Responding to doxycycline no rx in us increasing grassroots pressure to close the School, the DoD has doxycycline no rx in us attempted to re-characterize the school as an institution that teaches respect for doxycycline no rx in us democracy and human rights. The “new” school opened on January 17^th, 2001 and doxycycline no rx in us used the existing SOA course catalog until November, 2001. Ten months after the doxycycline no rx in us new school began instructing soldiers, the DoD finally released the doxycycline no rx in us course catalog that human rights activists and a Congressional office had doxycycline no rx in us been requesting for months.

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The list of courses below is doxycycline no rx in us taken from the web site of WHISC. Quotes are extracted directly from doxycycline no rx in us the course descriptions. Italics indicate editorial comments.

The Department of Defense claims that this “new” school exists to doxycycline no rx in us promote respect for human rights and respect for civilian authority among members of Latin American militaries. Combat training has doxycycline no rx in us always accounted for the majority of the instruction at the doxycycline no rx in us school. In 1997, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer examined course attendance records at the doxycycline no rx in us SOA and reported, “ ‘Bombs and Bullets’ Most Popular Classes at the U.S. Army School of the Americas.” The course listings below show that doxycycline no rx in us this has not changed. Despite the evolving rhetoric, WHISC remains primarily a doxycycline no rx in us counter-insurgency combat training school.

I. Clearly Combat Related Courses

Captains Career Course (OPME-3)
Corresponding SOA course: Combined Arms Officer Advance Course

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to train combined arms company commanders and battalion-level staff officers. . .extensive study of the doxycycline no rx in us battle operating system, including intelligence preparation of the battlefield, logistics, combat engineer employment, use of indirect fire and doxycycline no rx in us close air support, and civil affairs. . . students then doxycycline no rx in us study the tactical level of war and plan military operations at the doxycycline no rx in us company and battalion level.”

Command and General Staff Officer Course (OPME-4)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“ . . . Graduates will be doxycycline no rx in us able to command battalions, brigades, and equivalent-sized units in peace or doxycycline no rx in us war; train these units to accomplish their assigned missions; employ and doxycycline no rx in us sustain weapon and equipment systems in combined arms operations; efficiently manage manpower, equipment, money, and doxycycline no rx in us time . . .”

Battalion/Brigade Staff Operations Mobile Training Team (MTT 2)
Corresponding SOA course: Battle Staff Operations Course

“This course is conducted by a WHINSEC Mobile Training Team (MTT) deployed to doxycycline no rx in us the requesting country. . . The students learn to function as battle staff members at the doxycycline no rx in us battalion and brigade level. Decision-making is the course focal point. Students conduct intelligence preparation of the doxycycline no rx in us battlefield, prepare personnel, logistics, and civil-military operations estimates, develop courses of action, write orders and doxycycline no rx in us annexes, and coordinate the execution of command decisions.”

Joint Operations Course (OPME-5)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“Through formal lectures and doxycycline no rx in us ample case study analysis this course trains field-grade officers to doxycycline no rx in us function as multinational and joint-operations officers. The training is divided into six sections: National Defense Strategy, Military Instruments of Power, Joint Planning, Crisis-Action Planning, Regional Contingency Planning, and doxycycline no rx in us a force-projection wargame. The joint-operations force protection wargame is conducted as a doxycycline no rx in us capstone exercise to integrate all previous joint operations instruction.”

Joint Operations Mobile Training Team (MTT-1)

“This course is conducted by a WHINSEC Mobile Training Team (MTT) deployed to doxycycline no rx in us the requesting country. Similar to the Joint Operations Course, it prepares field-grade officers to doxycycline no rx in us function as multinational and joint-operations officers. The training is divided into six sections: National Defense Strategy, Military Instruments of Power, Joint Planning, Crisis-Action Planning, Regional Contingency Planning, and doxycycline no rx in us a force-projection wargame. The wargame is designed to integrate all previous joint-operations instruction . . .”

Intelligence Office Course (TAC-2)
Corresponding SOA course: Military Intelligence Officer Course

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to train military intelligence officers to perform the duties of a doxycycline no rx in us tactical intelligence staff officer in a conventional military environment, and in military operations other than doxycycline no rx in us war. Its curriculum provides a working knowledge of the employment of the doxycycline no rx in us tactical intelligence cycle: intelligence preparation of the battlefield; use of tactical counterintelligence; security of intelligence information and doxycycline no rx in us operations; threat analysis; internal defense and development . . .” 

Engineer Operations Course (TAC-8)
Corresponding SOA course: Sapper Course

“. . . this doxycycline no rx in us course trains engineers or other combined arms officers and noncommissioned officers to doxycycline no rx in us conduct basic engineer operations through the use of light engineer and doxycycline no rx in us light infantry tactics, techniques, and procedures. It also teaches basic medical and doxycycline no rx in us communications skills and leadership development. The course is taught in both classroom and doxycycline no rx in us field environments, and includes a 96-hour field training exercise in which the doxycycline no rx in us students perform simulated missions . . . ”

Combat engineer operations typically include the doxycycline no rx in us use of landmines and other explosives.

