Field Marshal William 'Bill' Slim ended World War II in command of Fourteenth Army. His understanding of what motivated men in the most trying of times is well publicized. Indeed, he is most well-known for his thoughts on morale and leadership....
The USAAF responded to the requirement to keep China engaged against Japan by conducting two distinct air supply operations, a tactical air supply mission to Burma and a strategic air supply effort over the Himalayas to China. The tactical air...
Field Marshall Viscount Slim holds a special place in modern military history. He soundly defeated the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma in 1945, retaking the strategically important Burma Road, and safeguarding the Chinese Theater from sure...
The War in Burma is all too frequently forgotten as a source of relevant military experience. Admittedly it did not have the strategic importance of other theatres such as the Pacific or North West Europe, but it did witness some of the hardest and...
Covers the Ha-go Operation, the Kan Operations, the Mai Operation and the termination of the war from the perspective of a former staff officer of the 28th Army named Aiichi Okamura.
The purpose of this monograph is to investigate the effects of battle command on a conventional corps fighting in an unconventional environment. Battle command is a new doctrinal term describing how a commander leads his unit into an operation....
This monograph studies how a theater commander communicates his vision and intent throughout a complex, diverse, multilayered, and multicultural organization. The monograph first focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of communications in large...
On 15 January 1942 the Japanese invaded Burma. Within months, the Japanese occupied the country and forced the Allied forces to conduct a brutal retreat into neighboring India. During the next three and one half years, both forces continued to...
The weekly intelligence summary give information on and about tactical intelligence, objective folder and target chart data, war news from other fighting fronts, Japanese antiaircraft defenses, and special reports from EAC tactical units.
This details the 15th Army organization and operations after the subjugation of Burma. Plans and preparations for the invasion of Eastern India, as well as the Imphal operation and withdrawal from Eastern India, are highlighted.
The object of this document is to indicate briefly the chief characteristics of Japanese behavior in the field as they differ from our own and that of western nations. Descriptions of Japanese tactics is based on observation of actual practice and...
This monograph analyzes the 1944-45 Burma Campaign between the Japanese and Allied forces as a case study to evaluate current United States Army Senior Leadership doctrine in Field Manual 22-103, Leadership and Command at Senior Levels. It uses...
Just as many football players have failed to become great coaches, so too have many governmental leaders, leaders of industry and military officers failed to succeed when placed at higher levels of responsibility. Understanding how to solve...
The purpose of this issue of Special Series is to provide a general subject index of current periodic and serial publications of the Military Intelligence Division, War Department. This index covers the Intelligence Bulletin, Tactical and Technical...
The weekly intelligence summary gives information on and about tactical intelligence, objective folder and target chart data, war news from other fighting fronts, Japanese antiaircraft defenses, and special reports from EAC tactical units.
This postwar Intelligence bulletin purpose is to furnish intelligence on foreign military forces to the junior officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army. Subjects include weapons, strategy, and tactics. Sep 1944-Aug 1945 are in this section.
This monograph analyzes two historical campaigns and current doctrine to determine what information is required of the operational commander to make decisions. It looks at the nature of the information used by the operational commander in the...
As warfare continues to become more complex due to the advent and proliferation of new technology, blending of ethnic and cultural groups, population growth and urbanization, and tendency towards asymmetric warfare, commanders will have more...