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 Thesis Front Material
Its military object is "to break the spirit and will of the enemy command by creating surprising and dangerous operational or strategic situations." To achieve this end, one must operate at a faster tempo or rhythm than one's adversaries.
Both men contend that the target for all military action should be the enemy command, and that the most effective and efficient mechanism by which to translate military expenditure into political gain is paralysis of that command.
Whereas Boyd speaks of operating at a faster tempo or rhythm than one's opponent, Warden describes the strategic and operational advantages inherent in high-technology "hyperwar." Whereas Boyd talks of creating a highly fluid and menacing environment to which the enemy cannot adapt, Warden advocates parallel attack against the enemy's key operational and strategic nodes.
www.fas.org /man/eprint/fadok.htm   (17154 words)

  
 ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR
Deception is a good force multiplier when used to cause the enemy to make an incorrect estimate of your strength or intentions and thereby hold troops needlessly in reserve or even to redeploy them to meet a perceived threat.
Deception is done to gain a competitive advantage over the enemy and is predicated on the enemy taking some type of incorrect action.
Deception can either be used to increase the ambiguity of the situation and thereby confuse the enemy or directly to mislead a foe.
www.usafa.af.mil /jscope/JSCOPE95/Chomeau95.html   (17154 words)

  
 Supreme Court Decision: Detainees and Enemy Combatant Rights (washingtonpost.com)
My disagreement with on the other side stems from: (1) their unwillingness ever to permit detention of American enemy combatants, no matter how strong the evidence, and (2) their assertion that the military's judgment that someone is an enemy combatant is not entitled to deference.
The Court held that Congress' post-Sept. 11 Authorization for the Use of Military Force authorized the President to detain without trial American enemy combatants captured on a battlefield -- hardly an unprecedented authorization.
Is the Court saying that a military officer cannot decide that an armed man shooting at our troops is an enemy combatant?
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A12017-2004Jun28.html   (3316 words)

  
 enemy combatant - Prison Talk Online
The government can jail an American citizen captured overseas indefinitely when the military declares him an "enemy combatant," a federal appeals court said yesterday, ruling that a Louisiana-born man has been held properly in a Navy brig without a lawyer or other constitutional rights.
Courts Must Yield to Military on 'Enemy Combatants,' 4th Circuit Rules
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in the case of Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan, rejected the Justice Department's argument that enemy combatants had no right to a judicial review of their detention and status.
www.prisontalk.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8248   (1734 words)

  
 Strategic Deception Behind the Normandy Invasion
     The military art of deception has two main goals:   (1) to lure the enemy into an exploitable action, (2) to provide the enemy with plausible misinformation thereby enabling an entirely different and desirable course of action.
  The military art of deception has two main goals:   (1) to lure or force the enemy into an exploitable action, (2) to provide the enemy with plausible misinformation thereby enabling an entirely different and desirable course of action.
It is a topic well deserving of increased attention, and its lessons and relevance should not be lost in current military planning and operations.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1997/Wendell.htm   (1734 words)

  
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Mann boldly crept to within rocket-launcher range of an enemy artillery position and, in the face of heavy enemy fire, destroyed an 88mm.
Fire from this machinegun and the other gun of the section was almost entirely responsible for stopping this enemy assault, and allowed the rifle platoon to which it was attached time to reorganize, assume positions on and hold the high ground gained during the day.
Minue in the face of inevitable death was unquestionably the factor that gave his company the offensive spirit that was necessary for advancing and driving the enemy from the entire sector.
www.anton-kemmeren.com /history230305-5.html   (1734 words)

  
 DP F1995M: The Art of Diplomacy in The Art of War
Here, I believe that Sun Tzu was stating the above ranking in terms of minimizing the cost of war (military expenses, lost lives, etc.), in which case it is preferable to not engage the enemy in actual fighting.
I found it interesting that I could read principles of military tactics that were put to paper (parchment?) two and a half millenia ago, and find familiarity in them.
But it is one of the most famous military treatises written because it is the oldest surviving one and quite possibly the first one ever written.
www.diplom.org /Zine/F1995M/Szykman/Art.html   (1734 words)

