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Command of troops, Job evaluation, and Military promotions

The U.S. Army has long struggled with toxic and inept leaders, and no wonder: It has historically chosen battalion commanders, a linchpin position, on the basis of 90-second file reviews. Last year it undertook an ambitious revamping of that selection process, which now involves four full days of physical, cognitive, and psychological assessments and interviews. The author, a lieutenant colonel who served as an adviser to the task force that designed and implemented the new process, describes it in granular detail, including a variety of rigorous measures for reducing interviewer bias and ensuring diversity and inclusion. Although specifically aimed at improving the validity, reliability, and developmental impact of the army’s executive-leader selections, the redesigned process offers important lessons for any organization seeking to bolster its talent assessment and promotion practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AIR power (Military science) -- United States, FLIGHT training, and NORMANDY Invasion, 1944

The article presents the life and death description of U.S Army Air Forces 2nd Lieutenant William J. McGowan. It mentions his training to Eagle Pass Army Airfield in southern Texas for training and later moved on to Harding Airfield in Baton Rouge for flight training; and discusses about his longest day, D-Day when he set out from Royal Air Force Thruxton in Hampshire in southern England on a mission to target the Lison train station and enemy convoys moving northeast toward Bayeux.

Command of troops, Martial law -- United States, and United States presidential election, 2020

The article offers information on the challenges faced by the military leaders due to the U.S. President, Donald Trump's policies in due course of his remaining time in the U.S. presidential office. It mentions that president's illegal move to destabilize the democratic process after loosing the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, along with discusses the plans of the military to impose martial law in the U.S. amid the president's illegal move.

MILITARY education, MILITARY intelligence, DETECTORS, OPEN source intelligence, and HUMAN intelligence (Intelligence service)

The article focuses on the U.S. Army should adapt across the doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy (DOTMLPF-P) transformation framework to find adversaries while avoiding detection. It mentions battlespace, sensors in the imagery intelligence (IMINT) discipline will be severely constrained, compelling increased reliance on sensors. It also mentions human intelligence and open-source.

MILITARY operations other than war, MILITARY civic action, ECONOMIC impact, and UNITED States armed forces -- Stability operations

The article focuses on challenges and benefits of adopting an multi-domain operations (MDO) mindset in a dense urban environment. It mentions battlespace as extending beyond traditional conceptions to include discussions of cultural, political, and economic factors present in the region. It also mentions U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) emphasizes that MDO is a layered standoff in that the operations.

WORLD War I, AIRPLANE motors, BIPLANES, AIR shows, and AIRPLANE fuel tanks

The article focuses on Paul Rinaldo Redfern has quit school to work for the Standard Aircraft factory assembling planes for the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I. It mentions he purchased a surplus engine and some wrecked-plane parts to construct his own biplane, and upon graduation began carrying passengers and performing at airshows. It also mentions additional fuel tanks installed in the cabin.

WORLD War II and AIR pilots

The article discusses Air Service and Air Corps units assigned to the Hawaiian Department prior to the Second World War were a Petri dish for air power experiments. It mentions that Air stations were established in the both to train pilots and to understand how capability could be integrated with Army operations; and Captain John Curry arrived at Honolulu to establish the 6th Aero Squadron in the islands and develop a seaplane base for squadron operations.

WORLD War II and SPAIN -- Foreign relations -- United States

The article presents information about Martin Monti of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It mentions U.S.'s brief and successful war with Spain at the end of the 19th century was followed by a much more difficult and brutal conflict against Filipinos fighting for their independence; and mentions that Dale H. Maple was the third American World War II defector.

COVID-19 pandemic and INTENSIVE care units

The article looks at the quick response of the Army Corps of Engineers, led by its commander General Todd Semonite, to the coronavirus pandemic by transforming vacant buildings into alternate-care facilities in the U.S. Topics mentioned include the conversion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center into a hospital for COVID-19 patients in New York, the idea of transforming PODS containers into intensive care units, and a background on Semonite's accomplishments and failures during his career.

CIVIL war, ARSENALS, and ARMORED troops

The article offers information on leading up to the Civil War, Minie balls and rifling began to replace round balls and smoothbore barrels in U.S. Army arsenals. Topics include examines that temporary solution to that problem came from an unorthodox source, a New York dentist named Edward Maynard, who had dropped out of West Point due to ill health; and reports that Virginia troops captured Harpers Ferry they sent machinery and dies from the U.S. armory to Richmond for weapons production.

ARMY officers

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of meeting the late U.S. Army Sergeant Stuart Preston in Paris, France.