With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the grip of
superpower strictures loosened resulting in an increase in complexity and dynamism that marks today's security environment. The rapidly changing and uncertain...
While it might currently be challenging to imagine Russia as a NATO member, a change to the future strategic context could make it equally difficult to imagine Russia outside of NATO. The historical analysis of NATO enlargement during the past...
When President Woodrow Wilson ordered approximately 150,000 National Guardsmen to the southern border in 1916, the United States was on the verge of all-out war with Mexico. The rapid mobilization and deployment of the Guard forces broke the rapid...
Troops in occupied positions increase their combat effectiveness by works of an engineering nature called field fortifications. This manual describes field fortification methods and gives details of construction of entrenchments, emplacements, and...
This thesis is a study of the Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve (Reserve Components) premobilization training requirements and training time available in which to accomplish them. The original intent of Congress in establishing the...
This study reveals how a light infantry division, complemented by key attachments, stopped an armor-heavy German corps. Using original documents and reports, Colonel Mitchell traces the fight at Bastogne with emphasis on the organization, movement...
AAF Historical Office, Headquarters, Army Air Forces; Mayock, Thomas J.
This study recounts the career of the Twelfth Air Force from the time it became established in newly pacified French North Africa until it was absolved in the Northwest African Air Forces. Contents include the race for Tunis, impasse and...
This study examines the evolution and continued applicability of the corpus, both conventional and customary, that constitutes the law of war. The author provides a theoretical framework and the development of the law within Western and,...
This study analyzes the Chinese Red Army from 1927 to 1936 to determine how the Red Army survived attacks from external military forces and also successfully overcame the threats to its existence posed by changing Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
This study analyzes the Chinese Red Army from 1927 to 1936 to determine how the Red Army survived attacks from external military forces and also successfully overcame the threats to its existence posed by changing Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
This staff study addresses the problem of determining how the civil affairs responsibilities of U.S. military advisors are affected by the introduction of large numbers of U.S. or Allied forces to conduct military operations.
This paper investigates creating a deployable joint warfighting headquarters at the operational level of war called the Joint Forces Group. The paper is broken down into four chapters. The first, describes current joint doctrine on how the U.S....
This paper contains a narrative of the events, with deductions of which lessons learned will be of value in the planning of future military operations. Included is a translation from the German, of Vol, III, Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914, pages...
This monograph describes the interaction and impact of the Afghan culture with the numerous instances of foreign intervention in the country. Prior to the American intervention in 2001, most recall of foreign intervention in Afghanistan focused on...
This monograph describes the evolution of logistics management at the operational level since the end of the Second World War. Examining the history of how the Department of Defense has organized itself at the operational level to manage logistics...
This monograph conducts a historical study of the Army Amateur Radio System, the predecessor to the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS). In 2009, the Department of Defense changed the MARS mission to support homeland security functions by using...
This monograph approached Lieutenant General James M. Gavin as a military theorist and explored his influence as the Army transitioned from World War II to the Cold War. Gavin's theory of future warfare required an army with capability in atomic...
This monograph analyzes the Army's ability to implement operational culture skills to meet the intent of the vision set forth in the 2009 Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy. First, the monograph reviews Army operations since Vietnam. This...
This manual treats of the position finding, control, and illumination phenomena pertaining to antiaircraft searchlights. It is broken down into the following topics: sound location, acoustic correctors, searchlights, searchlight control, control...