Purpose of study is to examine on a limited scope the development of the policies governing FAC operations which resulted in two diametrical combat situations; to associate elements of these situations and the questions which they bring up with the...
This thesis examines failed attempts to create an effective federally controlled militia from 1790 until 1920. From the time President Washington and Henry Knox failed to persuade the Continental Congress to establish a federally controlled militia...
Discussion of Austria. This section covers industrial production, industrial employment, building and construction, mining and smelting, chemicals, paper, glass, lumbering and woodworking, foodstuffs, the Austrian tobacco monopoly, leather and...
This 1930 training manual on submarine mining includes the following sections: general principles of submarine mine defense; organization, command, and administration; description and operation of casemate and electrical equipment; submarine mine...
This thesis describes an attempt to prove the hypothesis that a threat/opportunity matrix methodology can be used to effectively define targets against which an effort to satisfy long-range informational requirements may be attempted by the use of...
This AR 195-5 covers Department of the Army policy on criminal investigation evidence procedures, including the collection, accountability, preservation, and disposition of evidence. It also delineates responsibility and authority between Military...
Following the fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan in late 2001, members of the former regime and Al-Qaeda found refuge in Waziristan. Waziristan is a tribal area in Pakistan located along the border with Afghanistan whose majority ethnic...
Discusses economic mobilization plans and policies relating to manpower, materials and facilities for the three countries. Also compares the salient features of economic mobilization with those of the United States in the areas of over-all plans...
Discusses data leading to a recommendation for the transfer of responsibility for development, control and operation of controlled submarine mines from the Ordnance Department and the Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. Army, to the U. S. Coast Guard...
This Civil Affairs handbook details the issue of propaganda in Europe during the Second World War. Headings include principal German propaganda agencies operating abroad, propaganda in combat and communication zones, transition from propaganda in...
Operation 'ECLIPSE' may be put into operation either as the result of a formal signature of the Instrument of Surrender by German Plenipotentiaries or alternatively on the decision of the Supreme Commander after the main portion of the German...
The purpose of this monograph is to offer some practical solutions to building unity of effort between Special Operations Forces (SOF) and conventional forces using operations in Afghanistan from 2001 until 2009 as a case study. In researching U.S....
The purpose of this monograph is to examine the use of indigenous surrogates by both the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia in Southern Africa's Bush Wars from 1975 to 1989. The Bush Wars are of significance because the use of surrogates in each...
This study attempts to disprove the paradigm that medical supply requires separate management under the control of the Army's medical community. Disproving this paradigm can result in immediate economies for the Army. In an era of shrinking...
The following report is divided into three principal chapters dealing with (A) background information, (B) the money and credit system in 1939-40, and (C) the period following the German invasion of 1941. Chapter A gives a short review of the...
This graphic survey of radio and radar equipment used by the Army Air Forces is intended to furnish authorized personnel with graphic and narrative data relative to description, electrical and physical characteristics, purpose, and tactical...
The purpose of this paper is to describe the manner in which The Engineer Service of First Army provided the engineer support necessary to assault successfully the Normandy beaches, and to move the Army across France, Belgium and Germany to the...
War is the outward expression of competition between complex adaptive political and military systems. In war, competing systems introduce new technological means to gain comparative advantage over other systems and the environment. Greater...
All three of these FA commands-the corps artillery headquarters, the division artillery, and the FA brigade-play significant roles in the Air Land Battle. They exercise effective and responsive command and control. They ensure the rapid, lethal,...