Military History Section, Special Staff, Far East Command
Includes the Japanese navy chain of command, organization of the fleets, air fleets, submarine forces, naval ship divisions, monthly losses, and list of combatant, non-combatant and converted vessels.
Nearly every armor force in the world has fielded, is fielding, or is designing a 3-man tank. This paper deliberately steps away from the purely technical argument associated with this effort. It seeks to find out if the United States Army is...
Paper worksheets detailing name, designation, number, troop capacity, troop cargo space data, landing craft and general information for U. S. Navy transport and cargo ships.
This paper discusses General Townshend's British Army problems caused by the shortage of, or absence of adequate supplies in their advance on Baghdad and the underlying reasons for the failure.
Covers engineer planning data, supply planning data, transportation and movement planning, personnel service support, health service support planning for evacuation and hospitalization and operational force requirement planning.
This monograph examines the limited success achieved by the U.S. Army in implementing mission oriented command and control. Evidence from the National Training Center (NTC) suggests that there is a problem with intent communication and effective...
This monograph examines the Marine Corps' current doctrine for campaign planning. The collapse of the Soviet government and the ongoing dispute over the control of the former Soviet military alters how the United States military will conduct...
This monograph answers the research question: do published Army aviation doctrine, tactics, and techniques adequately address the infusion of attack aviation, on a conventional or unconventional low intensity conflict battlefield, in support of...
The observations contained within are submitted for the benefit of staff officers and commanders who one day may be faced with the problem of moving a major force from island to island in the presence of the enemy. Since this movement was the first...
This manual is the Army's capstone doctrinal manual prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff, Army. It tells us who we are, what we do, and how we do it by establishing doctrine for employing land power in support of national security and...
This monograph examines the doctrinal employment of the attack helicopter battalion (ATKHB) in heavy division reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance operations. The term 'reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance battle' is reemerging as a...
This monograph analyzes corps aviation brigade doctrine, and its supporting organization, equipment, and control arrangements, to determine if it enables the aviation brigade to conduct successful deep operations. Doctrine is the centerpiece of...
This monograph examines the role of the operational level of war to translate strategic objectives into tactical missions. Evidence exists in both the joint and specific service doctrines which suggests that there is a lack of commonality in the...
This is a report of Engineer activities in the European Theater of Operations from its inception to VE-Day (volume 2). In selecting the material for this report the purpose has been to record the lessons from the mistakes and successes in Engineer...
This monograph presents a methodology to help tactical battle staffs estimate ground force combat power, and consists of three major products. First, pre-calculated “combat potential scores” (CPS) for different friendly and threat units are...