Success of any war, conflict, or operations Soldiers must meet the enemy, defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and return home safely. Defending our nation during the Gulf War was the high point of my career. This accomplishment serves as a key to...
Reinertsen, Leif C.; 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
"After five" brings to a close the history, of the 93rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. When our standards are furled and cased for the last time there will be only this short narrative and your memories to remind you of the battalion. This...
The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a preemptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons about the lengths to which nations will go to secure their interests and the limits of the United Nation 's influence. How the UN...
The Korean War is a distant memory in our lives, and the lives of the American people to follow. For many veterans that fought, struggled, and tasted their blood and the blood of a fallen comrade, it lives on forever. Today they live among us as...
My personnel experience paper is written about my experience while deployed for OIF 28 Feb 07 – 28 Aug 07. I was deployed as part of a 4 man Military Transition Team (MiTT). The first part of my paper will discuss the events leading up to my...
The preface states "the author's purpose has not been to write a history of Egypt, but to trace to their probable causes the events which have for the last decade made Egypt so conspicuous a thread in the tangled skein of Old World politics".
This study investigates unit cohesion as it relates to neuropsychiatric casualties in the 43rd Infantry Division in World War II. The 43rd was a National Guard Division federalized in 1941 and sent to the South Pacific, where it sustained over 15...
This book contains stories from field and general officers commanding in training exercises, most from rotations at the National Training Center. In their stories, they describe their thoughts, their actions, their successes and especially their...
This is a history of the 85th Infantry Division. It gives a brief overview of the early years, details training for the Second World War, the Gustav Line, the second phase, the drive on Rome and to the north, between attacks, the Gothic Line, and...
Committee 13, Officers Advanced Course, Armored School; Osborne, Robert J. C.; Throckmorton, John W.; Killian, John J.; Carpenter, Robert W.; Reynolds, Walter E., Jr.; Williams, Frank A.; Young, Sidney H., Jr.; Cobb, John H., Jr.
This report describes the 9th Armored Division in the exploitation, from the breakout of the Remagen bridgehead to the encirclement of Leipsig. Table of contents: the enemy, logistics and statistics, expanding the bridgehead, reduction of Limburg,...
The events and stories documented in this book occurred during World War Two, all over the world, and were personally narrated by the veterans who lived them. The stories are divided by theater of operation- European and Pacific; all others went...
United States Army Corps of Engineers, 7th regiment
A history of the 7th engineers, 5th division during the World War. The information was taken from Divisional Reports, Regimental Operation Reports, and other official papers.
This study examines the conditions that the United States must set to ensure that the international community will recognize the legitimacy of preemptive actions and avoid recrimination and isolation. Case studies will be examined within the...
Since September 11, 2001 (9/11) heavy emphasis has been placed on securing the United States and its interests from terrorism. However, little emphasis has been placed on the importance of efficient and effective response to incidents of national...
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 study examines the life and career of Admiral David G. Farragut. Specifically, this paper addresses the primary question: Why was Farragut chosen to command the West Gulf Blockading Squadron? This study seeks to establish the criteria used in...