This document contains observations on military strategy, tactics, and battles of the 1800's as well as the history and associated duties of the staff, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers of the army organization. Also includes critical...
Combat Operations Research Group (CORG); Ney, Virgil
The modern military text, or field manual, has evolved over a period of several hundred years. Historically, military training literature traces its beginnings to the writings of the ancient Chinese, Greeks and Romans. Until the invention of...
The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency; each country listed contains information on geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
American Battle Monuments Commission; Center of Military History
This book has been prepared as part of the project of the American Battle Monuments Commission to commemorate in a complete and lasting manner the accomplishments and services of the American forces in Europe during the World War. Topics include:...
Narrative written in the first person following the author's experience travelling to the site of the conflict, historical research into the background, witness of the situation, and personal opinions of the war. Includes detailed information of...
This is a textbook for the training of security and reconnaissance tactics and guard duty. A commander needs information of two kinds: that relating to the geography, topography, and resources of the theater of operations; and that which relates to...
This study presents guidelines on task organizing for urban combat. Eighteen examples of World War II urban combat were used to determine quantitative guidelines for planning a force of infantry, armor, engineers and artillery to be used in urban...
The purpose of this thesis is to develop a doctrine for offensive operations by a corps against cities. Source material is both historical and doctrinal in nature. The city is important to the modern army as a source of personnel and materiel. The...
Company A, Corps of Engineers, is the first permanent regular engineer company in the U.S. Army. Congress authorized the company on 15 May 1846, two days after declaring war on Mexico. The company organized at West Point, New York, deployed to...
This document details the origin and political history of Verdun, one of France's most ancient cities. Contents include chief military events, the Great War (1914-1918), the Battle of Verdun (German, American, and Franco-American offensives, French...
"Considerable anxiety is felt in France due to the present insufficiency of protection on the northeastern frontier, and to the uncertainty as to whether it will be made adequate by the time the troops of occupation in the Rhineland are withdrawn."
"Since the invention of gunpowder, fortification has received various improvements, and many have been the books wrote upon this subject, which might incline one to think, that it was arrived to its utmost perfection. . . "
Abstracts of foreign-language articles. Artillery with larger cavalry units. MAJ A. Vollmer Cavalry in 1914. MAJ A. Vollmer Greatest army in the world. Japanese operations in Jehol. Mechanized brigade against infantry division....
American military doctrine and professional literature in the past decade have stressed maneuver warfare and the operational level of war. This monograph traces the evolution of maneuver theory and its conceptual opposite, firepower theory, and...