In October 2007, the combined maritime services of the United States released "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," defining how they will operate to support strategic considerations. One concept looking to support this strategy is...
The application of the maneuver warfare theory as tactical doctrine within the U.S. Marine Corps has been a contentious issue for several years. The Marines adopted this theory for its tactical doctrine in 1988. The purpose of this monograph is to...
From at least 1995 until 2001 the Army Reserve Troop Program Unit (TPU) shortage of Army Promotion List (APL) company grade officers has increased. It will continue to increase under the existing status quo. Several factors contribute to this...
Discusses the state of the art of field engineering after World War I. Discusses general principles of field fortification, tools and material, field level and field geometry, the siting of trenches, machine gun emplacements, obstacles, details of...
In the past two decades, Radical Islam rooted in Europe became an obvious security threat. This monograph argues that Western Europeans are partially responsible for permitting or not preventing the presence of radical Islamists in the Balkans and...
The maneuver warfare theory became the basis for Marine Corps doctrine in 1989. The maneuver theory represents a fundamental change in the way the Marine Corps plans to fight future wars. From the balanced combined arms force prior to 1989, this...
This is engineer intelligence bulletin no. 3 from May 1945. The contents are limited to certain specific information on Japanese use of land mines and fortifications obtained during operations in the SWPA. There is an editorial to the troops,...
"For some years past all ordnance manufactured for the Service have been of steel and breech loading. These modern ordnance, as they are termed, differ considerably from the wrought-iron and stell muzzle-loading pieces which, as regards...
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...
China's INEW doctrine combining network attack with electronic warfare supports the use of cyber warfare in future conflict. The IW militia unit organization provides each Chinese military region commander with unique network attack, exploitation,...
The diversity of future threats, the distances imposed upon a US based force, and declining fiscal and manpower resources, has forced an emphasis on rapidly deployable contingency forces. The Air Force, in light of this changing economic and...
This handbook of artillery materiel is the sixth edition of this work. Topics include general principles of gun construction, breech-loading ordnance, quick-firing guns, machine guns, explosives, projectiles, fuzes/tubes, field and siege carriages,...
This book discusses as an officer in the field artillery the extensive knowledge of a variety of subjects needed for the accuracy of shooting of the field artillery battery and the safety of your men.
The following standing operating procedures are published for use in resident instruction in the Department of Combined Arms. Field Artillery School. These procedures will be assumed to be in current use in the various units which are played in map...