
Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library

During WW II the Command and General Staff Colleges primary mission was to train large numbers of captains and majors to be staff officers in battalions, brigades, divisions, and corps. To that end, the Army provided copies of documents produced by field units to the College. Operations orders, after action reports, intelligence …
The School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) is one of the parts of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). Most SAMS students complete the regular CGSC course, then stay for a second academic year. They write either one or two monographs (depending on the requirement at the time) and are awarded a Master of Military …
The Master of Military Art and Science (MMAS) program began in 1964 at the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). CGSC regular course students may elect to take a set of electives, write a thesis, and earn an accredited Masters. This collection contains all the publicly releasable monographs produced since the program began …
This collection is intended to showcase a variety of media relating to the history of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas with particular attention to the CGSC. Books, pamphlets, photographs, and maps are included.
Look in this collection for items covering World War I, Russo-Japanese War, the interwar period or other topics during this time period.
The items in this collection cover the areas of military history which are not covered in the other collections. Look in here for items on the Vietnam Conflict, Korean War, and the U.S. Civil War, to name a few.
"A project of the Combat Studies Institute, the Operational Leadership Experiences Interview Collection archives firsthand, multi-service accounts from military personnel who planned, participated in and supported operations in the Global War on Terrorism."
Obsolete military manuals are frequently used by researchers to understand the thought process and operating environment of the military during a certain time frame. This collection will have an emphasis on Army doctrine. The publications in this collection are no longer current doctrine or current operating procedures. They are …
The Command and General Staff School (CGSS) students at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, produced papers about military history topics during 1930-1936 classes. Some of the papers were written as individual research papers and some were done as a group research monograph. This is a rich resource for interwar topics, as well as lessons learned …
Military Review is a refereed journal that provides a forum for original thought and debate on the art and science of land warfare and other issues of current interest to the US Army and the Department of Defense. Military Review has been in constant publication since 1922. It is currently published in English, Portugese, Spanish, and …
The mission of the CGSC Foundation is to:
The Foundation …
Post World War II papers written by students during their time at the Command and General Staff College. These papers were written for course requirements and do not fit into the SAMS monographs or CGSC theses collections.
American Civil War, 1861-1865

The American Civil War portion of the Nafziger Collection contains orders of battle from 1861-1865 with over 800 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's interest in these highly detailed …
The United States Army Sergeant Majors Academy (USASMA) digital library contains a variety of documents created by students while attending academy courses; as part of an ongoing digitization/preservation project at USASMA, the library also acts as a public archive for NCO-related print, audio, and image collections. Included among the …
The collection of the Frontier Army Museum reflects the mission of the museum to collect, preserve, manage, research and utilize for educational purposes, historically significant property pertaining to the history of the Frontier Army (1804-1917) and Fort Leavenworth (1827- present) including its role in the development of education and …
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been and continues to be a record of Fort Leonard Wood and its surrounding communities.
The Center for Army Lessons Learned Repository consists of CALL products that are marked approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
For the complete collection of CALL products visit http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/call/index.asp where you can log in with an AKO account or CAC card.
The Morris Swett Technical Library, located within the Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, is the repository for materials, documents, and artifacts of the artillery profession and early Fort Sill history. The digital collection comprises the oldest and most unique documents from within the holdings. Our goal is to provide ready …
The US Army Combined Arms Center (USACAC) Repository is a collection of publicly releasable documents on a wide range of topics produced by the staff and organizations assigned to the US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, KS.

The collections contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library are largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College. We have recently partnered with several Army educational and historical organizations whose collections appear here also. The collections of digitized materials are uploaded in the CONTENTdm® Digital Collection Management System which allows for greater search and retrieval of the individual documents.
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