The introduction of attack helicopters to the battlefield opened a new dimension for ground combat forces. This monograph examines history to identify those characteristics that make an arm effective in the shock role and to assess the modern...
This monograph discusses the utility of strategic satellite reconnaissance in terms of its capability to satisfy our intelligence requirements in Europe. Although the context is present day Europe, it is not tied to ongoing Conventional Forces...
The purposes of US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 are threefold. The first is to fill a void in the published record of US Army units documented by Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War published by the Center of...
This study explores the experiences of the Army's only World War II era divisional unit designed specifically for employment in mountainous terrain, the 10th Mountain Division. It examines the reasons for its activation, its organization, training,...
Why is it important to study military history? Does the past have any relevance today? Will it teach me anything? These are all valid questions for some people, not me. I believe the present is an expansion of events that occurred in our past. Some...
This monograph investigates Pentomic doctrine of the 1950's. The political and military factors that drove the Army to adopt a new vision of war, restructure and reorganize its major combat formations and to eventually abandon that change are very...
The United States has maintained a Triad of strategic nuclear delivery systems since the early 1960's. This Triad includes strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), and submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM). The...
It is not known against whom or where the United States Army will fight next, nor is it clear what the nature of that conflict will be. What is relatively certain is that the United States Army will likely initially get it wrong, regardless of its...
The purposes of US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 are threefold. The first is to fill a void in the published record of US Army units documented by Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War published by the Center of...
This thesis aims to analyze the insurgency in Ukraine, organized shortly before WWII and led by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during WWI and in the years immediately after WWII. The main goal of this analysis is to determine if...
The Department of the Army decided to re-structure the combat divisions into modular, brigade units in order to better address the difficulty inherent in fighting a long war on terrorism, while simultaneously providing combat units to OIF and OEF...
With the Nation in a state of unlimited emergency, the undersigned submits the attached report covering the period from his assignments as Chief of Staff on September 1, 1939 to July of, 1941.
Noncommissioned Officers have played an important role in the nation's wars. NCOs have contributed to the development of the Noncommissioned Officer Education System, which continues to evolve today. The professionalism displayed by the NCOs led...
The United States is the world’s only super power and uses its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons to influence and intimidate policies of their enemies. Since the end of the Second World War significant advances in the power and types of...
Patterson, Chris; Nock, Leslie; Post, Rick; Byron, Elvis; Logsdon, Keith
Abstract: The proliferation of nuclear weapons between the United States and the former Soviet Union created the need to control further development and production of the same. The former leaders understood the potential of weapons of mass...
This paper’s objective is to determine if the use of weapons made from a nuclear source is necessary in the world as a defense mechanism. Within this paper we will identify countries that think it is important to maintain nuclear weapons and why...
William H. Mauldin was born and raised in the southwest. As a young boy he became interested in books and drawing. From his first drawings of military maneuvers near his home to his creation of" Willie and Joe" during World War II, Maudlin would...