This report presents a statistical summary of United States War Department lend-lease activities reported for the period March 1941 through December 1945.
Discusses the Lend-Lease Act of March 11, 1941 which allowed the head of government agencies to lend, lease or sell defense articles to the governments of countries whose defense the president determined to be vital to the defense of the United...
This study is an initial, country-level, analysis of the German government rationales for allowing the transfer of arms. The study divides arms transfer rationales into three distinct areas, political, economic and military. At present, there are...
What happens when a technologically advanced nation provides advanced technology to a much less advanced nation's military? Numerous political and diplomatic considerations go into the decision to provide the technology, but once the decision is...
In all its modern wars the United States has fought as a member of a multinational coalition. Multinational operations are a key component of the National Security Strategy of the United States, which is built on the imperative of engagement....
This study is an analysis of Soviet arms transfers to sub-Saharan Africa during the period 1974 - 1983. Using a focused comparison methodology, ten sub-Saharan nations are examined in light of two objectives. The first is to describe the range of...
Time fire using shell fuzed with fuze M54 or M55 -- Survey plans and procedure -- Fire direction -- Hints for safety officers -- Notes on the firing battery recorder -- Determination and correction of basic data -- Conduct of observed fires --...
Issued with the following official number: C.4.M.4. 1931.IX [C.P.D.1(i)]. Minutes of the sixth session (second part) of the Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference. Transcripts of discussions, proposals, drafts, ammendments,...
Department of Defense (DoD) implemented an increase in Triple Option Benefit Plan Available for Military Families (TRICARE) copayments, which DoD military and dependents will pay, if they use the TRICARE Retail Network Pharmacies and the TRICARE...
The United States Army Reserve (USAR) experienced exceptional utilization since 2001 in the Global Wars on Terrorism (GWOT), requiring its transformation from a strategic to operational posture. The Army and USAR used the Army Force Generation...
Using enhancement of global and regional objectives, procurement of military base rights, and benefits to the recipient state an effectiveness criteria, this thesis concludes that the security assistance program of the Soviet Union has been more...
The present challenge to the nation-state system broadly, and USG specifically, consists of non-state actors operating within the context of weak governance and unofficial economy. This thesis explores USG effectiveness in disrupting terrorist or...
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. Office of the Chief Surgeon
This manual is for medical depot companies engaged in tactical operations. Includes the principles of supply operations and procedures involving receiving, recording, storing, and issuing medical supplies.
The Field Artillery School Regulations as published in this pamphlet will govern in the administration of all activities on the Fort Sill Military Reservation. All orders or parts of orders issued by this headquarters which are in conflict with the...
This study analyzes the security assistance programs which support the President's Andean Initiative, as a part of his overall 'war on drugs.' The study describes the conditions in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru which foster coca growing, and the...
The discovery of oil in the United Arab Emirates has resulted in a new era in which demographic, economic, social and political transformations have occurred rapidly. Moreover, the supply of oil has increased the strategic importance of the UAE....
Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army
The purpose of this SOP is to describe the procedures to be followed by all elements of the theater (except US Strategic Air Forces in Europe) in the readjustment of personnel between units after the defeat of Germany, in order that units...
This study examines the mechanics of black marketing by U.S. service members to determine ways to curtail or eliminate such illegal operations, which undermine U.S. national security. Actual court-martial cases of U.S. service members prosecuted...