| Lithuanian Freedom Fighters' Tactics Resisting the Soviet Occupation 1944-1953 |
14 Dec 2012 |
147 pages |
| Authors:
Darius Bernotas; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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 | Although the end of World War II enabled devastated countries to rebuild and enjoy a time of peace, another bloody war had just started in Lithuania. Lithuanian Freedom Fighters (LFFs) fought for almost a decade (1944-1953) against the Soviets who occupied their country after World War II. The LFFs' active resistance against Soviet forces is one of the great examples of 20th Century guerrilla warfare. However, there is still a ... |
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| Improving NATO'S Capabilities: A Roadmap to 2020 |
14 Dec 2012 |
128 pages |
| Authors:
Pierre A Leroux; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Using a comprehensive approach, this study aims to recommend measures that will improve NATO's capabilities and make it a more efficient organization. For any military organization, adjusting capabilities to governmental ambitions and strategic goals is fundamental. As such, NATO needs to continuously adjust its posture and capabilities to remain relevant in the face of new threats and new requirements, especially since the end of the Cold War. This adjustment is ... |
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| The Cultural Dimension of Army Transition |
06 Dec 2012 |
66 pages |
| Authors:
Angus M Tilney; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The British Army and its allies face fundamental change as the campaigns of the past decade draw down and they reconfigure for the complex and evolving threats of the future. As Western armies transition towards geostrategic uncertainty, they must become flexible and adaptable to confront the unexpected, and to avoid the perennial pitfall of training to fight the last war. This monograph explores the cultural dimension of army transition which ... |
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| The Graduate Education of Warrant Officers by AMSP Provides Benefits to the Army |
06 Dec 2012 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Manuel D Vasquez; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| Warrant Officers are the Army's technical experts, and they provide commanders with detailed information in their area of expertise. The traditional Warrant Officer career path has been very narrow and focused. However, the Army has recently begun offering broadening opportunities to Warrant Officers, such as the Advanced Military Studies Program (AMSP). In 2010, the first group of Warrant Officers graduated from the AMSP and moved on to assignments throughout the ... |
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| PTSD in Limb Trauma and Recovery |
Oct 2012 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
M T Shea; Susan E D'Andrea; Hugo Bruggeman; Liz Drewniak; Sam Fulcomer; BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI
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| This grant consists of three projects, each with its own investigative team, as described below. Program 1: Establishing the Parameters of Virtual Reality Environments in the Treatment of PTSD (Tracie Shea, Ph.D. lead investigator). This project has obtained local IRB approval and pre-approval from the DoD. Hardware has been tested and validated and subject recruitment will begin with DoD HRPO approval. Program 2: Framework for Comparison of Display Technologies as ... |
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| Facial Affect Reciprocity in Dyadic Interactions |
Sep 2012 |
69 pages |
| Authors:
David Matsumoto; SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIV CA
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| The purpose of this effort was to examine a new theoretical framework called Facial Affect Reciprocity, which refers to the exchange of facial expressions among interactants across time, and the linkage between specific types of emotion. We examined whether different combinations of facial expressions of emotion of pairs of individuals engaged in an interactive game requiring cooperation and adaptation would be reliably related to objective performance data. Same-sex stranger dyads ... |
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| Applications of Strengths-Based Leadership Theory for the U.S. Army |
Sep 2012 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
Melinda Key-Roberts; Matthew Budreau; ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FORT BELVOIR VA
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| The purpose of this research was to determine what strategies military leaders use to develop subordinate leaders, and if the current developmental process aligns with a strengths-based approach to leader development. A total of 41 active military leaders were interviewed by researchers from the U.S. Army Research Institute. Analysis of focus group transcripts resulted in 32 themes related to developing subordinate leaders. Through comparing and aggregating these codes, the initial ... |
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| Propellant-free Spacecraft Relative Maneuvering via Atmospheric Differential Drag |
Sep 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Riccardo Bevilacqua; RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INST TROY NY
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| Lyapunov Control: Controller signal is chosen such that: Lyapunov function of the tracking error is positive. Derivative of the Lyapunov function is negative. Thus ensuring that the tracking error converges to zero. |
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| Competitive Adaptation in Terrorist Networks: Differences Between the Al-Muhajiroun and the Irish Republic Army |
Aug 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Abhinav Sangal; Michael K Martin; Kathleen M Carley; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA INST OF SOFTWARE RESEARCH INTERNAT
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| Competitive adaptation refers to how adversaries such as terrorist groups and government counterterrorism agencies learn and adapt behavior based on behavior of the other. Using significant events as guides, studying the adaptation will identify and characterize how groups will evolve. For analyzing the difference in adaptations and changes, we used the Competitive Adaptation for Terrorist Networks (CATNET) data. In this paper, we analyze the differences in the adaptations between two ... |
