China's growing military capabilities serve its ambition to become the greatest power in Asia. Correspondingly, the PLA continues to modernize its forces. Established American economic and military relationships in Asia dictate national strategies...
Between the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Friedrich Engels functioned as a writer, analyst, and critic concerning military affairs. His most essential commentaries were published,...
This paper explains the different experiences and the similarities I experienced as a First Sergeant in Crusher & Hatchet Company, 1-187TH Infantry Regiment. Both companies presented completely different experiences but they were equally...
Success of any war, conflict, or operations Soldiers must meet the enemy, defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and return home safely. Defending our nation during the Gulf War was the high point of my career. This accomplishment serves as a key to...
United States Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) transformation included significant changes and additions to the support units assigned to ARSOF. Amidst all of the structural and personnel additions and changes, ARSOF cannot completely...
Reinertsen, Leif C.; 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
"After five" brings to a close the history, of the 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. When our standards are furled and cased for the last time there will be only this short narrative and your memories to remind you of the battalion. This...
This thesis examines the application of battle command during the 100/442d Regimental Combat Team’s rescue of the First Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, the “Lost Battalion.” As background, this study presents a...
This study reveals how a light infantry division, complemented by key attachments, stopped an armor-heavy German corps. Using original documents and reports, Colonel Mitchell traces the fight at Bastogne with emphasis on the organization, movement...
This paper reveals the plans and actions of a 105mm howitzer battalion of an infantry division in an attack of an organized position. Terrain, the enemy, the artillery plan, preparation for the attack, and the attack itself are discussed.
Committee 15, Officers Advanced Course, The Armored School, 1948-1949; Cantey, J.; Sykes, J. R.; Peyton, J. L.; Edmondson, C. C.; Noel, J. C.; Drews, R. E.; Crouch, H. J.; Stockton, J. B.
This is a story of the 10th Armored Division and what the division did in the Saar-Moselle Triangle during November and December of 1944, and again in February 1945. This document considers the actions of the division from about the 8th of...
This study examines the role of U.S. Army Engineers fighting as infantry in AirLand Battle by analyzing the actions of the 1111th Engineer Combat Group during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. The 51st and 291st Engineer Combat Battalions...
15th Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters Corps Artillery
This is a special staff committee report, containing an introduction to Corps artillery and its historical background, the artillery's increasing role in the global war, trained artillery commander's and staffs in the present Corps organization,...
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 paper presents a demonstration of the failure to appreciate the necessity of exhaustive logistical planning in peacetime preparation for war and of providing the means necessary to execute such plans, and to show the unsoundness of unbalanced...
This monograph examines the ability of the COSCOM to execute operational logistics tasks in a single corps contingency as outlined in FM 100-7 Decisive Force: The Army in Theater of Operations. The monograph concludes that the COSCOM cannot execute...
The debate over the service of black Americans in the U.S. Army centered around three questions: Could they serve? Would they be allowed to serve? And, if allowed, in what capacity would they serve? This is similar to modern debates about the...
I was a First Sergeant in the famed Second Infantry Division from April 2002, until July 2003. Security measures were high on all military installations due to the frequent civil unrest in the Republic of Korea. Political tension was rapidly...
This study investigates unit cohesion as it relates to neuropsychiatric casualties in the 43rd Infantry Division in World War II. The 43rd was a National Guard Division federalized in 1941 and sent to the South Pacific, where it sustained over 15...