Shades of CORDS in the Kush : the false hope of "unity of effort" in American counterinsurgency /

"Counterinsurgency (COIN) requires an integrated military, political, and economic program best developed by teams that field both civilians and soldiers. These units should operate with some independence but under a coherent command. In Vietnam, after several false starts, the United States developed an effective unified organization, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to guide the counterinsurgency. CORDS had three components absent from our efforts in Afghanistan today: sufficient personnel (particularly civilian), numerous teams, and a single chain of command that united the separate COIN programs of the disparate American departments at the district, provincial, regional, and national levels. This paper focuses on the third issue and describes the benefits that unity of command at every level would bring to the American war in Afghanistan. The work begins with a brief introduction to counterinsurgency theory, using a population-centric model, and examines how this warfare challenges the United States. It traces the evolution of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and the country team, describing problems at both levels. Similar efforts in Vietnam are compared, where persistent executive attention finally integrated the government's counterinsurgency campaign under the unified command of the CORDS program. The next section attributes the American tendency towards a segregated response to cultural differences between the primary departments, executive neglect, and societal concepts of war. The paper argues that, in its approach to COIN, the United States has forsaken the military concept of unity of command in favor of 'unity of effort' expressed in multiagency literature. The final sections describe how unified authority would improve our efforts in Afghanistan and propose a model for the future."--P. iii.

Military implications of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, April 8, 2004.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Military compensation background papers : compensation elements and related manpower cost items, their purpose and legislative backgrounds.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Improving military educational benefits : effects on costs, recruiting, and retention /

"March 1982"--Cover

Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States.

No more published.

The American annual cyclopedia and register of important events. Embracing political, civil, military, and social affairs: public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry.

Continued as Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events.

Guide to rebuilding public sector services in stability operations : a role for the military /

This guide examines the role of restoration of public services within the broader context of stability operations. The extent to which public service reconstruction takes place depends on the mission, the level of resources, and the host country context. This paper provides guidance helpful to U.S. peacekeeping personnel in planning and executing stability operations tasks related to restoration of public sector services and infrastructure. It is designed to supplement existing and emerging guidance, and is specifically relevant to addressing the needs of public sector rebuilding in a post-conflict situation by peacekeeping forces. The material presented here draws both from theory and analytic frameworks and from on-the-ground experience of practitioners.

The PLA at home and abroad : assessing the operational capabilities of China's military /

The chapters presented in this volume have demonstrated first, Chinese and PLA leaders have a strong sense of mission and concern for China's security and well-being. Second, the PLA is committed to the transformation in military affairs with Chinese characteristics. Third, the PLA is eager to learn from the U.S. military to expand and improve its operational capabilities. Finally, the PLA has made progress in its transformation and operational capabilities. For a long time, American leaders have been surprised with the PLA's advances. This volume (and many of the previous volumes from past PLA conferences) show that these advances did not come out of the blue. Although much of the learning and many of the improvements are still far from what is desired (from Chinese expectations and American critiques), and some of the learning has even created contradictions for the PLA, these persistent and diligent learning practices will eventually bring the PLA to a higher level of proficiency in its capabilities. The emergence of a much more sophisticated PLA in the coming years should not be a surprise.

The Russian military today and tomorrow : essays in memory of Mary Fitzgerald /

"July 2010."

War papers read before the Michigan commandery of the Military order of the loyal legion of the United States ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 2007 : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the armed forces, and for other purposes.

"March 7, 29, April 4, 6, 2006"--Pt. 7.

Lights and shades of military life,

Translation by Frederic Shoberl of Alfred de Vigny's Servitude et grandeur militaires (v. 1) and of Elzéar Blaze's La vie militaire sous le premier empire (v. 2)

St. Lawrence Seaway : hearings before the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, first session on H.J.Res. 104, providing for creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation to construct part of the St. Lawrence seaway in United States territory in the interest of national security; authorizing the Corporation to consumate certain arrangements with the St. Lawrence Seaway Authority of Canada relative to construction and operation of the seaway; empowering the Corporation to finance the United States share of the seaway cost on a self-liquidating basis; and for other purposes.

"No. 83-88".

In the matter of the application of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company for authority to acquire control by lease of the railroad of the Virginian Railway Company. October 12, 1925 [Jan. 28, 1926]

Vols. 1-3 paged continuously (iii, viii, 3029 p.)