The purpose of this monograph is to determine the conditions necessary for a successful counteroffensive. The study seeks to identify these conditions through historical analyses of four of the greatest counteroffensives of modern military history:...
This study tests the hypothesis that, at the operational level, there are essential elements of operational transition that the commander may use as a guide to determine the actions that must be taken to pursue the positive aim, the...
As warfare continues to become more complex due to the advent and proliferation of new technology, blending of ethnic and cultural groups, population growth and urbanization, and tendency towards asymmetric warfare, commanders will have more...
The purpose of this monograph is to determine the adequacy of our current, alliance based, conventional force strategy. The scope is limited to the application of force to achieve the national objectives of deterrence and containment. The problem...
This monograph examines Carl von Clausewitz's theoretical concept of the defensive culminating point and the ability of Army doctrine and its analysis system--Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield--to determine an enemy's courses of action...
This monograph examines the historic attack by Adolph Hitler's Germany against the Soviet defenses in 1941. It examines actions of both armed forces to analyze what went wrong and what went right for each side. It focuses on Soviet defenses to...
This thesis is a historical examination of the eastern front battles in southern Russia during February-March 1943. Field Marshal von Manstein, Commander of the German Army Group South, defeated a Soviet two Front offensive with an exceptional...
This study answers the following question related to the “Engineer Restructure Initiative”: Is the proposed division engineer (DIVENG) regiment capable of creating the conditions necessary to maintain the heavy division's tactical freedom of...
This study investigates the effect of cold weather upon the mechanized forces of the German Army and the Soviet Red Army during the first winter campaign on the eastern front of World War II, October 1941 through March 1942. This thesis is...
This monograph examines the practice of operational art from the perspective of the Kursk Campaign of July-October, 1943. The study begins by presenting the German and Russian campaign plans as examples of two different methods of achieving a...
This monograph discusses the planning and execution of the 1944 Ardennes campaign, analyzes the reasons for Allied success and German failure, and based on that analysis examines the validity of certain theoretical concepts relating to the practice...
The purpose of this research paper is to provide answers to a series of basic questions as a first step in addressing some of the details necessary to implement the Joint Force Land Component Commander (JFLCC) concept in a theater of operations or...
'Operational IPB' describes U.S. Army doctrine for the precombat intelligence estimate process employed at the operational level of war. Its methodology is contained in an appendix to a tactical field manual, FM 34-130, Intelligence Preparation of...
This details the 15th Army organization and operations after the subjugation of Burma. Plans and preparations for the invasion of Eastern India, as well as the Imphal operation and withdrawal from Eastern India, are highlighted.
This study is an historical analysis of the Soviet-German conflict during World War II and focuses on the years 1941-1943. It examines the relative economic and military power of the two nations to determine if there was a shift in advantage, or...
Beverly, Charlie L.; Steele, Bryan L.; Martin, Keith; Daigle, Roger; Santos, Rick
Thesis: The Battle of the Bulge lasted from December 16, 1944 to January 28, 1945 and was the largest land battle in terms of the number of soldiers and the area of land in which the United States participated during World War II.
After the Bulgarian Army had successfully defended the Macedonian Front for three years, in September 1918 the Allies achieved a decisive breakthrough of that front at Dobro Pole. The next phase in the plan of the Entente Salonika Army Commander,...
This study attempts to determine if the Clausewitzian concept of the culminating point is useful in planning offensive operations at the operational level of war. The study postulates that the Army's AirLand battle doctrine includes theoretical...
This provisional manual deals with the employment of large units in both open and stabilized warfare. It is assumed that the enemy is equal in intelligence to ourselves and that he is as well armed, trained, and supplied. This manual is intended as...
In November, 1950, the United States Army suffered one of its most devastating defeats ever, in the frozen mountains of North Korea at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. This defeat fundamentally changed the nature of the Korean...