Download or read book Tactics and Technique of River Crossings written by Julius K. L. Mertens and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tactics And Technique Of River Crossings written by Julius K L Mertens and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an authoritative and practical guide to the military tactics and techniques involved in river crossings. Drawing on extensive experience and research, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges involved in crossing rivers under different circumstances, and offers practical advice on how to plan and execute successful river crossings. This is an invaluable resource for military historians and strategists, as well as current and aspiring military personnel. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Tactics and Technique of River Crossings written by Julius K. L. Mertens and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Tactics and Technique of River Crossings Classic Reprint written by Mertens Mertens and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tactics and Technique of River Crossings A portion of the following pages appeared in the "Professional Memoirs of the Pioneer Corps," published by the Fourth Section of the Engineer Committee. The favorable reception accorded these essays by officers of the corps has prompted me to make them available to a wider circle of officers. In taking this step, I feel that I shall do my share in raising the appreciation in our army of the importance of cooperation between the pioneers and the other arms, to the end that the technical duties of my corps and its special training in combats for the possession of river crossings may be fully utilized in obtaining tactical success. It is not sufficient for leaders and troops to know the principles that govern such combats, as laid down in paragraphs 62-97, Pioneer Field Manual; they must also be familiar to a certain extent with the technical Bide of pioneer work in order to appreciate what the pioneers want to do and can do and to understand how important it is that they be supported if full advantage is to be derived from their work. Sympathetic study of their technical work and the acquisition of a knowledge of their powers and limitations are especially welcomed by pioneers, for their difficult and grateful task of breaking and smoothing the way for the army will be facilitated thereby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tactics and Technique of River Crossings written by Julius K. L. Mertens and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Crossings in the Presence of the Enemy written by Robert Normand and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Crossings written by Julius K. L Mertens and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond The Gap A Historical Perspective On World War II River Crossings written by Major John Ordonio and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing a river against a defending enemy force is a difficult and complex task for any army. History has shown that preparation is necessary to avoid disasters during this type of operation. In 2003, the Third Infantry Division crossed the Euphrates River because it was prepared for this task and possessed the necessary equipment. Since then, no other divisions or corps has executed river crossing operations. While the United States Army focused on counterinsurgency operations during the last twelve years, it underwent significant changes to adapt to meet the adversities on the battlefield. It transformed its war-fighting organizations, trained its corps and divisions with computer simulations, and relegated field training to brigade and below units. In addition, its current doctrine now refers to river crossings as the deliberate wet gap crossing. Because of these changes, many questions arose as to the present corps and divisions’ preparedness to do large-scale operations, to include its ability to plan, prepare, and execute the deliberate wet gap crossing. If called today, could these organizations conduct this complex operation? Examining river crossings in Europe during the Second World War was appropriate for insight into how the previous generation of corps and divisions prepared and executed such a complex task. After analyzing how these units were able to cross the numerous waterways in Europe, the present Army should consider reassessing its doctrine, training, and organization and equipment to prepare its units for future deliberate wet gap crossings.
Download or read book Report in River Crossings Bridge Tactics written by U.S. Army Engineer School and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Memoirs Corps of Engineers United States Army and Engineer Department at Large written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Far Bank written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, opposed river crossing operations have proven to be some of the bloodiest and most complex endeavors for any military force. However, due to a sixty-year lull in having to cross a river in the face of the enemy, the United States Army has shown a trend of diminishing its resource capacity necessary to conduct these crossings, and is losing doctrinal focus for the task. Most significantly, doctrine does not provide an appreciation for the large impacts a river crossing has on the remainder of an operation. This analysis looks at three large-scale, opposed river crossing operations in the mechanized warfare era. All three cases involve a successful opposed river crossing, but vary in the level of operational reach or time before culmination. The variance in each case stems from the preparation for and execution of the river crossing. The analysis identifies three elements that had the greatest impact on the operational reach of units after the river crossing: the rapid employment of overwhelming strength, a deliberate plan to provide assault crossing resources regardless of existing bridges, and a detailed plan that included the transition from bridgehead to breakout operations. The recorded history of ground combat has shown that river crossing operations have always been a focal point for planners. The great military thinker Carl von Clausewitz himself devoted a chapter of his masterpiece On War to this subject. In it, he referred to the "respect in which an attack on a defended river is held by most generals." While evidence in past military theory and history repeatedly demonstrated the importance of this tactical task, the recent history of the United States Army reveals a decrease in the frequency of attacks over well-defended rivers. The United States Army has not conducted an opposed, deliberate wet gap crossing since World War II. Future combat operations, however, could require gap crossings and the Army must remain proficient in planning for and conducting them. Rivers that would require non-hasty crossing methods exist in every geographic region, meaning that any future Army operation against a conventional force could require a deliberate gap crossing. History demonstrates the importance of the tactical task of gap crossing to overall mission accomplishment. Some of the most successful gap crossings in history involved entire armies of multiple corps focused on nothing but establishing a bridgehead, as with the spring 1945 Rhine crossing's in World War II and Operation Badr in the Arab-Israeli War. History also demonstrates that operations can fail in spite of a successful gap crossing. The Allied failure in Operation Market-Garden during World War II showed that successfully crossing a river such as the Waal does not necessarily lead to operational success. If in planning and execution, commanders and their staffs do not integrate the gap crossing with other tactical actions effectively, the operation may culminate earlier than expected. Despite historical evidence that demonstrates the challenges associated with gap crossings, after a seventy-year lull in US experience with opposed crossings the United States Army gradually diminished its efforts to prepare for gap crossing operations. Army leaders reduced the number of units and associated equipment that specialize in gap crossing. Most recently, they approved updated doctrine that relegates gap crossing-once the topic of a dedicated field manual-to a single chapter of the 2011 Combined Arms Mobility manual. Training centers have noted that current units struggle to plan and execute gap crossing operations.
Download or read book Closing with the Enemy written by Michael Dale Doubler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the breakout in France to the German Army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Doubler deals with the deadly business of war - closing with the enemy, fighting and winning battles, taking and holding territory. His study provides a reassessment of how American GIs accomplished these dangerous and costly tasks.
Download or read book River crossing Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Crossing Tactics written by United States. Army. European Theater of Operations. War Department Observers Board and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American military engineers. 1935" inserted in v. 27.
