Combatant commander

authority and direction by commanders using mission orders to enable disciplined initiative within the commander’s intent to empower agile and adaptive leaders in the conduct of unified land operations (ADP 6-0). Using the principles of mission command, leaders are more effective with subordinate units accomplishing the mission. These principles assist commanders and staff in balancing the art of command with the science of control. ADP 6-0 states that the…

are drawn into the war because they are left in destitution or because they were kidnapped by their commanders. If they don’t listen to their commanders they will get punished or even worse killed. This issue has caused people to be uncertain about…

Command (ACC) deploys Contract Support Brigades (CSB) comprised of Contingency Contracting Battalions (CCBN) and Contingency Contracting Teams (CCTs) to the Area of Operation (AO) to initiate theater, external, and systems contracts for the Geographic Combatant Commander’s (GCC) and/or the Joint Task Force Commander’s (JTF) concept of support. (Army Field Manual (FM) 4-92, Contracting Support Brigade, dated February 2010). Contingency contracting is the process of obtaining goods, services, and…

In most Supreme Court cases, the majority opinion usually sets the precedence for future cases and the concurrence has little to do with precedence. However, in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer Justice Jackson’s concurrence creates a three-tiered system for contested Presidential acts. Each tier gives the Court a reasonable idea how to determine whether or not the President’s act was constitutional or not. The first tier is the President’s highest amount of power. It combines his actions…

therefore, they would not fall into the category of a lawful combatant. “Terrorists, by contrast, are unlawful combatants. They do not wear uniforms or distinctive insignia, or follow a clear chain of command. Not only do they hide among innocent civilians, their primary means of attacking us is to target innocent men, women and children for death. Because they violate the laws of war, they do not receive the privileges that a lawful combatant receives as a POW under Geneva” (Thiessen, M.…

should be punished for their crimes. Child soldiers are killing all over the world. In much of the world particularly unstable countries, the reality is when conflict breaks out children are quickly swept up. Numbers of conflicts involving child combatants has dropped since 2004 from twenty-seven to seventeen. Human right experts estimate that there are still more than 300,000 child soldiers worldwide. These groups that are making the kids fight are fighting for a share of each country's timber,…

could destroy all of nations nuclear forces in a first strike attack in turn ensuring a credible threat of a second strike. 8. The USPACOM commander might select the COMAFFOR to be dual hatted as the Air Component Commander and not the COMAFRFOR because of the preponderance of air assets and the natural roles of the services. 9. Two factors that the USPACOM commander would consider in determining which component serves as the JFACC are the amount of air assets and mission. 10. Yes, because it is…

Children are being abused, feed drugs and alcohol and ordered to kill people, are being held in trial for their crimes.Child soldier are children who are held in rebel groups.The rebel groups come to their villages and take them away from their families or kill their families. They are being trained to use guns and kill people. Child soldier should not be prosecuted. First reason child soldiers should not be prosecuted is because some of have no choice but to join rebel group. Children are…

execution” executed by a Joint Forces Air Component Commander through an Air Operations Center. Centralized control and decentralized execution is the fundamental organizing principle for the United States Air Force and affects everything from presentation of forces to weapon systems to doctrine to professional military education. This long seated tenet evolved through peace and war to have air minded leadership of airpower and ensure commanders understood and appropriately employed the unique…

solving this issue. the Although people may say that, “Armed & Underage” then states, “He now lives with other government soldiers in a filthy house littered with cigarette boxes and smelly clothes. Awil doesn't know exactly how old he is, but his commander says he's around 12. Awil is paid about $1.50 a day, but only every now and then, like most soldiers. His bed is a fly-covered mattress that he shares with two other child soldiers…” Awil may be doing what he enjoys to do rather than not…