Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
A book on the subject of the conduct of small wars where the campaigns do not consist of regular troops. It contains strategy, tactics, and information on all of the minor expeditions in which the British Army was frequently engaged.
In this reference pamphlet, which follows an earlier history of the first year of Marine Corps civic action in Vietnam, the story of the second year of civilian aid policies, programs and activities is relayed. It is largely based on the records of...
Based on the construction of detailed combat narratives and the application of current U.S. Army leadership doctrine as the assessment methodology, this study conducts a leadership analysis of three Distinguished Service Cross-winning battalion...
This study is an historical analysis of the demonstrated leadership attributes of three World War II commanders in the European Theater, 1944-45: General William H. Simpson, Ninth Army Commander; Major General Troy H. Middleton, VIII Corps...
This paper will examine China's decision to support Pakistan during the East Bengal crisis in 1971, in order to determine whether that decision constituted a contradiction in the light of Peking's previously professed support for revolutionary...
The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of arms limitations at the strategic nuclear level between the United States and the Soviet Union as it contributes to arms control in general and to strategic stability in particular. This approach...
After the fall of France in June 1940, criticism of the French military concentrated on their apparent lack of intellectual talent for conceiving and fighting a modern form of war. The swift collapse of France had all too effectively demonstrated...
The purpose of this study is to develop a more definitive doctrine for the conduct of populace and resources control activities by a ROAD infantry division assigned an internal defense mission. Internal defense is a term coined to supplant the...
Intended to assist in both candidates and board members with preparation for examination. Contains theoretical and parade and oral subjects of examination for second lieutenants of cavalry, second lieutenants of artillery, second lieutenants of...
The text is based on prescribed War Department policies and doctrines and represents the views on training of the General Service Schools. Chapters contain information regarding: general principles of training; forces subject to training; training...
This book contains all known replacement units and lists their affiliations with units of the Field Army. Also includes sections on the replacement system and the known replacement units and affiliations of the ground organizations of the German...
This report describes the 2nd Armored Division's limited objective attack from 16 to 28 November, 1944 in the Roer River offensive against a grimly defended segment of the Siegfried Line. Original does not have page 29 either, text appears...
This book consists of lectures delivered at the Army War College on machine guns and their tactical employment. Includes training, tactics, use in trenches, emplacements, and examples of machine gun use by the Germans in World War I battles.
A draft of the chaplains manual including chapters on historical background; office, regulations, and qualifications; education and school; equipment; religious observances; special services; religious training and conferences; pastoral functions;...
Discusses the modern battlefield, the enemy in modern battle, preparing for combat operations, movement techniques, reconnaissance, security operations, combat support, combat service support and operations in active nuclear conditions.
'The fear of god makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.' A simple man from Tennessee spoke these words. A man of humble beginnings, who answered his country's call and became a household name after his heroic wartime deeds: SGT Alvin York....