I believe that SOF using F3EAD is better suited to the targeting process while deployed and in a current OPTEMPO. This is due to our composition, mission, and organic staffing process. It is not a better process than D3A, it is a different process that allows SOF to use their tactical level fusion of intelligence and operation to expedite their targeting process. Since SOFs composition and organization is different, our commanders trust this process to ODAs that are highly trained, mature, and…
Insurgency, as defined by author Seth Jones, is “a political military campaign by non-state actors who seek to overthrow a government or secede from a country through the use of unconventional—and sometimes conventional—military strategies.” There are two distinct instances of insurgency in the Middle East that aptly convey this definition: Iraq and Afghanistan. Comparatively these to cases are quite similar in motivation and success. It is the act of counter-insurgency by outside forces that…
Chemical Warfare in WWI Why did I pick this subject? I choose this because i’m interested in Chemical Warfare during WW1. In this essay you will learn when and why It started, what kind of chemicals they used in bombs and gases, who fought in the warfare, how it affected lives of people during this time, and when it ended. Chemical Warfare started by the Germans one hundred years ago on January 2, 1915. The Germans had first attacked using Chlorine gas. Which had started a war we called…
Zach Taylor English 10B Jennifer Atwood Period 5 Battle of Verdun “Four days and four nights - ninety-six hours - the last two days in ice-cold mud - kept under relentless fire, without any protection whatsoever except for the narrow trench, which even seemed to be too wide. I arrived with 175 men, I returned with 34 of whom several had half turned insane” (French captain, 1916). The death and suffering of the First World War were unlike anything that had happened before its time.…
Throughout war, there are many changes that can occur. People can change both in their character and personalities. Transformations occur through the whole book. People have to deal with the terrible war in Vietnam. It is very hard for the soldiers to adjust to the rough terrain and appalling climates. When someone comes into a place or environment they have never been before, there can be many reactions from them. Certain situations can bring feelings that someone would have never thought they…
What will end up being the killer of man? At some point we’ve probably all heard the phrase “technology is advancing too fast for our own good”, but is it really? In this day and age we now possess technology advanced enough to wipe all of mankind off the earth, or even destroy the earth itself. There are thousands of nuclear bombs in the world sitting dormant, waiting to be launched at their targets. Do we really want us, ignorant humans, which make our decisions based off feelings and morals…
The arms race. A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare that occurred before and during the Cold War. In this time, both the US and the Soviet Union were competing for supremacy. When the power of the nuclear weapon was discovered, both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that the more nuclear weapons they had, the more powerful they were. Thus the arms race began. Both of these countries aimed to create more and more nuclear weapons in order to have the upper hand which had…
Electromagnetism is now the focus of this childlike obsession, as it is as equally fascinating to me as the outlets were to the person of my youth. The Office of Naval Research has a department dedicated to electromagnetics research called Code 35, Naval Air Warfare and Weapons. The specific area within the department I would like to pursue is the electromagnetic railgun development. Currently the Navy is working to create a 32 Mega-joule railgun that can fire at least 10 rounds of ammunition…
The plan was simple, practically unbeatable, and a sure win for the Allies. Nothing could possibly allow it to fail. The Battle of the Somme was a complete military blunder when the fight broke out on that dreadful July 1st morning in 1916, to when it ended on November 18th, 1916. Despite the fact that the French needed relief from the German’s at Verdun, the Somme Offensive was only supposed to be a short battle. What it turned into was a mass killing of numerous troops on both sides of the…
Billy Stevens was just a regular teenage boy. He went to school, had friends that he consorted with, had parents who loved him. Life was normal for him. Until the war started. Hundreds of thousands of boys his age enlisted to fight for the cause. Despite his mother’s wishes, Stevens did too. He was hoping to find action, adventure, and glory on the battlefield. What he found instead was a trauma that he would never get over. Billy Stevens experienced many forms of trauma during his service in…