This manual is designed as an aid for the uniform training of personnel in recognition of armored vehicles. It covers the methods to be used in training and the vehicles that at present are considered operational.
Four examples of Russian tactical expedients taken from the defensive operations of the German XI Corps along the upper Donets River front in August 1943.
A Report of what U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force personnel have seen, heard and learned in the Northern Ryukyus since the surrender of Japan. It does not include the exhaustive information on these islands which was compiled by various U.S. agencies...
Document is a two part summary of conditions on Iwo Jima. Part I, is a revised estimate of enemy defenses on Iwo Jima. Part II contains a report on nearshore, beach and soil conditions of Iwo Jima.
United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas.
This book is the supplement no. 1 to the CINCPAC-CINCPOA bulletin no. 161-44-Okinawa Gunto, with maps and descriptions of the Okinawa Islands and military targets prior to the invasion by US forces during World War II.
American service members are held to a higher standard than their civilian counterparts. Whether it is new recruits having to abruptly give up smoking in basic training, or a married couple not having the freedom to engage in non-conventional...
Aldrich, Kenneth; Cohran, Vince; McGraw, Dan; Nagele, Robin
Thesis Statement: The United States position as global superpower is weakening and may end abruptly within a generation.
Discussion: The United States is at great risk of losing its status as the World's sole superpower within 10-20 years. This...
This document provides an account of the Palestine campaign. Chapters include background and information on Egypt and the Suez Canal, the desert of Sinai, Palestine, Gaza, trench warfare, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Junction Station and Ludd, the...
SIGINT Support to Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
On 17 July 1990, Sadaam Hussein accused Kuwait of over-producing oil and theft of the oil from the Rumailia Oil Field. Following a U.S. freeze of Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets, United Nations...
In June 1999, the international community, represented by KFOR and UNMIK entered Kosovo, and started one of the most costly peace-building operations ever. In March 2004 a part of the Albanian majority in Kosovo carried out riots that primarily...
The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a vital component to both the military and civilian infrastructures. U.S. military forces have evolved from using its signal for routine navigation to depending on it for nearly every facet of combat...
Case studies of the 1982-1983 U.S. intervention in Beirut and the 1992-1993 U.S. intervention in Somalia are juxtaposed with the theoretical framework and tenets of the operational art as proposed by Dr. Schneider of the Army School of Advance...
Global-Reach Regime Replacement, alternately referred to as GR3, is a proposed method to forcibly remove a threatening regime from power, replace it with a new government, and conduct appropriate levels of stability and reconstruction operations in...
This monograph conducts a doctrinal analysis of Red Army planning and execution of the Soviet-Finnish War to determine if poorly developed doctrine was the cause of Soviet failures. Military doctrine is critical to a nation. Sound doctrine will...
Since India began developing its nuclear program it has continually encountered issues with the United States and other nuclearized countries over whether India should be able to establish a nuclear program, and subsequently a nuclear weapons...
Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Global War on Terrorism have raised the interest of the United States Government in insurgencies and counterinsurgencies. There are many different types and classifications of insurgencies. Two major types are...
This monograph explores the subject of organizational learning with a particular emphasis on how military units learn in combat. The challenges of today’s joint operating environment require groups of soldiers to adapt responsively to a wide...
China's growing military capabilities serve its ambition to become the greatest power in Asia. Correspondingly, the PLA continues to modernize its forces. Established American economic and military relationships in Asia dictate national strategies...
Contains an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare, information on interesting aircraft attacks, increasing the number of kills, new technical developments, aircraft and naval recognition, information on losing a wing tip, a...