Between the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Friedrich Engels functioned as a writer, analyst, and critic concerning military affairs. His most essential commentaries were published,...
Reinertsen, Leif C.; 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
"After five" brings to a close the history, of the 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. When our standards are furled and cased for the last time there will be only this short narrative and your memories to remind you of the battalion. This...
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, M37, by the personnel normally assigned to a howitzer section of an armored Field Artillery firing battery.
While assigned to the 15th Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, our mission, was to sustain the 2BCT twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The unit alone would perform over one-hundred sixty wheeled re-supply...
A reprint of the second edition ( of History of Fort Leavenworth) brought up to date by Walter E. Lorence. The original covered the first 110 years of Fort Leavenworth's history and provided a chronology of events that covered the Westward...
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one howitzer section of the firing battery.
I was a First Sergeant in the famed Second Infantry Division from April 2002, until July 2003. Security measures were high on all military installations due to the frequent civil unrest in the Republic of Korea. Political tension was rapidly...
This paper will cover key events and lessons I learned as 1SG during the deployment of a
Reserve unit, the 351st Ordnance Company (Ammo) during its 13 month deployment to Fort
Lewis, Washington in support of Operation Nobel Eagle and its...
This article is intended to show the results of the planning, transportation, action, and conclusions drawn from the Ryukyus Campaign. This is not intended as a record of events, or report, but rather as a general discussion of the 711th Tank...
"This 1954 manual is a guide to assist commanders in developing the sections of 8 inch gun M1 and 240-mm howitzer M1 firing batteries into efficient, smooth-working teams that have a sense of discipline that will impel them to operate effectively...
The purpose of this paper is to determine and analyze the considerations for the redeployment of a US Army corps. The redeployment of the 1st Infantry Division from Vietnam in Operation Keystone Blue Jay, Military Traffic Management Command's after...
Wheeler, Charles Brewster and Tschappat, William H.
While artillery experts are agreed as to the advantages of increased rapidity of fire for field guns, they appear not to have decided upon the most desirable form of field carriage, nor to what limits the increased rapidity of fire should be...
An infantry handbook founded on rational method. It is intended to explain in a practical manner the use of military force and improvements in the discipline and movement of armies.
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,...
"The present text-book has been compiled with the object of presenting as clearly as possible the elementary principles of the course in Ordnance and Gunnery as taught at the Military Academy, and of so arranging it that it can be readily used for...
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.
U.S. Army Artillery and Missle School Tactics/Combined Arms Department
"This 1964 SOP is published to provide students with information necessary for the solution of School problems. In addition, it may be used as a guide for any officer designated to write a unit SOP."
This SOP standardizes routine procedures; it applies to organic nad attached units alike, unless otherwise stated. The material presented herein is applicable without modification to both nuclear and nonnuclear material.