This study presents information on the need for anti-aircraft artillery, activities of hostile aircraft, and anti-aircraft weapons used in ground defense (types, guns, characteristics and effectiveness, and mission). Also included is the employment...
This student paper presents the importance of fast tanks, that increased mobility will give to the more mobile Army an advantage over the initiative. Tactical and strategical maneuvers suited to the employment of tanks that increase mobility should...
This paper sets up a scenario of political relations existing between the United States and Canada where neither country has declared war (no mobilization), and that relations have been strained and diplomatic efforts have failed. The staff of the...
This study asks what the effect is of the development of aircraft upon troop movements. Attack aviation, observation aviation, pursuit aviation, bombardment aviation, and daylight and night movements are all discussed. The development of aircraft...
This study presents the use of air transport, military and commercial, for the transportation of ground troops. This study does not include transport by lighter-than-aircraft due to limited amount of material available on the subject. It does not...
This study is based on personal experience of the author and was designed to present the subject as it was found to be during the World War and as it might be in any future major emergency. Some subjects discussed include the construction and...
This document presents the military geography of the IV Corps area. Political, physical, human, commercial geography are all discussed. There is a section regarding possible plans open to a hostile expedition landing in the IV Corps area. There are...
This study presents information on the motor transport service of the French Army, the first automobile regulating commission, organization of and duties assigned to the Automobile Regulating Commissions, non specialization of vehicles, general...
This paper discusses air defenses of Germany, France, England, and the United States. The author analyses what the defensive means were for each country before and during the war, and the importance of a planned and proper defense during all...
This in an analytical study of the conduct of a holding attack, in open warfare, based on the present doctrine of the British, French, German, Japanese and American armies and appropriate historical examples. The analysis and discussion section...
This study covers the heroic defense of the Oise in the vicinity of Guise by the 228th Reserve Infantry Regiment (French) during the 28th and 29th of August 1914. It includes the concentration, advance and retirement of the IV Reserve Corps....
This paper is a critical analysis of the Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, with conclusions concerning the differences that might have resulted in the organization for defense and the direction of attack had present-day organization,...
This study presents topics which include the value of visual education, past and present use of motion pictures for instruction in the United States Army, recent developments of film and equipment and its effect on visual education, and...
The U.S. has a huge reliance on space. This reliance, combined with a leaner more rapidly deployable military, makes space weapons an appealing prospect. Space weapons technology continues to advance, and as improvements occur, the weaponization of...
This study is a historical analysis of Union joint operations that occurred during the American Civil War in northeastern North Carolina. The study begins with a historical overview of joint operations then transitions into the events that occurred...
This study examines the Marine intervention in Haiti from 1915-1934, its impact on the development of current and emerging MOOTW doctrine, and its lessons for future U.S. involvement in military operations other than war. From 1915 to 1934, the...
This study examines insights into the state of morale of the Army of the Cumberland during the period of the Tullahoma and Chickamauga campaigns, covering the period from June through September 1863. The thesis focused on the organization and...
This thesis adopts the adversary's perspective to consider the revolution in military affairs, thereby breaking free of the intellectual constraints imposed by the American paradigm of warfare, doctrine and force structure. The adversary's need to...