Staff rides provide officers and other students of military history with the opportunity to obtain important insights into military operations and to study the effects of technology in combat, concepts of leadership, and how men have fought and...
The Lewis and Clark staff ride presented in this booklet, focuses on a US Army mission to explore the unknown during a time of peace. By studying the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806, traveling the route, and visiting the places where key...
Combat Operations Research Group (CORG); Ney, Virgil
The modern military text, or field manual, has evolved over a period of several hundred years. Historically, military training literature traces its beginnings to the writings of the ancient Chinese, Greeks and Romans. Until the invention of...
This book contains a compilation of lessons learned on conflicts involving Russian tactics, civil war, guerrilla forces, and rough terrain during the Soviet Afghan War. It contains lessons to help small unit leaders understand security, deception,...
This volume presents the story of Afghanistan's fight against the Soviet Army beginning in 1979 and how the Mujahideen prevailed against a larger and decisively better equipped foe. It provides an understanding of guerrilla field craft and tactics,...
Major Jon Baker served as commander of Charlie Company, 82nd Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) until roughly February 2002. Baker was stationed in Kandahar Airbase and...
This study investigates the impact of Confederate naval mine warfare against the operations of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Mine warfare was a cost effective method for the Confederacy to defend its long coastline and inland waterways. A...
Advances in technology and evolution of doctrine provide grounds to review commonly-held assumptions about the level at which combined arms warfare begins. This thesis examines the platoon equipped with the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle to...
This study investigates General Braxton Bragg's use of cavalry during the pivotal Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns. As army commander, Bragg was responsible for organizing units, selecting commanders, and assigning missions. His decisions had...
This study is a historical analysis of the cavalry raids led by Confederate Major Generals Earl Van Dorn and Nathan Bedford Forrest in December 1862 and Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson in April 1863. Each raid is examined in detail based on the...
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 thesis examines Brigadier General Henry A. Wise's involvement in the Western Virginia Campaign of 1861. This Confederate defeat resulted in the Federal occupation of a large, strategically important section of the Confederacy in the first year...
The 75th Ranger Regiment is currently developing a new operational and organizational plan (O&O) in order to adapt to future threats and operational environments. To maximize the potential of its Rangers in the Army's Future Force. One of the major...
For several decades infantrymen have argued over the requirements for the small arms weapons for the infantry. Battlefield experience in the Republic of Vietnam and the involvement of the author in weapons development testing raised doubts as to...
Three threats to the current tactical command and control communications system are identified and examined. These threats are overcrowding the frequency spectrum, electronic warfare, and the electromagnetic pulse effect. When these threats are...