This monograph addresses the suitability of Bedouin tribes for recruitment and employment as irregular forces. The study is motivated by force shortfalls and resource constraints in U.S. contingency planning for Southwest Asia and the Arabian...
Strategic mobility has evolved for hundreds of years, most famously characterized by Nathan Bedford Forrest’s words about when to get there and with how much. Not until the application of the railroad to military needs, did any large scale...
JCS Pub 2 charges all services to “prepare for war and operations short of war”. The U.S. Army has further defined operations short of war as military involvement in low intensity conflict. While the Army has made some effort at improving its...
The moral domain of war concerns the human dimension of conflict. People compose military forces so all military operations include human considerations. Leaders must use and protect their soldiers who are their most precious resource. Leaders must...
This study is an examination of the impact of battle death in a cohesive unit. The American soldier will fight on a future battlefield that is extended, lethal, and isolated. To operate effectively he will be dispersed in small, cohesive military...
The purpose of this monograph is to evaluate the Civil Operations, Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) program determining whether it represents a viable operational approach to counterinsurgency warfare. The study specifically seeks to...
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...
The following special questions are presented for consideration and recommendation by the Educational Advisory Board during its meeting at the General Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, beginning October 20, 1924. They include, in addition...
For the United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), this 2005 Self-Study Report for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools concludes the first comprehensive review in a decade of the...
The 2010 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium was conducted in Eisenhower Hall on Fort Leavenworth, Nov. 15-17, 2010. This report is the complete collection of papers presented along with introductory remarks from the Commandant of the U.S. Command...
This executive summary addresses the conditional accreditation given in March 2005 by the Process for Accreditation of Joint Education (PAJE) team for the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)...
On the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Command and General Staff College and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on 7 May 1956, the "Leavenworth Lamp" was officially adopted by the College as the symbol of its...
Translated and edited at the War College from the French language. Contains information on commanding artillery units, mission execution, and defensive fires.
Written as a textbook for the General Service School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, this volume contains lectures on military government, American military government in Germany, and the four military governments in Mexico, one of which is a...
Translated from the original German by 3 students of the Command and General Staff School, P.L. Deylitz, Ross B. Smith, and Earle H. Malone. Discourse by the author on the Schlieffen plan of military strategy and tactics applied and compared to...
This book is designed to help junior officers of the regular service and militia who are beginning the study of tactics.The problems herein are simpler and for the more usual operations of small forces of infantry and of cavalry, such as patrols,...
Military service is obligatory for each male citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years. According to this 1916 volume, he must plan his life to meet this obligation and be prepared physically, mentally, and morally through proper...
These lectures give an outline of the organization of the British Army from an administrative point of view, with regards to supply and transportation.
A comprehensive understanding of the treatment accorded prisoners of war, including capture, transportation, prisons, police and discipline, work, relief societies, and liberation.