The U.S. Army Financial Management School and the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) have produced an outstanding "how to" guide to assist unit commanders and their paying agents and field ordering officers (FOOs) in meeting their...
The military's response to changes within the world political and technological environment has been termed a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This monograph summarizes the effects that these changes will have on intelligence operations at the...
Headquarters. Service of Supply. European Theater of Operations
This book is to be used in familiarizing all soldiers with policies, rules and restrictions in effect for the American forces in the UK. It focuses on: lack of color-line in the UK, security, furloughs, passes and leaves, and the British and their...
War Department, Special Staff, Historical Division
This document contains the technical details developed in the various areas and subjects of the Planning Division with respect to logistics training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. It is intended to...
This report is an account of Germany's oil economy from 1933 up to the time of her defeat. Its compilation is the result of the work of three groups: the Technical Sub-Committee on Axis Oil, the Oil Committee of the Combined Strategic Targets...
The war in Italy required new techniques to deal with challenges imposed by topography, climate, road-net, the construction of its buildings and the location of its villages. Non-administrative portions of this document address those challenges. ...
This part three is titled "Period of the Italian campaign from the winter line to Rome" (1 December 1943 to 30 June 1944). Topics include the reorganization of AFHQ in early 1944, personnel staff organizations, and intelligence staff organizations.
Part two is titled "Period of the Tunisian, Sicilian, and South Italian campaigns" (December 1942 to December 1943). Topics include information about supply staff organizations, transportation staff organizations, finance staff organizations, and...
This handbook covers a variety of topics regarding the military government in Germany. The administration of military government, civil government in the protectorate, basic law (the protectorate decree), German admin in the protectorate, the legal...
Compiled from a series of reports written especially for the Historical Division, EUCOM, by several former German generals. All of these officers had extensive combat experience during World War II, especially on the eastern front.
Seeks to determine the Army's need for the study of military history. The committee was directed to determine the extent of that need, particularly in relation to the study of military history by commissioned officers and key civilian personnel,...
This tactical and technical trends publication starts with no. 31 (12 August 1943) and finishes with no. 40 (16 December 1943). Sections include information on air, antiaircraft, antitank, armored, artillery, chemical warfare, engineers, infantry,...
Long before the dust settled on European battlefields in World War II, the U.S. Army had to face the difficult tasks of occupying and governing war-torn Germany. Its leaders and troops were called upon to deal with a series of complex challenges in...
The War Department had directed that the history of the military occupation of Germany and Austria in World War II be recorded and interpreted as the events transpired. The Occupation Forces in Europe Series consists of a series of studies,...
Office, U.S. Secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff
The minutes of the Combined Chiefs' meeting at the major conferences touch on virtually every policy and strategy issue of World War II, from initial troop deployments to counter Axis aggression, through the debates about the location and timing of...
This private war journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. The journal was kept by Halder personally in his own shorthand and contains notes on conferences,...
Self-synchronization is an idea that comes directly from Network-Centric Warfare but its foundations lie in complexity theory and the ideas of self-organization and emergent behavior. In order to understand self-synchronization the basics of...