Author: Gilbert Wheeler BeebePublisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Beskudte; Sårede; Dødelig udgang; Våbeneffektivitet; Krops-zoner; Logistik; Evakuering; Hospitaler
Battle Casualties, Incidence, Mortality, and Logistic Considerations
Author: Gilbert Wheeler BeebePublisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Beskudte; Sårede; Dødelig udgang; Våbeneffektivitet; Krops-zoner; Logistik; Evakuering; Hospitaler
Battle Casualities
Author: Gilbert W. BeebeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : War casualties
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Battle Casualties and Medical Statistics;
Author: Frank A. ReisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Battle Casualties and Mental Statistics
Author: Frank A. ReisterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Combat Casualty Care
Author: Martha K. LenhartPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160913907
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
"This book is designed to deliver combat casualty care information that will facilitate transition from a continental US or civilian practice to the combat care environment. Establishment of the Joint Theater Trauma System and the Joint Theater Trauma Registry, coupled with the efforts of the authors, has resulted in the creation of the most comprehensive, evidence-based depiction of the latest advances in combat casualty care. Lessons learned in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have been fortified with evidence-based recommendations to improve casualty care. The educational curriculum was designed overall to address the leading causes of preventable death and disability in OEF and OIF. Specifically, the generalist combat casualty care provider is presented requisite information for optimal cae of US combat casualties in the first 72 to 96 hours after injury. The specialist provider is afforded similiar information, supplemented by lessons learned for definitive care of host nation patients."--
United States Armed Forces Medical Journal
Author: War by Numbers
Author: Christopher A. LawrencePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 161234917X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
War by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By demonstrating the impact a variety of factors have on combat he moves such analysis beyond the work of Carl von Clausewitz and into modern data and interpretation. Using vast data sets, Lawrence examines force ratios, the human factor in case studies from World War II and beyond, the combat value of superior situational awareness, and the effects of dispersion, among other elements. Lawrence challenges existing interpretations of conventional warfare and shows how such combat should be conducted in the future, simultaneously broadening our understanding of what it means to fight wars by the numbers.
Army Weapon Systems Analysis
Author: United States. Army Materiel Development and Readiness CommandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Combat Motivation
Author: A. KellettPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401539650
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"What men will fight for seems to be worth looking into," H. L. Mencken noted shortly after the close of the First World War. Prior to that war, although many military commanders and theorists had throughout history shown an aptitude for devising maxims concerning esprit de corps, fighting spirit, morale, and the like, military organizations had rarely sought either to understand or to promote combat motivation. For example, an officer who graduated from the Royal Military College (Sandhurst) at the end of the nineteenth century later commented that the art of leadership was utterly neglected (Charlton 1931, p. 48), while General Wavell recalled that during his course at the British Staff College at Camberley (1909-1 0) insufficient stress was laid "on the factor of morale, or how to induce it and maintain it'' (quoted in Connell1964, p. 63). The First World War forced commanders and staffs to take account of psychological factors and to anticipate wideJy varied responses to the combat environment because, unlike most previous wars, it was not fought by relatively small and homogeneous armies of regulars and trained reservists. The mobilization by the belligerents of about 65 million men (many of whom were enrolled under duress), the evidence of fairly widespread psychiatric breakdown, and the postwar disillusion (- xiii xiv PREFACE emplified in books like C. E. Montague's Disenchantment, published in 1922) all tended to dispel assumptions and to provoke questions about mo tivation and morale.
Bracketing the Enemy
Author: John R. WalkerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806150343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who directed the artillery fire. Until now, the vital role of forward observers in ground combat has received little scholarly attention. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker remedies this oversight by offering the first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II. As early as the U.S. Civil War, artillery fire could reach as far as two miles, but without an “FO” (forward observer) to report where the first shot had landed in relation to the target, and to direct subsequent fire by outlining or “bracketing” the targeted range, many of the advantages of longer-range fire were wasted. During World War II, FOs accompanied infantrymen on the front lines. Now, for the first time, gun crews could bring deadly accurate fire on enemy positions immediately as advancing riflemen encountered these enemy strongpoints. According to Walker, this transition from direct to indirect fire was one of the most important innovations to have occurred in ground combat in centuries. Using the 37th Division in the Pacific Theater and the 87th in Europe as case studies, Walker presents a vivid picture of the dangers involved in FO duty and shows how vitally important forward observers were to the success of ground operations in a variety of scenarios. FO personnel not only performed a vital support function as artillerymen but often transcended their combat role by fighting as infantrymen, sometimes even leading soldiers into battle. And yet, although forward observers lived, fought, and bled with the infantry, they were ineligible to wear the Combat Infantryman’s Badge awarded to the riflemen they supported. Forward observers are thus among the unsung heroes of World War II. Bracketing the Enemy signals a long-overdue recognition of their distinguished service.