The purpose of this report is to compare actual accomplishments with programmed objectives, compile, consolidate, and present useful data to commanders and staff officers in such a manner as to be of maximum use in planning and management.
The purpose of this monograph is to determine if transformation to a light armor force is in the best interest of the Army. Since the Objective Force attains the ability to meet the ninety six hour deployment capability by drastic reductions in...
"These 1930 regulations contain instructions governing the conduct of all coast artillery target practices, other than small arms; a description of the analysis of drill and target practice; a description of the reports to be rendered by all unit...
America’s AF has adopted a strategy that reduces and then modernizes its remaining legacy fleet of combat aircraft. The strategy attempts to free up the necessary funding required to procure a modernized AF with all stealth bombers and fighters....
This monograph discusses the theory and doctrine of war termination and evaluates their application during the Persian Gulf War. It defines war termination across the operational continuum. It develops a theoretical war termination model using a...
From at least 1995 until 2001 the Army Reserve Troop Program Unit (TPU) shortage of Army Promotion List (APL) company grade officers has increased. It will continue to increase under the existing status quo. Several factors contribute to this...
This paper explores the capacity of an airborne division to inflict operational shock in mid to high-intensity conflict as part of a Joint Task force (JTF). The United States faces a multi-faceted and complex security environment in its new role as...
The purpose of this report is to present useful data to commanders and staff officers in such a manner as to be of maximum use in planning and management. Apparent command deficiencies will be corrected.
This manual is a guide for artillery commanders at all levels for the employment Honest John battalions. This manual is applicable to units organized under TOE 6-525 or TOE 6-175.
Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications.
The National Defense Strategy of the United States continues to place ever greater importance on the practice of building the capacity of partner nations. The role of the United States military in this endeavor will continue to grow for the...
In 1993, the Bottom-Up Review (BUR) concluded that the United States could fight and win in two nearly simultaneous major regional conflicts (MRCs). Nearly simultaneous required that the two MRCs be spaced at least 42 days apart to allow adequate...
The 1993 version of FN4 100-5, Operations, formally added the theoretical term of decisive points to our professional warfighting lexicon without providing a useful methodology for their identification. This monograph undertakes a study of decisive...
This revision of the original pamphlet entitled: "The estimate of the situation" published in 1910 has been undertaken in order to further develop the estimate of the situation as a means of reaching sound military decision.
The War Department had directed that the history of the military occupation of Germany and Austria in World War II be recorded and interpreted as the events transpired. The Occupation Forces in Europe Series consists of a series of studies,...
The rational use of coast-artillery, and the development of a correct system of defence, are based upon a knowledge of the means of defence, of the capability of those means, and of the method of employing them.
It is almost universally conceded that to-day, as in the past, fortifications play the most important rule in the. defense of coasts and harbors. In the United States, submarine mines and other obstructions are officially regarded as auxiliaries...