This volume attempts through photographs and colorplates, to encompass the causes of the great conflict and the chief happenings of military and political importance during the four years of World War I, including maps of continents, countries, and...
This private war journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. The journal was kept by Halder personally in his own shorthand and contains notes on conferences,...
The Velvet Revolution in 1989 meant the end of governing of only one political party and return of our society to the democracy. But the revolutionary changes in society didn't appear in military instantly. The politicians didn't support radical...
Combined Arms Research Library (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College)
This collection was provided through the generous donation of George Nafziger to the Combined Arms Research Library. The Nafziger Orders Of Battle Collection contains a compilation of 7985 individual orders of battle from 1600 to 1945. It began...
In September 1918, the United States intervened in Russia with 20,000 soldiers as part of Allied expeditions in north Russia and Siberia. U. S. officials justified the American military intervention as being necessary to assist the evacuation of...
Discusses intelligence issues in Europe (British Empire, Anglo-African Relations, France, Italy, Germany, Poland) and the Far East (Japan), including information on a propaganda committee and projects under consideration. Also contains a...
The committee is of the opinion that Italy, Austria and Czechoslovakia have no significant relationship geographically, economically, politically, militarily and are not likely to act together in international affairs. Therefore, these countries...
Calendar Year 2009 was an eventful year. Five major developments dominated the activities at the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy: 1) the successful change of command in June from COL Donald Gentry to CSM Raymond Chandler, III; 2) the realignment...
This is a story of a young noncommissioned officer, who reached his objective because he was fully concentrated on it. I know many people who talk a lot about their dreams, but they do nothing to complete them. This mission was my first and helped...
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...
The World Factbook is a guide to country profiles containing fields including geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
The Visegrad nations of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary became associate members of the European Union in 1991. Some or all may achieve full membership by 2000. Membership of the European Union will carry with it a security...
Army engineers operate increasingly as members of joint and multinational forces. Although doctrine reflects this reality, it is ambiguous regarding how commanders can best structure a headquarters capable of employing joint and multinational...
The fall of the Berlin Wall, the crisis in the former Yugoslavia and the Swedish membership in NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) in 1994, and in the European Union (EU) in 1996, meant fundamental changes in the security policy situation and tasks...
A complete new set of challenges for Swedish security policy has been created by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and Swedish membership in the European Union (EU), as well as in a number of other security policy...
The Armor branch has been the most controversial branch since its appearance. Military thinkers predicted the obsolescence of the weapon system many times, however history proved that the tank is not only viable but also very effective both in the...