This study discusses in detail the operations at Rossignol by the 3d Division against the German Sixth Corps in order to determine the primary causes of the French defeat.
This study focuses on the principle of security and how the French Fourth Army incorporated it into their operations. Includes a translation : "Requette--"Etude Tactique" (Combat between the French 3d Colonial Division and the German VI Corps at...
This study is an account of the Colonial Corps of the Fourth French Army and their operations at Rossignol with analysis of the French defeat. Included is a translation from the French of a thesis, Ecole Superiere de Guerre, Military History...
The XVIII German Reserve Corps was in army reserve with the 4th German Army. The paper shows the organization of the reserve forces, the lessons learned from the operations, the engagement of the main body of the brigade, the artillery, Moreau and...
This study examines the actions of the German Fifth Army and determines that the attack was not justified tactically and there was underlying motivation by the German Crown Prince.
This study contains a translation detailing the 3d Division engagement in the Battle of the Frontiers from ""The Revue Militaire Francaise"", February, 1923, titled ""The French Third Division at Villers-la-Loue"", General Regnault, French Army.
UN missions in Africa reflect the changing nature of post-Cold War peacekeeping operations which involve large scale deployment of UN peacekeepers to settle mostly intrastate conflicts. The main question this thesis addresses is “What are some of...
This monograph examines how the U.S. Army can restructure the decision making process to release initiative on the battlefield. Army tactical units execute missions on a chaotic, uncertain, and disorderly battlefield. Leaders' actions are guided by...
This book treats of the tactics of small units as illustrated by examples drawn from the World War. It checks the ideas acquired from peacetime instruction against the experience of battle. By the use of numerous historical examples, the reader is...
This study contains a translation of "Operations du Corps de cavalerie provisoire Abonneau (4e et 9e D.C.) en Belgique, les 18, 19, et 20 aourt 1914--Revue De Cavalerie, 1927." Covers the mission, execution of the operations, and evaluation of the...
This study describes what the Fourth French Army consisted of, their occupied front, the action of the cavalry which is broken down by dates (August 16-21, 1914), action of corps cavalry, the advance of the Fourth Army (zones of action), and the...
This narrative recounts the operational history of XIXth Panzer Corps' advance from 10 to 15 May 1940. Its primary focus is directed at the breakthrough at Sedan. The political and military situations influencing the decision makers of the German...
This study seeks to determine the potential causes for unit collapse in combat through a comparison and analysis of two American divisions. The first, the 35th Infantry Division fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918, in World War...
General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
Names and locations of towns have been taken from French 1:200,000 maps. German names of towns are printed in italics if they are different from the French names of those towns. The List of Reference Towns and Maps affords a method of locating from...