Air/Land Battle doctrine stresses the need for Army units to fight successfully out-numbered. This dictum implies the conduct of defensive operations at the beginning of a war. The shift to offensive operations, the counterattack, can be the key to...
Conference for monitoring preparation of mobilization training programs for Army units and for certain staff supervision of training in training divisions and replacement training centers.
Contingency operations are currently taking place in dangerous, unpredictable, and highly volatile environments where local government institutions have weakened or collapsed. In view of these conflict situations, it is recognized that the initial...
During preparations for Operation Enduring Freedom, the 25th Infantry Division was tasked to relieve the 10th Mountain Division of combat operations in Afghanistan. The Division’s Aviation Assault Battalion was notified of a possible split...
Few developments in Anny training have been of such broad scope and long-term significance as the National Training Center (NTC), established in October 1980 at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert of California This instrumented training facility, for...
From back of photo: African American Troops Replacement Center, Engineers, Ft. Belvoir, Va., parade past the Commerce Building on Constitution Ave. in the Memorial Day Parade, Washington, D.C.
From back of photo: Detachment of African American Cavalry Troops stationed at Ft. Myer, Va., are shown participating in the Memorial Day Parade, Washington, D.C.
From back of photo: Protection must be maintained at all times for Engineer Construction Units operating in England. Here a machine gun is being held in readiness for action. L to R: 1ST SGT William P. Jacobs, Philadelphia, PA., S/SGT Albert Bay,...
From back of photo: The African American Seabees, members of Naval Construction Battalions, whose training center is at Camp Allen and Camp Bradford, Va., are trained in landing tactics as well in general military drills.
In making this study the writer has considered those historical examples of engagements in which a commander placed a portion of his force to constrain the enemy along his front, and maneuvered the balance against the flank and rear, deep enough,...
Looks at principles of modern warfare as illustrated by campaigns of the American Civil War, including Bull Run, Shiloh, Jackson’s Valley, Manassas, Antietam, Stones River, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg , Vicksburg, Chickamauga,...
On June 6, 1944 A Company of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division landed as the lead element of the largest beach landing in the history of modem warfare. On the beach fortress of Normandy, France the 116th would suffer the highest...
Robert E. Lee, in his first campaign as the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, stopped the Union offensive against Richmond in a series of engagements known as the Seven Days. Although eventually successful, Confederate operations were...
Sergeant Major Christian Abraham Fleetwood was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Battle of Chapin's Farm (also known as The Battle of New Market Heights). His citation reads: The President of the United States in the name of...
The concept of winning wars when outnumbered is critical to United States doctrine in the 1980s and 1990s. As the product of domestic and allied force structuring, our most dangerous enemy has developed a clear cut superiority in mass. That...
The historic interest of Yorktown is as great as that of any other spot on the historic Virginia peninsula. One of the oldest settlements of Virginia, it was once a bustling, prosperous village; but its progress was ruined by its unfortunate and...
The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's...