Boots on the ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boots on the ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations write by John J. McGrath. This book was released on 2006. Boots on the ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper clearly shows the immediate relevancy of historical study to current events. One of the most common criticisms of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq in 2003 is that too few troops were used. The argument often fails to satisfy anyone for there is no standard against which to judge. A figure of 20 troops per 1000 of the local population is often mentioned as the standard, but as McGrath shows, that figure was arrived at with some questionable assumptions. By analyzing seven military operations from the last 100 years, he arrives at an average number of military forces per 1000 of the population that have been employed in what would generally be considered successful military campaigns. He also points out a variety of important factors affecting those numbers-from geography to local forces employed to supplement soldiers on the battlefield, to the use of contractors-among others.
Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations
Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations write by John J. Mcgrath. This book was released on 2012-06-29. Boots on the Ground: Troop Density in Contingency Operations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper (GWOT OP), by Dr. Lawrence Yates, provides his thoughts and analysis of the US Army's participation in stability operations (SO) since 1789. Dr. Yates, a member of the CSI Team since 1981, has spent twenty plus years intensely studying this aspect of Army operations. Prior to his retirement in 2005, CSI asked him to put in writing his impressions formed by his research in this field. The result is this monograph. Dr. Yates makes several key arguments about the Army's involvement in SO. Among the key points he makes is his contention that the Army has an institutional habit of forgetting the lesson learned about SO, when, after conducting a stability operation, it returns to conventional warfare preparation. He also point out, correctly, that the Army, which has participated in far more SO-type activities sine 1789 than it has conventional wars, has hitherto retained a mindset that stability operations are an anomaly rather than the norm in American military operations. It is our hope that this GWOT OP will be of great value in providing the military professional with a broad overview of the history of the US Army's participation in stability operations, and at least one historian's view on how well it performed. Some may disagree with Dr. Yates' views on specific aspects of his analysis; that is well and good. If this GWOT OP stimulates a vigorous debate, Dr. Yates' study will have achieved its purpose.~
The Other End of the Spear
The Other End of the Spear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Other End of the Spear write by John J. Mcgrath. This book was released on 2011-09-16. The Other End of the Spear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to develop a general historical ratio. This ratio is called the Tooth-to-Tail Ratio. McGrath's study finds that this ratio, among types of deployed US forces, has steadily declined since World War II, just as the nature of warfare itself has changed. At the same time, the percentage of deployed forces devoted to logistics functions and to base and life support functions have increased, especially with the advent of the large-scale of use of civilian contractors. This work provides a unique analysis of the size and composition of military forces as found in historical patterns. Extensively illustrated with charts, diagrams, and tables. (Originally published by the Combat Studies Institute Press)
Armor
Armor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armor write by . This book was released on 2008. Armor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On point II : transition to the new campaign: the United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003-January 2005
On point II : transition to the new campaign: the United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003-January 2005 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On point II : transition to the new campaign: the United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003-January 2005 write by . This book was released on . On point II : transition to the new campaign: the United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003-January 2005 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
