Focusing on strategic leadership in the soft power environment, this work seeks to determine whether or not there are any lessons that might usefully be employed by the military at the strategic ...Read more >

Armies have used wargames throughout history to increase their chance for victory by gaining an understanding how events might unfold. A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project called Deep Green, attempted to introduce wargames during the execution of military ...Read more >

Despite the significant popularity of handheld devices in the civilian sector, the US Army has taken eight years to adopt handheld devices for field use. Why has the US Army been slow to adopt handheld devices? This monograph considers three possible explanations for the US Armys delay in adopting handheld ...Read more >

Anti-access and area denial strategies threaten the capability of the United States to maintain its global influence with its expeditionary force. In response to this threat, the U.S. Department of Defense published the Joint Operational Access ...Read more >

After more than ten years of combat, the U.S. Army acknowledges the need to review its modern reconnaissance and security doctrine, specifically in regards to the .ack of a dedicated element at the corps and division ...Read more >

In 2006, the Israelis faced an enemy they were unprepared for. Their training had fixated on the key tasks to be successful in peace enforcement operations, ignoring the broader scope of other forms of ...Read more >

On 6 October 1973 at 2:00 pm, the world witnessed a conflict that continues to be discussed and researched within the professional military community. Military powers of the period would observe the event and modify their existing practices of combined arms warfare with an emphasis on the relationship between infantry and ...Read more >

It does so through an examination of the sources of the excellent reputation for proficiency in counterinsurgency operations enjoyed by the British Army in 2003. It suggests that this reputation was in part based on the successes enjoyed by the British Army during the process of dismantling the British ...Read more >

Since the Twitter Revolution and the penetration of the Internet, social media has dramatically altered how the world interacts and responds to crisis. The United States Army has yet to fully recognize the role social media plays in ...Read more >

Cloud computing remotely hosting network services and data is an emerging concept in the business world that enables the use of mobile devices, increases security, and enables more effective information sharing within ...Read more >

U.S. military doctrine defines operational art within the domain of conventional warfare. This monograph evolves the conventional understanding of operational art into the domain of irregular ...Read more >

This thesis examines three successful counterinsurgencies fought with a force ratio of less than 20 counterinsurgents per 1000 inhabitants. Discussion begins with a review of force ratios and their quantitative effect on the probability of a counterinsurgency victory, followed by a ...Read more >

How does the U.S. military understand and apply the center of gravity concept in the contexts of theory, doctrine, and planning for the conduct of operations? In particular, does the center of gravity serve as an effective tool when applied in accordance with current military doctrine and other non-doctrinal ...Read more >

The Sino-Indian relationship has become increasingly complex. Both countries view each other within an extremely sophisticated framework of cooperation and antagonism. Cooperation can be seen in a number of areas including trade, government-to-government and military ...Read more >

Anti-access, area denial (A2AD) environments provide adversaries with an asymmetric advantage too costly for a 21st - century military to overcome. Arguably, a counter to a defense-in-depth environment is an attack-in-depth strategy. However, regaining a relative advantage requires leveraging the electro-magnetic ...Read more >