Stability operations are not a recent phenomenon, but have been particularly common since the end of the Cold War. All the major deployments of the US Army since 1991 have involved such operations. In all these deployments, the US Army has been...
The United States Army began transformation to meet the needs of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Senior leaders within the military initiated the transformation from a division-based organization to one built around brigades. This...
Committee 8 Officers Advanced Course, The Armored School; Himes, Cecil; Krampitz, Charles T.; Heffelfinger, Hugo W.; Falls, Carroll M., Jr.; Stout, Morris C.; Boehmer, William J.; Plume, Stephen K.; Styer, George D.; Huddleston, James M.
This study covers the drive for, capture of, and withdrawal from Crailsheim by the 10th Armored Division during the period 4-10 April 1945. The main purpose in studying this particular action was to increase the knowledge of armored operations in...
This document is broken down into three sections. Part one addresses the general setting and situation, summary of Second British Army plan, the planning and preparation of 30 Corps, outline and organization for movement, and a summary of 30 Corps...
The debate over the service of black Americans in the U.S. Army centered around three questions: Could they serve? Would they be allowed to serve? And, if allowed, in what capacity would they serve? This is similar to modern debates about the...
Operations order for 38 Group, R.A.F. participating in Operation "Market" Details Glider delivery and dropping of Paratroopers. Contains Appendices for: Order of battle; Air movement table (including allocation of aircraft); Flight plan (including...
This Standing Operating Procedure is the result of experience acquired by the 776th Amphibian Tank Battalion during its attachment to the Seventh Infantry Division in the Leyte Campaign. Its purpose is to make available for study those details of...
"This 1954 manual is a guide to assist commanders in developing the sections of 8 inch gun M1 and 240-mm howitzer M1 firing batteries into efficient, smooth-working teams that have a sense of discipline that will impel them to operate effectively...
This report describes Air Force participation in Operation Shingle, the amphibious assault by elements of the Fifth Army on the Anzio-Nettuno area commencing 22 January 1944. It covers the operations of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces from 1...
Congress governs the United States Armed Forces by writing laws for the Department of Defense (DoD) to implement. In 1993, Congress passed a federal law banning homosexuality in the armed forces. The DoD created a policy to implement the law, but...
A personal narrative of the capture of Fort McAllister and observations of General Sherman during December 13-15, 1864. Sherman received orders from General Grant which eventually led to the South Carolina campaign.
This monograph develops an alternative approach to counterinsurgency, and explains how the current narratives in the field of counterinsurgency are not completely accurate. Counterinsurgents only need to properly understand the environment and then...
This monograph analyzes the interrelationship between new way the US forces will fight their wars in future 13 effects based operations (EBO) with network centered forces (NCO) 13 and the challenges after the major combat operations (MCO) ended,...
Wheeler, Charles Brewster and Tschappat, William H.
While artillery experts are agreed as to the advantages of increased rapidity of fire for field guns, they appear not to have decided upon the most desirable form of field carriage, nor to what limits the increased rapidity of fire should be...
The Army After Next concept is a significant part of the U.S. Army's role in future operations. The proponents are developing doctrinal concepts that break current paradigms of multiple battlefield operating systems at the tactical level. The...
In recent years there has been much discussion, frustration and angst about the lack of cooperation and coordination between and among agencies and departments of the federal government in response to disasters (natural and manmade) and overseas...
This thesis endeavored to determine if the current organization of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) best achieves homeland security in a time of diminishing resources. The growing threat to national security...