This paper examines the development of the American Army corps structure during World War I. The corps formation developed in World War I by General John J. Pershing was the culmination of 56 years of lessons learned from the Civil War through the...
This is a case study of fielding and employment of the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle to anticipate potential training challenges of the K21 Infantry Fighting Vehicle fielded units, and to find possible solutions for them. By analyzing the various...
Contents include: World War II and Battle of the Bulge chronologies; WWII allied conferences; Allied Command architecture and order of battle; the U.S. Army in December 1944; biographical sketches- senior allied commanders; German command...
Pamphlet was prepared by the Visitor's Bureau, G-1, for the purpose of assisting American officers in making a trip over the American Battlefields in France. Covers the general situation prior to July 16, 1916, Chateau-Thierry, Soissons and Rimes,...
This study is an in-depth analysis of the Aisne offensive detailing the importance of the American involvement and the major factors enabling tactical and strategical surprise.
Like many other multiethnic countries, Malaysia has seen a revival in Islamic fundamentalism in her Muslim populace since the seventies. The ongoing revival has led to pressures on the Malaysian government to establish an Islamic state in the...
This paper examines the applicability of the theories of the 19th Century military theorist, Baron Antoine Henri Jomini, to modern 20th century mid- to high intensity conflict. To do this it briefly reviews the core of Jomini's most famous work,...
Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications.
This issue of Lessons Learned is a compilation of many facets of military operations which field commanders have judged to be important. The salient lessons learned contained have been selected form after action reports and other documents. Looks...
This study details the positions of German and Allied armies, the plans for attack, and the results of the operation evaluated on the principles of war.
This study is an historical analysis of the Soviet operational use of tank and mechanized corps, and tank armies, in the deliberate defense at the Battle of Kursk in 1943. It centers on the question of how effective was the Red Army in employing...
Previous issues of Lessons Learned have been concerned primarily with tactics and techniques in a purely military sense. The nature of the conflict in Vietnam is such that it involves many important military-civilian relationships and objectives...
This monograph discusses the fundamental functions of operational art and assesses how well they are addressed by current doctrine. Its focus is upon operational art as applied to conventional warfare: that zone where the theater of operations...
This monograph examines the practice of operational art from the perspective of the Kursk Campaign of July-October, 1943. The study begins by presenting the German and Russian campaign plans as examples of two different methods of achieving a...
This study discusses the rail supply for the German Army in France with the conclusion that rail supply and communications were not secured during the operations resulting in failure.
A summary review of the general situation as it existed upon the United States entry into the war is necessary to appreciate at its true value the American effort and in order fully to understand many important decisions reached in the early days...
To encourage further research in the history of World War I and to fill a gap in the Army's historical documentation of that conflict, the Center of Military History has created a World War I series of publications consisting of new monographs and...
This monograph examines the historic attack by Adolph Hitler's Germany against the Soviet defenses in 1941. It examines actions of both armed forces to analyze what went wrong and what went right for each side. It focuses on Soviet defenses to...