This study investigates the necessity of an abbreviated military decision-making process for battalion and brigade commanders and their staffs. It examines the problem that during time critical situations commanders and staffs abbreviate the...
This study investigates the Army’s current military decision-making process and its applicability to brigade level combat operations in a time-constrained environment. Tactical military decision making is an arduous process that many times...
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.
In the war against JAPAN relatively few prisoners have been taken. However, the quantity of captured documents of military importance has steadily increased. Their numbers have grown as the Allied forces have turned the tide and progressed from...
The National Guard has been in a nearly constant state of change, in one form or another, since its inception. The events that have transpired since the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 demonstrated the need for the next major...
This monograph investigates the suitability of the Wass de Czege Combat Power Model as a framework for thought in which the military decision-making process--specifically the critical steps of wargaming--can occur at the tactical level of war. The...
This regulation on the preparation and management of Army correspondence has been revised. This revision establishes three forms of correspondence authorized for use within the Army: a letter, a memorandum, and a message, in support of the Army...
The study determines if modifications to the estimate of the situation occur as a result of implementing the Maneuver Control System/Phoenix and the All Source Analysis System Remote Workstation, during the Military Decision Making Process. In...
"Wire is one of the principal means of communication for all field artillery except mechanized and antitank artillery. It consists of telephone or telegraph communication. All other means augment and supplement wire."
Strategic Logistics Branch, Planning Division, Army Service Forces
This document contains official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. Also...
The purpose of this text is to furnish intelligence officers with a detailed picture of the German Army in all its aspects, from the organization of the High Command to the functions of small units and auxiliary services, and to furnish specific...
These 1928 regulations contain information pertaining to the analysis of drill and target practice, rules governing the conduct of all Coast Artillery Corps target pracctice . . .
This 1938 manual includes instructions governing the conduct of all coast artillery target practices other than small arms; a description of the analysis of drill and target practice; a description of the reports to be rendered by all unit...
Introduction: Senior noncommissioned officers must read, write, and speak effectively. If they cannot, and overwhelming experience tells us that too many cannot, they will not function effectively on the battlefield. At the very foundation of war...
This monograph answers the question 'Is there really more than one decision making process?' The history of the decision making process began with the Prussian Army. After they were defeated by Napoleon, they decided that they needed to educate...
This monograph discusses the importance of the commander and staff wargaming together. Wargaming is a critical visualization event where the participants develop detailed images of the operation. Wargaming allows the commander and staff to build a...
It is highly desirable that military personnel acquire a sufficient working knowledge of certain maps published by foreign countries, to enable reading and use of such foreign maps for planning and intelligence purposes. Consequently, it is the...