From March through August 2007 in support of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, Major Dennis van Dijk of the Royal Netherlands Army commanded the logistics support detachment for Task Force Uruzgan, based at Camp...
When the Republic of Indonesia declared itself independent from the Netherlands on 17 August 1945, the Dutch leaders did not accept this and tried to restore colonial authority. This led to a four-year conflict between the Netherlands and the...
After ten years of global conflict with al Qaeda, the time has come to reassess the threat and determine the parameters within which it operates. Questions regarding its continued validity as a threat, its capability to employ synchronized tactical...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
This study is an historical analysis of the military preparations made by the Dutch from the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 until the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. The impact of Dutch history, national...
Between 1945 and 1949 a pattern of mistrust developed between the communist block and the Free Western World. To counter the threat of communism the United States and fifteen allies decided to organize a mutual security pact. With the signing of...
This study is concerned only with the landing of airborne fighting forces in an area occupied or controlled by an enemy and with the subsequent tactical commitment of those forces in conventional ground combat. Contents include German airborne...
Commander Group Two, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Details preparations for the operation, supporting operation and movement to the objective. Gives a general narrative of the assault phase and a chronology of operations. Additionally the report gives information gunfire support, air support...
From 29 October through 1 November 2007, Commanding General, Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) convened the conference “Pedagogy for the Long War: Teaching Irregular Warfare,” at the Alfred M. Gray Research Center at Marine...
This study evaluates the six Jedburgh teams which supported Operation Market Garden during the period 11 September-24 September 1944. The conceptual development of Jedburgh missions and the recruitment and training of men for these missions are...
This text attempts to give a comprehensive description of the administration and operation of the OT German government agency, considered a construction arm of the Wehrmacht and founded by Fritz Todt.
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.
These are the procedures for the preparation of units for overseas duty, including the process prior to the movement of the unit to the staging area, final inspection by the port authroities, and the filling of the last minute shortages.