The end of the Cold War gave rise to a complex security environment resulting in a fundamental shift of focus from unrestricted warfare against a well-defined enemy towards a wide variety of military operations other than war (MOOTW) characterized...
This study documents the roots of the Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1866 and again in 1931-1940. The study's focus is on the mission of Fort Leavenworth and its relationship of the Buffalo Soldiers, garrison life for the Buffalo...
During the World War II campaign to seize the island of Okinawa, Operation Iceberg, U.S. Tenth Army employed a significant U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps military police structure. However, the challenges posed to these units by military traffic,...
This study investigates the effectiveness of the Army system for preserving unit heritage. Heritage is valuable to units and the Army, and given the cyclical nature of the size and organizational structure, the Army requires an effective...
Today's Joint Task Force (JTF) Commander is the single uniformed military service commander most likely to be concerned with prosecuting joint military operations during the decade of the nineties. His ability to successfully command and control...
This monograph deals with decision making in contingency operations. It begins with the observation that contingency operations are the most frequent method by which the United States projects power worldwide. Studying three areas which appear to...
During World War II, American army officers who had spent their entire careers commanding at regimental level and below were suddenly called upon to lead armies and army groups against the foe in both Europe and the Pacific. Especially in the...
This monograph examines the dynamic tension between operational sustainment planning and operational design. Operational planners must fully consider both the limitations and possibilities of operational sustainment and its inherent risks when...
This monograph examines three World War II campaigns. The 1941 German Operation "Barbarossa" (Central Army Group), Soviet Belorussian Campaign of 1944, and Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945 are used to illustrate five operational logistics...
A history of Fort Leavenworth Kansas and the churches and schools on this U.S. Army reservation. The history encompasses Christian churches on the Army reservation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This is an after action report drawn up by Garrison Davidson upon his departure from CGSC addressing two potential problems with regard to the College mission that gave him concern. The first involves the College instructional mission, and the...
Command and General Staff School (CGSS), Class of 1926
This book was compiled by the Class of 1926 from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It includes illustrative humor, poems, and stories, "hoping it will make you laugh or weep...from a year of depths and pinnacles as we...
Gives situations and requirements, illustrative problems and provides solutions. Problems considered: The infantry battalion in attack, the infantry regiment in attack, the infantry brigade in attack, infantry defense in combat and infantry...
A reprint of the second edition ( of History of Fort Leavenworth) brought up to date by Walter E. Lorence. The original covered the first 110 years of Fort Leavenworth's history and provided a chronology of events that covered the Westward...
This periodical report from March 31, 1944 represents the best available information for the current month on enemy dispositions, formations and battle order. It represents material required for the enemy paragraph of operational orders and...
A combined airborne-troop carrier maneuver was conducted in the North Carolina maneuver area in the general vicinity of Camp Mackall, North Carolina during the period of 24 September 1944 to 29 September 1944, inclusive.
This document (the first year, 15 July 1944 to 20 July 1945) is a narrative record of events as the Civil Affairs Holding and Staging Area (CASA) was developed to train officers in military government and civil administration for working in the...