These studies of training and leader development, and doctrinal and combat developments subjects provide historical perspective to support the Command’s mission of preparing the Army for war and charting its future. This is a study of the...
Prior to entering World War II, the Japanese Navy did a considerable planning and force development in preparation for a single "decisive battle" with the American fleet. The Japanese submarine force entered the war with highly trained crews...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
The year 1993 marks the 20th anniversary of the Army’s establishment -- on 1 July 1973--0f the Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, as the major innovation in its post-Vietnam War reorganization. Skeptics were free with predictions that...
When the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion was activated on 10, April, 1942, our country had been at war four months. Consequently, our country and our army were new to the ways of war - the country's industries were being geared to the war effort,...
Principally working on the joint operations center bridge in Bagram, Afghanistan, during his March 2004 to March 2005 deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Joseph Rawlings served as the CJ4 battle captain for Combined Joint...
This supplement was originally prepared by a student group working with existing documents and information supplied by personnel then assigned to the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The entire volume was rewritten in the summer of 1980...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
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...
MAJ Rain Jones served as the future operations officer and G2 planner in Baghdad, Iraq during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this December 2010 interview, MAJ Jones discusses the duties of the future operations...
Colonel John Singleton Mosby led the most successful partisan campaign during the Civil War. Major General J. E. B. Stuart, the Confederate Cavalry commander, allowed Mosby to form an unconventional unit with nine volunteers in December 1862. Mosby...
During past contingency operations and against a backdrop of competing geopolitical and economic goals, the US military, its allies, and coalition partners found it necessary to integrate combat and conventional airspaces to support military...
Powerful nations often find themselves physically and geographically embroiled in the affairs of other nations in the form of empires, protectorate treaties, military occupations, and peacekeeping and stability operations. Generally speaking, they...
Airspace command and control in the combat zone is becoming more complex due to the proliferation of unmanned aircraft, and the introduction of host nation and civilian aircraft. The ability to deconflict and integrate multiple airspace users...
In this March 2011 interview, CH (MAJ) Brad Lewis, US Army, Chaplain; discusses his deployment experience to Afghanistan as a brigade chaplain for 4/25 Brigade Combat Team in 2009 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). MAJ Lewis describes...
This is the combat history of the 79th Fighter Group during World War Two. The document details the following contents: group commanders; group combat narrative; campaigns; battle citations and commendations; claims- illustrated statistical...