On 20 May 1945, the Combined Chiefs of Staff directed the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean, the Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia Command, to take steps to insure that,...
Recent assertions have been made that the nature of warfare in our current operating environment has changed in such a way that phasing in military operations has outlasted its utility and become problematic, requiring it to be eliminated or...
"This treatise is based on authentic information from the Western front in Europe, but the art and practice of Field Fortification today is like so many other things, in the melting pot, and men who study this work may find, upon their arrival in...
The 1993 version of FN4 100-5, Operations, formally added the theoretical term of decisive points to our professional warfighting lexicon without providing a useful methodology for their identification. This monograph undertakes a study of decisive...
The following pages are written with the idea of furnishing the members of the Army School of the Line and Staff College a guide in the solution of field problems in fortification. These problems are such that any line officer might be called upon...
Compiled by Walter F. Wright, Captain, Field artillery. "The course in electrical communications for Field Artillery falls naturall into three parts: (1) elementary electricity; (2) telephones nad switchboards, and (3) radio communication."
The importance assumed by trench warfare and the progress made in the application of field fortification and in the science of the attack and defense of elaborate systems of trenches, have rendered necessary special instruction in the details of...
Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications.
The rational use of coast-artillery, and the development of a correct system of defence, are based upon a knowledge of the means of defence, of the capability of those means, and of the method of employing them.
It is almost universally conceded that to-day, as in the past, fortifications play the most important rule in the. defense of coasts and harbors. In the United States, submarine mines and other obstructions are officially regarded as auxiliaries...
The attached basic outline plan covers operations to occupy Japan Proper and Korea after surrender or collapse of the Japanese Government and Imperial High Command.
Leonard Wood served as a Military Governor in Cuba from 1898 (Santiago) and 1899 to 1902, later as the Military Governor of the Moro Province in the Philippines from 1903 to 1906, and eventually as Governor General for the Philippines until his...
"The extraordinary importance which the Gruson-Schumann Shielded Mountings have obtained in military science during the last five years has naturally somewhat diverted the public interest from the armoured turrets and batteries of the Gruson...
United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area
Report of the United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area's participation in the Marianas Operation. Volume 2 of 2 . Part 3 focuses on the XXIV Corps. This volume looks at G-1 personnel and related staff sections, G-2 intelligence, G-3...