This monograph is a campaign analysis of the operations on the Italian Front during World War I. The focus of the monograph is to determine if operational art was practiced by the belligerents from the time of Italy's entry into the war in May of...
This volume attempts through photographs and colorplates, to encompass the causes of the great conflict and the chief happenings of military and political importance during the four years of World War I, including maps of continents, countries, and...
This paper studies the battle of Caporetto and how unity of command brought a new and stronger government to the Italians and their unity of purpose in a continuance of the war to a successful conclusion.
This study discusses the principles of war in connection with a detailed narrative of the events of the battle of Caporetto. Lessons for the defense and for attack are outlined.
This study considers the defeat at Caporetto with particular attention to the influence of the new German tactics employed, the terrain, and the morale of the forces engaged.
In the late spring of 1916 the First World was at a virtual standstill for both sides of the conflict. In the west the German army was undertaking the siege of Verdun and the battle of the Somme with the British. The French and British armies were...
Troutman, Johnny
Williams, Lloyd
Caudill, Wayne
Ramey, Michael
Thesis Statement:
The Austrian-Hungarian Empire fell because its military commanders made a series of miscalculations. These miscalculations occurred in planning and executing plans during the Battle of Lemberg (September 1914).
Discussion:
The...
Contains a description of the Serbian Army's retreat from the banks of the Danube and the Timok towards the Adriatic Coast during the fall of 1914. The author is a veteran of English journalism, and personally followed the principle phases of the...
This paper discusses the cavalry operation by the Italian Army and credits the organization of the cavalry units, mission planning, proper use of cavalry in the terrain, and good tactics to the successful outcome at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 irrevocably changed the European geopolitical framework. After 1935, Mussolini would come increasingly under Hitler's influence. Hitler would also begin to free Germany from the restrictions imposed by the...
Contains press reviews issued by the Second Section, General Staff, G.H.Q.A.E.F. for October 1, 1918 - June 6, 1919 (enemy, neutral, and Allied press).
This document was compiled under the direction of the editorial staff of the Review of Reviews. Topics include America's principles for world settlement, weapons of war, cost of war, Germany (industrial/political structure), the selective draft,...