The Department of Defense is embarking on a broad initiative to make its space programs more responsive. There are many different views of responsive space, but common tenets include no cost and schedule growth within space programs, and space capabilities delivered directly to the operational and tactical warfighter within a theater of war. The Tactical Satellite 3 (TacSat-3) mission success c...

In the highly dynamic and information rich environment of military submarine operations, the Commanding Officer must make split second decisions that could ultimately result in the destruction or survival of ownship or the accomplishment of its designated mission. Despite extensive training and expertise, the fog of war often shadows real world encounters. Pieces of the tactical puzzle may be s...

During the American Civil War, U.S. Marines rarely engaged in land operations and even more conducted land-based or amphibious involving than one company. The Marine Corps’ lackluster battlefield performance ashore during War is best understood by examining their poor organization officer selection, recruiting retention, ad hoc formations larger company size, limited collective tactical trainin...

A s Surgeon General for the Canadian Forces (CF), I am also the commander of the Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS), which is responsible for delivering quality health care both in Canada and on deployments around the world. Providing health care in an operational setting is always a challenge, especially when this occurs in a hostile or combat setting with limitations posed by tactical and...

Components of the CSS system can be categorized in a number of ways. One way is to look at the functional areas of supply, transportation, maintenance, personnel support, combat health support, and field services. Another approach is to analyze the CSS activities performed at each level of war. Alternatively, the discussion could also be organized by the functions performed during each stage of...

B Y ALL TRADITIONAL METHODS of measuring military power, the United States and its allied forces should have had little difficulty defeating the North Vietnamese during the second Vietnamese war (1965-1972). At the height of its involvement in Vietnam, the United States was spending in excess of $25 billion a year. The US Army had committed 40 percent of all its combatready divisions. They were...

Abstract The Defence in Depth tactical doctrine was developed by the German Army during First World War order to overcome increasing French and British offensive capability on Western Front. This article attempts analyse how Turkish High Command accepted implemented as a guiding principle defensive pivotal Battle of Sakarya (1921) part 1919–1922 war with Greece. Despite sudden change lack exper...

The potential for increased transmission efficiency of military tactical command and control data links through voice/ data integration has increased in importance in recent years. With the introduction of even more sophisticated and automated weapons systems, the requirement for on-line exchange of data among tactically-embedded military computer systems has risen dramatically. Today we are fa...

This article deals with the tactical lessons of first six months Russian war in Ukraine. The war, which has sent seismic shocks throughout world, was conceived by many to be a new kind conflict, innovative, high-technology weapons and equipment bringing sea change history warfare. However, closer look shows more nuanced picture. While there are learned from this it is not as much break past con...