This paper discusses the reconnaissance activities of a cavalry division, characteristics and limitations of reconnaissance agencies, and mission and coordination.
This document discusses the effects of coastal aviation on strategy. The object of the study is the creation of a continental concept wherein coastal strategy delimits war to frontier theatres on the shoulders of the country. The purpose is the...
This study consists of comprehensive records of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the American Expeditionary Forces, as well as letters received by officers who had combat experience in 1918. The paper discusses fragmentary orders in stabilized...
The purpose of this paper is to examine those operations of World War I, from which tactical lessons pertaining to the use of tanks or the defense against tanks, can be logically deduced. Topics include Somme operations in 1916, the British spring...
This study asks what reliance can be placed on anti-aircraft artillery in defense of cities, fortifications and ground troops from bombers, observation and attack planes, as deducted from past experience, present material, as an independent means...
This purpose of the study is to point out the fundamental ideas governing the employment of field artillery held by the warring nations at the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, and to trace the modification and evolution of these ideas during the...
This study is about the French Army in World War I. It discusses the war of movement (operations to the 14th of November 1914), and the Battle of the Frontiers (French official history). Topics include the period of concentration and covering...
This study presents the military geography of Serbia and the adjacent Austrian frontier in 1914, from the viewpoints of the Austrian General Staff planning an invasion of Serbia. There are four headings to describe the military geography of Serbia...
This study addresses the relationship between the statesman and the soldier, and changes necessary in War Department policies, orders and regulations, within the provisions of the National Defense Act, which will increase the preparedness of the...
The study presents a consideration of searchlight employment in some operations involving seacoast defense and the attack and defense of river lines. The purpose of the study was to develop through examination of past and present methods of...
This paper is a study of the use of smoke during the World War to assist in securing tactical success, and is of particular value in trying to determine its probable future employment by field artillery. Examples of the tactical use of smoke in the...
This study describes the Syrian expedition and the second Austrian invasion in World War I. Terrain, plans and operations, Serbian dispositions after the first invasion, the Syrmian expedition, the second Austrian invasion, operations in the...
This study presents the use of air transport, military and commercial, for the transportation of ground troops. This study does not include transport by lighter-than-aircraft due to limited amount of material available on the subject. It does not...
This document is a study of the logistical considerations of an overseas expedition. The paper gives information from previous wars, existing regulations, proposed plan for computation of tonnage requirements, application of data to the...
This paper is a critical analysis of the Battle of Morhange-Sarrebourg. It covers the events leading thereto, and to include the 20th of August 1914. There is a geographic dictionary covering the German and French synonyms of locations mentioned in...
This study asks why the Black Force (defending forces) failed to obtain information based on five decisive elements described in the paper. Military intelligence, lessons learned, joint maneuvers and communication of Army and Navy forces in Hawaii...
The U.S. has a huge reliance on space. This reliance, combined with a leaner more rapidly deployable military, makes space weapons an appealing prospect. Space weapons technology continues to advance, and as improvements occur, the weaponization of...
This study examines U.S. riverine force operations in the Vietnam War to determine why the force was established, how and why it evolved, and what significance it held for the war as a whole. This study begins with Operation Game Warden, continues...
This study investigates the role of the United States Army conducting the mission of park custodians of the California National Parks for the period of 1891 to 1914. Limited information on this subject is consolidated as only a few historians have...
This study outlines the influences that the outcome of the Vietnam War had on American foreign policy in another insurgency situation in the Republic of El Salvador during the formative years of that policy, 1979 to 1984. The presented concept...