This paper analyzes leading edge information age management concepts future armies are likely to adopt. There are two premises which shape the research. Change is occurring, today with greater speed, volume, and complexity. War is a reflection of...
This study analyzes the dichotomy between the Army's doctrinal espousal of mission orders and its practices of detailed orders, then proposes a hypothesis for its resolution. The hypothesis proposes that command methodologies are not discrete...
This thesis identifies the operational and strategic centers of gravity of United Nations Operations, Somalia II (UNOSOM II). The research demonstrates that UNOSOM II failed to correctly identify its own strategic center of gravity. This failure...
This study investigates the development and effectiveness of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) psychological selection program. The OSS was created in response to the Second World War to collect intelligence, and to conduct espionage,...
This study documents the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment's history from its creation on 26 January 1863 through the attainment of equal pay on 15 June 1864. Previous historians have not chronicled, in detail, the early history of the...
This thesis is a study of a tactical combat system. It examines the capabilities of the attack helicopter to determine the suitability of its employment in operations other than war (OOTW). Suitability is established based upon those attack...
"$FREE CASH NOW$! No credit? Not a problem, Bankruptcies OK." Misleading or questionable ads like these are common in the military community. Additionally, indebtedness among service members is on the rise and has significantly impacted readiness...
This monograph develops a conceptual framework for the integration of strongpoints into a defense against Blitzkrieg relying primarily on heavy mobile forces. It is oriented primarily on NATO in Europe, where most of the strongpoints will be on...
This monograph discusses an often forgotten aspect of low-intensity conflict (LIC), tactical airpower. LIC is an environment, not a mission, and as such is often misunderstood. The US view of conflict is primarily Eurocentric and the subtleties of...
This monograph reviews the doctrinal duties of the maneuver battalion Executive Officer (XO) from World War I to the present. The role of the XO changed over time with different emphasis and priorities in respective eras. The purpose of this...
The purpose of this monograph is to evaluate the doctrinal concepts underlying the U.S. Marine Corps' Small Wars Manual and the U.S. Army's Security Assistance Force (SAF), determining whether they are applicable today against a Maoist-led...
Recent conflicts have provided valuable glimpses at the lethality of the modern battlefield and the vulnerability of ground troops to air attack. The 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1982 Lebanese War in the Bekaa Valley and the War in the Falklands...
Chemical weapons were introduced in World War I by the Germans in 1916, during the battle of Ypres. The military's appreciation for the effectiveness of this weapon of mass destruction has continually conflicted with society's horror of its cruel...
In 1926, Dwight D. Eisenhower was first in his class and an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Eisenhower's year at the school was a formative period in his career and prepared him for many of his...
Command and General Staff School (CGSS), Class of 1926
This book was compiled by the Class of 1926 from the Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It includes illustrative humor, poems, and stories, "hoping it will make you laugh or weep...from a year of depths and pinnacles as we...
Seeks to determine the effect upon the College of the planned reorganization of the Department of the Army with the establishment of the U.S. Army Combat Developments command.
Lecture originally given to the class of provisional second lieutenants on February 14, 1917. Discusses the history of the cavalry beginning with the first use of horses and continues to the present day. Also discusses the areas in which cavalry...
The aim and duty of the artillery is to deliver effective fire when and where needed. Proposes that the problem of delivering effective fire on a given point at a given time is largely one of technique. Talks focus primarily on technique.
Conference notes regarding the tactics and techniques of an air corps. Discusses the characteristics of aircraft, pursuit aviation, attack aviation, bombardment aviation, balloon observation and other important principles necessary for effective...
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