This manual, Training Circular TC 3-20.0 Integrated Weapons Training Strategy (IWTS) June 2019, provides a detailed description of the maneuver force’s overarching training strategy for all individual and crew-served weapons, through maneuver battalion at home station to achieve fire and maneuver proficiency. It includes the purpose of the IWTS, its standard structure, training requirements, the integration of combined arms assets, and resource requirements for the Armored, Infantry, and S...

Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure September 2018 RevisionU.S Department of Defense Standards of Conduct OfficeThe Standards of Conduct Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel’s Office assembled the following selection of cases of ethical failure for use as a training tool. The goal is to provide DoD personnel with real examples of Federal employees who have intentionally or unwittingly violated the standards of conduct. Some cases are humorous, some sad, and all a...

This multi-Service tactics, techniques, and procedures publication for Airfield Opening, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-17.2 Airfield Opening October 2018, is a single source, descriptive reference guide for opening and transferring an airfield. It is also known as MCRP 3-20B.1, NTTP 3-02.18, AFTTP 3-2.68, and MCRP 3-21.1B.It includes the following:Chapter I Expeditionary Airfield PlanningChapter I provides commanders and staffs tactics, techniques, and procedure...

This US Army regulation, Army Regulation AR 40-58 Medical Services Army Recovery Care Program May 2020, prescribes the policy and standards for the Army Recovery Care Program. Establishes revised entry criteria for Soldier Recovery Units and prescribes the daily operations for the care management and rehabilitation of wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers. This mandated revision renames Warrior Care and Transition Program to Army Recovery Care Program and includes changes to program structure...

Includes the War in North Africa Illustration Pack – 112 photos/illustrations and 21 maps.This book, originally published in 1942 by the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, contains information based on German and British reports explaining German survival and adaptation to the desert. Desert operations have much in common with operations in the other parts of the world. The unique aspects of desert operations stem primarily from heat and lack of moisture. While these two fac...

During the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, then Brigadier General John Buford commanded the First Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, U.S.A. He is generally credited with determining the importance of, and holding the ground near Gettysburg for the coming battle. This study examines the controversies surrounding Buford's actions and discusses whether the controversies have overshadowed the importance of the lessons to be learned from the events.

While hundreds of volumes exist on the Gettysburg Campaign, most examine the battle's tactical framework and focus on the activities of brigades and regiments. However, of more interest to the serving military professional may be an analysis of the degree to which the Confederacy's design and execution exemplify attributes of what is now known as the operational art. This monograph provides just such a study.The importance of the operational level of war and its supporting art canno...

The thesis of this study is that the Continental artillery in the American Revolution, despite its ad hoc beginning and wartime challenges, gradually developed into a professional organization by the end of the war. Rather than operational history of the organization, its focus is on the growth of the organization over time, in terms of its cultural beginnings, its doctrinal development, and the leadership and career paths of some of its middle ranking leaders. The first chapter lays out t...

This policy, Army Regulation AR 614-100 Officer Assignment Policies, Details, and Transfers January 2019, establishes policies for the reassignment of commissioned officers and warrant officers (WOs) between commands or units of the Army. Procedures are established for processing requests for reassignment, and restrictions are imposed on permanent change of station (PCS) of officers as individuals and as members of units. This regulation remains in effect for all levels of contingency or m...

Training Circular TC 4-15.51 Marine Crewman’s Handbook December 2018The United States (U.S.) Army watercraft fleet is made up of all types of vessels, including oceangoing vessels, tugs, landing craft, and barges. Although all of these vessels operate on water, their missions are different. The watercraft operator must have the skills and knowledge to perform the tasks required on any of these vessels. This training circular (TC) is for the 88K watercraft operator, skill levels 1 t...

This manual, Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-20.15 MCRP 3-10B.1 Tank Platoon July 2019, encompasses techniques for tank platoons of armored brigade combat teams (ABCTs). It replaces ATP 3-20.15, published in December 2012. ATP 3-20.15/MCRP 3-10B.1 provides doctrinal guidance; describes relationships in the platoon; defines organizational roles and functions, capabilities, limitations; and lay outs the responsibilities for platoons during unified land operations. The tank platoon is a uni...

This paper examines Sherman's growth as a strategic thinker and successful strategist. It explores how his life shaped him to fill the role that he did in the Civil War and what things contributed to his development into the soldier who could plan and execute the North's strategy in the last year of the war. It also focuses on specific instances of success and failure that led him to the position from which he could influence, if not actually author, the strategy followed by the Union in t...