Learning Counterinsurgency: Observations from Soldering in Iraq Lieutenant General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army The Army has gained a great deal of experience in Iraq and Afghanistan about COIN operations. Here, one of the Army's most experienced...
G-4 Special Projects Division, Headquarters Army Forces Far East and Eighth U.S. Army
This document is an analysis of the logistical experiences of the Korean campaigns of 1950-1953 with a view to recommending appropriate changes in doctrine and procedures for future operations in the Far East.
It is the purpose of this study to examine the economic, political, and social conditions of the Philippine Islands that bred communist sympathies and the associated Hukbalahap insurgency. It examines the procedures the Philippine government...
Contains selected documents that place at the student's disposal the type of intimate detailed and pertinent source material that may otherwise remain buried in archives and files. Attempts to present information on "how" in practical, war-tested...
Volume III of three parts, contains description of naval operations and battles along the gulf coast, the Mississippi River, at Vicksburg, at New Orleans, at Mobile, and along the Red River. Appendix lists the vessels stationed at various...
Barry, Robert F., ed.; 82d Airborne Division Assn.
"Santo Domingo is a volcano that is going to envelop all Latin America in flames." These words, spoken by a professed latin communist at a meeting of the Dominican Republic's Castroite 14th of June Movement, turned world attention to the island...
Detailed recounting of civil war military operations involving New Jersey military units. Organized and written as unit histories, affording a chapter to each brigade, regiment, and artillery battery. Also includes chapters covering the general...
A book on the subject of the conduct of small wars where the campaigns do not consist of regular troops. It contains strategy, tactics, and information on all of the minor expeditions in which the British Army was frequently engaged.
Volume II of II, this volume serves as an introduction to the study of the Arab-Israeli crisis from the socio-political, historical and military points of view. It takes for its starting point a definition of the crisis as the conflict of two...
This monograph describes U.S. Army riverine planning and operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the years 1966 through 1969. Particular attention is paid to significant trends or changes in riverine operations, and the study attempts to...
The purpose of this text is for the use and guidance of all concerned with combat intelligence at division. This document describes the organization which produces intelligence, the production of intelligence from information, the means and methods...
The courses of instruction presented at the Command and General Staff School during World War II have generally been dismissed as expedients, whose purpose was the production of large quantities of graduates to staff an expanding wartime Army. A...
The purpose of this thesis is the examination of Honduras today from a socio-economic and politico-military perspective to determine what internal conditions exist which make Honduras prone or vulnerable to insurgency. The research concentrates on...
This study examines the adequacy of present U.S. counterterrorist strategy and force development as an integral part of U.S. National Security policies. Emphasis is placed on countering the hostage and kidnapping duration event forms of terrorism...
This thesis examines Brigadier General Henry A. Wise's involvement in the Western Virginia Campaign of 1861. This Confederate defeat resulted in the Federal occupation of a large, strategically important section of the Confederacy in the first year...
This study analyzes the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945 emphasizing the role played by the element of surprise. The analysis show how the Soviets applied surprise against the Japanese at the strategic, operational and tactical levels;...
This thesis examines recent American attitudes towards war; the role of construction in the theater of operations from World War I to the present; present trends effecting future base development planning and execution; base development planning...
The thesis from which this abstract is drawn develops a doctrine for defense of a major urban population center by division and larger units. The scope of the paper is limited to ground operations. The limited use of tactical special weapons and...