"This 1957 manual is a guide for artillerymen in the techniques of sound ranging and flash ranging, and in the application of these techniques to tactical operations."
Suicide terrorism is re-emerging as the dominant tactic in asymmetric warfare. Al Qaeda in association with affiliates in the greater Salafi-jihadi movement conduct suicide terror or martyrdom campaigns against strategic and operational targets....
"This manual furnishes a guide for the training and employment of the personnel and for the use of the equipment pertaining to observation battalions."
"This 1945 manual furnishes a guide for the training and employment of field artillery observation battalions. . . The methods set forth herein are flexible and the principles embodied are basic; the various methods presented may be employed under...
A history of the American Revolution documented from letters written to and by George Washington and other general officers, ministers of Congress, and others in public stations.
This paper addresses the Israeli view of the threat posed by various armed factions in southern Lebanon over an 18-year period. This was a period during which Israeli used air strikes, ground invasions, and border operations to contain or defeat...
The Global War on Terror is an ideological war being fought in the environment indicative of fourth generation warfare. Propaganda bypasses traditional defenses and strikes right at the center of gravity - popular support. In a modern war of...
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was a cataclysmic international event. Because of the devastation suffered during the genocide, a focused effort at repairing the social fabric of the nation had to take place. The case shows how Rwanda overcame the...
In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini's indirect approach ignited existing socio-economic conditions during the Iranian Revolution to topple the Shah. A similar indirect approach using psychological operations to target audiences through key vulnerabilities...
Though the US is physically located in the Western Hemisphere, for most of its history, policy toward the South American countries that share this region has taken a distant second to Euro-centric issues. One of the few areas of concern that has...
This study is an investigation and analysis of the united front (UF) theories and practices of the Communist Party of the Philippines as these impact on the Philippine insurgency. The research hypothesis is that united front building is as vital a...
Broadly applied strategy-driven initiatives in a local environment may have unintended effects on the targeted nation's local economy. In addition to direct influences, a foreign force's service and resource requirements have the potential to...
Success in ground battle not only envisages well trained infantry but the highest type of integrated fire support for the infantry, produced in the most effective manner.
1889 volume. Pt. 1. Explosives, metallurgy and projectiles.--Pt. 2. Cannon, carriages, small arms, ammunition and accuracy.--[Pt. 3] Atlas with 39 plates.
1889 volume. Pt. 1. Explosives, metallurgy and projectiles.--Pt. 2. Cannon, carriages, small arms, ammunition and accuracy.--[Pt. 3] Atlas with 39 plates.
United States Works Progress Administration (New York, N.Y.)
Tables of grid coordinates ... computed ... by the Project for the computation of mathematical tables ... The basic formulas upon which the tables have been developed are from Special publication no. 59, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey.--Pref.
Military Professionals should study Military History. Current conflicts and battles have brought
out lessons that should have already been learned from past conflicts. “Military History,
accompanied by sound criticism, is indeed the true school...