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...tary Art and Science (MMAS) degrees on completion of a thesis. It prepares officers for planning and leadership at the level of [[operational art]]: [[brigade] ...yees of the [[United States Department of Defense]]. There are often a few officers from friendly nations. In practice, graduation from CGSC is a requirement f

...Guard|Coast Guard]])—all '''casualty assistance officers''' in the United States share the unenviable task of personally notifying family of military person In all branches of the military, casualty assistance officers must meet certain qualifications. They typically must have served a number

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...the [[United States Army]]. Founded in 1802, it is now part of a system of Army educational institutions under the [[Training and Doctrine Command]]. While ...ve a significant career advantage, automatically graduating with a Regular Army commission. This is no longer the case; graduates of the [[Reserve Officer

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...is the [[United States Army]] Aviation Center, the home of [[army aviation|Army Aviation]] doctrinal development, training, and management. [[Ozark, Alabam ...M]] Tod Glidewell, and, to reflect the large number of warrant officers in Army Aviation, CWO5 Jeffery Reichard is Chief Warrant Officer of the Aviation Br

...immediately after the [[Second World War]], the United States created four officers with a rank above four-star general, giving them protocol equivalence to Br ...hat the "marshal" term was not adopted because the [[Chief of Staff of the Army]], George C. Marshall, refused to be designated Marshal Marshall.

...drawn considerable interest in its parallel between failure of the German Army to prepare for post-combat operations in the Soviet Union, and is a substan | title = After the Blitzkrieg: The German Army’s Transition to Defeat in the East

...GSC), subordinate to the [[Training and Doctrine Command]]. It is aimed at officers in [[battalion]]-level command and staff jobs, or people with equivalent re

...y, made up of two or more corps plus units under the direct control of the army commander ...sed of two or more field army| field armies plus units subordinated to the army group commander

...every level from platoon to Third United States Army, to the United States Army (i.e., DCSOPS, or deputy chief of staff for operations). He was the Ground ...nsurgents. Gates agreed this would end his career, although many four-star officers serve in only one assignment before retiring; there are few promotions avai

have comparable seniority to Generals in the Army or Air Force. These ranks may have command of fleets, squadrons or task fo These are roughly comparable seniority to the army ranks '''Colonel''', '''Lieutenant Colonel''', '''Major''', '''Captain''' a

...eld]]'s choice to replace GEN [[Eric Shinseki]] as [[Chief of Staff of the Army]] in 2003, had retired instead, needing to care for a sick wife. He stayed ...the George C. Marshall Foundation, chairman of Senior Executive Committee, Army Aviation Association of America.

...erations Command of the United States Special Operations Command. While an Army unit, it will often have special operators from other services attached to ...working with foreign military personnel in unconventional warfare (United States doctrine)|unconventional warfare and foreign internal defense. Rangers are

...tiple channels to the top level of government (e.g., through cabinet-level officers for foreign policy, armed forces, law enforcement, etc.). There may very w ==United Kingdom==

...n Barbarossa]], the invasion of the [[Soviet Union]] in which he commanded Army group North. He received a minimal sentence of three years from the NMT. ...Subsequently, after listening to a January 23, 1933 speech to senior army officers by [[Adolf Hitler]], he said "A businessman whose wares are good does not n

...n a Japanese puppet state of the same name was in operation. The [[United States of America]] rejected Japanese control and it became one of many issues tha The Japanese [[Kwangtung Army]] was initially in the [[Kwangtung Leasehold]] on the border of Manchuria.

*Collier, Ellen C. 1993. ''Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993''. at [http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad *Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America, 1815-1829: Tuesday, December 23, 1823. P. 352. at [http://memor

...ngs" was Allied Control Commission Law 10, which empowered "the commanding officers of the four allied zones of occupation to conduct criminal trials on charge ...ar Crimes. While Taylor was a [[brigadier general]] in the [[United States Army]], the trials were conducted by American civilian judges.

...r Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR) of the [[United States Strategic Command]] (USSTRATCOM). Prior to DIA, he was Deputy [[Director ...nt Executive Officer to the [[Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army]], Washington, D.C. From June 1991 to June 1993, he commanded the 125th Mi

...quote>Provide fully capable Special Operations Forces to defend the United States and its interests. Plan and synchronize operations against terrorist networ ...Joint Chiefs of Staff. As of 2007, Admiral Eric Olson is the first United States Navy SEAL] to head USSOCOM.

The [[United States Army]] '''Ranger School''' is an extremely demanding, and prestigious, school in ...estone for [[combat arms]] officers and noncommissioned officers; [[United States Military Academy]] cadets sometimes attempt it in the summer between their

...military rank, near the top of the "general officer " system that divides officers into junior, field, and general/flag. In the NATO designation system (STANA ...ional Security Agency, or a Deputy Chief of Staff of a service (e.g., U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations).

