Part I of this report is concerned with the overall planning for the invasion of Southern France; part II is the execution of the plan. Planning (decision, formulation of planned action, assignment of task organizations) and execution of the plan...
This paper analyzes the Mahdist Revolution in the Sudan from 1881 to 1885. Mohammed Ahmed bin Abdallah proclaimed himself the Mahdi (the expected one or the deliverer in the Islamic faith), and fought the colonial Egyptian government of the Sudan...
The next desert war the United States fights could be against an enemy more comparable to us in training, motivation, and technology than the recent conflict in the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a dangerous part of the world where we have...
The international community intervened repeatedly in Somalia since the central government fell in 1991. These interventions failed to produce a stable, elected government. Instead, over the last 20 years Somalis faced famine, terrorism, sexual...
In 2003, the Army Field Support Command (AFSC) and the Joint Munitions Command (JMC), collocated at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, began a comprehensive oral history project aimed at chronicling a full-spectrum slice of the commands' role in...
This report evaluates whether or not the antiarmor companies of M-2 equipped mechanized infantry battalions should be given to armor battalions that fight pure. Without attached mechanized infantry, the pure armor battalion has no long range direct...
The study presents a general account of the problems confronting the British from the standpoint of supply during their advance into Palestine to October, 1917. Also discussed is the manner in which they solved these problems as well as the lessons...
The United States has attempted for several decades to assist in the modernization of armies in the Middle East. These armies are rich in tradition and heritage of medieval and pre-modern Islamic armies. Islamic armies possess an ability to...
The United States has now invaded Iraq on two separate occasions. These invasions offer some interesting similarities such as occurring on nearly the same terrain with similar equipment and against Iraqi forces under the leadership of Saddam...
This paper gives an account of the British supply operations during the Palestine campaign. Particular reference is given to operations following the capture of Gaza. Issues of supply include water, railways, and other transportation.
This study gives a general account of the problems confronting the British from the standpoint of supply after the capture of Gaza. Also discussed is the manner in which they solved these problems and the lessons they learned. One map detailing...
This document is a study of the supply and evacuation of the British forces during their advance into Syria between September 19th, 1918, and October 31st, 1918. The paper discusses the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, the Sinai Desert,...
In 1801, Yusef Caramanli, ruler of Tripoli, declared war on the United States. Yusef expected the United States to agree to pay tribute in exchange for protection from Tripolitan corsairs. Instead, President Thomas Jefferson sent the navy. Four...
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
This photo album contains pictures of Yemen from April to July 1946. The black and white photographs vary in subject matter and include landscapes, people, soldiers, road and street scenes, camels resting, villages, members of the Special U.S....
To analyze the problems of planning lines of communications in undeveloped areas, other than arctic, and to develop policies and procedures for maximum utilization of existing means of transport in such areas.
This study presents the operations of the Arab forces in the Palestine Campaign with particular reference to those following the capture of Gaza. The author believes that the part the Arabs took in the campaign was of great value to the British,...
Egypt and Palestine offered the British an opportunity to fight a war of movement. Unlike the Western Front, Egypt and Palestine were undeveloped with wide expanses of land. It was ripe for the development of maneuver warfare using the mechanical...