This book of notes is designed to provide the artillery survey officer with a handy pocket guide to assist him in discharging his duties during field and combat operations.
In 1993, the Bottom-Up Review (BUR) concluded that the United States could fight and win in two nearly simultaneous major regional conflicts (MRCs). Nearly simultaneous required that the two MRCs be spaced at least 42 days apart to allow adequate...
This book is the revision of the system of "Firing regulations for small arms." Contents includes rifle drills, rifle range practice, pistols, classifications, targets, competitions, and fire discipline.
This book describes the organization, duties and training of scouts and patrols, including night patrols, scouts and observation, intelligence, and the writing of reports.
This monograph examines the question of an evolving Joint space campaign concept and the Army's role in it over the next 20 years. Analysis progresses logically through a series of topics in order to arrive at a complete picture of this...
A PRACTICAL knowledge of sketching is an important part of the military education of officers and non-commissioned officers. Wen maps of the country are not available, commanders try to obtain sketches as guides in marching, and in the selection of...
If strategists do not follow Clausewitz’s lead as a critical historian, then they risk failure by founding future policy, strategy, and operations on Kosovo myths. One must ask, was Operation Allied Force a rational use of military power to...
"The following Provisional Machine Gun Firing Manual, 1917, is publiished for the information and guidance of all concerned. By order of the Secretary of War: Tasker H. Bliss, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff."
Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications.
The information sphere is an integral part of the current environment. The center of gravity (CoG) theory currently is matched for conventional, linear, industrial age warfare in the physical domain. The CoG concept is thus not suited to work in...
The ownership of vast quantities of military power and the ability to project that power globally does not ensure the achievement of the 'ends' desired from a war. Since 1945, the United States and her Western allies increasingly fail to realize a...