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| Dialogue Act Recognition using Reweighted Speaker Adaptation |
Jul 2012 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Congkai Sun; Louis-Philippe Morency; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES INST FOR CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
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| In this work we study the effectiveness of speaker adaptation for dialogue act recognition in multiparty meetings. First, we analyze idiosyncracy in dialogue verbal acts by qualitatively studying the differences and conflicts among speakers and by quantitively comparing speaker-specific models. Based on these observations, we propose a new approach for dialogue act recognition based on reweighted domain adaptation which effectively balance the influence of speaker specific and other speakers? data. ... |
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| An Impending Post-Conflict Period, Global Financial Crisis, and Faltering U.S. Hegemony: How Ought U.S. Diplomacy Adapt? |
13 Jun 2012 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Petra Zabriskie; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINT ADVANCED WARFIGHTING SCHOOL
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| This paper asserts that an interrelationship exists between the United States' military power, economic strength, and international standing, and its development and use of diplomacy. This interrelationship developed during the late 19th century and continued without need for modification until about 2009. A new interplay will largely define the upcoming post-conflict period. The conduct of U.S. diplomacy must now adapt and do so amidst stringent fiscal circumstances and vacillating prestige. ... |
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| Peer-to-Peer Learning and the Army Learning Model |
08 Jun 2012 |
142 pages |
| Authors:
Devon F Adkinson; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The Army Learning Model (ALM) is the new educational model that develops adaptive leaders in an era of persistent conflict. Life-long, individual-based learning will blend together self-development, institutional instruction, and operational experience across the operational and institutional components. In January 2011, the Army released the Army Learning Concept 2015, now referred to as the ALM. The ALM changes the method and manner in which education will be delivered to the ... |
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| Developing Adaptive Junior Leaders in the Army Nurse Corps |
08 Jun 2012 |
173 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher A VanFosson; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Senior Army leaders today struggle to develop adaptive junior leaders prepared to lead in chaotic operating environments. To overcome this challenge, the Army Nurse Corps introduced the Army Nursing Campaign Plan, which is nested in the security strategies of the United States. The Army Nursing Campaign Plan made the development of adaptive Army Nurses a strategic objective for the Corps. This thesis examines the need for adaptive leaders in the ... |
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| The French Officers: Craftsmen of the Conquest and Pacification of Tonkin (1871-1897) |
08 Jun 2012 |
173 pages |
| Authors:
Maurice R de Saint Victor; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| From 1871 to 1897, France progressively expanded her colonization over Tonkin, also called Indochine, in the North of Vietnam. Three attempts were necessary to completely gain control of, then pacify, this territory. Navy and Army officers played a crucial role in this expansion by integrating their action into the political agenda. In such a context, they successively challenged the Annamites and Chinese armies, then local piracy and insurgency. Based on ... |
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| Appreciating the World: A Framework for Doing Socio-Political Analysis |
08 Jun 2012 |
86 pages |
| Authors:
David P Oakley; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Advocates of Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS) and the liberal arts share the same goal: cultivation of agile, adaptive, and innovative people. Yet, the Army does not have an implementation plan for cultivating these attributes, and its Professional Military Education (PME) institutions do not offer an expansive liberal arts education. Given the contemporary operational environment, any plan to develop critical and creative thinkers must include an appreciation of complex socio-political ... |
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| Adaptations to Curriculum at the Quartermaster School Officer Candidate Course during World War II |
08 Jun 2012 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Bryan J Fencl; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The United States Army faced an officer shortage while mobilizing before World War II. General George C. Marshall pushed for the creation of Officer Candidate Schools (OCS) as a method to bridge the officer personnel gap. OCS generated the largest numbers of officers during World War II. The Quartermaster School faced the same dilemma as all the other branch schools. It used a peacetime curriculum when establishing the training program ... |
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| Survival through Adaptation: The Chinese Red Army and the Encirclement Campaigns, 1927-1936 |
08 Jun 2012 |
271 pages |
| Authors:
Wilbur W Hsu; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This study analyzes the Chinese Red Army from 1927 to 1936 to determine how the Red Army survived attacks from external military forces and also successfully overcame the threats to its existence posed by changing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies. During this period, the CCP attempted to develop, expand, and professionalize the Chinese Red Army as a way to defend Communist base areas from a series of Kuomingtang (KMT) Extermination ... |
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| Lean Manufacturing Principles Improving the Targeting Process |
