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Career Anchors of United States Air Force Information Systems Workers: A Turnover Predictor?
The United States Air Force (AF) has experienced a downward trend in retention of information systems (IS) workers over the past five years. This research draws on the employee turnover model proposed by Mobley et al. (1979) and the work of Schein (1987) to...- $17.95
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Modeling, Stability, and Control of a Rotatable Tail on a Micro Air Vehicle
This research uses existing experimental wind tunnel data to develop a non-linear model that is used to characterize the stability of a flexible wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) with a rotatable tail. The experimental data are curve fit based on either angle of attack...- $57.95
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The Mission Support Advisor (MSA): Weaponizing Air Force Personnel Operations in a Transforming Expeditionary Culture
This study investigated using the Mission Support Advisor (MSA) as the conduit for the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Community's (M and P) transformation from a Cold-War transactional service provider to a strategic advisor for field commanders and base-level customers. External and internal environmental...- $17.95
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A Metaphor Theory of Airmindedness
"The language Airmen use to understand war, society, and man's place in them reflect how Airmen think about reality. Successive generations of Airmen have evolved a worldview termed "airmindedness." Airmindedness reflects individual and group understanding built over decades through the interplay and competition between...- $17.95
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Once in a Blue Moon: Airmen in Theater Command: Lauris Norstad, Albrecht Kesselring, and Their Relevance to the Twenty-First Century Air Force
In the 52-year history of the United States Air Force (USAF), only one airman has risen to serve as a regional commander in chief (CINC). In the same period, 74 soldiers, sailors, and Marines have filled CINC billets. To determine if, and perhaps how,...- $17.95
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Store Separations From a Supersonic Cone
The purpose of this research was to analyze the environment a store would travel through if ejected from a supersonic cone. This was done using the Beggar Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code from the Air Force SEEK Eagle Office at Eglin Air Force Base,...- $17.95
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Vendor: John E. Taylor
United States Security Assistance to Jordan: Has the US Achieved its Goals?
This paper studies the US security assistance program to Jordan during the Cold War. There are many publications written about US policy in the Middle East and how the US uses security assistance in its arsenal of tools; and a lot has been written...- $17.95
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Use of Land Power to Counter the Iranian Nuclear Proliferation Challenge
The United States and Iran have been in conflict since the Iranian Revolution. Iran is seeking to increase its power in the Middle East while America is seeking to maintain its own power in the region while simultaneously containing Iran's regional ambitions. Though there...- $17.95
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Vendor: Larry W. Wilbanks
Use of National Guard Assets for Counterdrug Operations in the War on Drugs
This study explores the continued use of the National Guard in support of drug law enforcement agencies (DLEAs) and community based organizations (CBOs) in counterdrug operations. The National Guard, or milita, has been involved since its founding in what senior military leadership today calls...- $17.95
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Vendor: Tori R. Carlile
US Army: A Relevant Force--Leapfrogging to the Twenty-First Century
This paper analyzes the Army, its relevance as determined by the service's ability to support national security strategy, operational theater strategies, and joint and combined tactical strategies, with an eye toward the emerging environment. These requirements guide the discussion to determine what kind of...- $17.95
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US Army and Security Force Assistance: Assessing the Need for an Institutionalized Advisory Capability
The US Army had difficulty initiating and conducting advisory operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom due to the lack of an institutionalized advisory capability. The need to create an advisory capability after the requirement developed, resulted in a three-year delay in Iraqi Security Force development,...- $17.95
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Vendor: Robert O. Begtrup
United States National Will: A Psychodynamic Theory
The work addresses the problem of the concept of national will. Present concepts are held to be inadequate because they arbitrarily separate national will from the political decision-making process and because they are psychologically unsound. As a result the concepts are of limited value...- $17.95
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United States and Rising Regional Powers: A Case Study of India 1991-2003
The United States has a vested interest in defending its homeland, advancing its economy, developing a favorable world order, and advancing its values in the world. How can the United States, as a hegemonic power, effectively engage rising regional nuclear powers to further American...- $17.95
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United States Infantry Division and the Australian Pentropic Division - Similarities and Differences
This comparative analysis of the United States Army Infantry Division and the Australian Army PENTROPIC Division is based on the possibility of these units being deployed as part of a combined force to implement the provisions of the ANZUS treaty. Components of such a...- $17.95
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Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence: Posturing Authorities to Complement Intelligence Community Reform
In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, policymakers and the American public demanded to know the causes that led to its nation's intelligence failures. The 9-11 Commission, along with the temporarily constituted Joint Intelligence Committees of the U.S. House and Senate, recommended a...- $17.95
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Vendor: John R. Swonson
United States Air Force and Republic of Korea Air Force: Can Both Forces Train Together on a Regular Basis?
