efforts? This is an issue that all soldiers face when they reside in a government sponsored home. Whether it is the single Soldier living in the barracks, or...
What happens when a technologically advanced nation provides advanced technology to a much less advanced nation's military? Numerous political and diplomatic considerations go into the decision to provide the technology, but once the decision is...
What is success in war? Who defines success? A review of past theorists such as Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Jomini and Clausewitz along with modern scholars such as William Martel, Azar Gat, and J. Boone Bartholomees produces a model for understanding...
What is the ARTEP? The U.S. Army Training and Evaluation program describes the mission and critical collective tasks a unit must perform to accomplish its mission and survive on the battlefield.
What is the effectiveness of the US Army’s APFT as compared to other military branches and other military standards? It is the only standard the Army has for basic physical fitness. Compared to the other military services, the Army APFT is...
Manning, Michael; Inderbitzen, Benjamin; Kussler, William; Goodman, Carlos
What is the effectiveness of the US Army’s APFT as compared to other military branches and other military standards? The APFT is the only standard the Army has for basic physical fitness, compared to the other military services, the Army APFT is...
What is the military’s most effective model for restoring essential services during counterinsurgency operations? That question drove this monograph to compare the most popular restoration model, the SWEAT Model, against a new model, the...
What is the probability for renewed conflict in the Sinai region in light of Egypt's recent revolution? This monograph examines that question by analyzing Nasser's Free Officer revolution of the 1950s that led to 1956 Suez Crisis (Nasser era) and...
What kind of policy can the United States and the international community pursue that increases the likelihood that stability emerges in failed and failing states? I develop a theory of state-building to guide decision makers. The theory states...
What place does compassion have on the battlefield? Our military force deployed to the battlefield oflraq for several reasons. "The military objectives of Operation Iraqi Freedom consist of first, ending the regime of Saddam Hussein. Second, to...
What role did the Army Air Forces have in the Battle of the Atlantic? Discussion subjects include the events causing participation, early organization for antisubmarine warfare, responsibility for antisubmarine operations from the air, the Army Air...
What started in 1995 as a one year commitment of NATO troops to implement the Dayton peace accord in Bosnia and Herzegovina has developed into a still ongoing mission there since 1996, an additional mission in Kosovo since 1999 and several minor...
When 16 Air Assault Brigade (UK) was alerted for deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major John Clark was serving as a squadron commander in 23 Engineer Regiment (UK), a subordinate unit that was also tapped to...