This monograph analyzes the manual wargaming portion of the U.S. Army's decision-making cycle in order to determine if the process deduces the optimum course of action. The monograph begins by examining game theory, which is the theoretical basis...
This monograph examines whether or not the U. S. Army’s transition from horse drawn field artillery to motorized traction in the interwar years of 1919 to 1941 has’relevance to the U.S. Army’s movement to an automated command and control...
From a series of studies covering the operations of the Japanese Armed Forces during World War II. This revision of the studies is more detailed and benefited from additional fact-checking and reinterviews. This document covers Installations and...
The relief of Major General Ralph Smith, United States Army, from the command of the 27th Infantry Division during the battle for Saipan on 24 June 1944 by Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, United States Marine Corps, seemingly ignited a...
Battlefield casualties are summarily grouped into two categories-the dead, and the wounded. Graves registration teams collect the dead, and ambulances evacuate the wounded. But who decides who is dead? On a battlefield, anyone failing to exhibit...
This monograph posits that the state must structure the delivery of public goods in a sequential and hierarchical basis with safety and security and rule of law providing a foundation upon which the state builds delivery of all other public goods...
"These 1932 regulations prescribe a systematic procedure for the performance of duties in the service of the piece by personnel assigned to howitzer sections of batteries equipped with 155-mm, howitzer materiel, M1917 and M1918."
Contains extracts from command reports for information, evaluation and any necessary action in accordance with SR 525-85-5. Reports contain information on situation and operations as well as lessons learned and conclusions. Extracts from sources...
This study determines the difference in Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) scores among smoking and nonsmoking students attending the Command and General Staff Officer's Course (CGSOC) 1990-1991. This study examines APFT scores in three different...
The dominance of the U.S. Army’s conventional capabilities has forced our adversaries to generate asymmetric techniques in order to marginalize our advantages. One technique they may pursue is to target our extensive use of information...
This monograph addresses the dynamics of the culminating point and its impact on the modern battlefield. It does so by first establishing a theoretical framework for operational culmination and then examining the theory as reflected in recent...
This monograph explores political science theory and contemporary practice to develop a structural framework for nation-building. The generalized framework is predicated on the observation that interagency operations can achieve a degree of...
This monograph suggests an airpower theory that helps explain why airpower does not result in quick, clean, economical, "ideal" war. The genesis of this study comes from the observation that airpower advocates, from early personalities such as...
The political opposition against to the war in Iraq may lead to a premature withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq at the expense of Iraqi National Security. The political parties in the U.S. remain polarized regarding future operations in Iraq. The...
The military application of the network centric concept is framed by Network Centric Warfare (NCW) which is an emerging operational concept based on the stated vision of future warfare in Joint Vision 2020. In the Information Age, does Network...
Published for use as a text book in the Coast Artillery School and in schools providing military training, it includes classifications of ammunition, primers, propellants, projectiles, charges, fuses, and fire effects.