This study investigates the feasibility of combining the daily training schedules of United States Air Force units and Republic of Korea Air Force units. The combined Air Component Command's plan for future hostilities in the Korean theater call for both air forces to work...- $17.95
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United States Army Airborne Forces: An Instrument of Land Power, 1999-2000
This study critically analyzes the future roles of United States Army airborne forces as an instrument of national security policy during the period 1990-2000. A key to that analysis is the relationship of the strategic roles of airborne forces to requirements of those forces...- $18.95
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Unified Vision for the Future: Riverine Squadrons and the Security Cooperation MAGTF
The U.S. Navy riverine squadrons are currently operating in Iraq. They were formed in response to a requirement for a riverine capability and Navy need for greater relevance in the Global War on Terror. Historically, riverine forces have an episodic history; formed for conflicts...- $17.95
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U.S. Military Commission to the Crimean War, 1855-1856
This study examines the U.S. Military Commission sent by the Secretary of War to observe the Crimean War in 1855 and 1856, to determine why the commission was sent, where it went, and the results achieved by the commissions efforts. A survey of the...- $17.95
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Unified Logistics Command Concept -- A Critical Analysis
The study examines the military worth of the Unified Logistics Command concept as proposed by the Blue Ribbon Defense Panel in July 1970. To establish a frame of reference, the author establishes an overview of the scope and complexity of defense logistics operations, and...- $57.95
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Vendor: Joachin F. Cissoko
Third-World Country Facing Indigenous Insurgencies: The Malian Touareg Insurgency
The Republic of Mali since 1961 has been experiencing insurgency carried out by an ethnic group called Touareg in its northern regions, lying in the Sahara valley. That situation has significantly impaired the security, stability and development of the three northern regions. Mali as...- $17.95
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Vendor: Russell D. Carmody
Theater Combat Search and Rescue
This study investigates joint combat search and rescue (CSAR) doctrine and policies to determine if they support Theater CINCs' contingency and war plans. Theater CINCs require viable CSAR capabilities in their areas of operations to prevent adversaries from capturing aircrews who are shot down...- $17.95
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Air Control: Strategy for a Smaller United States Air Force
In 1921 as England faced severe financial pressures resulting from the economic strain of World War I, the British government sought a military strategy for policing its newly acquired Middle East mandates. After a successful demonstration of airpower's effectiveness in Somaliland, the British adopted...- $57.95
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A US ASAT Policy for a Multipolar World
Whether to pursue the continued development of a US ASAT in the 1990s will prove a difficult choice for defense planners. Making a case for the weapon system in the bipolar world seemed perhaps "intuitively obvious" to ASAT advocates. The US was faced with...- $15.95
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De-Ranged: Global Power and Air Mobility for the New Millennium
This is a story of long-range airpower, from General Henry "Hap" Arnold's vision of a Global Mission to the Global Strike Task Force and Expeditionary Air Forces of the year 2001. It examines global power from its origins as Strategic Air Command built a...- $17.95
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Waste to Watts and Water: Enabling Self-Contained Facilities Using Microbial Fuel Cells
Combat support is not sexy in the United States Air Force. And future combat supportthat can draw yawns from even the most eager support officers. In the service known for glamorous, cutting-edge technologies, why doesn't American innovation show up in the support realm? If...- $15.95
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Hearts, Minds, and Defense: Public Diplomacy, Strategic Communication and the United States' Search for Answers in a Post 9/11 World
This study examines the war of ideas concept, as discussed and studied after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and as the United States began its self-described global war on terrorism. The study examines the many different definitions of this concept, considers why...- $17.95
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Focusing the Lens: A Framework for National Security Decision-Making With a Case Study of National Missile Defense
