Military and Government Publications

See below for examples of military and government citations. NOTE: the standard procedure for military and government publications is to abbreviate as much as possible.

Congressional Hearing

22 Hearing before the Select Special Subcommittee on War Powers, Committee on Foreign Relations,100th Cong., 2nd sess., July 13, 1988, 11.

9 Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Examining U.S. Security Cooperation and Assistance: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, 117th Cong., 2nd sess., 2022, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/examining-us-security-cooperation-and-assistance-031022.

3 Africa: Securing U.S. Interests, Preserving Strategic Options: Hearing Before the Armed Services Committee, 117th Cong. 5 (2021) (statement of General Stephen J. Townsend, Commander, U.S. Africa Command), https://www.africom.mil/document/33691/usafricom-statement-for-record-hasc-20-apr-2021-gen-townsendpdf.

Congressional Debate/Testimony

23 Senator Edward M. Kennedy, speaking on National Intelligence Estimate-Iraq, September 29, 2006, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congressional Record, S10523.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report

27 Ronald O'Rourke, China Naval Modernization: Implications for US Naval Capabilities— Background and Issues for Congress (Washington, DC: US Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, July 17, 2009), 20.

28 Marshall C. Erwin, Intelligence Issues for Congress, CRS Report No. RL33539 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2013), 49, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33539.pdf.

Directive

23 Department of Defense, Information Assurance Training, Certification, and Workforce Management, DoD Directive 8570.01-M (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2005), http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/857001m.pdf.

Doctrine

24 Joint Chiefs of Staff, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States, P 1 (Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2017), https://fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp1.pdf.

Executive Order

22 Exec. Order No. 13655, 3 C.F.R. 339 (2014), https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR- 2014-title3-vol1/pdf/CFR-2014-title3-vol1.pdf.

Federal Budget

28 US Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1998 (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1997), 4.

Field Manual or Military Regulation

24 Department of the Army, Sniper Training, FM 23-10 (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1995), http://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/fm_23-10%2894%29.pdf.

2 Department of the Army, Offense and Defense, ADP 3-90 (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 2019), 3-1, https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN18377_ADP%203-90%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf.

Foreign Relations of the United States

24 "Memorandum from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Schwartz) to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Warnke), April 22, 1968," Foreign Relations of the United States (hereafter FRUS) 1964-1968, vol. XXI, Near East Region; Arabian Peninsula (Washington, DC, 2000), doc. 143.

Fragmentary Order (FRAGO)

24 Eric B. Schoomaker, US Army Surgeon General, "Fragmentary Order 6 to Operation Order 09-75 (Novel a(H1N1) Influenza Vaccine Immunization Program)," Fort Sam Houston, TX, US Army Medical Command, March 17, 2010.

Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report

29 US Government Accountability Office, Special Operations Forces: Report to Congressional Committees (Washington, DC: US Government Accountability Office, September 2007), 3.

25 Cathleen A. Berrick, Homeland Security: DHS's Progress and Challenges in Key Areas of Maritime, Aviation, and Cybersecurity, GAO-10-106 (Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office, 2009), 7-9.

Instruction

22 Department of Defense, Identification (ID) Cards Required by the Geneva Convention DoD Instruction 1000.01 (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2012), 36.

Joint Publications

4 Joint Chiefs of Staff, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States, JP 1 (Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2017), IV-3, https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Publications/National_Military_Strategy_2015.pdf.

Memoranda, Orders, and other Official Correspondence

1 Teresa M. Takai, "Adoption of the National Information Exchange Model within the Department of Defense" (official memorandum, Washington, DC: Department of Defense, March 28, 2013), https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/2013-03-28%20Adoption%20of%20the%20NIEM%20within%20the%20DoD.pdf.

2 Eric B. Schoomaker, "Fragmentary Order 6 to Operation Order 09-75 (Novel a(H1N1) Influenza Vaccine Immunization Program)," (fragmentary order, U.S. Army Medical Command, Fort Sam Houston, TX: March 17, 2010).

3 MILPER Message Number 19-343, "Battalion Command Assessment Program (BCAP) Participant Attendance in Association with the Fiscal Year (FY 21) Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Army Command/Key Billet Boards Announcement," October 24, 2019, 7:20 AM, https://www.hrc.army.mil/mil/PrintPreview/Milper/19-343.

National Defense Strategy

22 Department of Defense, Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2018), https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf.

44 Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Military Strategy of the United States of America (Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2015), https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Publications/National_Military_Strategy_2015.pdf.

15 Joint Chiefs of Staff, Description of the 2018 National Military Strategy (Washington, DC: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2018), 4, https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Publications/UNCLASS_2018_National_Military_Strategy_Description.pdf.

National Security Strategy

30 William J. Clinton, A National Security Strategy for a New Century (Washington, DC: The White House, October 1998), 46.https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf.

11 White House, Interim National Security Strategic Guidance (Washington, DC: White House, 2021), 7-8, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSC-1v2.pdf.

Posture Statement

31 Michael P. W. Stone and Gordon R. Sullivan, Strategic Force, Strategic Vision for the 1990s and Beyond: A Statement on the Posture of the United States Army, Fiscal Year 1993, Posture Statement presented to the 102nd Cong., 2nd sess. (Washington, DC: US Department of the Army, 1992), 3.

Public Law

32 Atomic Energy Act of 1946, Public Law 585, 79th Cong., 2nd sess. (August 1, 1946), 19.

Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)

33 Robert M. Gates, Quadrennial Defense Review (Washington, DC: US Department of Defense, February 2010), 19.

United States Constitution

35 US Constitution, art. 2, sec. 1.


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