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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...
Advancements in Science, technology, and industrialization during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had a subtle and almost undetected impact on the conduct of warfare. The increased lethality of weapons systems, the more efficient...
Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services
Extracts from short wave radio broadcasts from Tokyo, Manila, and other affiliated stations, from January 1 to April 1, 1944. Broadcasts included programs covering politics, the military, economics, and social and cultural affairs.
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.
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Evaluation and Dissemination Section
This handbook has been compiled with the aim of providing an intelligence background for each of the three stages in the subjugation of Germany and to present as complete a study on the German police as possible. Facts concerning the development of...
A compilation prepared for the Commission Regarding Breaches of the Rules of Warfare by the Japanese Forces, by the Commonwealth of Australia in 1944. Discusses alleged murders or attempted murders, acts of cannibalism, instances of rape, and other...
General Headquarters, United States Army Forces, Pacific
In the wake of military conquest by foreign invaders, there have been great historical resistance movements within oppressed populaces. It is against a background of peril and savagery that the Philippines guerrilla movement must be gauged. From an...
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon to deal with a series of complex challenges in...
"It is clear that we face major threats on the modern battlefield with a relatively small quantity of field artillery. It follows that we must optimize the use of all indirect fire support resources available."
Analyzes the logistical problems which confront the new National Defense Organization of the Philippine Republic in its plans for the military defense of the Philippine Islands.
Corps are the Army's largest tactical units, the instruments with which higher echelons of command conduct maneuver at the operational level (FM 100-5, Operations, May 1986). The corps staff is the principal planning and coordinating agency upon...
Discusses the German High Command, the basic structure of the German Army, its organizations and commanders, miscellaneous units, indexes of senior officers and semi-military organizations.
Gen. Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of the Prussian General Staff during the Franco-Prussian War, defined Auftragstaktik as the actions a subordinate took in the absence of orders that supported the senior commander's intent. The use of mission...