This report describes Air Force participation in Operation Shingle, the amphibious assault by elements of the Fifth Army on the Anzio-Nettuno area commencing 22 January 1944. It covers the operations of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces from 1...
Headings include: Organization of the 2nd Division; Toulon--Rupt--Troyon Sector, March 15 – May 12, 1918; and Second Division northwest of Chateau Thierry- 1 June – 10 July, 1918, etc.
This response to a request regarding land warfare mobility tries to examine and develop technological, doctrinal and organizational concepts required to significantly improve land warfare mobility. The study concentrates on improving the land...
The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its review of classified records pursuant to E.O. 11652,...
The purpose of the entire self-study process is improvement through a structural evaluation. Writing a self-study in glowing terms while glossing over weak areas fools no one, most of all a skilled team of accrediting experts.
Since the seventeenth century, Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion have had tremendous impact on the Western world’s mind-sets for understanding nature as predictable and orderly. Consequently, Western strategic culture has been based on a linear...
This is an after action report drawn up by Garrison Davidson upon his departure from CGSC addressing two potential problems with regard to the College mission that gave him concern. The first involves the College instructional mission, and the...
The U.S. Army's AirLand Battle doctrine has contributed greatly toward codifying a comprehensive and widely accepted operational concept. With a new emphasis on fundamentals and principles, the essence of AirLand Battle doctrine is expressed in...
This monograph examines the dimensions of time and space for military operations and the process for synchronization. The specific military operations addressed are: linear warfighting as described in FM 100-5, “Operations,” May 1986;...
This documents Airmobile techniques developed by the 1st Brigade, 9th Infantry Division in Dinh Tuong Province from January 1969-July 1969. Airmobile operations conducted in the delta terrain differ significantly from those conducted in other...
These studies of training and leader development, and doctrinal and combat developments subjects provide historical perspective to support the Command’s mission of preparing the Army for war and charting its future. This is a study of the...
"The purpose of this self-study report is to communicate to a group of North Central evaluators the essence of the educational experience at the US Army Field Artillery School. This final chaper summarizes the preceding chapters and presents our...
The United States is a nation at war. It will be a long war. The terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 were the catalyst that brought the US to this war: the Global War on Terrorism. However, US and coalition responses to Islamic extremism since...
This study first examines the postulated characteristics of the modern battlefield and then proposes several close air support skill and knowledge requirements based upon the expected battlefield characteristics. The study next investigates the...
Assesses the bombing results of heavy bombardment units operating under VIII Bomber Command. Looks at accuracy in the theater of daylight bombardment operations.
On 20 May 1945, the Combined Chiefs of Staff directed the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean, the Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia Command, to take steps to insure that,...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategy embodied in China’s 1998 White Paper titled “China’s National Defense” and compare it with the strategic concepts contained in a number of military classics from ancient China. The...