This thesis focuses on the Army's infantry in Kansas during the development of the American frontier during the years from the Civil War until 1880. Infantry companies were the mainstay of the frontier Army during these years of westward expansion...
Primarily using Soviet soldiers, the author has written a comprehensive study of the 1944 Soviet offensive conducted to clear German forces from the approaches to Murmansk. Its focus is at the operational level of war, with emphasis on the peculiar...
The topic of civil-military relations during the Mexican War resurfaces as an interesting historical study in the aftermath of President Obama's recent decision to relieve General McChrystal of command in Afghanistan. This review of U.S....
United States Fleet, Headquarters of the Commander in Chief
Part of a series of information drawn largely from action reports for timely dissemination. Discusses a variety of issues including landing operations, air support, naval gunfire, intelligence, logistics, ship to shore movement, landing craft and...
A compilation of ten essays that narrate the history of the fort and illuminates the important contributions made to this country by its peoples, events, and institutions. Each essay was written by a member of the Combat Studies Institute, the...
A compilation of ten essays that narrate the history of the fort and illuminates the important contributions made to this country by its peoples, events, and institutions. Each essay was written by a member of the Combat Studies Institute, the ...
This document presents in a narrative form an outline of the development of the United States Army Forces in the South Pacific, their organization, and participation in the several campaigns leading to the reduction of the Solomons and the Bismarck...
Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, History Section. ; Marshall, S. L. A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood), 1900-1977.
The Battalion operation hereinafter reported was part of the airborne Operation MARKET whereby it was intended to create an airborne-protected corridor from the Belgium-Holland border to Arnhem, through which the column of the XXX Corps, 2nd...
The eventual integration and reception of Native Americans as soldiers into the Army came slow and with much consternation. The period between 1865 and 1925 was significant in the evolution of Native American NCOs. Since the inception of Native...
Over the years, the Field Artillery School transformed itself to meet the needs of the Army. During the 20 years preceding the opening of the School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1911, the War Department candidly...
In our service we have come to use the term "estimate of the situation" to express that logical process of thought which, applied to a concrete tactical problem, enables one to arrive at a definite tactical decision.
Captain Meriwether Lewis's task was to equip and man a party to traverse the unmapped middle third of the United States. Most studies of the expedition begin with the party's departure from Camp Dubois in the spring of 1804. This starting point...
A steadfast misbelief in precision bombing evolved into the leading concept for US Army Air Force during the Second World War. This concept envisioned the destruction of the German industrial and economic system as the swiftest path to victory....
Captain Meriwether Lewis's task was to equip and man a party to traverse the unmapped middle third of the United States. Most studies of the expedition begin with the party's departure from Camp Dubois in the spring of 1804. This starting point...
The Moldovan Transdniester War of 1992 is illustrative of modern day ethno-national violence and yields unique lessons on the role and use of military power in dealing with and resolving such crises. Indecisive and necessary are two words that...
Martin van Creveld, a noted theorist, contends that the concept of operational art did not take off in the United States (US) until after the Vietnam War. Conversely, James Schneider, a prominent military theorist, asserts that operational art...
Navy Department, Office of Naval Records and Library
The operations herein described are those which actually took place in the year 1918 and detail accounts of the cruises of all the submarines that operated off the American coast during the First World War.