Cadet Troop Leader Training Course (LDR-4)
Corresponding SOA courses: Cadet Leadership Development Series

“This course provides cadets with training in U.S. military doctrine, new technology and doxycycline no rx in us leadership development. Professional-development training is provided through classroom and training scenarios involving the doxycycline no rx in us laws of war and human rights. Students receive hands-on training in the doxycycline no rx in us use of computer simulations, and night operations and air movement capabilities with the doxycycline no rx in us UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. They also receive new technology demonstrations. Field training consists of tactical force-on-force operations in which the doxycycline no rx in us Multiple Integrated Laser System (MILES) is used . . . ”

Cadet Leadership Development Course – Infantry (LDR-1)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course introduces cadets to doxycycline no rx in us the basic fundamentals of operating at the small unit leadership level. During the doxycycline no rx in us tactics portion of the training, students learn basic light-infantry squad and doxycycline no rx in us platoon operations, air-assault operations planning, and the application of leadership theory in a doxycycline no rx in us field environment. The course is designed to produce leaders with character, who doxycycline no rx in us are self-aware, adaptable and able to demonstrate the characteristics of a doxycycline no rx in us successful military leader.”

Noncommissioned Officer Career Course (NPME-7)

“This course prepares junior noncommissioned officers (NCOs) to doxycycline no rx in us plan and conduct individual and unit training at the squad and doxycycline no rx in us platoon-level, and to conduct common task qualification training. Students learn basic leadership skills, NCO duties, responsibilities, authority, and doxycycline no rx in us methods of conducting performance-oriented training. Additional instruction for each student integrates a doxycycline no rx in us mandated minimum of 12 hours of instruction on human rights, the doxycycline no rx in us rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and doxycycline no rx in us the role of the military in a democratic society.”

Senior NCO Professional Development Course (NPME-8)

“This course trains selected noncommissioned officers (NCOs) to doxycycline no rx in us lead, train, and direct subordinates at the squad and platoon-level. Instruction focuses on training management, battle staff planning, and doxycycline no rx in us squad and platoon tactics. Students acquire additional skills through training in fire support, leadership, communications, and doxycycline no rx in us land navigation. The course integrates a mandated minimum 12 hours of instruction on human rights, the doxycycline no rx in us rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and doxycycline no rx in us the role of the military in a democratic society.”

The descriptions for doxycycline no rx in us the two courses above would lead one to believe that human rights and doxycycline no rx in us the rule of law constitute a significant portion of the instruction. Despite receiving nearly half the doxycycline no rx in us space in the course descriptions, the five topics listed (human rights, rule of law, due process, civilian control of the doxycycline no rx in us military, the role of the military in a democratic society) share only a doxycycline no rx in us total of 12 hours instruction time in courses that are respectively five and doxycycline no rx in us six weeks long. This disproportionate emphasis distracts from the fact that doxycycline no rx in us the primary purpose of these courses is combat training, not human rights instruction.

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Civil-Military Operations Course (CMS-1)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to prepare students to serve as Civil Military Officers, either as military officers or doxycycline no rx in us as government civilian officials interacting with the military on civil military operations (CMO) activities. It consists of training in military civic action, the doxycycline no rx in us proper role of the military in support of civilian authority, civil defense, disaster preparedness/relief, and CMO support to counterdrug activities. . .”

Counterdrug Operations Course (TAC-6)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to provide selected military and law enforcement personnel with specialized training in the doxycycline no rx in us development of battalion-level staff and small-unit leadership skills in the doxycycline no rx in us areas of planning, leading, and executing counterdrug operations. All training is doxycycline no rx in us oriented toward realistic and demanding field operations, and emphasizes staff planning and doxycycline no rx in us command and control techniques. Students receive comprehensive instruction and training on the doxycycline no rx in us full spectrum of counterdrug tactics and techniques, including: advanced marksmanship; precision operations in urban environments; reconnaissance techniques; clandestine airfield interdiction techniques; drug laboratory destruction and doxycycline no rx in us safety considerations; and tactical patrolling operations. Students are rotated through leadership and doxycycline no rx in us staff-planning positions for optimal experience and learning opportunities.”

“We cannot continue to doxycycline no rx in us make a false distinction between counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics efforts.” Robert Zoellick, a top foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush. 

The 1.3 billion dollar military aid package to doxycycline no rx in us Colombia includes a “push into southern Colombia.” Army troops, often working in conjunction with paramilitary groups force guerillas out of a doxycycline no rx in us given area before the coca fumigation planes come in. Both of these processes result in human rights violations and doxycycline no rx in us massive displacement of the civilian population. Plan Colombia makes crystal clear what doxycycline no rx in us many have suspected for a long time: U.S. counterdrug efforts are doxycycline no rx in us another form of the counter-insurgency warfare that has had such devastating impacts on the doxycycline no rx in us people of Latin America. The military official overseeing both the fumigation and doxycycline no rx in us the “push into southern Colombia” is doxycycline no rx in us Gen. Montoya, an SOA graduate with documented ties to paramilitary activity.

