MAJ Shameek De Lancey is an Infantry officer who is currently serving as a G5 Planner in the 4th Infantry Division station- ed at Fort Carson, Colorado. MAJ De Lancey most recently graduated from the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) and also the Command and Gen- eral Staff College as an Art of War Scholar. His previous assignments include serving in the 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in the 4th Battal- ion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division; as aide-de-camp for the 10th Mountain Division commanding general; and as a small group leader with the Maneuver Captain’s Career Course at Fort Benning, GA (known as Fort Moore since 2023). Major De Lancey has had two deploy- ments to Afghanistan in support of Oper- ation Resolute Support. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Old Dominion University and a master’s degree in international relations from the Univer- sity of Oklahoma.
Notes 1 James McNaughton, The Army in the Pacific: A Century of Engagement (Wash- ington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 2012), 1.
2 Brian Linn, Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902–1940 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
3 Linn, Guardians of Empire, 5.
4 Gaddis defines historical conscious- ness as, “the ability to see differences as well as similarities, to understand that generalizations do not always hold in particular circumstances.” John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of His- tory: How Historians Map the Past (Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford Uni- versity Press, 2002), 5–11.
5 Maree Conway, Foresight Infused Strategy Development: A How-To Guide for Using Foresight in Practice (Melbourne, Australia: Thinking Futures, 2014), vii, 35–37. Foresight infused stra- tegy is defined as, “strategy devel- oped using foresight approaches. People and collaboration are at the core of these approaches. It produces strategy that inks what we know about the past and the present with the unknowns of
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the future to create stronger, futures ready strategy today.”
6 John McManus, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941 –1943 (New York, NY: Caliber, 2019), 80.
7 McManus, Fire and Fortitude, 83.
8 Louis Morton, The Fall of the Philip- pines (Washington, DC: US Army Center of Military History, 1953), 61–64.
9 Morton, Fall of the Philippines, 33. 10 McManus, Fire and Fortitude, 60. 11 Morton, Fall of the Philippines, 168. 12 Morton, Fall of the Philippines, 135. 13 Morton, Fall of the Philippines, 168.
14 Morton, Fall of the Philippines, 176; Headquarters, Department of the Army, Tank Platoon, Army Techniques Publi- cation 3-20.15 (Fort Belvoir, VA: Army Publishing Directorate, July 2019), 4-14.
15 T. R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 1963), 4.
16 Fehrenbach, This Kind of War, 7.
17 Milton Thompson et al., Employment of Armor in Korea: The First Year (Fort Knox, KY: US Army Armor School, 1952), 47.
18 Raymond Longabaugh, “Task Force Smith and the 24th Infantry Division in Korea, July 1950” (monograph, School of Ad- vanced Military Studies, Fort Leaven- worth, KS, 2014), 29.
19 “This initial use of M-24s in a role for which they were not suited did, however have a marked effect in other ways. First, the press was quick to seize upon the inadequacy of the light tank in tank ver- sus tank action with the T34. . . . Unfor- tunately, the press drew unfavorable comparisons not between the M-24 and the T-34, but between ‘American tanks’ and the T-34. This gave rise to a sudden rash of articles with titles like “The US Tries to Catch Up to Tanks” and “Why are Russian Tanks Better than Ours?” Articles of this kind had, and continue to have, a profound effect upon military and civilian thinking on American armor.” Thompson et al., Employment of Armor in Korea, 50–51:
20 Allan Millet, The War for Korea, 1950- 1951: They Came from the North (Law-
rence, KS: University of Kansas Printing Press, 2010), 154.
21 Thompson et al., Employment of Armor in Korea, 63.
22 US Army Vietnam, Mechanized and Armor Combat Operations in Vietnam (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1967), 48. See figure 21, “Sum- mary of the Going by CTZ for percent- ages of terrain trafficable by tanks and APCs by season per Corps area.”
23 US Army Vietnam, Mechanized and Armor Combat, 178.
24 US Army Vietnam, Mechanized and Armor Combat, 57.
25 Louis A. DiMarco, Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq (Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey, 2017), 81.
26 Alec Wahlman, Storming the City: U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2015), 181–184.
27 DiMarco, Concrete Hell, 83.
28 DiMarco, Concrete Hell, 85. The three most important NVA objectives in Hue were the 1st Army Division (ARVN) head- quarters located in the Citadel, Tay Loc airfield, and the Military Assistance Com- mand Vietnam (MACV) headquarters.
29 DiMarco, Concrete Hell, 88. 30 DiMarco, Concrete Hell, 88. 31 Wahlman, Storming the City, 198–199. 32 Wahlman, Storming the City, 208.
33 Headquarters, Department of the Army, United States Army Pacific: America’s Theater Army for the Indo-Pacific (Fort Shafter, HI: US Army Pacific, 2023), 1.
34 Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA), Operations, Field Manual (FM) 3-0 (Fort Belvoir, VA: Army Publishing Directorate, 2022), 4-6.
35 Jeremiah Rozman, “Urbanization and Megacities: Implications for the U.S. Army,” Association of United States Army, August 20, 2019, https://www.
ausa.org/publications/urbanization-and -megacities-implications-us-army.
36 US Department of Defense (DOD), Joint Staff, 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) (Washington, DC: Department
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