This document discusses the tactical and logistical problems peculiar to operations of encircled forces, as well as the problems of air support for encircled ground troop.
This monograph discusses the intricacies of liquidating tactical encirclements and bypassed pockets of enemy resistance. Operational employment of U.S. Army doctrine will lead to tactical encirclements in most instances. Contemporary doctrine,...
This monograph examines and analyzes two encirclement operations from the Russo-German Front of 1944 in order to determine their costs and benefits to the overall campaigns. Military theorists expect successful encirclement operations to produce...
History is replete with examples of lost opportunities to decisively defeat an enemy's army on the field of battle. All too often, tactical success has not been followed by actions to ensure operational success. This failure may be attributable to...
The Fifteenth United States Army was the last Allied army to enter the conflict against Germany, arriving on the Continent during the latter part of December 1944. Yet during the few short months of operations, it met with and solved a host of...
The relationship of events in time is the essence of history. Chronology: 1941-1945 establishes the sequence of events from the time the first bombs on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 until the instrument of surrender was signed aboard the USS...
This pocket book of the German Army was intended for the use of intelligence officers of field formations and units. There are 5 parts including: general principles of organization and tactics (types of divisions, GHQ troops, supply and...
This study analyzes the possibility of using Iowa Class battleships in an economy of force role as commerce raiders. It used the historical example of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee as a basis for the study. It analyzed the German...
Throughout history, a common phenomenon of warfare has been the encirclement of the forces of one or both warring factions. The nature of future war -- taking place in a battlefield that will be characterized by fluid activities, greater confusion,...
Using historical analysis and survey, this study examines the sufficiency of U.S. field artillery doctrine, tactics, and techniques to support the destruction of an encircled enemy. Focus is on identifying existing weaknesses by comparing...
A history of the Flakkorps III (Antiaircraft Artillery Corps III) under the command of Generalleutnant v. Rantzau in the area of Heeresgruppe B, in 1945.
The following; Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Field Artillery of the Army of the United States is approved and herewith published for the information and government of all concerned.
Obedience is the first and last duty of a soldier, it is the foundation upon which the military efficiency is built, without it an army becomes a mob, while with it a mob ceases to be a mob find becomes possessed of much of the power of an...
This monograph answers the question “What must an encircled unit be provided and do in order to successfully hold?” Following the end of the Cold War and the subsequent drawdown, the United States adopted a military strategy of force...
The battle of the Ardennes was historic. The lessons of experience and accomplishments (as well as an opportunity for future forces to learn) are documented by the 84th Infantry Division- this is a preservation of that history. Sections detailing...
"Artillery on the march requires strict discipline and close supervision. There is no greater evidence of the training and discipline of a unit than its conduct on the march."
Department of Military Art and Engineering, United States Military Academy
This account of the operations in Eastern Europe details the German invasion of Russia, the Stalingrad campaigns, the campaigns in Western Russia, and the liberation of Eastern Europe.