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...
Continuation from III part, contains a narrative of events displaying the facts, seriousness of difficulties encountered, decisions made, results of such and management of the campaign and its effect on the war. Translation by O.S. Rolfe.
This pamphlet provides instructions for defensive actions for large combat units, discussing artillery, aviation, infantry, anti-aircraft defense, gas companies, mines, raids, local attacks.
Contains a description of the Serbian Army's retreat from the banks of the Danube and the Timok towards the Adriatic Coast during the fall of 1914. The author is a veteran of English journalism, and personally followed the principle phases of the...
Discusses the experience of German tactical and logistical units in Russia. Covers geography, natural resources, the Soviet Armed Forces, the influence of terrain on strategy, political factors, the combat experiences of the infantry and the...
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...
An treatise on the treament of troops on guard duty, in the prescence of an enemy. The idea of La Petite Guerre, or the operations of small bodies of troops is explored in this compilation of works.
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Accounts by General Sepp Dietrich and Colonel Joachim Peiper, Commander of the First SS Panzer Regiment, First SS Panzer Division, and their involvement in World War II, between 1939 and 1945. The account was written by them for the trial judge...
Contains an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare. Discusses the balance of U-boat destruction versus construction, anti-aircraft fire from U-boats, enemy U-boat equipment, bombs for anti-submarine warfare, interesting aircraft...
Continuation from II part, contains a narrative of events displaying the facts, seriousness of difficulties encountered, decisions made, results of such and management of the campaign and its effect on the war.
This document was written to examine the basic assumptions of American security before 1939 and to compare them with existing conditions resulting from technological advances and the existing world order. Topics include assumptions of American...
"Considerable anxiety is felt in France due to the present insufficiency of protection on the northeastern frontier, and to the uncertainty as to whether it will be made adequate by the time the troops of occupation in the Rhineland are withdrawn."
The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
An infantry handbook founded on rational method. It is intended to explain in a practical manner the use of military force and improvements in the discipline and movement of armies.
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...