Photo of inside of Andrews Hall, which later became the Frontier Army Museum in 1940s. This was being used by the Command and General Staff College as a situational map classroom at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. To accommodate the large number of...
Photo of officers practicing wargaming using a map on a table. The photo was used in the Annual Report of the Commandant General Service School, 1907, page 48.
Photograph shows the outside front view of Andrews Hall, which was constructed as an instructional classroom for the Command and General Staff College (CGSC), 1943 at Fort Leavenworth. A general Staff course for mobilization was taught in Andrews...
Photo of Command and General Staff College classroom inside Gruber Hall at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. To accommodate the large number of students in the WWII classes, other buildings were converted for classroom use.
The following is a short history of the U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer. This work is produced in hope that it will prove useful to the wide variety of NCOs in the field and to visitors of the U.S. Army Museum of the Noncommissioned Officer, who...
The U.S. Army believes that deception is a vital part of military operations. Field Manual 100-5, Operations, acknowledges that the Soviet Army mastered operational deception in World War II. While its success is widely recognized, there are few...
Wars have been studied from every viewpoint from the most abstract to the intensely personal. In the case of Major Joseph C. Barto III's Task Force 2-4 Ca -"First In, Last Out': The History of the 2d Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, During Operation...
Baumann, Robert F.; Gawrych, George W.; Kretchnik, Walter E.
With the aid of a generous grant from the US Institute of Peace, Robert Baumann, George Gawrych, and Walter Kretchik were able to access and examine relevant documents, interview numerous participants, and visit US and NATO forces in Bosnia. As a...
Baumann, Robert F.; Yates, Lawrence A.; Washington, Versalle F.
This study examines the American military's experience with urban operations in Somalia, particularly in the capital city of Mogadishu. That original focus can be found in the following pages, but the authors address other, broader issues as well,...
World War II U.S. Army corps commanders were the orchestrators of combat, the men responsible for coordinating the fighting power and tactical deployment of divisions. Twenty-two U.S. Army corps were actively engaged in combat operations during...
Coalition warfare is generally a two-edged sword. When several countries join forces to fight a common enemy, the weight of their combined effort can be overwhelming. The effectiveness of this effort, however, can be dissipated or even rendered...