Space operations are important to today 's Army and will be increasingly important to the Future Force. Currently, the Army has an opportunity to develop Future Force leaders to best utilize space to achieve full spectrum dominance. If the Army...
This paper addressed my experience as a First Sergeant of the Retraining and Holding Company (RHC), Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. My tenure as the First Sergeant lasted from July 2002 through May 2004. The Retraining and Holding Company possessed a...
This exploratory study attempted to estimate how the issues of cost and quality would be affected by employing an online solution as one method of accomplishing the Army ROTC military history requirement. Background on the Army ROTC program and the...
Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History
In wars involving vast land masses in which the available manpower of a nation is severely taxed it may be expedient and necessary to use "volunteer" forces. It is gathered from this treatise that the basic mistake of the planners was that no...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
This thesis examines the effects of functional discipline and unit cohesion on the combat performance of the 35th Engineer (Combat) Battalion during World War Two. The 35th Engineer Battalion was mobilized in the summer of 1941 as the 1st...
In the internal defense of South Vietnam where the Vietnamese and their allies are waging war against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces, another war of equal or perhaps greater importance is being waged concurrently. This second war...
The purpose of this monograph is to record all the facts concerning intelligence activities, its organizations and coordination procedures, its successes and failures during the period from 1965 to the final days of the Republic of Vietnam.
The U.S. Army Officer Corps is composed of officers with varying backgrounds, education, experience, commissioning source, and resources required to produce those officers. The Army has invested varying resources depending on the officer and...
The United States Military conducted numerous attempts to train Foreign Security Forces over the past 100 years. From training the Nicaraguan National Guard to the most recent efforts in Iraq, the U.S. Military has repeatedly shown a need for a...
The issues confronted by Britain and the U.S. early in the last century regarding their emerging air power capabilities were hotly debated, and the final decisions for the creation of independent Air Forces was made based on several factors, not...
Fund-raisers are common in the US Army. Army Regulation 600-29 defines the acceptable types of fund-raising including the local fund-raising usually sponsored by units to raise MWR funds. In a training environment fund-raising takes on different...
Snyder, James M.; Historical Sub-section C-3, United States Constabulary
The preparation of this study was directed in order that a record of the problems and lessons involved in the organization, training, and operation of the U.S. Constabulary be available for future study. This document details constabulary planning...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the regular force Viet Cong soldier and the effects of his organization, training, and leadership on his combat capability. As a part of this examination the relationship between the Viet Cong and the North...
Prior to 1950, the Army restricted the service of blacks to limited roles in a racially segregated Army. During World War II, black America fought for an increased combat role, believing that contributions on the battlefield would lead to increased...
Though the United States military has excelled in winning wars, it has not enjoyed the same success at "winning the peace". That requires a coordinated effort from several Departments and agencies of the United States government-- an Inter-Agency...
This booklet provides an analysis of the operational environment in Vietnam and a summary of the effective concepts and techniques used in territorial security operations through 1970. This publication addresses the conventional factors of the...
Office of the Historian, U.S. Army Transportation Training Command
There are six sections to this document. Section I contains information on training in the pre-Korean period. The second section details the outbreak of hostilities. Part III explains the communist offensive and world-wide troop build-up, 1951....