In the wake of hostilities, military professionals should not foreswear changes and adjustments designed to make their forces more proficient on future battlefields. Military forces that have just suffered a costly defeat often manifest a greater...
"This 1942 manual is published for the information and guidance of personnel using the 20mm aircraft gun materiel M1 and M2 and contains technical information requried in the identification, use, and care of the materiel."
Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
U.S. Army Artillery and Missle School Tactics/Combined Arms Department
"This 1964 SOP is published to provide students with information necessary for the solution of School problems. In addition, it may be used as a guide for any officer designated to write a unit SOP."
This SOP standardizes routine procedures; it applies to organic nad attached units alike, unless otherwise stated. The material presented herein is applicable without modification to both nuclear and nonnuclear material.
This study concludes that the Air Attack Team Regiment (AATR), as a part of the corps aviation brigade, is the option that provides the Army with the best utilization of the A-10. The AATR combines the two main elements of a highly successful...
This is a discussion on the addition of a public relations section to the special staff of this division. The organization and functions of the public relations section, as well as a publicity program concerning the individual soldier, are...
This study examines current U.S. Army attack helicopter doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures (DTTP) to determine their adequacy in supporting the full range of attack helicopter employment in the multi-polar environment of the New World...
To provide a coordinated training plan for the introduction of Tactical Fire Direction System (TACFIRE) into the Army inventory. This training plan covers resident training at CONARC service schools, advanced individual training, and CONARC support...
This paper presents the advantages and limitations of motorization under existing conditions, the trend of development, and the lines along which experimentation should be conducted.
Operations and Readiness Directorate Office; Anderson, Gerald O.; Silano, Robert A.
This Department of the Army after action report deals with the U.S. Army involvement in and support of the Indochinese refugee program. Covering the period from 1 April 1975 to 1 June 1976, it focuses on the role of the Army Staff in crisis...
Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, War Department Observers Board.
The following comments are those of Major General JAMES GAVIN, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division. They constitute a resume of the lessons learned as a result of the 82nd Division's combat experiences in operation "market". In general...
This thesis in an assessment of attack helicopter gunnery training and the adequacy of that training as the Army fields the AH-64D Longbow attack helicopter starting in 1997. The problem confronted by this study is both institutional and unit...
The post Cold-War era has opened the door for the United States to become involved in a myriad of military operations in the execution of our National Security Strategy. As U.S. Army forces continue to conduct a variety of peace support operations...
Studies the Air Battle of Ploesti: its strategic importance, German defenses, Allied operations, the results of operations and lessons to be learned. Discusses the importance of petroleum, the vulnerability of oil refineries, German defenses at...
American's find the Bosnian Serb practice of "ethnic cleansing" morally unconscionable. As United Nations peacekeeping efforts have proved unable to halt the ethnic violence, the U.S. public has increasingly looked to its military for a solution....
These standing operating procedures are published for the guidance of the Americal Division and attached or supporting units. This document will be revised and changed as necessary to incorporate improved procedures and concepts. The format is...