Download or read book A Manual for Commanders of Large Units provisional written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Basic Field Manual Volume 3 written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Staff Officers Field Manual United States Army written by United States. Department of the Army. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Field Artillery Field Manual Tactics and technique written by United States. War Dept and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field manual for the U.S. Army for field artillery.

Download or read book Signal Corps Field Manual written by United States. Army. Signal Corps and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Signal Corps Field Manual written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book After the Trenches written by William O. Odom and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Great War, the U.S. Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in the failures and ultimate success of its war effort. During the interwar years the army sought to balance readiness and modernization in a period of limited resources and technological advances with profound implications for the conduct of warfare. In After the Trenches, William O. Odom traces the development of combat doctrine between the world wars through an examination of the army's primary doctrine manuals, the Field Service Regulations. The Field Service Regulations of 1923 successfully assimilated the experiences of the First World War and translated them into viable tactical practice, Odom argues in this unique study. Rapidly developing technologies generated more efficient tools of war and greatly expanded the scale, tempo, and complexity of warfare. Personnel and material shortages led to a decline in the quality of army doctrine evidenced in the 1939 regulations. Examining the development of doctrine and the roles of key personalities such as John Pershing, Hugh Drum, George Lynch, Frank Parker, and Lesley McNair, Odom concludes that the successive revisions of the manual left the army scurrying to modernize its woefully outdated doctrine on the eve of the new war. This impressively researched study of the doctrine of the interwar army fills a significant gap in our understanding of the development of the U.S. Army during the first half of the twentieth century. It will serve scholars and others interested in military history as the standard reference on the subject. Moreover, many of the challenges and conditions that existed seventy years ago resemble those faced bytoday's army. This study of the army's historical responses to a declining military budget and an ever-changing technology will broaden the perspectives of those who must deal with these important contemporary issues.

Download or read book Through Mobility We Conquer written by George F. Hofmann and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-07-03 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a mechanized branch is arguably one of the greatest military transformations in history. Through Mobility We Conquer recounts the evolution and development of the U.S. Army's modern mechanized cavalry and the doctrine necessary to use it effectively. The book also explores the debates over how best to use cavalry and how these discussions evolved during the first half of the century. During World War I, the first cavalry theorist proposed combining arms coordination with a mechanized force as an answer to the stalemate on the Western Front. Hofmann brings the story through the next fifty years, when a new breed of cavalrymen became cold war warriors as the U.S. Constabulary was established as an occupation security-police force. Having reviewed thousands of official records and manuals, military journals, personal papers, memoirs, and oral histories -- many of which were only recently declassified -- George F. Hofmann now presents a detailed study of the doctrine, equipment, structure, organization, tactics, and strategy of U.S. mechanized cavalry during the changing international dynamics of the first half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, maps, and charts, Through Mobility We Conquer examines how technology revolutionized U.S. forces in the twentieth century and demonstrates how perhaps no other branch of the military underwent greater changes during this time than the cavalry.

Download or read book Tactics pt 2 Technique pt 3 Reference written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Command Post at War written by David W. Hogan and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the first Army headquarters in the European theater, from its activation in October 1943 to V-E Day in May 1945. Shows the Army headquarters of World War 2 as a complicated organization with functions ranging from the immediate supervision of tactical operations to long-range operational planning and the sustained support of frontline units. CMH Pub 70-60.

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Download or read book An Uncertain Trumpet written by Kenneth Finlayson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with severe budgetary constraints, a radically reduced force structure, and a crippling intellectual dogmatism, the American Infantry struggled throughout the interwar years to modernize its doctrine. Finlayson examines these difficulties, beginning with an overview of the experiences of the primary combatants of the First World War, comparing their battlefield doctrines with that of the American Expeditionary Force. The brief American appearance on the battlefield did much to shape the convictions of those men assigned the task of developing doctrine after the war. The findings of the post-World War I Superior Board provide valuable insight into how institutional conservatism and the dogmatic approach to new ideas that existed among senior Army leaders stymied possible doctrinal advances. The Army would suffer greatly in the post-war demobilization and the subsequent ravages of the Great Depression. With little money and few soldiers spread around far-flung posts, little advancement in terms of doctrinal development was possible. As the likelihood of war became more imminent in the 1930s, a concerted effort to modernize was made; however, the magnitude of the task made success virtually impossible-a situation that was evident in the Infantry's poor performance in the early battles of the war. The U.S. entry into World war II would, unfortunately, find the infantry branch only partially prepared for the battle field of 1942.