08 Jun 2012 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
George E Chittenden; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The Army's framework for targeting is the Decide, Detect, Deliver and Assess (D3A) methodology. The D3A and Joint Targeting processes are indeed time-tested and proven, but a change in focus is driving the need to improve targeting. As a force, we have focused on operations in a counterinsurgency environment for the last 10 years. However, as Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) end, our change in focus ... |
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| The New Guard: A Service-Equivalent Force |
07 Jun 2012 |
86 pages |
| Authors:
James E Scalf; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINT ADVANCED WARFIGHTING SCHOOL
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| This thesis proposes that the National Guard is a service-equivalent force that requires expanded authorities to develop capabilities for its dual-role mission. The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the historical role of the colonial militia and its subsequent evolution into the modern-day National Guard. It examines the debates and issues that underpin the current defense force structure and makes specific recommendations for the future development and role of the ... |
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| Autonomous Adaptation and Collaboration of Unmanned Vehicles for Tracking Submerged Contacts |
01 Jun 2012 |
107 pages |
| Authors:
Andrew J Privette; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
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| Autonomous operations are vital to future naval operations. Unmanned systems, including autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), are anticipated to play a key role for critical tasks such as mine counter- measures (MCM) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Addressing these issues with autonomous systems poses a host of difficult research challenges, including sensing, power, acoustic communications, navigation, and autonomous decision-making. |
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| Air Force Command and Control: The Need for Increased Adaptability |
Jun 2012 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey B Hukill; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| This paper captures the results of a CSAF directed study on USAF command and control (C2). The study examined Air Force C2 in seven cases covering the spectrum of conflict to determine whether doctrine and organizational structures require change to fit uncertain and dynamic future scenarios. A modified version of the Alberts and Hayes C2 approach space construct was used for the analysis. The study's results showed that USAF C2 ... |
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| Adaptive Leadership in the Military Decision Making Process |
Jun 2012 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
William J Cojocar; TEXAS A AND M UNIV SAN ANTONIO TX
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| Today's Army leaders have accepted adaptive leadership as a practice and a methodology, integrating it into the way we train leaders to meet the challenges of the contemporary operating environment. Adaptive leadership is an accepted leadership practice that facilitates leading in a difficult and changing environment, as we encounter threats that change and evolve their tactics, techniques, and procedures on a weekly to monthly basis. Much has evolved in this ... |
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| Command and Control in a Complex World |
22 May 2012 |
83 pages |
| Authors:
David V Gillum; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV NORFOLK VA JOINT ADVANCED WARFIGHTING SCHOOL
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| The U.S. Joint Force stands alone in its ability to conduct large-scale combined arms warfare. Our unquestioned dominance leaves potential adversaries with no choice but to learn and adapt. This messy intersection between the industrial age and the information age is the groundswell of the evolutionary process: military adaptation. The national security problems facing the Joint Force are increasingly ill-defined and can be characterized as wicked problems. These wicked problems ... |
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| The American Way of Warfare |
17 May 2012 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Chad M Nangle; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| During the past several decades, numerous authors have written on the subject of an American way of war. These include works by Russell Weigley, Max Boot, and Brian Linn. The apparent differences among these works have stimulated debate among military scholars as to what constitutes the American way of war. These debates and the accepted validity of apparently differing accounts of the American way of war highlight how difficult it ... |
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| The Benefits of Game Use in a Signal Processing Graduate Class |
May 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Amanda S King; Richard K Martin; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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| It is important in the age of the INTERNET and video games to keep students engaged in the classroom. One way of doing this is through the use of games and simulations. TABOO is a card game that involves getting players to say a keyword without saying five forbidden words. The game can be adapted for any number of different subjects. In this study, the game was adapted for use ... |
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| An Innovative Approach to Lower the Risk of Software Intensive Development Programs |
30 Apr 2012 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Jeff Dunlap; BAE SYSTEMS SAN DIEGO CA
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| Since 1973, nearly 80% of DoD ACAT I programs have experienced cost overruns, coupled with a four-out-of-five chance of not fielding capability to the warfighter on time. With the DoD acquisition reforms of the past two decades, the probability of program success (PoPS) rate is improving. To continue improving PoPS, program management tools and techniques need to develop and become institutionalized to monitor software-intensive-based capability control, and logic development efforts. ... |
