Describes the 38th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and its operations in Belgium and England during December, 1944. The end of the month marked the 111th consecutive day the squadron had been in direct contact with the enemy along the Siegfried...
This monograph examines the key determinants necessary for the successful forced entry seizure of an airfield. The importance of contingency operations is paramount to the United States military as it transitions from "forward defense" to "CONUS...
United States Fleet, Headquarters of the Commander in Chief
Part of a series of information drawn largely from action reports for timely dissemination. Discusses a variety of issues including landing operations, air support, naval gunfire, intelligence, logistics, ship to shore movement, landing craft and...
The Indian government is involved in the longest and most costly counterinsurgency campaign that is conducted by a nation state in modern history. The Kashmir conflict is complex and contains a conflict of interests with multiple players struggling...
This is the annual report of the governor of the Panama Canal for 1921. The document includes four sections detailing the canal operation and trade via Panama, business operations, government, administration, and financial and statistical...
This volume contains information on the following topics: German Air Force, Royal Air Force, story of VIII Fighter Command, staff work at command and the planning of missions, enemy reactions, divebombing, and strafing, D-Day and after.
This monograph examines the applicability of the operational art practiced by land commander to air campaign planning. It focuses on the role of U.S. Army Air Defense systems in operational maneuver and particularly seeks to determine if the same...
This document focuses on water airdromes or landing areas (types of sites, availability, planes suitable for use), ice airdromes (types of ice, how near the shore, pack ice, ice fields, ice caps), and conventional airdromes (arctic problems and...
This monograph examines the Arctic security environment, and concludes that the most significant threat to security in the Arctic rim in the year 2000 and beyond is the poor storage, handling and disposal of nuclear waste in the Russian North. The...
This monograph explores the concept of the Army as a storage vessel for national values, and the government's periodic use of this vessel as a tool in the peacetime protection of the Constitution. Most of the social mechanisms which shape the...
This monograph analyzes whether dislocation theory is an appropriate military theory for the Interim Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) to use in developing its warfighting doctrine. It argues that the IBCT’s unique mission, force structure, strengths,...
This thesis is an historical analysis of the Union artillery at the Battle of Gettysburg. It examines the significance of the Union artillery's contribution to the Federal victory. This study explores all aspects of the tactical employment of the...