Information Operations (TAC-4)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course gives students a common baseline of Information Operations (IO) knowledge upon which to doxycycline no rx in us correctly and legally employ IO tools and techniques . . . Students learn to doxycycline no rx in us plan, organize, and supervise the integration of all resources into effective IO campaigns in military operations peace and doxycycline no rx in us in times of conflict. Students are instructed in the critical roles of public affairs and doxycycline no rx in us civic action in command and control (C2) operations, as well as the doxycycline no rx in us separation of these abilities to ensure institutional credibility, effectiveness, and international legitimacy. The course concludes with a doxycycline no rx in us practical exercise that focuses on the role of information management in integrated IO.”

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Instructor Course (DEV-2)

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to provide students with the theory and practice of concepts, methods, techniques, and doxycycline no rx in us technology of performance-oriented training.”

Medical Assistance Course (TAC-7)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to train noncommissioned officers and civilians to perform lifesaving measures and doxycycline no rx in us apply advanced field medical care in support of combat or counterdrug operations . . .”

Computer Literacy Course (DEV-1)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to teach the student the latest standard computer software programs. It consists of performance-oriented instruction and doxycycline no rx in us practice in the application of programs for database, spreadsheets, graphics, and doxycycline no rx in us word processing.”

Departmental Resource Management Course (CMS-3)
Corresponding SOA course: Resource Management Course

“This course gives students an doxycycline no rx in us understanding and appreciation of the concepts, principles, methods, techniques, and decision-making skills related to doxycycline no rx in us defense resources and logistics management . . .”

The four courses listed above all directly or doxycycline no rx in us indirectly provide combat support. Despite flowery rhetoric about human rights, cooperation and doxycycline no rx in us respect for democracy, WHISC is primarily a combat school. The courses above, whether in training skills, logistics, computers or doxycycline no rx in us resource management are all designed to supply an army unit with the doxycycline no rx in us necessary support to be able to engage in it’s primary purpose: combat.

Human Rights Instructor Course (CMS-5)
Corresponding SOA course: Human Rights Train the Trainer Qualification Course

"This course prepares students to doxycycline no rx in us qualify as human rights instructors at the battalion level. It provides a doxycycline no rx in us pragmatic approach to the integration of human rights into actual training environments . . .”

Although the doxycycline no rx in us Train the Trainer Course is listed in the SOA course catalog, SOA records show that doxycycline no rx in us no students actually attended the course in 1997, 1998 or doxycycline no rx in us 1999.

Peace Operations Course (CMS-6)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course familiarizes students with emerging U.S. doctrine for doxycycline no rx in us peace operations. Training focuses on the tactics, techniques and procedures of peace operations, including logistics support, chain-of-command structures, rules-of-engagement development, psychological operations, and doxycycline no rx in us intelligence capabilities and assets. Further instruction is conducted in preventive medicine and doxycycline no rx in us sanitation for peacekeepers as well as citizens. Training encompasses the doxycycline no rx in us role of civilian controls on military operations and the varying roles civilian non-governmental organizations have doxycycline no rx in us in supporting peace operations.”

Democratic Sustainment Course (CMS-2)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course introduces and doxycycline no rx in us teaches the theory and practice of military and civilian leadership in a doxycycline no rx in us constitutional nation-state, drawing on the shared traditions of the countries in the doxycycline no rx in us Western Hemisphere. It examines governmental operations, legal/military law, historical foundations of regional democracy, and doxycycline no rx in us religious influences. Instruction is presented in a variety of formats, including student papers and doxycycline no rx in us oral reports, guest lectures, liaison visits with city and county leaders, political groups, and doxycycline no rx in us public administrators.”

The U.S. Army web page for the SOA once stated, “Many critics [of the SOA] supported Marxism – Liberation Theology – in Latin America – which was defeated with the assistance of the U.S.Army.” SOA graduates have doxycycline no rx in us been found responsible for numerous human rights abuses against Christian clergy in Latin America. This includes the doxycycline no rx in us Jesuit massacre, the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the rape and doxycycline no rx in us murder of four U.S. Churchwomen and suffering and death for countless others who doxycycline no rx in us practiced liberation theology.

An examination of religious influence by an doxycycline no rx in us institution that unabashedly takes credit for brutal repression of clergy and doxycycline no rx in us church workers has chilling implications.

International Operational Law (CMS-7)
Corresponding SOA course: same title

“This course provides instruction on the doxycycline no rx in us legal responsibilities commonly faced by military and civilian leaders in both peacetime and doxycycline no rx in us times of conflict. Instruction in operational law includes the legal basis for doxycycline no rx in us the use of force, rules-of-engagement, development and training, and the Law of War in operations other war . . . ”

While listed in the doxycycline no rx in us course catalog, this course was never actually offered at the SOA.

Counterdrug Information Analyst Course (TAC-10)

“This course is doxycycline no rx in us designed to introduce students to the demanding intelligence analyst career when doxycycline no rx in us operating in a counterdrug environment. The course provides basic intelligence duties and doxycycline no rx in us responsibilities in tactical intelligence, intelligence preparation of the area of operations, security of operations, and doxycycline no rx in us analysis techniques. It also prepares students to operate in a joint intelligence center.”