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| Widget and Mobile Technologies a Forcing Function for Acquisition Change: Paradigm Shift Without Leaving Bodies Behind |
30 Apr 2012 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Michael Morris; Christopher Raney; Kenneth Trabue; Timothy Boyce; Kari Nip; SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER PACIFIC SAN DIEGO CA
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| The Department of Defense (DoD) software acquisition policy struggles to adapt to the emerging trend of delivering lightweight applications on demand via application store technologies. The commercial world has evolved to where it now provides a constant stream of capabilities allowing customers to customize their information/communication devices with numerous applications. DoD-created solutions are often inflexibly designed with limited adaptability due to requirements for reliability, communications security, and absolute need for ... |
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| From Today's Tools and Practices to Tomorrow's Investments: New Directions in Systems Engineering |
30 Apr 2012 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Neches; James Carlini; Robert Graybill; Robert Hummel; Michael McGrath; OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING WASHINGTON DC
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| This presentation discusses challenges to the rapid execution of acquisition programs that would introduce affordable, effective, and adaptable systems into widespread use in a timely fashion. It suggests a revamping of the engineering process that would address these challenges, and describes the technical enablers that make that revamping feasible. Doing so will enable engineers and program decision makers to collaboratively focus on building the right things to provide utility in ... |
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| Developing Strategic Leaders: Innovators versus Operators |
13 Apr 2012 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Paul E Owen; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Developing strategic leaders is a process that begins in the early stages of a career. The Army must make deliberate efforts to develop innovative strategic leaders capable of identifying future transitions in the ways wars are fought through targeted broadening opportunities for high potential officers that are identified early in their careers. Strategic military leaders have historically been unable to predict the nature and challenges of the next war. By ... |
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| The Downfall of Adaptive Planning: Finding a New Approach after a Failed Revolution |
Apr 2012 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Price John F; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| The dream that was adaptive planning (AP) is slowly dying. Despite great fanfare during its launch more than six years ago, this strategic transformation initiative within the Department of Defense (DOD)--intended to revolutionize the approach to war planning of the world's largest bureaucracy--has failed by almost any measure. Ironically, this failure is not the result of budget cuts or wartime distractions; rather, it is a casualty of its own institutional ... |
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| Pervasive Agility and Agile Fires in Support of Decisive Action |
29 Mar 2012 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Timothy W Bush; TEXAS UNIV AT AUSTIN LYNDON B JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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| With the end of our commitment in Iraq and as we begin the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, the Nation, the Department of Defense, and the Army are beginning a strategic transition from fighting and winning current wars to preparing for the challenges beyond them. Simultaneously, the U.S. Government faces a fiscal and budgetary crisis that will shape the strategic landscape and inform our preparations for future conflicts. Addressing the ... |
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| Rehabilitation of Visual and Perceptual Dysfunction After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury |
26 Mar 2012 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Eliezer Peli; Alexandra Bowers; Robert Goldstein; Gang Luo; Kevin Houston; Jeff Churchill; SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INST BOSTON MA
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| The overall aim is to conduct preliminary evaluations of new rehabilitation strategies and new functional assessment methods for homonymous hemianopia (HH) and spatial neglect (SN), disabling visual and cognitive perception conditions that commonly occur as a result of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke. Both HH and SN prevent detection of objects on the affected side, resulting in unsafe walking and driving. Using realistic tasks in virtual environments representative ... |
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| The United States Army War College: Time for a Change |
23 Mar 2012 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Hodges H C; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States Army War College (USAWC) has served the nation by providing professional education to military officers, government officials, and international fellows since 1906. During that time, the curriculum and focus of the college has changed to reflect the geo-political environment within which the United States Army and Department of Defense has operated. This ability to adapt to the changing environment allowed the college to maintain its relevancy for ... |
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| Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for United States Pacific Command |
22 Mar 2012 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
James D Golden; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| While scientific debate continues over the degree to which carbon emissions derived from human activity drive climate change, discernable trends toward change in the world's climate are clear. These changes have the potential to accelerate instability, likely providing the tipping point for humanitarian disasters, major population migrations, conflict over scarce resources, and failed states. With its vast ocean expanses, tremendous amount of coastline, and increased competition for resources, the United ... |
