Thomas Galvin

US Army War College · Department of Command, Leadership, and Management

The U.S. Military institutionalized diversity management to ensure equality of treatment and opportunity for members while eliminating discrimination in all its forms. But progress toward diversity goals has been inconsistent. For example, the U.S. Military’s implementation of the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law was less successful in integ...

Perhaps the clearest illustration of the challenges for communicating a vision for the Department of Defense can be found in the annual Secretary of Defense Testimony to Congress. In his March 2015 testimonies, Secretary Ash Carter outlined the threats that the U.S. military must be able to counter. To confront these threats, he outlined the Defens...

In a previous edition of Joint Force Quarterly, Kevin Bond drew needed attention to the dialogue on the nature of professionalism within the U.S. Armed Forces. In his article "Are We Professionals" he raised important questions concerning our professional identity and addressed them in a fashion that begins useful dialogue. This question has intere...

Theoreticians, doctrine writers, and warfighters alike have over the last quarter century employed Clausewitz's concept of the "Center of Gravity." By this phrase Clausewitz meant that if one identifies the enemy's "hub of power and all movement," then destroying or neutralizing it leads to the enemy's downfall. Unfortunately, the concept has been...

The purpose of this study was to begin the development and testing of an Expert System (ES) to screen officer personnel records being considered for Command and General Staff College (CGSC). The study included a review of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) literature relevant to the military and human resource management, problem selection, knowledge...

The purpose of this study was to begin the development and testing of an Expert System (ES) to screen officer personnel records being considered for Command and General Staff College (CGSC). The study included a review of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) literature relevant to the military and human resource management, problem selection, knowledge...

Many military applications for intelligent-tutoring systems focus on the training of procedural skills. However, while there have been many successful research efforts into developing tutoring systems for specific applications, the question of developing general-purpose ones is still open. Specifically unsolved is how a lesson-authoring system, a p...

In 2000, the Zambezi River experienced significant flooding, and the nation of Mozambique was ill equipped to deal with the humanitarian disaster that followed. Homes were swept away, thousands of people were displaced, and 700 perished, leading to the deployment of a U.S. civilian disaster assistance response team and U.S. military forces to provi...

The above statement succinctly explains the central purpose behind Theater Security Cooperation (TSC) programs. In the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) alone, there reside dozens of nations whose stability is in serious question and whose problems affect not only surrounding nations but also the AOR as a whole. For examp...

The Army is engaged in transformation because it recognizes the need to reorganize to meet new and emerging threats and to equip soldiers with the best technology. Strategic and operational battle planners make the final plan clear and executable down to the individual soldier, particularly when it comes to rules of engagement and tactics, techniqu...

What comes to mind first when you hear the word European? Perhaps it is one of the great landmarks located on the continent, such as the Roman Coliseum or Parthenon in Athens. Maybe it is the beautiful mountain scenery of the Alps that inspired The Sound of Music or the flatlands dotted with windmills and dikes in Holland. Or perhaps it is the peop...