A manual stating the purpose of the Strategic Services, its mission, objectives and methods to implement. The primary objective of the Special Operations Branch is the destruction of enemy personnel, material, and installations.
Presents the organizational directive of the United States Army Air Corps 9th Air Force as of May 29, 1944. Includes sections covering the commanding general, plans and operations, maintenance, supply, personnel and training, transportation, and...
Detachment 101 of the Office of Strategic Services’ development of unconventional warfare doctrine in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II presents the practitioner of unconventional warfare a worthy model of consideration for our...
Contains information on the historical development, function, and organization of the Counter Intelligence Corps and its missions in various theaters of operations. Including Zone of the Interior, North Africa, Europe, North Atlantic, Caribbean,...
This booklet is designed to supplement the lectures on OSS organization. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information and secret intelligence required...
This document describes military security, travel and frontier control, port travel control, civil security in liberated or occupied countries, and security control of installations and their personnel.
"There are indications that German attempts at underground or guerrilla activity may increase as forces complete the occupation of Germany. Nazis, who have had considerable experience fighting guerrillas and who have had time to make preparations...
This manual is a definitive source of unclassified information on Soviet ground forces and their interaction with other services in combined arms warfare, including airborne operations, amphibious operations, unconventional warfare operations,...
Discusses guerrilla and counter guerrilla warfare during World War II. Covers invasion and resistance from 1940-1942, early operations and liaison with the British, new missions and attempts at unification, reorganization and reprisals and...
This field manual is part of FM series 100-2, The Soviet Army. The other volumes are FM 100-2-1, The Soviet Army: Operations and Tactics, and FM 100-2-3, The Soviet Army: Troops, Organization and Equipment. These manuals cannot stand alone but...
Part of the FM series 100-2, The Soviet Army. This series serves as the definitive source at the time of publication of unclassified information on Soviet ground forces and their interaction with other services in combined arms warfare. Discusses...
This manual is a guide for airdrome commanders, airdrome defense officers, and personnel available for the defense of airdromes. It treats of the local defense of forward-area airdromes, exclusive of counteraction by aircraft, by the personnel,...
The objective of this study is to describe, on the basis of existing empirical information and current state of knowledge, the organizational, motivational, and behavioral characteristics of undergrounds in insurgent movements and to relate these...
Reviews the Allied operations in the Ruhr in 1945 in order to determine the lessons to be learned. Looks at the strategic importance of the Ruhr area because of its participation in the coal industry and also the strategic concept of the Ruhr...
This study examines the history of the Jedburgh project from the origin of the concept, through development of the Jedburgh plan, to final preparations for deployment. It includes a study of the recruitment process used to man the force and the...
Since 1999, the European Union has significantly increased its effort to create a viable military force. A natural part of a military force in the contemporary environment is Special Operations Forces. The purpose of this monograph is to determine...