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The Maxwell Papers, the Air War College's occasional papers series, focus on current and future issues of interest to the Air Force and US Department of Defense. The first Maxwell Papers was published in May of 1996 with the Air University Commander's signature on the foreword. Maxwell Papers are open to all interested authors, particularly Air War College faculty and students, but also to other officers and analysts. Maxwell Papers have been ...

This paper compares remotely piloted aircraftdronesoperations in both the US Army and US Air Force. It argues that officers should continue to pilot Air Force drones because of the increased risks and more complicated missions of Air Force drones versus Army drones. It points out that the current rise of drones and decline of manned aircraft in the Air Force will push its officers to drones anyway. This is a good trend because the risks and ...

Donovan Research Library and the US Armor Research Library are now part of the Maneuver Center of Excellence Libraries Virtual Library program. For the past few years, both libraries have processed large parts of their historical collections of student papers, post newspapers, documents, yearbooks, and other materials to be digitized. The collections represent the intellectual talent of research and education that soldiers receive from the fac...

The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. Created by the staff of the KU libraries, KU ScholarWorks is the digital repository of the University. It contains scholarly work created by KU faculty and staff, as well as material from the University Archives. KU ScholarWorks makes important research and historical items available to a wider audience and helps assure their long-t...

Donovan Research Library and the US Armor Research Library are now part of the Maneuver Center of Excellence Libraries Virtual Library program. For the past few years, both libraries have processed large parts of their historical collections of student papers, post newspapers, documents, yearbooks, and other materials to be digitized. The collections represent the intellectual talent of research and education that soldiers receive from the fac...

A unique review of a little-known strategic research project conducted at Air University during the early 1950s.

The purpose of this research paper was to examine the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and how its implementation has varied in different presidential Administrations. It will outline the debates about preservation of all presidential records, including those created electronically, and examine the policy questions and options faced by the 112th Congress.

Why did Operation MARKET GARDEN fail? Was it due to poor decision making, faulty planning, or bad intelligence? After outlining the operation's plan and objectives, this paper evaluates several theories about one of the most famous military failures of World War II. Each theory is examined in light of historical records and biographical accounts that detail what MARKET GARDEN planners and commanders knew, and when they knew it. The paper concl...

In today's military, the pace of operations no longer allows commanders the luxury of time to train new staff members in the culture and operations of their Area of Responsibility (AOR). The Combatant Commands Informational Series toolbooks assist commanders by providing a training aid identifying the roles, functions, responsibilities, and Area of Responsibility (AOR) of the unified commands. The primary goal and designed focus of this traini...

Since World War II the United States has almost continually gotten itself involved in military operations that can be seen as nation building experiments vice defense of our homeland and democracy. Media reporting today comes out instantaneously and many Americans find themselves wondering why the US Government is putting our precious resource (our Armed Forces) into harm's way to help build new nations around the world. Today, the fights in I...

The GOE ToolBook is an interactive, computer database depicting aviation heroes from the annual Gathering of Eagles (GOE) events at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in 1994, 1995, and 1996. The GOE ToolBook is designed to present aviation heritage in a way that is both enjoyable and educational. Indexed and simple to navigate, the GOE ToolBook does several things: It allows the user to view attractive, high-resolution scans of artwork depictin...

Characterized by porous borders and nomadic groups the Sahara makes it extremely difficult for the U.S. military and local forces, working in the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership, to track the flow of people and material across the region's borders. With its vast size, the Sahara provides an excellent base for terrorists and hinders effective policing and counter-terrorism efforts along the border regions of Algeria, Mali, and Niger. ...

As NATO is in the process of developing a new Strategic Concept (SC), Norway is one of the small European countries trying to make an important contribution to the future of NATO. During the Cold War the Norway-Russia border along with Arctic military considerations meant that Norway was important to the security of NATO, but afterwards the focus of NATO shifted to other regions of Europe, particularly the Balkans. With the start of the intern...

The growing strategic demand for joint capability, and the expectation of less defense spending to acquire this capability, leads many to say that we need more joint acquisition programs. However, the 'joint acquisition' process is not always the most efficient way in which to develop and procure these capabilities. Historically, we have not fully realized the expected benefits from our joint acquisition programs. In fact, we have seen joint p...

This hypertext book provides a summary of Information Warfare (IW) concepts, and establishes planning guidance for employing these concepts in combat. Specifically, this book defines what IW is and why its important, summarizes current IW employment methods, discusses how to build an IW campaign plan, identifies key IW support agencies, and discusses IW's future potential. In defining IW, it takes an innovative look at IW's relation to the pri...

Joint and multinational staffs are generally unfamilar with US Navy capabilities and operations, leading to less than optimum naval integration in joint and multinational operations. The Carrier Battle Group employment ToolBook is a multi-media ToolBook on CD-ROM that focuses on carrier battle group (CVBG) assets, missions and planning factors, with the aim to better achieve joint objectives. The ToolBook is broken down into three main categor...

The number of Reservists who have never served on extended active duty is growing as a percentage of the Total Force. In the spirit of transformation it is necessary to re-examine the traditional method of providing these non-prior service (NPS) Reservists with accession level training (i.e. boot camp). The traditional approach is inflexible and reflects a Cold War mentality about readiness but the alternatives methods are not clear. This pape...

Effective leadership is critical to the military, it promotes unit cohesion and teamwork--key factors to unit success. This daunting task of leading a "fighting unit" is exacerbated when forces internal and external to the military place obstacles in one's path. Certainly, one of the challenges of a leader is to overcome obstacles or adverse situations in accomplishing its assigned mission and thus meet the security need of the country. The Tu...

This paper is written for the non-"space-minded" person who is willing to hear ideas of how to integrate space power throughout the U.S. military's joint warfighting ways. The U.S. military is becoming increasingly more dependent upon space assets to help win wars. In fact, some have said, "Operation DESERT STORM was the first space war."1 As the world's dependence on space assets grows, so grows the costs of building space assets and launchin...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Area Studies ToolBook is an attempt to quantify a broad range of information about the twelve states which comprise the CIS. The authors of the ToolBook present and analyze this information on the leadership, system essentials, infrastructure, population, and military forces of each country in an attempt to inform the reader of some basic facts as well as draw some conclusions about the direction th...