In considering the employment of field artillery materiel in antitank defense, many items must be studied including the characteristics and limitations of enemy tank equipment, enemy tactics in the use of tanks, terrain, artificial obstacles,...
This paper discusses the impact of French and German artillery on the development of US Army artillery, both in materiel and its tactical importance to the infantry. Future progress in mobility and communications is covered.
This purpose of the study is to point out the fundamental ideas governing the employment of field artillery held by the warring nations at the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, and to trace the modification and evolution of these ideas during the...
The purpose of this paper is to share my experience as a Drill Sergeant assigned to 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. I learned quickly that the Drill Sergeant course did not teach me how to become an effective...
The Italian Army developed a sound and unique combined arms doctrine for mechanized warfare in 1938. This new doctrine was called the “War of Rapid Decision.” It involved the use of mechanized warfare in the Italian version of the blitzkrieg....
This text is intended to present the general characteristics of existing field artillery weapons in a manner not too highly technical to be understood without an examination of the materiel under discussion.
This monograph examines whether or not the U. S. Army’s transition from horse drawn field artillery to motorized traction in the interwar years of 1919 to 1941 has’relevance to the U.S. Army’s movement to an automated command and control...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
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...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
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...
This paper discusses the use of armored cars by the cavalry units in performing cavalry missions, advantages and disadvantages of types of vehicles and their use and requirements.
This paper argues that methods for transport of light field artillery in infantry and cavalry divisions should be tractor-drawn, with the elimination of horse-drawn artillery.
Seeks to determine whether permanent installations should be installed on tanks for transporting infantry. The current method of transporting infantry on tanks is not satisfactory because it means only moving six men and the ride is uncomfortable...
A study on the current organization of the Field and Coast Artillery as two separate branches and the current arguments being presented for their consolidation.
This study presented discusses the extent to which it is practicable and desirable in actual combat to replace men by tanks, armored cars, new implements, etc., and the tactical effects of such replacement.