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the decade, our country has assumed widespread operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to bring balance to those countries and secure our interests. According to (JP 3-0), " An operational environment is a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander whereas, Commanders at all levels have their own operational environments for their particular operations” “The social variable describes the…

• D-Day 6/6/1944: • The battle of Normandy lasted from June 1944 to August 1944 • This battle resulted in the allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control • Battle began on June 6th, 1944 • An estimated 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along one 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of the Normandy region of France • This invasion was considered one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history. It required very extensive…

Although Adolf Hitler desired to invade both England and the Soviet Union he was forced to make a decision between the two in the late spring early summer of 1941. Adolf Hitler expressed strong desire in his book Mein Kampf, that he had an underlying objective to invade the Soviet Union. His justifications were to overcome the threat from Jewish-Bolshevik Communism and to gain expanded territory for the German people. Additionally, Hitler believed the German people were a superior race and…

the operation overload during the Second World War, it cost the allies more than 9,000. Although they did win the battle that was so significant it was and still is the largest invasion in history that has ever existed. What happened during D-day at Normandy and how did it affect the war? The soviets gained ground at Stalingrad and at North Africa, the Stalin continued to call for an invasion of Europe after Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin all met up in Tehran for a conference. The operation…

Allied invasion of Sicily on 10 July 1943, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II. The Allies intentions were to remove the Italian regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack in the future. I argue that when evaluating operational-level command and control against the elements of mission command during Operation HUSKY, the Allied forces lacked the necessary…

Two key events in European history were the collectivization that occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin and the final solution in Nazi occupied Europe, courtesy of Adolf Hitler. There were many similarities and differences between these two events. Although there is some variation between the two occurrences, both irrevocably changed Europe and the world. The process of collectivization was a policy of forced consolidation of peasant households into collective farms and it was…

(Source I). This was an operation that was clearly studied and devised in a strategic way to make sure that it was efficient without any problems. The Allies got people from all over to be able to study every detail on the areas taken over by the Nazi and this was usually done by…

The Dieppe Raid was executed on August 19th, 1942. This raid was a pivotal moment in World War II. Due to the Soviet Union wanting a second Front and Churchill wanting a moral boosting victory, the Dieppe Raid was organized. Unfortunately, the Dieppe Raid was not a moral boosting victory like Churchill had wanted. The Dieppe Raid was a disaster in terms of planning and execution, however the Allied Forces learned many valuable lessons for their next full on assault. The Dieppe Raid was a failure…

Introduction Coinciding with the Nazi takeover in 1933, Germany began a belligerent rearmament of the Wehrmacht by taking advantage of political and ideological strains in Europe and Russia. By rearming and reforming the German military, Hitler hoped to secure Germany’s global dominance by creating a powerful striking force, capable of rapid mobilization and decisive victory. In part, historians attribute Germany’s ability to rearm to liberating appeasement policies; however, another…

The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany renounced war between the two countries, giving the Soviet Union much needed time to strengthen itself before Germany’s certain betrayal. Through the pact, Russia was not only promised half of Poland, a territory which had been under Russian sovereignty before World War I, but the Baltic States and Bulgaria. Although Ribbentrop, under the guidance of Hitler, most likely didn’t assume that Russia was ever planning to expand…