This monograph examines the establishment and structure of Joint Task Force headquarters in modern contingency operations. The large scale, well prepared, and extensively rehearsed efforts designed to win a global conflict, and the fixed command...
This document describes the Japanese field artillery during World War Two. It addresses the following topics: organization (division and heavy artillery, and observation regiments); basic doctrine (relation of artillery to infantry, forward...
Covers the Russian soldier and Russian conduct of battle, peculiarities of Russian tactics, the Red Air Force and partisan warfare. The material was put together to satisfy interest based on Russia's rapid developments in the arena of world...
The United States has a vested interest in defending its homeland, advancing its economy, developing a favorable world order, and advancing its values in the world. How can the United States, as a hegemonic power, effectively engage rising regional...
Table of contents include infantry during combat (moral liaison of the Infantry- artillery), general ideas on infantry combat (offensive and defensive combat), and battalion and regimental combat (offensive and defensive combat).
"This treatise is based on authentic information from the Western front in Europe, but the art and practice of Field Fortification today is like so many other things, in the melting pot, and men who study this work may find, upon their arrival in...
This 1979 institutional self-study is submitted in fulfillment of one of the major criteria for initial accreditation with the association. We believe it presents a fair and well-balanced view of our programs and progress.
Military history is truly the history of mankind. Regardless of one’s reflective approach, be it anthropological, sociological or biological, all such perspectives must necessarily include the study of conflict. As the most unique species within...
Between July 1991 and June 2006, I performed my activity at the Land Forces Academy as a trainer, deputy platoon leader, and staff NCO. The assignments that I had were not numerous but I feel that I did my job and was in concordance with the unit...
This study focuses on tactical airpower in south Vietnam between 1961-1968. Some of the issues examined are command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters,...
The text of this book contains the lectures given at the Naval War College between the years 1887 and 1911. The Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the Russo-Japanese War are discussed as well as historical narratives and illustrations, foundations...
Concepts Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University; Barondes, Arthur D.
This study has been prepared at the Aerospace Studies Institute (ASI) as part of a continuing program to examine the role of airpower in guerrilla warfare. It is one of several studies undertaken simultaneously on the conduct of guerrilla warfare...
This thesis tests the proposition of whether the US is pursuing contradictory short- and long-term objectives in its search for security after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Discussion begins with a review of perspectives on security...
After the fall of France in June 1940, criticism of the French military concentrated on their apparent lack of intellectual talent for conceiving and fighting a modern form of war. The swift collapse of France had all too effectively demonstrated...
The aim of this thesis is to provide insight and analysis of the factors that contributed to the military success of the revolutionary forces against the Hungarian and Soviet armed and security forces during the early phase of the 1956 Hungarian...
Considered the first documented commitment of a Western-style army facing a nation-wide insurgency, the Peninsular War deserves a critical examination of French pacification methods. In spite of a severe defeat, the Grande Armee achieved success...
Field Manual 1, The Army constitutes mission command as the prevailing leadership philosophy of the U.S. Army. With the publication of Field Manual, 6-22 Army Leadership the U.S. Army introduced the Leadership Requirements Model (LRM) to the force,...