  
 Defense (military) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In military science, defense (or defence) is the art of preventing an enemy from conquering territory.
In non-local conflicts, it is generally true that defenders have an advantage over attackers, since they may have the ability to make preparations for the battle to protect themselves from the enemy while making the enemy vulnerable, such as laying obstacles such as landmines or preparing positions such as trenches and fortifications.
Defense may also be a euphemism for war, such as "Ministry of Defence".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Defense_(military)   (184 words)

  
 Strategy (Civil War)
Strategic objectives include defeating, destroying, or forcing enemy armies to retreat; seizing enemy strategic sites (supply lines, depots, arsenals, communications centers, and industry) crucial to his military effort; capturing the enemy capital; disrupting his economy; and demoralizing his will to wage war.
In this military art, troops are maneuvered outside the battlefield to achieve success in a large geographic area.
Whatever the elements and whatever the means, the fundamental goal of strategy remains the same: the overall use of force to accomplish broad military and political objectives.
www.civilwarhome.com /strategycivilwar.htm   (184 words)

  
 Bush determines Qatari student is an enemy combatant
But after he was declared an enemy combatant, al-Marri was moved from a prison in Illinois to a military brig in South Carolina, according to Lawrence Lustberg, who represented him in the criminal case.
As an enemy combatant, al- Marri can be held indefinitely with no access to a lawyer unless the military decides to bring charges, officials said.
The case represents the first time that the administration has shifted custody of someone charged by criminal prosecutors to the military as an enemy combatant, administration officials said.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/24/MN250160.DTL   (538 words)

  
 PakDef Forums - The Battle of Sehjra Salient
During December 1971 War, on the western front the Sehjra Salient was lost, to the enemy by a heterogeneous force, after bitter fighting.
The capture of Sehjra Salient by the enemy forestalled any offensive by Pakistan Army from that direction and denied observation and recce of the area.
To ward off pressure on the main defences, allow sufficient time for own 106 Brigade to capture Hussaine Wala Salient and also to lock at least two enemy brigades and one tank regiment opposite Sehjra Salient, GOC 11 Division deployed a heterogeneous force.
www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=6111   (2908 words)

  
 ART OF MILITARY DECEPTION....
Deceiving the enemy has been the intention of commanders throughout history, and examples of the successful employment of military deception abound.
In this book the author examines the means and stratagems of deception and studies examples illustrating them, ranging from the Monty's Double ploy to simulated retreat to draw the enemy on, to simulated concentrations of men and material to divert the enemy's attention from the real punch.
The range of titles stocked covers the whole spectrum of military history with titles on uniforms, battles, official histories, specialist works containing medal rolls and casualties lists, and numismatic titles for medal collectors and researchers.
www.nmpbooks.com /books/details/1233.htm   (2908 words)

  
 Chapter III. SETTING THE CONDITIONS: SEARCH AND ATTACK! TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES
This chapter focuses on the events that occur from the point the order is issued to the point initial contact with the enemy is made.
This initial planning process generally follows the doctrinal Military Decision-Making Process (MDMP), and most commonly uses the abbreviated decision-making process.
This initial plan outlines the basic concepts and procedures used to locate the enemy, and then how to destroy the enemy.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/call/call_97-8_chapter3.htm   (2521 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Judge Rules Detainee Tribunals Illegal
Green criticized the military for using what she called an illogically broad definition of "enemy combatant" in deciding to hold Muslim men from dozens of countries for as long as three years.
U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green said that the approximately 550 men held as "enemy combatants" are entitled to the advice of lawyers and to confront the evidence against them in those proceedings.
The exchange "might have been truly humorous had the consequences of the detainee's 'enemy combatant' status not been so terribly serious and had the detainee's criticism of the process not been so piercingly accurate," the judge wrote.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A51007-2005Jan31?language=printer   (2521 words)

