The history of Fort Leavenworth is the history of our country. From its beginning in 1827, Fort leavenworth was involved in the onward development of the West. Troops stationed here escorted wagon trains, campaigned against the Indians, built...
A lecture delivered before the class of officers at the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry School, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Dec. 17, 1984. Discusses the history of using railroads to transport troops and supplies, advantages and disadvantages of such...
The Russo-Japanese war presents prominent features, apparently the result of the normal evolution of modern warfare, which affects the medical department as well as other branches of the service. This book presents a series of reports by United...
Reports of an American Cavalry officer attached to the First Japanese Army and a Captain with the United States Army Corps of Engineers traveling with the Manchurian Army. They go into great detail describing the Japanese military establishment,...
Translated from the original German by 3 students of the Command and General Staff School, P.L. Deylitz, Ross B. Smith, and Earle H. Malone. Discourse by the author on the Schlieffen plan of military strategy and tactics applied and compared to...
This book is designed to help junior officers of the regular service and militia who are beginning the study of tactics.The problems herein are simpler and for the more usual operations of small forces of infantry and of cavalry, such as patrols,...
Military service is obligatory for each male citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years. According to this 1916 volume, he must plan his life to meet this obligation and be prepared physically, mentally, and morally through proper...
A comprehensive understanding of the treatment accorded prisoners of war, including capture, transportation, prisons, police and discipline, work, relief societies, and liberation.
This memorandum is for medical officers, providing them with some knowledge of the action of the various gases that are likely to be encountered, and the rational lines of treatment which may be adopted in cases of gas poisoning.
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, American Forces in Germany, 1918-1923
This volume contains a narrative of events during the years 1920-1921 divided into quarters, and specifically including the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, conditions of life for Americans and Germans, the Kapp Putsch, the Ruhr Revolt,...
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...
The history of the 6th Division, written in 1919 by the G-2, includes the organization and training before deployment, movement overseas and final training, operations of occupying Gerardmer and the Meuse-Argonne, post-Armistice activities, return...
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 publication is intended to cover gas as a weapon in war, the resulting after effects, the humaneness of its use and casualties resulting from the use of gas in comparison with casualties from other weapons.
This study discusses the 1st Division encounter with gas warfare in Ansauville and covers equipment used, types of gases, instruction in warfare, and analyzes the actual attack.
Navy Department, Office of Naval Records and Library
The operations herein described are those which actually took place in the year 1918 and detail accounts of the cruises of all the submarines that operated off the American coast during the First World War.
When the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) arrived in France in 1917, AEF authorities decided to reorganize the Army's division and higher level staffs to be more in line with their French and British counterparts. The reorganization required an...