Wheeler, Charles Brewster and Tschappat, William H.
While artillery experts are agreed as to the advantages of increased rapidity of fire for field guns, they appear not to have decided upon the most desirable form of field carriage, nor to what limits the increased rapidity of fire should be...
This monograph investigates whether the U.S. military should establish joint doctrine for unconventional warfare. Since the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, joint doctrine has become central to...
Field Manual 1, The Army constitutes mission command as the prevailing leadership philosophy of the U.S. Army. With the publication of Field Manual, 6-22 Army Leadership the U.S. Army introduced the Leadership Requirements Model (LRM) to the force,...
This is a guide for soldier's to better understand the Japanese Army. Chapter I describes the Japanese soldier, their entrance into the Army, characteristics and training, promotion of morale, and conduct in battle. Chapter II highlights the...
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Army has developed and adequately reticulated a doctrine for the employment of the automated Maneuver Control System (MCS). Although MCS has been fielded in three U.S. Corps and taken to war,...
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.
This study compares the Air Force and Army logistics constructs in an effort to gain insights that might help improve upon the Air Force's fledgling multifunctional logistics effort. While logistics means many things to many people, this study...
Chapters include information on tactics (mortars, grenade-discharger tactics, and mortars in chemical warfare), organization of Japanese mortar units, and equipment (grenade dischargers, light mortars, and medium and heavy mortars).
The purpose of this study is to provide a concise description of Japanese infantry weapons. Contents include nomenclature, pistols and rifles, grenades and landmines, grenade dischargers, machine guns, mortars, antitank and infantry guns, and small...
The diversity of future threats, the distances imposed upon a US based force, and declining fiscal and manpower resources, has forced an emphasis on rapidly deployable contingency forces. The Air Force, in light of this changing economic and...
Military deception is as old as war itself and it adheres to a logical process. This monograph explores how an increased understanding of pattern recognition as part of human decision-making can enhance the effectiveness of military deception...
Based on experiences with long-duration operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States Army recognizes the need for commanders and their staffs to have new tools and ways of thinking to deal with complex problems. The specific approach the...
This is a manual describing the bomb sight, mark I. Also describes the frame, the upper slide, the lower slide, care of the sight, and the operation of the sight.
This monograph examines the reason for supervision failures in the U.S. Army. History has shown that proper supervision is important to success and that lack of proper supervision often is the cause of failure. This monograph uses examples from the...