Course of lectures upon The Defense of the Sea Coast of the United States delivered before the U.S. Naval War College by Bvt. Brig.-Gen. Henry L. Abbot.
.45 caliber, six shot, single action revolver with 7 1/2" round barrel rifled with six grooves. Cylinder is 1 9/16" long. Large steel blade front sight and V-notch rear sight in frame. Steel frame and trigger guard. Walnut grips. Rod-type ejector...
These are the annual reports of the School for Infantry and Cavalry (now the Command and General Staff College) from 1882-1936. These reports were written almost every year as a summary of the activities of the college. They include the names of...
Recruiting for the United States Army started in 1775 with a focus on the revolutionary war. The United States Army Recruiting Command, however, traces its roots back to 1882, when Major General Jacob Jennings Bron, Commanding General of the Army,...
Thesis statement: It is a popular belief that counterinsurgency campaigns can be won with superior fighting forces and superior firepower with no regard for cultural and socioeconomic factors. The American Indian and Philippine counterinsurgency...
Quartermaster NCOs of past and present have made many positive contributions to their units. Their individual contributions may not be known by many, but their contributions have directly resulted in many soldiers surviving and multiple units being...
In this interview MAJ Ben Miller discusses his deployment to Iraq in 2003 with the 1st BCT, 1st ID out of Fort Riley. MAJ Miller was a company commander of an armor platoon but when he arrived in Iraq his platoon was split up and received...
In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel was relieved of command of the United States Pacific Fleet and forced into retirement. Eight official investigations were conducted to determine his accountability for...
This study addresses the cadet and military times of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper, the first African-American graduate of the United States Military Academy and the first African-American to serve as a regular Army officer. Lieutenant Flipper...
This thesis covers a period of transformation in the Army between the large Civil War Army armed primarily with muzzle-loading percussion arms to an Army numbering in the tens of thousands armed with magazine-fed bolt-action repeating rifles by...
This thesis deals with the military confrontation between French and Anglo-Egyptian forces at Fashoda, in the Nilotic Sudan, during the period 19 September to 11 December, 1898. It examines the confrontation, on both the French and the British...
This thesis investigates the operational and tactical procedures in counterinsurgency warfare developed by General George Crook while commanding U.S. Army forces in southwest and the northern plains. This work includes a brief introduction of...
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891.
The location is Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. General William T. Sherman outlines in his address the establishment of a school entirely different from that of West Point, with a purpose to extend to the officers of cavalry and infantry the same or...
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...
Part IV of 5 volumes. Report by Major Charles Lynch of the medical department detailing Japanese medical procedures used during the war. Covers the organization of the Japanese Army, its medical services, medicine and surgery procedures,...
This narrative comprises Part III of the history of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. It covers the five months from May 9, 1945 at the end of the European war up to October 15, 1945. Continued from Part II, chapters 19-24 cover redeployment,...
The purpose of this study was to provide prompt information of Japanese combat methods in Okinawa. Particular attention was given to new or accentuated land warfare trends. It was intended for troops which engaged in similar type of combat. The...