The movement of major combat, combat support, and combat service support units to the decisive place and time on the battlefield is the commander's operational art. Effectively integrating, controlling, and supporting motor, rail, air, and water...
The US military, as with all US government agencies, shares the responsibility for countering proliferation efforts. Although we have identified the types of threat we face, the systems through which it operates are somewhat more difficult to...
This monograph investigates historical examples of sustainment improvisation at the operational level to determine the role sustainment improvisation has played in the conduct of the operational art of war and the significance of improvisation for...
Discussion of France. This section covers transportation systems, including information on railroads, railways in the Paris area, motor transportation, internal waterways and canals, and civil aviation. Includes notes on communications, maps and...
This manual is a guide to the tactical employment of tank destroyer units both self-propelled and towed. The methods of employment described herein do not comprise a set of inflexible rules. Commanders must adapt the principles of employment...
Road nets provide the life-blood to all sustained operations by a US Army maneuver brigade. Joint Readiness Training Center and Battle Command Training Program trends indicate a failure to master the skills required to ensure road nets are not...
This 1942 plan organizes the information contained in numerous texts as well as that gained from experience, into a usable form, so that it may be utilized as a practical guide by Battery Commanders in preparing for and conducting the tactical...
Drug Trafficking Organizations within Mexico have become a challenge to the state and are affecting both Mexican and U.S. citizens within the U.S. and Mexico border region. As the situation continues to spiral out of control, the U.S. military,...
This monograph addresses a common experience and training deficiency for operational planners in the United States Army. This deficiency is the planning of large scale road movements. The monograph postulates that three distinct problem areas arise...
This is monthly intelligence report no. 6 from June 1943, Antisubmarine Command. It is a summary of activities, gives an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine operations, a review of the first six months of 1943, as well as enemy...
In the battles of the next war, effective use of firepower will be more critical than in any land battle the US Army has ever fought. Changes in battle tempo, mobility, and firepower will challenge field artillerymen as never before as they plan,...
This booklet consists of extracts from issues of "Battle Experiences", published in the European Theater of Operations from 1 July 1944 to 1 April 1945. This compilation is intended to present certain ideas and methods evolved during more than nine...
In 1969, President Nixon started the now well-known "War on Drugs." The reason behind his "declaration" of war was the increasing national security threat posed by the transnational drug trafficking organizations. With the aim of making as much...
The following partial resume of doctrine taught at the Kriegsakademie is a practical adaptation of relevant parts of Truppenfuhrung (the German tactical 'bible' similar in matter and precept to the U.S.'s own FM 100-5, Field Service Regulations,...
The purpose of this report is to record the lessons learned by the 37th Infantry Division during the, BOUGAINVILLE Campaign. The principles and doctrines taught in the General and Special Service Schools and contained in the War Department Field...