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| NATO's Relevance in the Twenty-First Century |
22 Mar 2012 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
John K Jones; ARMY WAR COLL STRATEGIC STUDIES INST CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the beginning of a new era for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Left without a common enemy, many wondered if NATO still had purpose or relevance. When the world entered into the 21st Century, the entire environment had changed again. The effects of globalization; the threats of failed states, failing states, and nonstate actors; the rise ... |
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| iLearning, The Game Changer |
21 Mar 2012 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
James P Payne; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Small handheld devices (SHHDs) will likely revolutionize how the Army educates Soldiers in Initial Entry Training (IET). SHHDs will not simply augment current training, they will revolutionize how Soldiers train and learn by mitigating resource requirements (e.g., time, personnel, maintenance costs, tactical equipment costs, fuel, facilities, etc.) and improving the learning/training process. SHHD gaming will likely accomplish readiness objectives faster and less expensively than desk-bound methods. SHHD gaming applies to ... |
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| An Army in Transition: Maintaining the Competitive Edge |
15 Mar 2012 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Curtis A Johnson; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The United States Army still remains the most powerful land force in the world, but it faces a number of significant changes and complex challenges after a decade at war. The Army is in a period of transition because of the U.S. Military drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the Army reverts to the same home station practices seen prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, junior leaders ... |
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| Strategic Technology |
11 Mar 2012 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
James E Boswell; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper examines the concept of technological surprise and offers insights as to where future investments might most be needed. Analysis of recent trends and studies on technological surprise present a rich resource for development of analytical criteria to evaluate current efforts toward preventing or overcoming technological surprise. The analytical criteria are then used to evaluate the current organization and strategy of the United States Navy in this area. Finally, ... |
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| The Chinese Communist Party: A Strategic Center of Gravity Analysis |
08 Mar 2012 |
114 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Abernethy James T; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| A strategic center of gravity analysis of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reveals four mutually-supporting critical capabilities that provide the Party's primary capacity to maintain dominant power and authority in China. However, a major deficiency assumed by one critical capability also becomes a critical vulnerability assumed by the entire system, weakening the CCP's capacity to cope with additional stress. This paper provides an initial set of essential definitions for key ... |
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| Beyond the Battlefield: Institutional Army Transformation Following Victory in Iraq |
08 Mar 2012 |
68 pages |
| Authors:
G S Taylor; PEACEKEEPING AND STABILITY OPERATIONS INST FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The Army goes to great lengths to capture lessons learned and preserve these lessons for current practitioners and future generations. Though the Army is one of the most self-critical organizations found in American society, it has earned a well-deserved reputation for failing to inculcate those lessons by transforming the institutional Army. Change is achieved through a continuous cycle of adaptive innovation, experimentation, and experience. In Iraq, out of necessity while ... |
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| Mitigating Contextual Uncertainties With Valuable Changeability Analysis in the Multi-Epoch Domain |
Mar 2012 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew E Fitzgerald; Adam M Ross; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
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| This paper details a method involving a series of metrics and visuals designed to assist in the determination of a single design or set of designs' valuable changeability in the multi-epoch domain of Epoch-Era Analysis (EEA). A brief introduction to the necessary concepts of EEA is included, with references for further information. Example application of these new metrics is provided in the form of a partial case study of a ... |
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| Stone Soup: A Recipe for Building Resiliency Among Children |
Mar 2012 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
Merideth Bastiani; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Despite a decade of effort, we have seen limited success in increasing the personal preparedness of adults that is thought to create individual and community resiliency. Since inadequate preparation by adults can negatively affect children, preparedness education for children is now a priority. Unfortunately, the current resource-based model of preparedness presents a barrier to many children who have limited resources. This highlights the need to examine other approaches to achieving ... |
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| Force Protection for Fire Fighters: Warm Zone Operations at Paramilitary Style Active Shooter Incidents in a Multi-Hazard Environment as a Fire Service Core Competency |
Mar 2012 |
113 pages |
| Authors:
