This monograph examines the development of a set of criteria that can be utilized to validate observations and lessons learned derived from tactical training exercises. The paper is based on the premise that there exist within these observations...
This study investigates the necessity of an abbreviated military decision-making process for battalion and brigade commanders and their staffs. It examines the problem that during time critical situations commanders and staffs abbreviate the...
This study examines the effectiveness of the U.S. Army Lessons Learned Program in synthesizing battlefield observations into evolving future doctrine. The wartime learning of lessons constitutes more than a recognition of prevalent observations...
The Russo-Japanese war presents prominent features, apparently the result of the normal evolution of modern warfare, which affects the medical department as well as other branches of the service. This book presents a series of reports by United...
The effectiveness of the engineer organization described in the Concept for Support Command and Control at Echelons above Corps (Theater Support Command Concept) is analyzed in this monograph. The research hypothesis was: The engineer command and...
Many authors in recent years have lamented the decrease of dismounted infantrymen in J-series Bradley mechanized infantry units. This decrease is often described as a shortage and portrayed as a critical weakness of Bradley units. This monograph...
This monograph explores the reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance requirements needed to conduct the intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) process effectively in a light infantry brigade. It considers current and past reconnaissance...
Unit leaders contribute substantially to their unit's mission success or lack of success. For this reason, the Army devotes considerable resources to foster the development of leaders during unit training exercises. This handbook is designed to...
Part IV of 5 volumes. Report by Major Charles Lynch of the medical department detailing Japanese medical procedures used during the war. Covers the organization of the Japanese Army, its medical services, medicine and surgery procedures,...
Field Marshall Viscount Slim holds a special place in modern military history. He soundly defeated the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma in 1945, retaking the strategically important Burma Road, and safeguarding the Chinese Theater from sure...
This study investigated whether the Department of the Defense (DOD) policy should include civil, foreign, or commercial meteorological satellites to meet DOD objective environmental requirements. The study investigated if non DOD meteorological...
This thesis examines some of the reasons behind task force commanders inability to properly employ their direct fire systems during the conduct of offensive operations at the National Training Center (NTC). The thesis develops a set of criteria...
This thesis examines the methods that the United States Army Intelligence Center (USAIC) uses to train the Army’s intelligence analysts. Rapidly changing world conditions require that the Army train its intelligence analysts to correctly identify...
This manual is published to serve as a reference and guide for the survey computer in accomplishing geodetic and topographic survey computations; to standardize the methods and procedures for completing these computations; to standardize tabulation...
Fusion Centers have grown in importance and capability since the attacks on September 11th, 2001. The primary roles fusion centers provide are to exchange information and provide intelligence to other agencies at the state, local, federal and...
The concern over the infantry squad’s effectiveness in the recent past has focused almost exclusively on its size. Critics argue that the current US Army infantry squads, both light and mechanized, are too small to accomplish their mission...
Military officials often utilize the PMESII-PT acronym (Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical Environment, and Time) as an analytical start point to assess an operational environment. However, the linear...
American policy in Afghanistan has evolved since the initial engagement of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. It has become increasingly clear that strategic focus must include a plan to concentrate upon and continue development of a stable and secure...