This document on Germany's agriculture describes the basic conditions in the country- population, the natural environment, zones of agriculture and land use, statistics, and the agricultural system. Crops, livestock, food supplies, and consumption...
Globally, potential adversaries are building ever more complex, stronger, and deeper fortifications which are largely immune to the current United States weapons inventory. Advanced construction and design techniques coupled with technological...
This paper addresses the issue of whether the use of tactical nuclear weapons in a war in Europe will bring about a tactical stalemate or "gridlock." The TRADOC Common Teaching Scenario is used for a guide as to the area, forces employed, general...
This is an Army Service Forces Manual, a Civil Affairs handbook on Korea highlighting agriculture. Topics include the land and people, salient features of Korean agriculture, agricultural production, food supply and food consumption, and the...
This Civil Affairs handbook discusses the importance of agriculture and the farmer in the country of Japan. The beginning sections in this document give details on the land and people, salient features of Japanese agriculture, and agricultural...
This document describes Hungary's general characteristics including topography/climate/soil, land utilization, land ownership, farm productivity, general productivity, general economic condition of farmers, self-sufficiency, farm organizations, and...
This thesis uses case studies to explore lessons learned from historic military withdrawals. Case studies included the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the U.S. withdrawal from Somalia. Although literature...
Transformation is the buzzword of the new millennium for the United States military complex. The future of the Department of Defense and the individual armed services are now at stake, whether current transformational efforts stem from internal...
To relate how Joint Task Force Seven assembled, organized, and dircted the components of this effort--in short, how Operation Redwing became a reality, is the purpose of this account.
This study examines current United States nuclear weapons policy and the legal and foreign policy aspects of preemption or interdiction against a weapon of mass destruction (nuclear), specifically when possessed by a terrorist organization in the...
Potential adversaries of the US have hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs) that prevent their centers of gravity from being held at risk. All US services currently have programs aimed at defeating these HDBTs. Both conventional and unconventional...
The Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) 2005 decision resulted in the consolidation of Naval Air Depots (NADEPs) and non-deployable Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Departments (AIMDs) to form six Fleet Readiness Centers (FRCs). The...
This study assesses the Colombian opium and heroin production threat to the U.S. since it was first perceived in about l990. It compares and contrasts the production of heroin to that of cocaine, including the cultivation, processing and...
If strategists do not follow Clausewitz’s lead as a critical historian, then they risk failure by founding future policy, strategy, and operations on Kosovo myths. One must ask, was Operation Allied Force a rational use of military power to...
In this Civil Affairs handbook, agriculture in the Philippines is featured. Parts include: general factors affecting agriculture; pre-war agricultural production; agricultural foodstuffs; social conditions pertaining to Philippine agriculture;...
Discussion of France. This section covers north central France, Brittany-Normandy, west central France, southwest France, northeast France, east and south central France, Mediterranean France, Corsica and includes a list of tables.
This Civil Affairs Handbook on Manchuria describes the general description of the country- the people, North/South Manchuria, topographical regions, climate and soil. Parts two and three detail pre-war agriculture and food (importance of...
This Civil Affairs handbook highlights the Bulgarian peasant and his land, the peasant as a food producer, the peasant and government, and the regions of Bulgaria.