  
 Colombia's Other Enemy: Human Rights Workers
In the black and white worldview of the Uribe administration and Colombian military officials, NGO workers are guerrillas.
And public accusations of this nature by government and military officials provide death squads with a green light to kill NGO workers with impunity.
On April 10, according to Human Rights Watch, during a speech at a conference sponsored by the United States Army in Washington, D.C., Colombian Army Brigadier General José Arturo Camelo, "Accused human rights NGOs of waging a 'legal war' against the military.
www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles4/Leech_Colombia.htm   (2521 words)

  
 THE ENEMY IS INSIDE THE GATES
The group determined that the enemy is within the gates, that he has infiltrated into the highest policy-making positions at the Federal level, and has absolute control, not only of the purse strings, but of the troop build-up and deployment of our military forces, including active, reserve and National Guard units.
The over-riding question: If we are at war, who is the enemy?
As we consider all the options -- and enemies -- who performed this act of war, whether from China, Russia, Israel, an Islamic country, or from NATO, we must also consider that the enemy may be within the gates.
www.apfn.net /messageboard/8-10-03/discussion.cgi.64.html   (2521 words)

  
 IRAQ'S WEAPONS: Tons of munitions must not get into enemy hands
The fact that the U.S. military is unable to do so is yet another indication of how the Pentagon, or the intelligence agents on which it relied, underestimated the tasks of securing a post-war Iraq.
Great stores of bombs, mines, missiles and bullets -- very destructive stuff -- remain unguarded at sprawling military supply depots around the country.
The New York Times says the American military estimates a million tons of munitions remain at thousands of sites around Iraq, more than can possibly be secured by U.S. and allied forces.
www.freep.com /voices/editorials/eweap15_20031015.htm   (2521 words)

  
 Ambush: Encyclopedia topic
An ambush is a long established military tactic (military tactic: more facts about this subject) in which an ambushing force uses concealment to attack an enemy that passes its position.
Their job is twofold; firstly to give the ambush commander early-warning of approaching enemy (usually by radio), and secondly, when the ambush is initiated, to prevent any enemy from escaping.
List of military tactics (List of military tactics: more facts about this subject)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ambush   (666 words)

  
 Fatalities List Since May 1st
George A. Lutz, II, 25, of Virginia Beach, Va., died in Fallujah, Iraq, on Dec. 29, when his dismounted patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
Master Sgt. Brett E. Angus, 40, of St. Paul, Minn., died Nov. 26 from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the vicinity of Camp Taqaddum, Iraq.
Andres was assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C. Sgt. Myla L. Maravillosa, 24, of Wahiawa, Hawaii, died in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Dec. 24, of injuries sustained earlier that day in Al Hawijah, Iraq, when her HMMWV was attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades.
www.antiwar.com /casualties/list.php   (11345 words)

  
 OODA loop - John Boyd
Boyd states that the orientation phase of the loop is the most important step, because if the enemy perceives the wrong threats, or misunderstands what is happening in the environment around him, then he will orient his thinking (and forces) in wrong directions and ultimately make incorrect decisions.
Boyd’s aim is to generate “non-cooperate” centers of gravity for the enemy through ambiguity, deception, novel circumstances, fast transient maneuvers, and the use of Sun-Tzu’s idea of Cheng and Ch’i.
Colonel Boyd viewed the enemy (and ourselves) as a system that is acting through a decision making process based on observations of the world around it.
www.valuebasedmanagement.net /methods_boyd_ooda_loop.html   (11345 words)

  
 Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of United States
The military operations must be against an armed enemy of the United States on or after Sept. 11, 2001.
Ferguson received the Army Commendation Medal for his performance as a machine gunner while under heavy enemy fire last May. According to the official wording of the award, Ferguson was commended for his courage and initiative under fire and for greatly contributing to the successful removal of enemy forces from the Jisr-Diyala NAC advisory building.
The Defense Department announced the Afghanistan Campaign Medal and Iraq Campaign Medal for military members who directly support Operation Enduring Freedom between Oct. 24, 2001, and a date to be determined in the future or Operation Iraqi Freedom between March 19, 2003, and some future date.
www.geocities.com /dco700/UnitedStates2.htm   (10886 words)

