During preparations for Operation Enduring Freedom, the 25th Infantry Division was tasked to relieve the 10th Mountain Division of combat operations in Afghanistan. The Division’s Aviation Assault Battalion was notified of a possible split...
Looks at principles of modern warfare as illustrated by campaigns of the American Civil War, including Bull Run, Shiloh, Jackson’s Valley, Manassas, Antietam, Stones River, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg , Vicksburg, Chickamauga,...
This paper gives a critical analysis of the Battle of Chancellorsville during the American Civil War. Federal and Confederate forces, Generals Hooker and Lee's plans, the military operations during April and May of 1863, casualties, the Battle of...
This thesis examines the Battle of Hampton Roads, 8 and 9 March 1862, the first battle of ironclads, to determine if it was a Revolution in Military Affairs. This study is an analysis of naval developments prior to March 1862, the battle, and the...
This paper discusses the effect of the Battle of Kernstown on McClellan's operations against Richmond and an analysis of why Jackson lost the Battle of Kernstown.
This paper examines the role of British intelligence operations during the American Revolutionary War as they apply to the British defeat at Yorktown. It begins with a brief history of British intelligence prior to the war, discusses strategic...
The purpose of this study is to establish the effects of cavalry operations, both Federal and Confederate, on the battles which occurred during the Chancellorsville Campaign. The primary source used for the study was the War of the Rebellion: A...
This study is an analysis of the competing initiative displayed between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee during Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign in Virginia. It begins with Lincoln's appointing Grant as Lieutenant General and General in...
This in an analytical study of the conduct of a holding attack, in open warfare, based on the present doctrine of the British, French, German, Japanese and American armies and appropriate historical examples. The analysis and discussion section...
The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. It began with the author's interest in Napoleonic Wars, and steadily grew to other areas because of the gaming public's...
Air/Land Battle doctrine stresses the need for Army units to fight successfully out-numbered. This dictum implies the conduct of defensive operations at the beginning of a war. The shift to offensive operations, the counterattack, can be the key to...
This paper examines one aspect of warfare at the operational level, the defense, and attempts to identify how the elements of planning, preparation, and execution, previously applied in the conduct of the tactically-oriented Active Defense, must be...
This study expounds on the Battle at Petersburg, Virginia, in which, the Union forces exploded a mine under the Confederate trenches on July 30, 1864. In spite of combat superiority the Union forces suffered losses about four times those of the...
From back of photo: Protection must be maintained at all times for Engineer Construction Units operating in England. Here a machine gun is being held in readiness for action. L to R: 1ST SGT William P. Jacobs, Philadelphia, PA., S/SGT Albert Bay,...
This paper discusses each principle of war and whether of not it was complied with in General Johnston's plans and their execution by his subordinates.
This analysis examines the validity of using miniature wargaming to study the American Civil War. The analysis specifically examines the miniature wargame rules, STARS*N*BARS III. The goal is to determine whether Civil War combat can be accurately...
This study follows the decisions made by General Lee based on his intelligence gathering resources to locate General Grant's forces and evaluates the results during the United States Civil War.