The purpose of this manual is to establish standard practices for the installation, operation, and maintenance of field wire systems of tactical units. Such standardization is essential to efficient wire communication. The individual duties of wire...
This monograph addresses the issue of Intervention Exit Strategies for U.S. Army forces. U.S Army forces are as of April 1999, involved in Peace Enforcement Operations in Bosnia. It is an open ended operation with no declared termination strategy....
Helicopter tests conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Fort Rucker, Alabama-- periods of test : 23 Feb., 18-19 March 1957-- Fort Bragg, NC, and 26-29 March, 1957, Fort Rucker, Ala.
"This manual presents the details of construction, use, and maintenance of land sites for low altitude barrage balloons. Rigging of the bed is described for securing low-altitude barrage balloons by bedding down, tail-line mooring, mooring-cirlce...
"Wire is one of the principal means of communication for all field artillery except mechanized and antitank artillery. It consists of telephone or telegraph communication. All other means augment and supplement wire."
"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."
Chief Signal Officer, United States of America War Office; War Department
This text includes signal regulations and technical information needed by officers and enlisted men of arms other than the Signal Corps engaged in signal communication. It supplements the matter contained in chapter 7, Basic Field Manual, Volume...
The U.S. Army is in the midst of undergoing a radical transformation, adopting a “capabilities-based” and “modular-type” force structure, to combat “full spectrum” conflict for future threats. The premise behind restructuring all U.S....
Throughout history, technology has played a vital role in combat. While improvements in weaponry are typically at the front of the military leader's minds, technology like the internet would not appear to be as significant. However, the internet...
Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army
This pamphlet presents material or combat methods used by and against the Japanese and on the effects upon combat of the physical and climatic conditions existing in the theaters where they have been fought. It is designed to assemble in convenient...
This is an oral history transcript between General Ralph E. Haines, Jr. and interviewer Captain William J. Hudson, conducted on 22 APRIL 1976 in San Antonio, Texas, for the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA. General Haines...
Is it possible to determine how close an army is to collapse? Are there indictors that give warning that the force is reaching the limits of its endurance? With the U.S. Army in its seventh year of sustained combat in the War on Terror with no end...
The mission of pack transportation is to transport loads on the backs of animals over terrain which is difficult for or impassable to wheeled or track-laying vehicles. Its success depends largely upon the careful selection and training of personnel...
As the war on terrorism progresses, it appears stability operations may continue to be the logical follow-on phase after intervention into each failed state. There is a necessity for military forces in the post-conflict environment to keep the...