Can decision-makers determine whether the timing is favorable before pursuing a specific course of action in implementing a national security program, particularly an innovation that requires simultaneous changes in technology, organization, strategy and policy? National security innovators have no problem inventing a "very clever...- $17.95
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Suggested Policy for Incorporating Operations Research/Systems Analysis Into the Institute of Combined Arms and Support's Management Model
The Institute of Combined Arms and Support (ICAS), within the U.S. Army Combat Developments Command (USACDC), is responsible for developing the combat doctrine for forces that employ combined arms. In discharging its combat development responsibilities, ICAS is guided by a management model. To proceed...- $17.95
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Vendor: Charles K. Welliver
Strategic Analysis of Two Joint Contingency Operations: Lebanon 1958 and Dominican Republic 1965
This study compares the United States use of military power to achieve political aims in Lebanon 1958 and the Dominican Republic 1965. The study uses the Strategic Analysis Model, developed at the Command and General Staff College, to integrate historical data to determine if...- $17.95
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Vendor: Daniel F. Goergen
Iimpetus Behind the Creation of the United States Naval Reserve
The United States Naval Reserve (USNR) provides the United States Navy a ready pool of trained personnel as an augmentation force to the active duty manning. In the 230-year history of the Navy the Naval Reserve has only been organized for the last 90...- $17.95
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History and Effects of the Kosovo Polje Mythology
The mythology surrounding the 1389 Battle of Kosovo Polje, in present-day Serbia, is the foundation for the Serbian cultural identity and is a prism through which Serbs view and interpret the past, present, future. The mythology, created out of necessity to cope with Ottoman...- $17.95
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Iberian Leech: Napoleon's Counterinsurgency Operations in the Peninsular, 1807-1810
By 1807, Napoleon's victories over his European adversaries were legendary. His Grand Army had defeated the greatest European armies of the period. Each army, in succession, from the Hapsburg Empire to Russia, had been soundly beaten and had not been able to come to...- $17.95
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Historical Review of the Development of Doctrine for Command Relationships in Amphibious Warfare
This thesis traces the development of doctrine for command relationships in amphibious warfare. The study examines the command relationships employed in landing operations through World War I, with emphasis on Santiago in the Spanish-American War and Gallipoli in World War I as the driving...- $17.95
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Impact of Artillery Precision Munitions on Army Strategic Objectives
The United States Army is changing, and the scope, pace and complexity of that change is unprecedented, given that change is occurring during a war very different from those of the past. The Army Strategic Planning Guidance, 2005, describes why and how the Army...- $57.95
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History of Peacekeeping in the Sinai Desert, 1956-2002
The Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) celebrated their twentieth anniversary in the Sinai Desert in 2002. During the past twenty years there has hardly been a shot fired in anger between Egypt and Israel, the antagonists the MFO is charged with keeping at peace....- $17.95
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Vendor: Eric A. Kevitz
Future Availability of Strategic Raw Materials and Possible North Atlantic Treaty Organization Actions
This thesis examines the question of the scarcity of strategic raw materials and the potential for the interruption or cut-off in the supply of these raw materials to the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Strategic raw materials are defined as those...- $17.95
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Hungarian Army Special Reconnaissance Forces in Peace Operations
Ever since the collapse of the world of the bipolar opposition between the former USSR led Warsaw Pact and NATO, political and military leaders have been facing a different security environment with overwhelming instability and uncertainty. In this environment peaceful states are endangered by...- $17.95
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Homeland Security Strategy From the Cold War Into the Global War on Terrorism: An Analysis of Deterrennce, Forward Presence, and Homeland Defense
Homeland security was restored as America's number one goal of national security strategy following 9/11. The evolution of American national security strategy, from the Cold War years into the post-9/11 years, demonstrated a historical reliance on three key elements: deterrence, forward presence, and homeland...- $17.95
