Military Review

Military Review PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Military Review

Military Review PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Military Review

Military Review PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1456

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Military Law Review

Military Law Review PDF Author:
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Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Quarterly Review of Military Literature PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Professional Journal of the United States Army

Professional Journal of the United States Army PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Soviet Military Review

Soviet Military Review PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Quarterly Review of Military Literature

Quarterly Review of Military Literature PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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No Sure Victory

No Sure Victory PDF Author: Gregory A. Daddis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199830711
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into the Army's techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and disturbing-account of the American misadventure in Indochina. Daddis shows how the US Army, which confronted an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form of warfare, adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable, system of measurements and formulas to track the progress of military operations that ranged from pacification efforts to search-and-destroy missions. The Army's monthly "Measurement of Progress" reports covered innumerable aspects of the fighting in Vietnam-force ratios, Vietcong/North Vietnamese Army incidents, tactical air sorties, weapons losses, security of base areas and roads, population control, area control, and hamlet defenses. Concentrating more on data collection and less on data analysis, these indiscriminate attempts to gauge success may actually have hindered the army's ability to evaluate the true outcome of the fight at hand--a roadblock that Daddis believes significantly contributed to the many failures that American forces suffered in Vietnam. Filled with incisive analysis and rich historical detail, No Sure Victory is not only a valuable case study in unconventional warfare, but a cautionary tale that offers important perspectives on how to measure performance in current and future armed conflict. Given America's ongoing counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, No Sure Victory provides valuable historical perspective on how to measure--and mismeasure--military success.

Command and General Staff Officer Education for the 21st Century Examining the German Model

Command and General Staff Officer Education for the 21st Century Examining the German Model PDF Author: Major Luke G. Grossman USAF
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786250470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Education has been the foundational cornerstone to every profession and continues to be so in the 21st Century. As a profession, the military is obligated to conduct not only training but also education of the keepers of the profession, the officer corps. Since the rise of large military bodies enabled by the levee en masse and industrialization, armies have required educated officers skilled in both command and staff functions. The Prussian-German model of staff officer education embodied in the Kriegsakademie of the Nineteenth and first half of the Twentieth Century’s, was highly regarded and much copied. The education officer received at the Kriegsakademie directly contributed to an efficiently organized and employed Prussian-German Army at the tactical and operational levels. The investment in Kriegsakademie officer education paid huge dividends at Gravelotte-St Privat and Sedan 1870, Tannenberg 1914, Battle of Poland 1939, and the Battle of France 1940, critical first battles. With the rearming of Germany in 1955 came the need for the fledgling Bundeswehr to educate general staff officers. This need was met by establishing the Führungsakademie (German Armed Forces Command and Staff College). The Führungsakademie was created with the same time honored principles that had served general staff officer training previously: careful selection of the most highly qualified and promising officers and a broad based education rigorously applied. However, little information on the current Führungsakademie Education System is available in the English language. This monograph attempts to address this void. The author conducted research and interviews with the faculty, staff, and students at the Führungsakademie in Hamburg, Germany in order to understand and assess the education given to German general staff officer aspirants. The central general staff officer’s education course is the National General/Admiral Staff Officers Course.

Review of Current Military Literature

Review of Current Military Literature PDF Author:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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