This is a companion piece to the work titled "Boots on the ground: troop density in contingency operations" by the author. The focus of this volume is on the number of troops engaged in combat duties versus the number functioning in noncombat...
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. Army has periodically reviewed the structure and organization of its primary combat unit, the division. Since 1939, the Army has conducted at least eleven such reviews with associated testing and...
This study is a wide-ranging historical overview of that most difficult aspect of military leadership, the art of battle command. McGrath leads the reader through case studies beginning with Alexander the Great leading up to the recent war in Iraq....
This study surveys the US Army's historical experience with LRRP and LRS units from the 1960s Cold War and Vietnam War, through their resurgence in the 1980s and use in Operations JUST CAUSE and DESERT STORM, to the advent of the GWOT. The paper's...
This is a narrative history of Army lawyers in Vietnam from 1959, when the first judge advocate reported for duty in Vietnam, to 1975 when the last Army lawyer left Saigon. Its principal theme is that, as the Army developed new strategies and...
Chapman, Anne W.; Lilly, Carol J.; Romjue, John L.; Canedy, Susan
This document describes the Army Training and Doctrine Command, including information on the origins, operations, force design, development of a new generation of weapons, doctrinal renaissance, training revolution, TRADOC in the joint service...
The ability of the Army Medical Service to react quickly in cases of extreme international emergencies was graphically illustrated during the Dominican Republic crisis of 1965. The sudden commitment of a large force to counter a threatened...
The first of eight SFOR procedural guides. Intended to assist SFOR-designated units in understanding the requirements, to help establish pre-deployment training plans pertinent to the mission, and to provide the TTP used by the 1st Cavalry Division...
This is one of a series published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History. They were written by officers who held responsible positions in the Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese armed forces during the war in Indochina. This document...
This is one of a series published by the U.S. Army Center of Military History. They were written by officers who held responsible positions in the Cambodian, Laotian, and South Vietnamese armed forces during the war in Indochina. The Easter...
This white paper provides direction for the development of the finest light infantry divisions the US Army can field. General Wickham was the Chief of Staff, United States Army when this was written.
This is a working paper, the first of three on the Sino-Indian border dispute. This paper traces the political factors which led initially to the dispute and later to the attack of 20 October 1962. In focusing on the motivation of the Chinese and...
Forward by Dr. William G. Robertson: The Combat Studies Institute (CSI) is pleased to present its latest publication in the Occasional Paper Series, "We Have Not Learned How to Wage War There" The Soviet Approach in Afghanistan,1979-1989, by Mr....
The year 2001 began with the inauguration of a United States (US) president deliberately aiming to shift the use of the military away from the numerous humanitarian and peacekeeping interventions of the 1990s toward responding to and defeating...
As the aide-de-camp to Major General Buford Blount - the 3rd Infantry Division commander during the ground combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Major Erik Berdy observed division-level planning and execution from June 2002 to August 2003. In...
From 2003 through 2005, when the plan for using elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training) to train the new Iraqi Army was developed and executed, Brigadier General Richard Sherlock was its assistant division commander for operations....
Major Nicole Stanford served as the assistant operations officer for the 311th Military Intelligence Battalion and commander of that battalion's Alpha Company in Kuwait and Iraq from February 2003 through January 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi...
The purpose of this thesis is to determine how best to coordinate, synchronize and integrate a light division's assets for search and attack operations. Recognizing the current absence of division-level search and attack doctrine, this thesis...
This study examines the operations of the 7th Armored Division from 16 December 1944 through 29 January 1945. The focus is on the nature of combat as seen from the perspective of battalion through division-level commanders. The 7th Armored Division...
Ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have underscored the necessity of conventional military forces to adequately prepare for stability and reconstruction operations (SRO) in the aftermath of major combat operations (MCO). In the case of...