The Dynamics Of Doctrine The Changes In German Tactical Doctrine During The First World War Illustrated Edition

Author : Captain Timothy Lupfer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250193

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The Dynamics Of Doctrine: The Changes In German Tactical Doctrine During The First World War [Illustrated Edition] by Captain Timothy Lupfer Pdf

[Includes 4 maps and 3 figures] This latest Leavenworth Paper is a case study in the wartime evolution of tactical doctrine. Previous publications of the Combat Studies Institute have examined the peacetime development of doctrine and have increased our knowledge of how doctrine has been applied. With the publication of Captain Lupfer’s study, “The Dynamics of Doctrine,” the Combat Studies Institute adds another dimension to the history of the processes of doctrinal change. Besides providing a summary of German infantry tactics of the First World War, this study offers insights into the crucial role of leadership in facilitating doctrinal change during battle. It once again reminds us that success in war demands extensive and vigorous training calculated to insure that field commanders understand and apply sound tactical Principles as guidelines for action and not as a substitute for good judgment. It points out the need for a timely effort in collecting and evaluating doctrinal lessons from battlefield experience. Finally, this study reminds us of yet another fundamental lesson from the past-that tendencies toward accepting the battlefield as a routine can be a deadly error. Altering previously accepted tactics in the middle of a struggle, as the author points out, is a very urgent and serious matter. As members of the Profession of Arms, we must be sensitive to the demands of change, visionary in our examination of their implications, and creative in our adaptation of combat organizations, tactics, and techniques.

Author : Timothy T. Lupfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9998843944

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The Dynamics Of Doctrine by Timothy T. Lupfer Pdf

Author : Timothy T. Lupfer,U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Combat Studies Institute
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Tactics
ISBN : 9781428915978

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The dynamics of doctrine by Timothy T. Lupfer,U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Combat Studies Institute Pdf

Author : Major Timothy A. Wray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786251954

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Standing Fast: German Defensive Doctrine on the Russian Front During World War II — Prewar to March 1943 by Major Timothy A. Wray Pdf

Includes over 50 maps plans and illustrations. In this Research Survey, Major Timothy A. Wray provides an excellent survey of the intricacies of employing defensive tactics against a powerful opponent. Using after-action reports, unit war diaries, and other primary materials, Major Wray analyzes the doctrine and tactics that the Germans used on the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of World War I, the Germans adopted the elastic defense in depth and continued to use it as their basic doctrine through the end of World War II. However, because of limitations caused by difficult terrain, severe weather, manpower and supply shortages, Soviet tactics, and Hitler’s order to stand fast, German commanders were unable to implement the Elastic Defense in its true form. Even so, innovative and resourceful unit commanders were able to adapt to the harsh realities of combat and improvise defensive methods that saved the German armies from complete annihilation. U.S. Army unit commanders on the future battlefield, while battling a motivated and aggressive force, will also face hard battlefield conditions. Therefore, these commanders, in applying the AirLand Battle tenets of initiative, depth, agility, and synchronization, will have to demonstrate the same type of innovativeness and resourcefulness as the Germans did in Russia. To operate on the AirLand Battlefield, U.S. soldiers must depend on sound doctrine and the ability to execute it intelligently. All Army officers will benefit from Major Wray’s new and vital assessment of how German doctrine was modified by the test of war.

Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9780198743125

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War by Hew Strachan Pdf

Originally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.

Author : Cdr. Jeffrey J. Bernasconi
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782898863

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Cannon Fodder Or Corps d'Elite: The American Expeditionary Force In The Great War [Illustrated Edition] by Cdr. Jeffrey J. Bernasconi Pdf

Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps The analysis of the impact of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in the Great War has fallen into two competing camps. The first believes that the AEF was the war winning factor in coalition warfare. The opposite view holds that the AEF itself had no true impact, but rather it was the industrial might and the manpower potential of the United States (US) that was the key element to victory. The caveat to both views was that the AEF did not have enough time in combat to truly show its martial ability. This thesis attempts to analyze the combat effectiveness of the AEF by comparing its experience with that of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1916. The rate of change in the ability of the AEF to adapt to modern warfare will be shown to be slightly higher than that of the BEF of 1916. By November 1918, the AEF was not completely tactically combat effective, but it had dramatically improved from where it started and clearly demonstrated the potential to continue to improve at the same pace.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107181564

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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in Classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Author : Jonathan Boff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191649301

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Haig's Enemy by Jonathan Boff Pdf

During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. In Haig's Enemy, Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war — the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare. Providing a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front, Boff draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire. He revises conventional explanations of why the Germans lost with an in-depth analysis of the nature of command, and of the institutional development of the British, French, and German armies as modern warfare was born. Using Rupprecht's own diaries and letters, many of them never before published, Haig's Enemy views the Great War through the eyes of one of Germany's leading generals, shedding new light on many of the controversies of the Western Front. The picture which emerges is far removed from the sterile stalemate of myth. Instead, Boff re-draws the Western Front as a highly dynamic battlespace, both physical and intellectual, where three armies struggled not only to out-fight, but also to out-think, their enemy. The consequences of falling behind in the race to adapt would be more terrible than ever imagined.

