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Fall 2021 Student Showcase For Research & Creative Inquiry Program, Office Of Student Research

Fall Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Conference page: https://symposium.foragerone.com/longwood-university-fall-2021-student-showcase

The Air Littoral: Another Look, Maximilian K. Bremer, Kelly A. Grieco

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Assessing threats to the air littoral, the airspace between ground forces and high-end fighters and bombers, requires a paradigm change in American military thinking about verticality. This article explores the consequences of domain convergence, specifically for the Army and Air Force’s different concepts of control. It will assist US military and policy practitioners in conceptualizing the air littoral and in thinking more vertically about the air and land domains and the challenges of domain convergence.

The Grand Strategic Thought Of Colin S. Gray, Lukas Milevski

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Colin S. Gray distinguished himself from other scholars in the field of strategic studies with his belief that grand strategy is indispensable, complex, and inherently agential. This article identifies key themes, continuities, conceptual relationships, and potential discontinuities from his decades of grand strategic thought. Gray’s statement that “all strategy is grand strategy” remains highly relevant today, emphasizing the importance of agential context in military environments—a point often neglected in strategic practice.

Parameters Winter 2021, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Broken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan without recklessly threatening a great-power war is both possible and necessary through a tailored deterrence package that goes beyond either fighting over Taiwan or abandoning it. This article joins cutting-edge understandings of deterrence with empirical evidence of Chinese strategic thinking and culture to build such a strategy.

Defeat Mechanisms In Modern Warfare, Frank Hoffman

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

This article explores the current debate about service and Joint operating concepts, starting with the Army’s multi-domain operations concept. It argues for adaptations to an old operational design technique—defeat mechanisms; updates to Joint and service planning doctrine; and discipline regarding emerging concepts. Rather than debate over attrition versus maneuver, combinations of a suite of defeat mechanisms should be applied to gain victory in the future.

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Contributor's Guidelines And Article Index, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Commentary And Reply, Claude A. Lambert

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Article Index, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

From The Editor, Antulio J. Echevarria Ii

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

What Went Wrong In Afghanistan?, Todd Greentree

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Critics of the Afghan war have claimed it was always unwinnable. This article argues the war was unwinnable the way it was fought and posits an alternative based on the Afghan way of war and the US approach to counterinsurgency in El Salvador during the final decade of the Cold War. Respecting the political and military dictates of strategy could have made America’s longest foreign war unnecessary and is a warning for the wars we will fight in the future.

Sherman And His Historians: An End To The Outsized Destroyer Myth?, Mitchell G. Klingenberg

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

For years, scholars have viewed the career of William Tecumseh Sherman in light of an antiquated destroyer myth and neglected his memoirs, which were written as a military textbook. This essay reviews Sherman’s legacy and literature, both of which contributed to the advancement of modern military thought. His experiences may serve as a prescriptive text to servicemembers, providing critical lessons on military warfare and philosophy still relevant today.

System Performance Evaluation Method Based On Multi-Source Prior Data, Haozhe Liu, Li Wei, Ma Ping, Yang Ming

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: When using the Bayes method to evaluate the performance of the system with multi-source prior data, the multi-source prior data is fused, the posterior distribution is calculated by synthesizing the fused prior distribution and test data. The parameters of posterior distribution are estimated to obtain the performance evaluation results. A weighted fusion method of multi-source prior data based on Kullback-Leibler divergence is proposed, which can effectively integrate the multi-source prior data. The commonly used Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is used to estimate the parameters of Bayes posterior distribution. The influence of different proposal distributions on the sampling results …

Dynetics: Company Fact Sheet, Dynetics

AIAA Southeastern Regional Student Conference

Dynetics provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific, and IT solutions to the national security, cybersecurity, space, and critical infrastructure security sectors.

We offer highly specialized technical services and a range of software and hardware products, including components, subsystems, and complex end-to-end systems.

Designing And Building Complex Systems For The Future, Dynetics

AIAA Southeastern Regional Student Conference

We are a company of commitment, capability, curiosity, and character. Excellence and high ethical standards mean everything to us at Dynetics.

Gtri: Discover How You Can Begin Creating The Next With Gtri, Georgia Tech Research Institute

AIAA Southeastern Regional Student Conference

GTRI is the innovation hub for the industry’s award-winning, nationally renowned researchers, engineers, and industry professionals who are dedicated to solving some of the nation’s most complex problems.

As the highly-regarded, applied research and development division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) — one of the nation’s top-ranked research universities — GTRI is comprised of more than 2,400 scientists, engineers, support professionals, and students.

