Major Mike Stephens served as a company commander with the 701st MSB in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from January through April 2003. Once Stephens assumed the company commander position, the company began convoying equipment to the barge...
Major Rob Manley served as legal advisor for the 1st Special Forces Group in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines from April to August 2002. During the preparation for this deployment, Manley's wife gave birth to their child. The...
MAJ Schwaiger provides many detailed vignettes about his experiences while working as the mayor of the Jalalabad, Afghanistan Forward Operating Base (FOB). He discusses in detail the planning and coordination needed to support the surge in forces...
MAJ Shane Vesely served as a C-130 pilot and squadron commander with the 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron (ESOS) in 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this September 2011 interview, MAJ Vesely discusses...
This paper discusses a defensive division ground organization including the division commanders' role in prescribing details, use of infantry regimental commanders in work progress, function of the division engineer, and proper use of the engineer...
This study attempts to investigate how the Philippine Scouts originated and how they were used during the Philippine Insurrection. It focuses on determining the precedence for the U.S. Army's use of indigenous soldiers prior to 1899. Given this...
The reduction in United States defense spending for Southeast Asia can be expected to create a rise in the number of unemployed in this country. The exact number will, of course, depend on many variables, to include the size and rate of the...
Griffith, Samuel B., II, tr.; Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
This is a translation of Mao Tzu Tung's "Yu chi chan", otherwise known as "Guerrilla warfare". In July 1941, the undeclared war between China and Japan entered its fifth year. One of the most significant features of the struggle had been the...
These are the Panama Canal Department Regulations for 1939. Contents include: athletics and recreation, enlisted men, Finance Department, general depots, Medical Department, military police, miscellaneous, officers, Ordnance Department, post...
Originial text in German translated into French by Brevet Battalion Commander Mabille, and translated from the French into English by Captain John B. Murphy. Includes a preface by General Mangin and accompanying historical study by Friedrich M....
This document is largely the work of soldiers and airmen fighting in Burma and the South West Pacific who, in notes, sketches and photographs, have recorded their observations of the Japanese in battle.
This is an Army Service Forces Manual, a Civil Affairs handbook, on Norway. This study examines topics regarding government and administration (focusing on German military government in Norway), labor, cultural institutions, government finance, and...
This study is divided into several parts. The first deals with the basic conditions under which Danish agriculture operates. The second part is devoted to a review of the pre-war position of the country's agriculture and food economy, while the...
This volume is an abridgment of the official history of the Office of the Provost Marshal General; its purpose was to make immediately available an accurate account of the operations of the Provost Marshal General. Contents of this document include...
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon to deal with a series of complex challenges in...
The subject of this report is the participation by United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area, in the GALVANIC Operation against the Japanese held Gilbert Islands, in November, 1943. It shows the operational support by the USAFICPA and...