A history of base and facilities construction during the Vietnam war, including planning the construction effort, acquisition of land, actual construction, engineering, road programs, logistics, and lessons learned.
A Missouri National Guardsman, Major Michael Kitchens served with the 40-member 135th Rear Operations Center at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for 10 months, beginning in May 2003. In his force protection unit, Kitchens monitored and analyzed intelligence...
This paper discusses the use of armored cars by the cavalry units in performing cavalry missions, advantages and disadvantages of types of vehicles and their use and requirements.
The purpose of this thesis was to examine leading magazines and determine if they provided a balanced presentation of the military in terms of articles and excerpts published. The military affairs content of twenty-one general interest, large...
A major problem facing the Armed Forces today is the correctional and rehabilitative treatment of military offenders. With this in mind, all personnel charged with the task of rebuilding and resocializing prisoners must be capable of performing...
This study examines the escalation rates and intensity levels of US/ USSR post-WW II confrontations in relation to the number of strategic nuclear weapons available to these nations to determine if a relationship exists. That is, have strategic...
If the United States expects to win a land war in Europe against the Soviet Union, the Army must be prepared to fight on the high technology battlefield. Every battle practice in our existing doctrine needs critical examination to assure...
US Army aviation is undergoing an organizational and doctrinal evolution in order to be a relevant and capable force in the contemporary operational environment and on the battlefields of the future. Aviation has traditionally provided a unique...
The purpose of this study is to tell the story of the involvement of the United States Army in the events surrounding the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. During a period of approximately seventy-five days a force of over 5,000 soldiers,...
In October 1944, US forces executed amphibious landings on the Japanese-occupied island of Leyte in the central Philippines. Japanese naval forces, severely outnumbered by the US Third and Seventh Fleets, attempted to stop the invasion by attacking...
There have been many changes to the national security strategy since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. One of the most important changes has been the role that the democratic peace theory plays in achieving global peace and...
This study reviews U.S. Army leadership doctrine published during the period 1951 to 1990 and presently emerging in 1997. It focused on the Army's change in the use of the terms religion, spirituality, and faith as printed in the Army Field Manual...
Includes a listing of the school staff members, instructors, list of graduates, remarks and recommendations, bulletins, and memorandums covering the school year 1937-38.
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...
This volume attempts through photographs and colorplates, to encompass the causes of the great conflict and the chief happenings of military and political importance during the four years of World War I, including maps of continents, countries, and...
The Illustrated War News was a weekly magazine during World War I, published by Illustrated London News. The magazine contained articles, photographs, diagrams and maps. This book is a compilation of issues from October, November and December of...
Includes the naval gunfire report, air report, and artillery report of the V Amphibious Corps regarding the training and planning for the invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II contained in annex Charlie.
A history of the Mediterranean Base Section, Services of Supply, North African Theater of Operations. Includes monthly activities separately reported. Volume I of II volumes.
This document contains maps and sections on messages received (and who they were from) along with action taken from March 29, 1942 to July 31, 1942 during World War Two. Sections are in chronological orders, and plans are listed, as well as 'other...