Theory of War |
 | THE GUERRILLA AND HOW TO FIGHT HIM
Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication (FMFRP) 12-25, The Guerrilla - And How To EigHim, is published to ensure the retention and dissemination of useful information which is not intended tobecoine ...Read more > | 320 Pages 4.69 MB |
|
 | DEFENSE ACQUISITION REFORM:WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? By SENATOR CARL LEVIN
The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations contacted over thirty experts from a broad range of backgrounds and solicited their views on a number of subjects relating to the DOD’s acquisition process and how the DOD’s procurement... ...Read more > | 214 Pages 2.93 MB |
|
 | THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF WAR By HEW STRACHAN
The Europaeum was founded in 1992 as an association of European universities, with a mission to: promote excellence in academic links in research and teaching
collaboration between the Europaeum partners; act as an open academic network linking the Europaeum partners...
and other bodies in the pursuit of study;
.. serve as a resource for the general support and promotion of
European studies;
.. function independently in the search for new ...Read more > | 48 Pages 1.26 MB |
|
 | TOO BUSY TO LEARN By Major General Robert H. Scales
When the current wars begin
to wind down, which they
inevitably will, we need to take
a closer look at reforming
possibly even by congressional
mandateprofessional ...Read more > | 6 Pages 386.82 KB |
|
 | ART OF WAR PAPERS By Nathan Ray
This thesis contends the debate on whether to embrace a population centric or enemy-centric counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan detracts focus from bilding a balanced ...Read more > | 150 Pages 702.73 KB |
|
 | GLORY RESTORED
THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE 20082009 GAZA WAR IN TIMES OF EXTENDED CONFLICT : Israelis were concerned in the immediate aftermath of the 2006 Second Lebanon War. A
less than stellar military performance caused some to question whether the countrys
enemies might be encouraged to take advantage of perceived Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) ...Read more > | 119 Pages 945.14 KB |
|
 | PASSING IT ON FIGHTING THE PUSHTUN ON AFGHANISTANS FRONTIER
Warfare has evolved over thousands of years, but in many aspects, has
remained the same. This is particularly true in the mountainous regions
along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the region that the
British named the North-West Frontier. The hill-country and mountains
of this region presented a difficult and often deadly battlefield for forces unfamiliar or untrained in fighting in this rugged and inhospitable
terrain.Today, United States and NATO Coalition forces are engaged ...Read more > | 167 Pages 11.42 MB |
|
 | WARS HUMAN COST
By end-2013, 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or human rights violations. Some 16.7 million persons were refugees: 11.7 million under UNHCR’s mandate and 5.0 million Palestinian refugees registered by ...Read more > | 52 Pages 3.95 MB |
|
 | GROUNDS FOR WAR By Dominic D.P. Johnson
The Badme region in the Horn of Africa is claimed by both Ethiopia and Eritrea. It contains few natural resources, and neither state considers it to have strategic ...Read more > | 32 Pages 206.38 KB |
|
|
 | DECADE OF WAR, VOLUME I
The Decade of War study is JCOA’s response to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s call for learning the lessons of the past decade of US military ...Read more > | 50 Pages 732.14 KB |
|
|
 | SCIENCE VS. THE ART OF WAR
People generally do not feel comfortable with uncertainty.
Hence, there is a constant search in lifeincluding
in the militaryfor deriving various principles
or rule sets and making things more controllable and
predictable. Since ancient ...Read more > | 9 Pages 1.47 MB |
|
 | RECOGNIZING SYSTEMS IN AFGHANISTAN
Until it was overhauled in 2011, the assessments process in Afghanistans Regional
Command South was mired in 240 metrics and indicatorssome of which were uncollectable
while others were entirely ...Read more > | 18 Pages 701.95 KB |
|
 | CONVENTIONAL WARS : EMERGING PERSPECTIVE
Contention, conflict, hostility and wars have always been there because of differences in ideologies, religious faiths and societal values or to acquire a greater share of resources or prestige and power. Before the Peace of Westphalia (1648), wars were waged by religious or social groups, clans and ...Read more > | 5 Pages 221.56 KB |
|