This study analyzes the possibility of using Iowa Class battleships in an economy of force role as commerce raiders. It used the historical example of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee as a basis for the study. It analyzed the German...
This thesis identifies a force, inherent in the national security decision-making process, which contributed to the American involvement in Viet Nam. Termed "policy precedents", this force may be outside the control of the unwary decision maker and...
The purpose of this research was to obtain a historically rooted understanding of the development, application, and adaptation of the British COIN approach--one from which the US has borrowed heavily. It focuses upon those factors which interfere...
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one howitzer section of the firing battery.
FM 6-65, Field Artillery Field Manual, Service of the Piece 75-mm Gun, M1917A1, Truck-drawn, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned.
This pamphlet deals with the tactical functions of field artillery commanders, the tactical disposition and maneuver of field artillery units, and the tactical application of field artillery fire. The principles of employment of artillery in the...
This provides a guide for the employment of field artillery intelligence agencies. It describes the collection, evaluation, and interpretation of military information by artillery agencies, the flow of information through artillery channels, the...
Discusses issues pertaining to courts-martial including military jurisdiction, personnel, procedure, records, action, oaths, incidental matters, punishments, the disciplinary power of commanding officer, rules of evidence, punitive articles and...
FM 2-10 addresses individual instruction in motor vehicle operation, drill, ceremonies and inspections, mounted scouting and patrolling, and combat training of small units.
This manual is a guide for the battery commanders, platoon commanders, section leaders, and light commanders of seacoast artillery searchlight units in harbor defenses or in the field in training searchlight squads in the orderly, efficient...
This manual treats of the theory and practice of gunnery, fire control, and position finding for antiaircraft artillery guns. A knowledge of the fundamentals of exterior ballistics and gunnery as covered in FM 4-10 will be helpful in understanding...
This manual prescribes a systematic procedure to be followed by gun crews of 3-inch antiaircraft guns manning materiel of the following types: the 3-inch antiaircraft guns M1917, M1917MI, and M1917MII on the fixed mounts M1917, M1917MI, and...
FM 5-5 1941 includes information on engineers with infantry/cavalry/armored units, nondivisional general units, camouflage units, pontoon units, railway and inland waterway units, mapping units, supply units, troop movements, shelters and camps,...
Field fortifications are works constructed by military forces in combat operations to increase natural defensive strength of a locality. This FM addresses terrain appreciation, organization of the ground, effect of projectiles, trenches, obstacles,...
This manual contains in condensed form the approved principles and doctrines for the training and employment of Field Artillery. Field service regulations, field manuals, technical regulations, and training manuals cover subjects referred to but...
This field manual details tactical functions, troop movements, halts, bivouacs, offensive and defensive combat, artillery in retrograde movements, artillery in special operations, and supply and evacuation.
FM 6-20 1940 addresses reconnaissance, occupation, and organization of position. Other sections include signal communication, tactical employment, and logistics.
This field manual gives information on the battalion commander and staff, battalion headquarters company, battalion medical section, administration, troop movements and security on the march, bivouacs, the offensive, defense, retrograde movements,...