China's growing military capabilities serve its ambition to become the greatest power in Asia. Correspondingly, the PLA continues to modernize its forces. Established American economic and military relationships in Asia dictate national strategies...
This monograph determined that the tactical and strategic experience of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) since 1981 was relevant to the future operational environment of the U.S. Army. The IDF’s experiences are relevant because the Israeli Army...
Between the European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Friedrich Engels functioned as a writer, analyst, and critic concerning military affairs. His most essential commentaries were published,...
This monograph examines whether infantry small units, trained and equipped solely for war, can successfully conduct operations other than war (OOTW). Many military professionals argue that units trained for war can readily adapt to OOTW. Yet, other...
This monograph determines the utility of the “reconnaissance-pull” concept for division commanders. Although the term, “recon-pull” is becoming widely used by many Army leaders, analysis proves that the concept is rarely applied in...
This thesis conducts an analysis of the United States Army’s changes in tactical logistics organizations and doctrine from 1999 to 2006 and compares them against published literature to determine if changes made have been revolutionary in nature...
Stability operations are not a recent phenomenon, but have been particularly common since the end of the Cold War. All the major deployments of the US Army since 1991 have involved such operations. In all these deployments, the US Army has been...
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...
This monograph examines whether or not a Combatant Command Training Program would improve Joint Task Force (JTF) synchronization in a resource constrained environment. Using historical examples, doctrinal analysis, and current combatant command...
The United States Army began transformation to meet the needs of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Senior leaders within the military initiated the transformation from a division-based organization to one built around brigades. This...
United States Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) transformation included significant changes and additions to the support units assigned to ARSOF. Amidst all of the structural and personnel additions and changes, ARSOF cannot completely...
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the 105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage, M37, by the personnel normally assigned to a howitzer section of an armored Field Artillery firing battery.
Committee 8 Officers Advanced Course, The Armored School; Himes, Cecil; Krampitz, Charles T.; Heffelfinger, Hugo W.; Falls, Carroll M., Jr.; Stout, Morris C.; Boehmer, William J.; Plume, Stephen K.; Styer, George D.; Huddleston, James M.
This study covers the drive for, capture of, and withdrawal from Crailsheim by the 10th Armored Division during the period 4-10 April 1945. The main purpose in studying this particular action was to increase the knowledge of armored operations in...
This study examines the role of U.S. Army Engineers fighting as infantry in AirLand Battle by analyzing the actions of the 1111th Engineer Combat Group during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. The 51st and 291st Engineer Combat Battalions...
15th Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters Corps Artillery
This is a special staff committee report, containing an introduction to Corps artillery and its historical background, the artillery's increasing role in the global war, trained artillery commander's and staffs in the present Corps organization,...
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...
This thesis is a case study of the 1923 Greco-Turkish population exchange and asserts the compulsory expulsion effectively prevented genocide of Orthodox Christians living in Asia Minor. To support this argument historical evidence leading up to...
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.
The 1956 Suez Crisis is the first example of a preemptive strike after World War II. The episode provides lessons about the lengths to which nations will go to secure their interests and the limits of the United Nation 's influence. How the UN...
In 1979 the age old struggle for the control of Islam between the Shiite and Sunni sects re-emerged in the Middle East. Four events occurred in 1979 that defined the context of contemporary Middle Eastern politics: the Islamic revolution in Iran,...