Discussion of Austria. This section covers Employment and unemployment, employment agencies, wages, hours and working conditions, labor legislation and labor policies, labor organizations, industrial relations, cooperatives and social insurance.
"Ask a doughboy or an officer about 'over there' these days, and nine times out of ten his answer will be, 'Oh, what's the use of talking about it? Folks are tired of hearing about the war."
Gen. Helmuth von Moltke, the Chief of the Prussian General Staff during the Franco-Prussian War, defined Auftragstaktik as the actions a subordinate took in the absence of orders that supported the senior commander's intent. The use of mission...
This thesis posits that the leadership of Major General Edward Braddock led to the defeat of the force that he recruited, trained, and led against Fort Duquesne in July 1755. This thesis places Braddock into the strategic context of the time, seeks...
Germany's government is described in this Civil Affairs document. Background material on greater Germany, policy, structure, citizenship, provincial and local government, the National Socialist Party, etc., are detailed.
Discussion of France. This section gives background information beginning before World War I, the war itself and the interwar period, and moves on to money and credit institutions in 1939, the Establishments de credit, Banques d' affaires,...
The following report is divided into three principal chapters dealing with background information (a short review of the development of currency and banking institutions), the money and credit system in 1937-38 (the pre-Nazi system), and the period...
The 812th Military Police Company was mobilized on the 7th of February 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I. The goal is to follow this mobilization process from an Active Army noncommissioned officer perspective. This will include the unit...
Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the United States (US) as the single world superpower, the focus of the Army has shifted its threat paradigm from a focus on the Communist threat to that of multiple threats from both nation...
The Ottoman Empire is often portrayed as a bloodthirsty Empire bent on conquering Europe and opposing the great European powers of its time through its military strength. From its beginnings in the thirteenth century the Ottoman Empire expanded its...
This monograph discusses joint operational targeting and the Joint Target Coordination Board. Neither concept is new to the US military, but joint doctrine has recently included specifics of the Joint Target Coordination Board. The question is, are...
Historical Record Branch, Office of Technical Information
This is a historical and statistical summary of the New York Port of Embarkation during 1941. It contains both movements of personnel (by water) and movements of freight (outbound and inbound by Army Transport Service). The principal purpose of the...
This Civil Affairs handbook on Hungary gives background information on the formative stage under the dual monarchy, period of inflation and reconstruction (1918-1926), and periods of prosperity, depression and recovery, 1926-1939. Part II addresses...
Early on in the planning phase of the elections the Iraqi leaders established an election commission. This commission was called the Independent Election Committee Iraq (IECl). Security in Mosul deteriorated as time continued to approach the...
In the summer of 2005, I was assigned as the S3 Exercises NCOIC of the 1st Transportation Movement Control Agency (TMCA), headquartered on Kleber Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The TMCA belonged to the 21st Theater Support Command (TSC) and...
Chaplain (Major) Harry "Chip" Huey deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I and II. His first deployment was the chaplain of the 485th Corps Support Battalion (CSB), V Corps, in March 2003. The CSB, after several false starts between their...