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...
Using histories, after action reports, interviews, and doctrinal manuals this study examines intelligence requirements for support to domestic civil authorities in civil disturbance operations and evaluates the adequacy of tactical intelligence...
This monograph discusses the linkage of military operations with defined regional strategy objectives designed to achieve conditions favorable to long-term U.S. interests. Most recent U.S. military endeavors may serve to show the existence of...
The precursor to this monograph "The US Army and Security Force Assistance: Assessing the Need for an Institutionalized Advisory Capability," utilized three criteria: importance of advisory operations, frequency of advisory operations, and...
The subject of this document is the civil affairs of Belgium. The scope of the first annex details that the plan is designed to apply in any operations which may be mounted in Belgium. Topics range from politics, public safety, legal matters,...
The following special bulletins contained in this document include: the German campaign in Poland; Soviet-Finnish (operations from November 30, 1939 to January 7, 1940); the German campaign in Poland, September 1 – October 5, 1939; Royal Air...
This is a discussion of the land and people of Japan. Boundaries, area and position, physiography, climate, and regional divisions are detailed. For the people of Japan, information includes population and cultural characteristics (family and sex,...
Camp Chase, four miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio, began in May 1861 as a mustering center for units entering Union service during the American Civil War. By June 1861 it picked up additional responsibilities of housing Confederate prisoners...
The courses of instruction presented at the Command and General Staff School during World War II have generally been dismissed as expedients, whose purpose was the production of large quantities of graduates to staff an expanding wartime Army. A...
This study examines the development of US airpower theory and its major applications. The focus of the study is on offensive applications of airpower and on interdiction and strategic bombing in particular. The study reveals that a mature airpower...
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the historical evolution of news censorship in the United States, the current military information policy in Vietnam, and media performance in reporting selected crisis combat events of the Vietnam...
The Battle of Aschaffenburg examines the fight for the Main River city of Aschaffenburg in the closing weeks of World War II in Europe. It investigates the reasons why it took mobile and well supported elements of the U.S. Army ten days to subdue a...
Assistant chief of Staff, G-2, American Forces in Germany, 1918-1923
Volume II of 2 volumes. Covers the topics of civil affairs and relations with the civil population, food, finance, utilities, disposition of supplies, various Interallied Commissions, discipline, military intelligence, the American Forces,...
The purpose of this manual is the instruction of Army and Navy personnel in military government and civil affairs field operations. The manual contains first hand reports of numerous, typical military government and civil affairs situations and...
A translation of top-level directives issued by Hitler and by the Armed Forces High Command (OKW) from 1939-1945. Also includes some top-level naval directions (OKM), showing the Navy’s reaction. Some early directives are not included because...
The purpose of the First US Army Operation Plan is to provide a basis for planning by Task Force Commanders. The object of Neptune is to secure lodgment area on the continent from which further offensive operations can be developed.
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...