"In coast defense, the general mission of the armed forces is to prevent or repeal a landing by hostile forces on United States soil or in any theater of operations designated by the President."
The Illustrated War News was a weekly magazine during World War I, published by Illustrated London News. The magazine contained articles, photographs, diagrams and maps. This book is a compilation of issues from October, November and December of...
This manual provides the unit commander and the gunnery officer with a step-by-step outline of tank gunnery training and the necessary explanation and references. The discussion of training methods is limited to tank guns. Necessary information...
"This booklet contains information affecting the employment of engineer units and is being issued for the purpose of assisting in overall engineer planning. The information has been gathered from War Department and Southwest Pacific Area...
This textbook used by the Army School of the Line and the Army Staff School in the year 1919-1920, discusses the organization, deployment and equipment of machine gun units.
"This manual presents the details of construction, use, and maintenance of land sites for low altitude barrage balloons. Rigging of the bed is described for securing low-altitude barrage balloons by bedding down, tail-line mooring, mooring-cirlce...
This analysis is based on a model of the Marine Air Command and Control System identified in the Center for Naval Analysis study 'C3 Information Flow Model'. The study was the composited result of a working conference of subject matter experts...
Discusses the German High Command, the basic structure of the German Army, its organizations and commanders, miscellaneous units, indexes of senior officers and semi-military organizations.
This document addresses the trade of Japan Proper (including Karafuto) with foreign countries. This includes import and export trade, trade by geographic areas and leading countries, and wartime overseas trade. Second is the trade of Japan Proper...
A fim de facilitar o acesso dos leitores à sua ampla e variada coletânea de artigos profissionais militares, a Military Review manterá no site http://MilitaryReview.Army.Mil uma lista atualizada dos temas publicados a partir de 2001. Os artigos...
Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and his Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Mrs. Victoria Clarke, initiated the embedded news media program. The intent was for the public to see directly through the media what happened at the...
This study on the geographical and social background of Germany describes the land and people- terrain, population statistics, language, family and marriage, social stratification, general living conditions, etc., along with maps and tables.
This study on Germany focuses on transportation systems and inland waterways. The four sections of this document are broken down by the shipbuilding industry, shipping industry, Reich (national) waterways, and inland ports.
This Civil Affairs Handbook on Manchuria describes the general description of the country- the people, North/South Manchuria, topographical regions, climate and soil. Parts two and three detail pre-war agriculture and food (importance of...
DOD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act
On 23 October 1983, a truck laden with the equivalent of over 12,000 pounds of TNT crashed through the perimeter of the compound of the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force at Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon, penetrated the...
This manual covers the tactical employment of the self-propelled tank destroyer pioneer platoon. The following contents of this field manual include: pioneer reconnaissance; movements; bivouacs; position in readiness; combat area; technical...