This monograph examines a concept for the employment of the Stinger Air Defense Artillery weapon system known as "Stinger Under Armor." It traces the evolution of the concept from its genesis during the SGT York Division Air Defense Gun testing...
A reprint of the second edition ( of History of Fort Leavenworth) brought up to date by Walter E. Lorence. The original covered the first 110 years of Fort Leavenworth's history and provided a chronology of events that covered the Westward...
The focus of this thesis is to analyze whether or not current scout doctrine, coupled with the OSUT (One Station Unit Training) and unit available training time, permits us the time to adequately train 19D Cavalry Scouts to perform reconnaissance....
This study discusses the 1st Division encounter with gas warfare in Cantigny and covers equipment used, types of gases, instruction in warfare, the German version and analyzes the actual attack.
Safety, efficacy, and legal concerns surrounded the Department of Defense (DoD) Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) in the early and mid-2000s. Production capacity, patient refusals, and legal injunctions limited vaccine delivery during...
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one howitzer section of the firing battery.
This document contains the history of evacuation and repatriation through the port of Pusan, Korea from September 28, 1945 to November 15, 1945. The work also provides photographs and illustrations, an operations memorandum, as well as charts with...
"This 1954 manual is a guide to assist commanders in developing the sections of 8 inch gun M1 and 240-mm howitzer M1 firing batteries into efficient, smooth-working teams that have a sense of discipline that will impel them to operate effectively...
Reports on Operation Husky including G-2 information and intelligence, counterintelligence, landing attack plan, follow-up plan, operational plans, sortie plan, and intelligence plans.
The Just War Theory comes from traditional Christian views, that the use of force, or violence, can be used to intervene to protect or even kill to protect the innocent. This controversial view directly effects today's justification of the use of...
Congress governs the United States Armed Forces by writing laws for the Department of Defense (DoD) to implement. In 1993, Congress passed a federal law banning homosexuality in the armed forces. The DoD created a policy to implement the law, but...
To evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of "Point of Origin"and "Point of Destination" contracts in the procurement of army supplies and to recommend a general procurement policy with respect to the use of such contracts.
Described in detail from files taken from the House of Representatives in Congress, Major General St. Clair's narrative about the campaign against the Indians in 1791.
Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications.
This study attempts to determine what is the acceptable standard of body strength, physical stamina, endurance, and physical fitness required for satisfactory performance in the 12B Engineer Military Occupational Speciality. The investigation...