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    MISSION COMMAND ANALYSIS OUTLINE: THE CHOSIN RESERVOIR CAMPAIGN GENERAL OLIVER P. SMITH CPT Mike B. Martínez Ramírez ECCC 07-17 August 18, 2017   Table of Content Introduction Brief Description of the Campaign Commander’s performance and effectiveness on the roles in the operations process Understanding Visualizing Assessing Leading Conclusion   On November 27 through December 13, 1950, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir was a decisive battle in the Korean War. The battle was fought

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    by the US Marine Corp against the Iraqi combatants, who had held the city under their control, some consider it was the most difficult battle marines have been involved since Vietnam in the 60s. The battle put end to the insurgent control over the city and constituted an important victory for the US troops, however such victory had a high painful price 1. More than 90

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    Countering emerging threats to U.S. national interests requires a rebalancing of the current U.S. Joint Force strategic capabilities. This rebalancing requires a widening of our current engineering and technological capabilities as relates to our adversaries capabilities while simultaneously enhancing our land force deterrent capability in order to project U.S. power worldwide. This paper will discuss pressing future challenges, and how Joint Force 2025 must prepare for them. Based on our current

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    Survival of the Marine Corps Essay

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    SURVIVAL OF THE MARINE CORPS The Marine Corps historical characteristics after the Civil War could be based in part on survivability and the need for the Marine Corps to prove its worth to the United States as a Military Force. The Marine Corps part in the Civil War had been small and not altogether impressive. Both the Army and the Navy did not regard the Marine Corps as useful. This paper will in effect touch on the Marine Corps history from after the Civil War to World War I. It will then converge

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    SURVIVAL OF THE MARINE CORPS The Marine Corps historical characteristics after the Civil War could be based in part on survivability and the need for the Marine Corps to prove its worth to the United States as a Military Force. The Marine Corps part in the Civil War had been small and not altogether impressive. Both the Army and the Navy did not regard the Marine Corps as useful. This paper will in effect touch on the Marine Corps history from after the Civil War to World War I. It will then

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    Since 1985, eleven different versions of the High Mobility, Multi-Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) have been in service. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is being developed by the Army and the Marine Corps as a successor to the HMMWV. The Department of Defense (DoD) initiated the JLTV program to replace its aging fleet of the HMMWV. The purpose of this essay is to determine if the high cost of the JLTV should preclude it from replacing the HMMWV as outlined in the 2010 Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Strategy

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    Profoundly influenced by two post-9/11 protracted wars that highlighted the expanded role of women in combat, civilian leaders have opted to pursue a gender neutral military apparently on the grounds that integrating women in direct ground combat arms roles is both essential and prudent. Central to the rhetoric is that women are not only qualified, but that they bring a wealth of diverse talents that they should be able to apply across all disciplines within the Armed Forces and in turn, be afforded

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    Marine Corps History Essay

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    Marine Corps History On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution stating that "two battalions of Marines be raised" for service as landing forces with the fleet. This established the Continental Marines and marked the birth of the United States Marine Corps. Serving on land and at sea, early Marines distinguished themselves in a number of important operations, including their first amphibious raid on foreign soil in the Bahamas in March 1776, under the command of the Corps'

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    Essay On James Matis

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    Iraq, and Afghanistan. Those three places he would need bravery to overcome the possibility of death and seeing the death of his “brothers.” As Mattis is the head of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, he was able to give forth more effort in the MCCDC’s center for the lessons that helped assemble the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. When Mattis and his battalion went to Kuwait, and were near the first, got awarded the bronze star for valor. You can get the Bronze Star

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    The United States Marine Corps has been one of the most powerful military branches in the world for more than twenty-three decades. The most important things that have kept this organization as prestigious and powerful as it is are the famous leadership traits, leadership principles, corps values and the leaders that uphold those traits. Without these structures, this leadership hierarchy this “gun club” would not have lasted this long. The next thousand or so words will help explain those traits

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