Paul A Atwater; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| Paramilitary-style active shooter attacks in a multi-hazard environment are an emerging threat against the U.S. homeland. Lessons learned from previous paramilitary-style attacks demonstrate the breaking points of the fire service policy of standing by until law enforcement declares that the scene is secure. When followed, the standby policy prevents fire fighters from taking calculated risks to accomplish the fire service mission of saving lives and protecting property. It is likely ... |
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| Phoneme Class Based Adaptation for Mismatch Acoustic Modeling of Distant Noisy Speech (Preprint) |
Mar 2012 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Seckin Uluskan; John H Hansen; RESEARCH ASSOCIATES FOR DEFENSE CONVERSION(RADC) MARCY NY
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| A new adaptation strategy for distant noisy speech is created by phoneme class based approaches for context independent acoustic models. Unlike the previous approaches such as MLLR-MAP adaptation which adapts acoustic model to the features, our phoneme-class based adaptation (PCBA) adapts the distant data features to our acoustic model which has trained on close microphone TIMIT sentences. The essence of PCBA is to create a transformation strategy which makes the ... |
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| Broadening Army Leaders for the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous Environment |
01 Feb 2012 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Brian C Scott; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| After 10 years of continuous conflict, the U.S. Army has withdrawn its forces from Iraq and is reducing force structure in Afghanistan. However, it will still face a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment that will require commitments from joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational (JIIM) partners. As the Army's operational tempo decreases, it has a unique opportunity to do the following: (1) develop and implement an officer broadening program ... |
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| Ten Years Later: Insights on al-Qaeda's Past & Future through Captured Records: A Conference Report |
27 Jan 2012 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph J Simons; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV FORT MCNAIR DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| On 13-14 September 2011, the Conflict Records Research Center (CRRC) at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies hosted a conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Entitled Ten Years Later: Insights on al-Qaeda's Past & Future through Captured Records, the conference explored what scholars and policymakers knew about al-Qaeda and Associated Movements (AQAM) before ... |
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| Health and Economic Outcomes in the Alumni of the Wounded Warrior Project |
Jan 2012 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
Heather Krull; Matthew T Haugseth; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA CENTER FOR MILITARY HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH
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| Since 2002, the not-for-profit Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) has sought to offer support for and raise public awareness of those injured during service on or after September 11, 2001. To this end, WWP gives members, or alumni, access to programs that nurture mind and body as well as facilitate economic well-being. Central to WWP's success are its assessment efforts. In 2009, RAND researchers helped WWP design a web-based survey that ... |
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| Implicit and Explicit Categorization: A Tale of Four Species |
Jan 2012 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
J D Smith; Mark E Berg; Robert G Cook; Matthew S Murphy; Matthew J Crossley; Joe Boomer; Brian Spiering; Michael J Beran; Barbara A Church; F G Ashby; STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY
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| Categorization is essential for survival, and it is a widely studied cognitive adaptation in humans and animals. An influential neuroscience perspective differentiates in humans an explicit, rule-based categorization system from an implicit system that slowly associates response outputs to different regions of perceptual space. This perspective is being extended to study categorization in other vertebrate species, using category tasks that have a one-dimensional, rule based solution or a two-dimensional, information-integration ... |
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| Procedures to Evaluate Sea Level Change; Impacts, Responses and Adaptation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Approach |
Jan 2012 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Heidi Moritz; Kate White; Henri Langlois; Jonathan Simm; Matt Schrader; Jason Engle; Tom Smith; Brian Harper; Steve Gill; HR WALLINGFORD LTD OXON (UNITED KINGDOM)
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| In response to the water-related risks posed by climate change, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (USACE) has embarked on a comprehensive approach that is flexible enough to incorporate new knowledge and changing conditions. Adequately incorporating potential sea level change (SLC) into the planning and engineering process will improve the resilience of project systems and will maximize sustainability over time. The USACE goal is to develop practical, nationally consistent, legally ... |
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| Organizational Learning and the Marine Corps: The Counterinsurgency Campaign in Iraq (CIWAG Case Study on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups) |
Jan 2012 |
96 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Shultz Richard H; NAVAL WAR COLLEGE NEWPORT RI CENTER ON IRREGULAR WARFARE AND ARMED GROUPS
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| What the Marine Corps achieved in Anbar constituted a major turning point in the Iraq War. Many had declared the fight there lost at the very time I MEF was launching a three-dimensional strategy in 2006 that culminated in 2007 with a strategic defeat for AQI and those insurgents aligned with it. The fight for Anbar Province demonstrated the Marine Corps s capacity to learn and change in order to ... |
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