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Military Conservatism

Military Conservatism

Rear Admiral Wm. S. Sims, U.S. Navy

This interesting address, delivered to the graduating class of the U.S. Naval War College, deals with the question of military conservatism, a “polite term often intended to imply a dangerous class reluctance to accept new ideas.”

Published: April 1922

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The Mobile Division of the Future

The Mobile Division of the Future

Instructors' Summary of Military Articles

The article discusses the necessity of striking a balance between the maintenance of mobility of a cavalry division and the attachment of units of other arms such as tanks, armored cars and tractor drawn artillery which will increase the stnKing power of the division but which will reduce its mobility. It emphasizes the importance of the personality of the cavalry.

Published: 10 July, 1924

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Mechanization

Mechanization

Lt. Col. P.R. Davison, Cavalry
Maj. E.M. Benitez, Coast Artillery Corps

This article does not necessarily express the ideas, policies, teachings or beliefs of The Command and General Staff School. It should not be construed that the authors are attempting to introduce new and strange ideas to our service. The study is written to present mechanization, in a general character, as it is found today in five great nations. An hypothetical situation is used as a vehicle upon which to load a suggested mechanized force. Should this study inspire a great many differences of opinion, it has then created thought on the subject, and in so doing, its mission is accomplished.

Published: September 1938

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Radio Relay, the War's Great Development in Signal Communications

Radio Relay, the War's Great Development in Signal Communications

Major General W. S. Rumbough, Signal Corps

On the morning of D+2, 8 June 1944, First Army put its radio link station ashore on Omaha Beach and at 1314 it went into operation from the bluff above the Beach. The Headquarters in Normandy was thus in communication with a similar station on St. Catherines Hill, Isle of Wight, and through that station with the IX Tactical Air Force at Middle Wallop or the 21st Army Group, near Portsmouth, and through switchboards at these headquarters with the general wire system of the American and British armies in Southern England. This inaugurated the use of radio relay in United States operations in the European Theater.

Published: May 1946

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The Helicopter in the Army

The Helicopter in the Army

Translated and digested by the Military Review from a copyrighted article by Erich Hampe in “Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau" (Germany) February 1957.

The helicopter is a special type of flying apparatus, and an evaluation of its capabilities and employment cannot be made by a simple comparison with airplanes. It can be achieved only from a knowledge of its special peculiarities. It also would be a mistake, as often happens, to look on the helicopter as a jack-of-all-trades, although its seemingly limitless flexibility appears to lead to this characterization.

Published: March 1958

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The Helicopter in the Army

The Commander and the Computer

Major Daniel K. Malone, United States Army

Many officers have voiced their concern about the apparent inflexibility of computers when it comes to their use in the army in the field, and about the apparent trend of computers to cause centralization in organizations. These questions probably revolve around the often subconscious fear about who will control whom-commander or computer-when a computer for command and control is put into the field.

Published: June 1967

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Satellite Technology and Deterrent Strategy

Clifton C. Carpenter

The camera rolled, and the North Georgia landscape lay exposed to the probing fingers of the remote sensors sweeping overhead. From an altitude of 570 miles, ground phenomena revealed much of its intimate character. With the launch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS1) in July 1972, a first step was taken in the merging of space and space phenomena into a system centered around remote sensing technology. This successful launch by NASA introduced a technological system that was destined to have a profound influence on the nature of America's defensive strategy.

Published: October 1975

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Soldiers and Computers

Major Steven L. Funk, California Army National Guard

Consider the hypothetical case of a civilian industry designing and producing an overly complicated product which was, therefore, unusable by the intended users. The company would most likely be a financial failure and used as an example in management courses of how not to do it. Should the Army be indicted for such practices?

Published: May 1980

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See Deep Shoot Deep: UAVs on the Future Battlefield

Miles A. Libbey III
Maj. Patrick A. Putignano, US Army, Retired

A key part of the emerging AirLand Battle Future doctrine requires the optimum use of technology to effectively operate on the envisioned nonlinear battlefield. The authors point out that unmanned aerial, vehicles (UAVs) have capabilities that can significantly enhance operations. They describe several available and emerging UAV technologies and their potential uses on tomorrow's battlefield.

Published: February 1991

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Arming the Force: Future Class V Sustainment

Colonel Alan D. Braithwaite, U.S. Army Reserve

A new strategy focused on “now and into the future” helps logisticians support Joint warfighter readiness with modernized firearms and weapons systems.

Published: May-June 2009

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Fighting Forward: Modernizing U.S. Army Reconnaissance and Security for Great Power Conflict

Maj. Nathan Jennings, U.S. Army

The U.S. Army is facing a capabilities gap in reconnaissance and security for large-scale combat operations. The author details several relatively cost-neutral options for addressing the problem, espousing dedicated and echeloned cavalry formations with cross-domain enablers.

Published: November-December 2019

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To Change an Army—Winning Tomorrow

Lt. Gen. Eric J. Wesley, U.S. Army
Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jon Bates, U.S. Army

The director of the Futures and Concepts Center, U.S. Army Futures Command, provides a vision and a framework for how the U.S. Army can achieve modernization to keep pace with the growing parity of peer adversaries.

Published: May-June 2020

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