This thesis examines the application of battle command during the 100/442d Regimental Combat Team’s rescue of the First Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, the “Lost Battalion.” As background, this study presents a...
This publication brings up to date the original history published by Colonel Elvid Hunt in 1927 and revised by Captain Walter E. Lorence in 1937. It contains a chronology of events from 1937 - 1951.
Considered the first documented commitment of a Western-style army facing a nation-wide insurgency, the Peninsular War deserves a critical examination of French pacification methods. In spite of a severe defeat, the Grande Armee achieved success...
This paper analyses the effectiveness of redesigning the military organization with the modularity concept. The army proposed this solution based on premise of sub-goals to enhance the deployability of organizations. Two major military...
This monograph reviews the functions, development, and measurement of military discipline in the US Army, and assesses these concepts against the current needs and limitations of the modern battlefield and society. By relying primarily on existing...
US Army Training and Doctrine Command; Combat Studies Institute
The first annual military history symposium sponsored by the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and hosted by the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, took place in August 2003. It brought together an outstanding...
There is no shortage of people who disagree with the current state of world affairs and who are prepared to use violence to change them. Are they mindless fanatics, doomed to fail? Or do they have a clever and covert plan with reasonable chance of...
Medal consists of a Maltese cross-shaped lancet of oxidized finished bronze with laurel wreath circling center inscription. On each arm of cross is different inscription. Medal reverse bears center inscription. Medal is suspended from green silk...
82.4.25 Medal, obverse is four-armed Maltese cross, each arm yellow enamel with green enamel border and delineated with gilded metal. Between arms of cross on right are two sprays of oak leaves; on left are two sprays of laurel. Cross center is...
This thesis examines how Brazil participated in World War II shoulder to shoulder with the Allies and what this participation brought to the country. During the 1930s, when the relationship between Brazil and Germany was improving yearly, and when...
This study is an historical analysis of the military reform efforts of the United States Army and Marine Corps in Cuba and Nicaragua, respectively. The study sets these cases in the political context of United States foreign policy and the...
The Campaigns conducted by the Spanish Army from 1909 to 1926 to pacify the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco are almost unknown in the US Army, and the scarce literature written or translated to English provides only a partial vision of them. The...
Research conducted on the impacts of C3 force integration is reported. An introduction is provided into the numerous challenges facing the Army division level Signal officer in the 1990s. The challenges emerge from the consecutive modernization of...
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War the United States Army’s role in Europe has changed and will continue to change more and more, thus having a significant impact on not only the Army, but also the European continent as a...
Thesis statement: Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War the United States Army’s role in Europe has changed and will continue to change more and more, thus having a significant impact on not only the Army, but also the...
This thesis analyzes joint doctrine for command and control of communications at the operational level of war. The Joint Task Force structure is used as the model for command and control relationships. The first part of the thesis assesses the...