  
 Track 'Em Down -The Facts - John Kerry & Vietnam
John Kerry was discharged from active duty, not the military, on January 3, 1970 after serving only three years and eighteen days of his contract with the Navy.
Kerry had met with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegation to the Paris Peace talks in May 1970 and then held a demonstration in July 1971 in Washington to try to get Congress to accept the enemy's seven point peace proposal without a single change.
In the United States military, the process of awarding a medal begins with preparation of a form prescribed by official regulations.
home.att.net /~trackitdown/vietnam.html   (10367 words)

  
 HyperWar: US Army in WWII: The Supreme Command (ETO) [Chapter 4]
It was known that military government referred to the authority established in occupied territory of the enemy and that it was intended largely to preserve order in zones in enemy areas through which the victorious armies were passing.
Military commanders were not always pleased at having to turn their attention from the task of winning battles to the business of feeding people and of making electric plants and waterworks function again.
The objective of civil affairs operations was restated as an effort to insure "that conditions exist among the civilian population which will not interfere with operations against the enemy, but will promote these operations." Stricken out was the statement that the commander's responsibility did not embrace the rehabilitation of a country or its industries.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-4.html   (10367 words)

  
 Military tribunal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A military tribunal is a kind of military court designed to try enemy forces members during war time, it operates outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil matters; the judges are military officers; and the judges fulfill the role of jurors.
Military tribunals have jurisdiction over any person under custody of the United States armed forces, no matter how it was captured or in what country it is, who is an enemy combatant and charged with crimes by a military authority.
A military tribunal is an inquisitorial system based on charges brought by a military authority, prosecuted by a military authority, judged by military officers, and sentenced by military officers against a member of an adversarial force.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_tribunal   (10367 words)

  
 Military tactic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military tactics is the collective name for methods of engaging and defeating an enemy in battle.
Common military tactics include frontal assaults, attempts to flank the enemy, keeping troops in reserve and the use of ambushes.
Up until the 19th century, many of the military tactics was confined to battlefield tactics, concerned with maneuvering units in battle in open terrain.
www.tupelo.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Military_tactics   (284 words)

  
 Military tribunal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A military tribunal is a kind of military court designed to try enemy forces members during war time, it operates outside the scope of conventional criminal and civil matters; the judges are military officers; and the judges fulfill the role of jurors.
Military tribunals have jurisdiction over any person under custody of the United States armed forces, no matter how it was captured or in what country it is, who is an enemy combatant and charged with crimes by a military authority.
A military tribunal is an inquisitorial system based on charges brought by a military authority, prosecuted by a military authority, judged by military officers, and sentenced by military officers against a member of an adversarial force.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_tribunal   (1327 words)

  
 Military tactic: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
The military tactic of frontal assault is a direct, hostile movement of forces towards enemy forces in a large number, in an attempt to overwhelm the enemy....
Military history is the recording (in writing or otherwise) of the events in the history of humanity that fall within the category of "conflict." this may range from...
Military doctrine is a level of military planning between national strategy and unit-level tactics, techniques, and procedures....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/military_tactic.htm   (1147 words)

  
 Tattoo Symbols & Designs - Military Tattoo Designs
For these warriors, the tattoo was a form of disguise where only the tattooed half of the body was shown to an enemy in combat such that the warrior couldn’t be recognized by that same enemy in another encounter.
In one sense, military tattoos are much like any other type of tattoo, serving many personal purposes ranging from mementos, milestones, and memorials to risk-taking behavior, sheer body adornment, and even curiosity.
However, the military tattoo is a special case, with a foot in two worlds.
www.tattoosymbol.com /military-tattoo.html   (768 words)

  
 The 716th Military Police Battalion History Page
Military Police surrounded the compound and exchanged fire with the guerillas on the grounds, but could not enter the compound due to the volume of fire and uncertainty as to the enemy’s disposition.
Although trained as police and insufficiently armed for combat operations, soldiers of the battalion met the enemy in ten major and countless smaller engagements at a cost of 27 military police killed and 44 wounded.
As additional Military Police units arrived, the 716th’s area of responsibility changed until eventually the battalion was responsible for the metropolitan areas of Saigon and Cholon.
www.campbell.army.mil /716mp/716history.htm   (2279 words)

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