Recently, there has been much speculation concerning whether or not the dismount strength in the organizational structure of the M2-equipped, J-series mechanized infantry battalion task force is detrimental to the successful conduct of AirLand...
This study has as its objective the improvement of the protection provided by the military services to military personnel and members of the general public from the hazards of electromagnetic radiation (EMH) of military communications and radar...
Committee 13, Officers Advanced Course, Armored School; Osborne, Robert J. C.; Throckmorton, John W.; Killian, John J.; Carpenter, Robert W.; Reynolds, Walter E., Jr.; Williams, Frank A.; Young, Sidney H., Jr.; Cobb, John H., Jr.
This report describes the 9th Armored Division in the exploitation, from the breakout of the Remagen bridgehead to the encirclement of Leipsig. Table of contents: the enemy, logistics and statistics, expanding the bridgehead, reduction of Limburg,...
This study examines the engagements between the U.S. Army and the Apache Indians from 1846 to 1886. It attempts to determine what effects the values of the soldiers and warriors had upon the conflicts occurring during this forty-year period. The...
This book presents the latest information on tables of organization, provisional and special Quartermaster organizations, adaptation of standard units, and civilian and prisoner of war labor and how it will be used.
This thesis addresses the roles and missions of U.S. Army airborne, ranger, and specia1 forces in rapid reaction contingency operations. The study focuses on the requirements for and the missions appropriate for each of these elite units within the...
This monograph proposes an appropriate organizational structure for light infantry brigades in support of the operational concept derived for AirLand Battle Future. The follow on operational concept to AirLand Battle is expected to address...
The recent notion of the increasing importance of information as a means of exercising control over ones military forces has come to the forefront of military thought dominating professional discussions and journals alike. This realization of the...
Since the appearance of the first tanks during World War I, soldiers have been searching for weapons to combat the armored threat and the most effective organizational structure within which to employ them. Ideally, every soldier could be issued an...
This study attempts to trace the development of combined arms concepts, organization, and practices by an examination of five major powers: Great Britain, Germany, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The focus is on developments at and...
This book attempts to explain clearly "The reason of discipline," so that every soldier may at once see the necessity of enforcing and upholding its regulations.
Using a comprehensive approach, this study aims to recommend measures that will improve NATO's capabilities and make it a more efficient organization. For any military organizations, adjusting capabilities to governmental ambitions and strategic...
This monograph explores the role of sequels in the process of operational design. The complexity and resiliency of today's armies has made the design of campaigns to achieve strategic ends an increasingly difficult undertaking. Campaign planners...
This monograph focuses on identifying, defining, and analyzing, operational leadership. Leadership is professed to be the most important element of combat power yet it remains essentially a theoretical construct defined more by its attributes than...
Does Air Force doctrine Support the Army's combined arms approach to tactical warfare? When national political objectives require the commitment of American land forces to the battlefield to achieve those objectives, then all other means of war...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
This paper will address how the U.S. Army's concepts for employment of armed helicopters evolved during the Vietnam conflict. This will not be an operational history of Army aviation in Vietnam, but instead will attempt to focus on the ideas...