Throughout American military history, a controlling influence exists that establishes success or failure. Military intelligence demonstrates over and over again that even the best, most accurate information is useless if received too late....
Some of the strategies and tactics used to fight insurgencies in the past are still appropriate to use today, but many must change. In the Philippine Insurrection, a counterinsurgent war fought at the turn of the twentieth century, the United...
This document was written to prepare a manual for the G-4 of a corps outlining the organization, duties, procedures, and operations of the corps G-4 section. Topics include logistics (supply, evacuation/hospitalization, transportation, and...
The problem is to present in chronological chart form some of the major and minor activities of various headquarters and agencies in the North African theater of operations, the Mediterranean theater of operations, the European theater of...
The purpose of this monograph is to cover the operations of the 149th Inf., 38th Inf. Div. in a wide envelopment during the battle of Zig-Zag Pass Road on Bataan, P.I., January through February 1945.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the functions of maintenance, repair and recovery of armament, electronic and mechanical equipment as carried out in the Canadian and U.S. armies. The study compares the advantages and disadvantages of the...
This student research was to develop the most efficient assignment of responsibility for activation training and assignment of technical service units during World War Two.
The purpose of this paper was to develop the most efficient assignment of responsibility for activation, training, and assignment of technical service units during World War II.
The purpose of this monograph is to describe the duties of a base and intermediate section quartermaster and assistant theater quartermaster as actually experienced by the author from 14 December 1943 to 11 August 1946 in the Southwest Pacific...
The goal of this paper was to appraise the problem of signal communication for beach operations and determine whether or not need exists for special signal unit for this purpose. There is a brief history of events leading to formation of joint...
The author defines and analyzes the war aims of the United States in World Wars I and II. Each major aim is examined separately, an attempt is made to show why it was or was not a desirable aim, and then arrive at conclusions regarding the...
The problem addressed within this paper is to determine, from a technological study of the evolution of armored vehicles and antiarmor weapons, whether armor would have an important part to play in future conflict, and if so, what would be its role...
This paper was written to examine the relationship between post-war planning by G-3 and the logistical means which can be provided by G-4 in order to develop possible improvements in policy, organization, or procedure. There are planning procedures...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons for the selection of certain type logistical targets by the Air Force and to correlate this selection with the tactical and strategic air effort during a war of the future. The scope is to analyze...
The goal of this paper was to develop a program and recommended method of instruction in logistics for officers of the Armed Forces, with particular attention to the functioning of the Command and General Staff College in the program.
In this paper, the author questions cost effectiveness analysis as a valuable management tool (when used to choose among weapon systems), and if it is, wonders why is there an apparent reluctance on the part of certain elements of the military to...
The purpose of this treatise is to determine if it is feasible to utilize freeze-dehydrated rations or rations containing freeze-dehydrated components in a limited war. The basic matters examined are the operational, logistical and economic...
The purpose of this paper is to recommend a program of instruction for Army officers which will qualify them for key positions in wartime logistical organizations. The scope was to review possible logistical positions which may need to be filled by...