Contains a description of the purpose, function, duties, organization and the changes in such in the theater of operations during involvement in military operations in the War.
This paper lends special attention to the characteristics of the weapons employed by both and aircraft and ground troops. Attention is given to the effect of machine gun fire and bombing attack from low-flying aircraft on infantry columns; the...
This paper discusses if a lighter field wire should be developed, with the same talking range and less weight per mile, to replace the present standard outpost and field wires.
This paper lends special attention to the characteristics of the weapons employed by both and aircraft and ground troops. Attention is given to the effect of machine gun fire and bombing attack from low-flying aircraft on infantry columns; the...
This study expounds on the Battle at Petersburg, Virginia, in which, the Union forces exploded a mine under the Confederate trenches on July 30, 1864. In spite of combat superiority the Union forces suffered losses about four times those of the...
This paper is a critical analysis of the methods adopted and the means used by the American Military Government in Germany to assure for the civilian population under its jurisdiction an adequate supply of food. The study discusses briefly the...
This paper proposes to narrow down the subject to a discussion of the amount of delay that one attack squadron can cause a division in twenty-four hours, using the Command General Staff School ground rule of not more than two missions per airplane...
This volume attempts through photographs and colorplates, to encompass the causes of the great conflict and the chief happenings of military and political importance during the four years of World War I, including maps of continents, countries, and...
A manual for the G-4 of an infantry division, outlining common duties, procedures, and operations of a division G-4 section during activation and training, movement of division, period of assembly, tactical operations, redeployment, and occupation...
This study discusses how the organization of mechanized cavalry regiments will simply change the means by which mobility has been gained, and the manner in which fire power has been transported. That change will add greatly to the strategic...
The purpose of this study is: 1. Inquire into leadership as to its nature, its causes, and its effects; 2. to consider fear as to its nature, its causes, and its effects; 3. To examine fear control as exercised by the leader of his own fears; 4. To...
This research concerns itself essentially with a new type of transportation for machine gun units of the infantry regiment. In so far as practicable the discussion is confined to that subject. However since the adoption of the machine gun carrier...
This study evaluates information regarding facts relating the energetic reconnaissance of the enemy, the element of surprise and its apparent loss, and the French preparation to meet the attack.
This paper discusses a general plan for the use of motorized and mechanical forces in Coast Defense. It suggests this maneuver will prove profitable to anyone interested in modern troop movements by motor.
This paper addresses the question, if the United States Infantry Division receives proportionate returns in fire power and mobility for its strength in men. It makes a comparison of the divisions of the four leading nations of the world with a view...
This study is an attempt to define the tactical and technical requirements for an overseas expedition of approximately one corps and three divisions with special emphasis on the necessity of detailed planning incident to the engineer functions in...
From February through July 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Ayo Lawson served as a plans officer with the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade. In this interview, he discusses his wartime support to the V Corps ADA element, his...