This study discusses the 89th Division encounter with gas warfare in the line of the St. Mihiel salient near Flirey and covers types of gases, military operations, lack of training, and analyzes the actual attack with the 30th Engineers attached.
This volume attempts through photographs and colorplates, to encompass the causes of the great conflict and the chief happenings of military and political importance during the four years of World War I, including maps of continents, countries, and...
Cochrane, Rexmond C.; U.S. Army Chemical Corps Historical Office.
This is a tentative study of the gas experience of the 5th Division during World War I. The study begins with an account of a gas projector attack against elements of the division before the gas attack of the Frapelle operation; both enemy attacks...
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...
Discusses intelligence issues in Europe (British Empire, Anglo-African Relations, France, Italy, Germany, Poland) and the Far East (Japan), including information on a propaganda committee and projects under consideration. Also contains a...
This article is from the Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States, Jan-Feb, 1910, vol XLVI, no. CLXIII, p 1-24. The author defines pacification thus: Pacification includes all means, short of actual war, used by the...
This document contains information on the development of plans and Army and Navy action (information applicable to both services, classification of landings, unit loading, naval assistance required to support Army landing against opposition,...
This document was published for information and guidance regarding the Philippine Constabulary. It contains the following topics: definition and organization; Chief and staff; districts; constabulary stations; command; inspectors; provincial...
This document describes the military affairs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and exhibits the organization of these national forces as it was immediately before the beginning of World War I.
Contains a review of the nature, use, field of service, and organization of the signal corps of the Army, with an outline of its methods, and technical apparatus and notes on the service of information and the organization of the aviation service...
Historical Branch, War Plans Division, General Staff
This document details the operations of the 2d American Corps in the Somme Offensive during World War I. Items discussed include the general situation, 33d Division, the 27th and 30th Divisions, the German position, plan of operations, the attack...
Strategy is the art of concentrating superior combat power in a theater of operations at the required time and place and under conditions which will favor the defeat or destruction of the enemy's armed forces in battle. One of most momentous...
This document contains a series of reports based as a result of observation of the activities of the Italian armies in East Africa. Report no. 1 dealt with the operations of the Italian armies on the northern front. Report 2 considered the...
This report of the special mission to the Philippine Islands details a variety of topics including information on prisons, public instruction, health and sanitation, economic conditions, finances, public works, and a general history of the...
The report of Major General John J. Pershing, commander of the expedition into Mexico to "capture Villa and his bandits." Also referred to as the "Pancho Villa Expedition" or the "Mexican Expedition." It was launched against the Mexican insurgent...
Contents in this final report on the Japanese Army include: orders and instructions; condensed itinerary; Japanese transport and supply system; system of communication between units of field army; machine guns; Japanese infantry; Japanese cavalry;...
From a lecture delivered at the Army War College in Washington, D.C., 29 September 1939 by Brigadier General Adna R. Chaffee, Commander, 7th Cavalry Brigade. Gives a brief history of mechanized cavalry and looks at vehicle equipment and combat...
The following document details subjects which include: country description; the principles of war and plan of campaign; fighting troops and their characteristics; information and reconnaissance; protection; lines of communication; the attack; the...