World War II was the largest and most violent armed conflict in the history of mankind. However, the half century that now separates us from that conflict has exacted its toll on our collective knowledge. While World War II continues to absorb the...
Without a hospitalization capability, battalion medical care is limited to primary care and combat resuscitation. The U.S. Army has traditionally dispatched doctors to battalions. After the Vietnam War, the Army studied this practice critically....
When I searched the internet for contributions of the noncommissioned officers in the transportation corps, I found a unique unit of pioneers that used a mode of transportation that is not mentioned in the transportation corps today. None of these...
King, Benjamin; Dempsey, Martin E.; Combat Studies Institute (U.S.); U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
Victory Starts Here is the history of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command's (TRADOC's) 35 years as the architect of the Army's future. During the first years of the 21st century, "Transformation" became a new buzzword for the Army changing...
King, Benjamin; Dempsey, Martin E.; Combat Studies Institute (U.S.)
Victory Starts Here is the history of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command's (TRADOC's) 35 years as the architect of the Army's future. During the first years of the 21st century, "Transformation" became a new buzzword for the Army changing...
To standardize procedures to be; followed by command, supply, and transportation activities in the preparation and movement of
units to overseas commands. All action prescribed herein will be accomplished as expeditiously as possible commensurate...
Prepared by G-3 Section, Headquarters, 15 Army Group Italy
To meet the moutainous characteristics of Italy, "new techniques had to be developed, and variations of standard tactical doctrine devised. The improvizations and adaptatons used throughout the campaign to meet the varied situations presented led...
To gain a working knowledge of this subject, it is emphasized that management is only part of our overall concept of command. Command is the authority an individual in the Military Service lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of his rank...
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...
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. Army has periodically reviewed the structure and organization of its primary combat unit, the division. Since 1939, the Army has conducted at least eleven such reviews with associated testing and...
This work examines the use of tanks in urban warfare. It seeks to provide insight and a historical precedence on the wisdom of employing tanks in an inherently dangerous dimension of the modern battlefield, intensifying the shortcomings in...
Department of Military Art and Engineering, United States Military Academy.
This three part account of the war with Japan details the Japanese strategic offensive, the Allied reorganization, the Allied defensive-offensive, operations (7 August 1942 to 31 December 1943 and 1 January to 31 December 1944), the...
This thesis looks at the importation of rare earth elements which are considered vital to the security of the United States (U.S.) and are used to manufacture products for the U.S. defense industry. The purpose of this thesis is to answer the...
This study provides a brief overview of the US military's involvement in stability operations and draws out the salient patterns and recurring themes that can be derived from those experiences. It is hoped that a presentation and critical analysis...
This study addresses the question that, even though such items as strength, ammunition, rations, transportation, equipment, etc., can easily be charted from reports and war diaries, how can the factors that are so essential to true combat strength,...
This publication sets forth the tactics, techniques, and procedures for conducting joint shipboard helicopter operations and describes how forces will be employed in accordance with doctrine set forth in Joint Publication 3-04, "Joint Maritime...