...professionalism in the American military. It contrasts the careers of two officers, Sam Damon, an extremely ethical soldier that prefers to stay in the field, ...oth Damon and Massengale are Army officers, there are interesting [[United States Marine Corps]] parallels, such as [[Evans Carlson]] or [[Samuel Griffith]],

...on to cover an underground rebellion against Asian occupiers of the United States. Its title contrasts the [[Fifth Column]] of traitors in the [[Spanish Civ ...that just before the United States was occupied, a researcher at a secret Army laboratory both establishes a [[unified field theory]], and goes beyond to

'''Kanji Ishiwara''' (1889-1949) was an [[Imperial Japanese Army]] officer deeply involved in the military and Palace intrigue of the 1920s ...ash; the personification of [[gekokujo]] &mdash; that brought the Japanese Army to this deplorable situation."<ref>{{citation

...''United States against [[Otto Ohlendorf]], et al.'', charged twenty-three officers of the SS in charge of [[Einsatzgruppe]]n, or field killing task forces, th | Army Group North

...ontrol over the operating forces of the [[United States Navy]] or [[United States Marine Corps]]. ...the President and Secretary of Defense (SecDef), who direct the commanding officers of the [[Unified Combatant Command]]s (UCC). The UCCs, which have component

...l Navy, and rank immediately below [[Second Lieutenant]]s in the [[British Army]] and [[Pilot Officer]]s in the [[Royal Air Force]] and above all enlisted ...four years, being at least 19 years of age. Today the rank is only held by officers under the age of 20, at which age they are appointed [[Sub-Lieutenant]]s (o

...seen in the German General Staff. For all the value Napoleon placed on key officers such as Berthier, [[Napoleonic military staff]] was just that -- an organiz ...y historian that would record how things were done in a given conflict, so officers could study and avoid mistakes of the past. Current staffs still have a his

| journal = Army Communicator ...s by [[U.S. Army]] infantry, with interpretation by regular communications officers rather than security specialists; the matter infuriated GEN [[Creighton Abr

...itary, the '''Joint Chiefs of Staff''' (JCS) are a committee of the senior officers of the uniformed services, headed by a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf | Chief of Staff of the Army

...neral in the [[United States Army]], who served as [[Chief of Staff of the Army]] during the [[Korean War]]. Subsequently, he was the U.S. representative t Graduating from the [[United States Military Academy]] in 1917, he served in various Infantry positions, rising

...]] (TRADOC) in 1973.He was at the heart of the restructuring of the [[U.S. Army]] after the [[Vietnam War]] disrupted its tradition, discipline, and abilit He entered the Army as a second lieutenant from the Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1941, landed in the [[Battle of Normandy]], and, by the e

[[Image:M1911a1.jpg|left|thumb|300px|M1911A1 pistol (US Army)]] ...ht design changes in 1922, and the weapon was in production until 1945. In Army service, it was replaced, in 1984, for reasons of [[NATO]] standardization,

While the U.S. military during the [[Vietnam War]], and the Soviet Red Army throughout its existence, tried to accelerate NCO development by taking sel During [[World War Two]], however, the [[United States Navy]] did find that it could be useful to give NCO rank to recruits with s

===United States=== ...e program ended, supplemented by a further 51 million acres granted by the states, and by various government subsidies. This program enabled the opening of n

'''Donald Blackburn''' (1916 - 2008) ) was a [[United States Army]] officer who, throughout a long career, was a specialist in insurgency, [[ He became a U.S. Army reserve [[second lieutenant]] in 1938, and was assigned to duty in the Phil

...aylor''' (1901-1987) was a general in the U.S. Army, Chief of Staff of the Army, special representative to the military under President John F. Kennedy, Ch After graduation from the Army War College, he held both command and Army staff positions before the start of the Second World War.

...t]], was a [[brigadier general]] in the [[United States Army|United States Army Reserve]]. He went ashore in the most dangerous first wave of the "D-Day" i Senior officers had refused his repeated requests to land with his troops, based on his unq

...He was a field marshal in the [[Imperial Japanese Army]], who commanded an army in the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and had headed aeronautical defelopment *Head of Army Aeronautical Department, Ministry of War, 1938

...rdinate but even more politically critical to his prior command of United States Central Command (CENTCOM). His immediate prior assignment was commanding Mu }}</ref> and he was a major contributor to the main U.S. Army doctrinal manual on counterinsurgency.

The United States Department of Defense held '''Combatant Status Review Tribunals''' (CSRT) f All the tribunals convened in a room, with space the three officers presiding over the tribunal, a clerk to keep a record, an officer familiar

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...merica|American lawyer and retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army reserve, who was the first officer who served with the Office for the Admin ...in rejecting an amendment by Sen. Lindsey Graham (Republican Party (United States)|R-South Carolina (U.S. state)|South Carolina), which would have banned the

...he [[thirteen colonies]], which would later become the basis of the United States) position as part of the British Empire was made truly apparent because Bri ...cers, such as [[Robert Rogers]], taught tactical insights to the [[British Army]]. Also, colonial legislatures and officials had to cooperate intensively,

He was a member of a family of senior military officers. His namesake was a Confederate [[colonel]] killed at the [[Third Battle of ...he couterpart of a traininbg center run by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in the States). Patton organized the First Tank Brigade, which he commanded in the St. M

...Tribunals]] (NMT), the '''Hostages Case''', charged twelve senior military officers for "criminal disregard of the rules of warfare for of hostages and civilia ...d colleges}}</ref> The fourteen defendants were all senior officers in the army and navy, or in the German High Command, OKW. Defendant Blaskowitz committe