Field fortification instructions for every branch of the military. Has examples that occurred in the seven years' war between the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians. Translation of: Unter-richt für die officers die sich zu feld-ingenieurs bilden.
Field fortification instructions for every branch of the military. Has examples that occurred in the seven years' war between the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians. Translation of: Unter-richt für die officers die sich zu feld-ingenieurs bilden.
This monograph reviews the significant body of literature on NATO published in English since its revised strategy document, 'The Alliance's Strategic Concept,' appeared in 1991 and determines what contributions this literature makes toward...
This monograph analyzes the current challenges facing the U.S. Army and the potential for force structure changes to meet future threats. Allowing for widened spans of control through the addition of a line company to the maneuver battalions of the...
This study uses the development of steam propulsion in the United States Navy as a case study for how new technology affects the strategy of the United States at the operational and strategic levels. Using the modern paradigms of operational and...
Recent years have seen the US, UK and other ISAF and Coalition nations enmeshed in protracted, complex and intense campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Resilient and highly adaptable opponents have operated asymmetrically, and amongst the people, to...
"Since the invention of gunpowder, fortification has received various improvements, and many have been the books wrote upon this subject, which might incline one to think, that it was arrived to its utmost perfection. . . "
The principle aim of this study is to determine if further unification of service components below the combatant CINC level is required. More specifically, do the combatant CINC's require a standing joint task force (JTF) headquarters to provide...
This monograph examines the dimensions of time and space for military operations and the process for synchronization. The specific military operations addressed are: linear warfighting as described in FM 100-5, “Operations,” May 1986;...
This monograph identifies a void in the strategic planning process of the United States and proposes a modified national security decisionmaking and implementation structure to improve the ability the U.S. to integrate the elements of national...
The post cold war world appears to be an era of unprecedented change. Nations are disintegrating in some places while in others they are forming supranational powers such as the European Union. Transnational threats such as narcotrafficing, crime...
Seven years have passed since Soviet Party Chief Brezhnev proposed the need for a system of collective security in Asia. Investigation reveals that Brezhnev's pronouncements on this subject were not propaganda exercises designed to secure...
Effective communication on a massive scale between the government and the people of the United States was essential between 1917 and 1919 to mobilize the American people in support of the First World War effort. The pictorial poster is a medium of...
This 1955-1956 summary shows statistics and completion rates for various programs throughout Fort Sill. " The purpose of this summary is to compile, consolidate and present useful data to commanders and staff officers in such a manner as to be of...
This study investigates the possible employment of the Navy's Combat Logistics Force to sustain an Army airborne brigade conducting a contingency operation in an undeveloped theater. The discussion focuses on modifying a Navy replenishment oiler...