This study examines the concept of battle command from a modern historical perspective. It analyzes the decision making and leadership displayed by Lieutenant General Franks during the planning, preparation and execution of Operation Desert Storm...
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
The location is Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. General William T. Sherman outlines in his address the establishment of a school entirely different from that of West Point, with a purpose to extend to the officers of cavalry and infantry the same or...
According to whether they respond to strategical or tactical needs, fortifications may be classified as strategical fortifications and tactical fortifications and are most frequently constructed, in whole or in part, during times of peace, with all...
From the Next War Series edited by Liddell Hart. A discussion of the future of air power, including a summary of air power in the Great War, air power doctrine, Douhet, and lessons learned in Abyssinia, China, and Spain.
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, American Forces in Germany, 1918-1923
An account of the American participation in the occupation of the Rhineland, Germany. Continued from volumes I and II covering 1920-1921. Chapters include the political and economic situation in unoccupied Germany as well as the occupied zone,...
Official history published by the Authority of the Minister of National Defence, it begins with the outbreak of hostilities and following Great Britain into the war. This narrative includes close details of mobilization, training, equipping, and...
Reports of a Major in the United States Army Corps of Engineers attached as an observer to the Third Japanese Army. Major Khun presents a detailed description of the Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese conflict, including army life,...
This study discusses the 42nd Division encounter with gas warfare in the Argonne offensive and battle at the Ourcq and covers types of gases, military operations, use of machine guns, and analyzes the actual attack.
Discusses intelligence issues in Europe (British Empire, Anglo-African Relations, France, Italy, Germany, Poland) and the Far East (Japan), including information on a propaganda committee and projects under consideration. Also contains a...
Looks at the operations of the 2d and 36th Divisions with the Fourth French Army in Champagne in October, 1918. The Blanc Mont operation is classed as part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, but it's also part of a larger offensive that extended along...
This document addresses United States policy toward Latin America. "Geography has been an important fact in determining the policies of the United States toward the countries of the Western Hemisphere. Though certain of the Latin American countries...
This document contains a series of reports based as a result of observation of the activities of the Italian armies in East Africa. Report no. 1 dealt with the operations of the Italian armies on the northern front. Report 2 considered the...
Document provides information on kinds and profiles of trenches, clearing the foreground, obstacles, demolitions, location of trenches on the ground, and shape of the terrain.
This document covers anti-submarine operations from the years 1941 to 1945. Also included is the interaction of these combat operations with the actual official measures adopted or considered by the US Navy during this time.
This is an Army Service Forces Manual, a Civil Affairs handbook, on Albania. This study on Albania was prepared by the Liaison and Studies branch of the military government division of the Provost Marshal General's Office from British and American...
The paper addresses the problem of establishing the degree of control to which the theater newspaper "CBI Roundup" will be subjected. There is an extract copy of circular no. 103, War Department, dated 6 April 1946, examples of need for supervision...
Contains digests 1-24. Brief study of certain European trends and developments in field artillery furnished for general interest and to show results of the (then) present war.
Military History Section, Headquarters, Army Forces Far East
Japanese monograph no. 154 (excluding the first chapter) deals exclusively with the eastern front under the jurisdiction of the First Area Army. It covers preparation for operations as well as the operations themselves.
This manual provides guidance to commanders and staffs of brigades and subordinate units, and combat, combat support, and combat service support units in the conduct of counterguerrilla operations. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 is the...