Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
Reports on the strategic position of the United States from the geographic point of view. Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, although of low power potential, provide buffer areas to the north and south. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans complete an...
The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
Olive drab cloth mask with layer of rubber on interior. Stitched to mask is black elastic head harness. Inside mask is a black rubber nose piece and yellow mouthpiece which is broken away. Attached to mask at mouth area is black painted metal...
Water cooled machine gun, light model MG08/15. Caliber 7.92mm. Waterjacket holds five pints. Crank on right side of receiver. Belt-fed from steel from magazine. Fitted with wood rifle-type buttstock intended for shoulder use. On bottom near rear of...
Chauchat 20-Round magazine, air-cooled light magazine with wood buttstock, pistol grip, forward grip, folding metal spike-type bipod. Both front blade and rear notch sights offset to left. Two sling swivels on left side of receiver, as is fire...
WWI era poster showing image of a wounded soldier standing and holding two German steel helmets, one in each hand. He is wearing the 1911 pattern pullover flannel shirt, breeches and M1917 helmet. He is carrying a 1903 Springfield rifle with...