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Guatemalan Military: Transition From War to Peace
The purpose of this research is to determine if the Guatemalan military has successfully transitioned from a wartime counterinsurgency military to a professional peacetime military subordinated to civilian control within a democracy. In December of 1996, the Guatemalan government and the insurgent representatives signed...- $17.95
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Given the Absence of Established Doctrine, are There Concepts and Doctrinal Guidance Available From Varying Sources, Which are Relevant to Shaping the
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is desirous of establishing written doctrine for the organization. This paper seeks to review the doctrine of the British, Chinese and US armed forces with a view to extracting and composing considerations for the JDF in its establishment of...- $17.95
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Future of Security Force Assistance: Is the Modular Brigade Combat Team the Right Organization?
The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review directs the Military Services to develop, within their general-purpose forces (GPF), the capability to conduct security force assistance, more specifically to train, advise, and assist foreign security forces. The Army wants to meet this requirement with the Modular Brigade...- $17.95
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Evolution of Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda is a significant threat to the national security of the United States and its allies. This makes it important for individuals in these countries, both military and civilian, to understand the evolution of this threat. This thesis analyzes Al Qaeda's evolution from...- $57.95
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Erosion of Fringe Benefits and its Negative Effect on Attitudes and Career Intentions of Regular Army Officers
Many soldiers feel that their fringe benefits are being gradually but steadily worn away. The benefits themselves exert a significant influence on an individual's decision to make the Army a career. This study, aimed at Regular Army officer students at the Command and General...- $17.95
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Drug War: Diplomatic and Security Implications for Mexico and the United States
The drug war in Mexico is entering its fourth year as of 2011. The level of violence has spread throughout Mexico raising doubts as to Mexico's ability to win and assert its State authority. The violence in the Northern part of Mexico causes significant...- $17.95
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Vendor: Istvan Toth
Effects of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 on the Hungarian Military Higher Education
This thesis provides information and analysis of the effects of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution 1956 on the Hungarian military higher education system. Providing a historical overview, the thesis sets up an understanding of the Hungarian military higher education's situation from its establishment until the...- $57.95
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Effectiveness of the Army and Navy Munitions Board During the Interwar Period
In spite of a late entry into World War I, the United States found itself unprepared to adequately equip its expeditionary forces for combat operations in Europe. After the War, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1920, which tasked the Assistant Secretary of...- $17.95
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Dynamics of Army Writing
Currently the U.S. Army is intensely appraising its doctrine and methods in view of perceived future wars. The relationship existing between the division G-2 and G-3 has not been examined. Historically peacetime the role of the G-2 and related intelligence resources have been drastically...- $17.95
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Economic Liberalism and Regional Security in East Asia: A Case Study on the Impact of China's Accession to the WTO
China gained formal accession to the WTO in December 2001 after fifteen years of negotiations and domestic economic reforms. Since then, China's economy has been on an upward trajectory, surpassing Germany and Japan to become the second largest economy in the world. Far from...- $17.95
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Draft as a Deterrent Influence on U.S. Military Interventions
With the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq, Americans are once again discussing the draft. Congressman Charles Rangel has argued that we need the draft to fill the ranks or force disengagement from Iraq and prevent entry into unnecessary wars. Rangel's idea of...- $17.95
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