Author : Paddy Griffith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300066635

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Battle Tactics of the Western Front by Paddy Griffith Pdf

Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.

Author : Michael Bonura
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814709429

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Under the Shadow of Napoleon by Michael Bonura Pdf

The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a series of ideas formed in the crucible of the Wars of the French Revolution and epitomized by Napoleon. Reflecting American cultural changes, these French ideas dominated American warfare on the battlefields of the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. America remained committed to these ideas until cultural pressures and the successes of German Blitzkrieg from 1939 - 1940 led George C. Marshall to orchestrate the adoption of a different understanding of warfare. Michael A. Bonura examines concrete battlefield tactics, army regulations, and theoretical works on war as they were presented in American army education manuals, professional journals, and the popular press, to demonstrate that as a cultural construction, warfare and ways of warfare can be transnational and influence other nations.

Author : Military Intelligence Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520979479

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German Tactical Doctrine by Military Intelligence Service Pdf

This is a piece put together by the United States Military Intelligence Service in 1942. It is a focused translation of pre-existing German documents regarding acceptable tactical doctrine in the field. This work covers everything from marching to communications on the battlefield, and the authority of the commander on the spot. It is an interesting piece for anyone studying infantry tactics during World War Two.

Author : Major Patrick T. Stackpole
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782897866

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German Tactics In The Michael Offensive March 1918 by Major Patrick T. Stackpole Pdf

This study investigates the German spring offensive of 1918 to determine how the Germans achieved tactical success, yet failed to reach their strategic objective. The study covers the development of new German infantry tactics during limited offensive operations and conduct of the “elastic defense” on the western front It investigates the development of artillery tactics on the eastern front, and the incorporation of these artillery and infantry tactics into larger scale offensives at Caporetto. The study describes the preparation of both the infantry and artillery units for the “Michael” offensive. The relationship between the infantry and artillery tactics combined with the British defense is the key to determine the causes for success and failure. The German tactical system used in “Operation Michael” was a brilliant adaptation to the lethality of the World War I battlefield. The German techniques were superb tools for conducting a breakthrough of a defensive zone. However, the lack of German mobility following the breakthrough foiled the German strategic goal to envelop the British Army. German techniques and lessons learned in this offensive have direct application to U.S. Army infiltration doctrine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Infantry
ISBN : UIUC:30112075628260

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Infantry by Anonim Pdf

Author : David T. Zabecki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1938 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598849813

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Germany at War [4 volumes] by David T. Zabecki Pdf

Written by experts for use by nonexperts, this monumental work probes Germany's "Genius for War" and the unmistakable pattern of tactical and operational innovation and excellence evident throughout the nation's military history. Despite having the best military forces in the world, some of the most advanced weapons available, and unparalleled tactical proficiency, Germany still lost both World Wars. This landmark, four-volume encyclopedia explores how and why that happened, at the same time examining Germany as a military power from the start of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 to the present day. Coverage includes the Federal Republic of Germany, its predecessor states, and the kingdoms and principalities that combined to form Imperial Germany in 1871. The Seven Years' War is discussed, as are the Napoleonic Wars, the Wars of German Unification (including the Franco-Prussian War), World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. In all, more than 1,000 entries illuminate battles, organizations, leaders, armies, weapons, and other aspects of war and military life. The most comprehensive overview of German military history ever to appear in English, this work will enable students and others interested in military history to better understand the sociopolitical history of Germany, the complex role conflict has played in the nation throughout its history, and why Germany continues to be an important player on the European continent.

Author : Donald Vandergriff
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682471043

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Adopting Mission Command by Donald Vandergriff Pdf

In September 2010, James G. Pierce, a retired U.S. Army colonel with the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, published a study on Army organizational culture. Pierce postulated that "the ability of a professional organization to develop future leaders in a manner that perpetuates readiness to cope with future environmental and internal uncertainty depends on organizational culture." He found that today's U.S. Army leadership "may be inadequately prepared to lead the profession toward future success." The need to prepare for future success dovetails with the use of the concepts of mission command. This book offers up a set of recommendations, based on those mission command concepts, for adopting a superior command culture through education and training. Donald E. Vandergriff believes by implementing these recommendations across the Army, that other necessary and long-awaited reforms will take place.