Marine Officer Programs, United States Marine Corps

AIAA Southeastern Regional Student Conference

Following the Battle of Iwo Jima, Admiral Chester Nimitz epitomized the Marines’ actions by saying, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.” Since 1775, Marines have distinguished themselves throughout the world during times of war and peace. The Marine Corps is an elite organization with a reputation for honor, courage, sacrifice, integrity and esprit-de-corps. As we begin the 21st century, Marines are deployed in more than 150 countries and are serving in a variety of missions from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq to disaster relief missions throughout Asia. The Marine Corps is America’s 911 force and is ready to go at …

The Civil War And The Transformation Of American Medicine, Benya Wilson

Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

The most common historiographical narrative used to explain the transformation of American medicine during the Civil War centralizes on the brilliance of a few notable physicians, whose radical ideas, daring, and exceptional work ethic built or set precedents for standards foundational to modern medicine. However, this approach is limited and does not consider the impact of the context of war and power structures in shaping the practice of medicine. Through examining personal accounts and official documentation including, government reports, news articles, war journals, private and military correspondence, physicians and nurse’s notes, and post-war autobiographical recollections, a new understanding emerges. Civil …

Animating The U.S. War Crimes Act, Beth Van Schaack

International Law Studies

All war crimes are challenging to prosecute. Typical reasons include the technicality of some constitutive elements, the difficulties of amassing sufficient evidence, the vagaries of unreliable or unavailable witnesses, and the often-impenetrable khaki wall of silence. Adding to these challenges, the United States has erected a number of idiosyncratic structural barriers in the way in which it has incorporated the prohibitions against war crimes into its domestic legal frameworks, both military and civilian. This article addresses problems with the U.S. federal war crimes statute and proposes reforms that would (1) better conform to U.S. obligations under the Geneva Conventions and …

The Ironclad Economy, Ryan Thomas

Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

This paper investigates and describes the Confederate navy’s attempt to establish a naval presence in New Orleans. At the forefront of the Civil War, the Confederate States were pressed to create and sustain a working military presence within an evolving economy. The Southern economy was about to be ravished by the Union’s blockade. Both the Union and the Confederacy knew that establishing an early presence on the water would be of the greatest importance, of which the Union had a considerably large head start on the nonexistent Confederate navy. This paper covers the birth of the Confederate navy in an …

Silenced: How Forced Arbitration Keeps Victims Of Sexual Violence And Sexual Harassment In The Shadows, Myriam E. Gilles

Testimony

The House Judiciary Committee issued the following testimony by Myriam Gilles, professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, involving a hearing on Nov. 16, 2021, entitled "Silenced: How Forced Arbitration Keeps Victims of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment in the Shadows."

Class Notes

DePaul Magazine

No abstract provided.

Beauty, Real Or Apparent: Christian Kings, Muslim Artisans, And The Development Of An Imperial Image Through The Silk And Horticulture Industries In Sicily. (Ca. 1090-1190), Casey K. Brown

History ETDs

In the wake of the Norman conquest of Sicily in the second half of the eleventh century, the Mediterranean island housed a diverse collection of Greek, Latin, and Muslim communities. Norman kings chose Palermo to become the seat of Latin-Christian Sicilian government for its productivity and strategic location and included the island into the complex world of self-fashioning politics and exchange. For Sicilian and ‘foreign’ Muslims alike, the imperious pose Roger II and his successors held created a precarious balancing act between the real and imagined worlds of Sicily. The content of this thesis is primarily concerned with the impact …

An Optimized Machine Learning And Big Data Approach To Crime Detection, Ashokkumar Palanivinayagam, Siva Shankar Gopal, Sweta Bhattacharya, Noble Anumbe, Ebuka Ibeke, Cresantus Biamba

Faculty Publications

Crime detection is one of the most important research applications in machine learning. Identifying and reducing crime rates is crucial to developing a healthy society. Big Data techniques are applied to collect and analyse data: determine the required features and prime attributes that cause the emergence of crime hotspots. The traditional crime detection and machine learning-based algorithms lack the ability to generate key prime attributes from the crime dataset, hence most often fail to predict crime patterns successfully. This paper is aimed at extracting the prime attributes such as time zones, crime probability, and crime hotspots and performing vulnerability analysis …

Review Of James Johnson, Artificial Intelligence And The Future Of Warfare: The Usa, China And Strategic Stability. Manchester University Press, 2021xi+221pp., L Cladi

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Book review

Efforts Of Raising The Terrorist Separatists West Papua Revolutionary Army In Border Region Ri - Png, Sulthan Araf, Broto Wardoyo, Amanah Nurish

Journal of Terrorism Studies

TRWP (West Papua Revolutionary Army) is the most important part of the Terrorist Separatist Group (KST) which is an armed group with the main goal of seceding from the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. This group is also a group that exists in the papua province based in the border area of Indonesia, precisely in Kampung Yako State of Papua New Guinea. The history records, this Terrorist Separatist Group stand with the aim of the liberate West Papua, believing it’s not a unity with the State of Indonesia or other Countries. Those who continue to survive and struggle …

Establishment Of The Army Raider Unit Organization In Counter-Terrorism, Sugi Harto, Mul Yadi, Zora Arfina Sukabdi

Journal of Terrorism Studies

Terrorism in Indonesia is a threat to security and can threaten the existence of a country so that the involvement of the military is justified in handling it according to the mandate of the law. Currently, the role of handling terrorism by the military is carried out by a special unit, the army also has a Raider unit which was deployed in Kotama and is considered an organization that can tackle terrorism. The formation of the Raider Unit organization in countering terrorism, especially the action against terrorism is influenced by aspects of human resources, organizational structure, and working relations as …

Volume 39, 2002 Speaker And Gavel

Speaker & Gavel

Complete digitized volume (volume 39, 2002) of Speaker & Gavel.