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 paper chronicles the operations in Mesopotamia, which were unsound in policy and strategy without definite political or military advantage in the conduct of war. They involved the expenditure of power greatly in excess of the requirements of...
This paper addresses the employment of tanks and combat cars, whether they should be used exclusively on offensive missions or whether they could also be used on the defense. It expounds on the different foreign views of the British, French,...
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...
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...
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...
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 paper briefly discusses the salient features of the available documents and sources with a view to establishing the present technical practice in ferrying operations. The discussion illustrates the present tendencies in pontoon design of the 7...
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 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 study discusses the responsibility of the advanced P.M.S.T in the R.O.T.C. when running his military department as the primary mission to train non-coms and officers for a national emergency.
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.
The purpose of this research is to find and present historical examples of the occupation of a position in readiness by forces approximately the size of a division; the examples to be suitable for presentation before the First Year Class at this...
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 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...
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 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 study points out that an efficient hit by attack aviation against an infantry division, would not only delay its forward movement, but would stop it definitely. If the movement of the division were important, additional attacks would be made....