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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Military History 2.1 Ancient 2.2 Medieval 2.3 Industrial 2.4 World War 2.5 Cold War 2.5.1 So what was the problem? 2.5.1.1 East vs West: The Ultimate Love-Hate Relationship 2.6 Modern 3 Historic Figures 3.1 Leaders 3.2 Soldiers 3.3 Authors 4 War Applications 4.1 Tactics 4.2 Strategy 4.2.1 Combat 4.2.2 Psycology 4.2.3 Logistics 4.3 Doctrine 5 Military Education 5.1 Paramilitary Organizations 5.2 High School Programs 5.3 Teen Programs 5.4 College & University 5.5 U.S. Service Academies 6 Personnel Development 6.1 Initial 6.1.1 Basic 6.2 Enlisted 6.2.1 NCO Courses 6.2.2 Advance Training 6.3 Officer 6.3.1 Officer Courses 6.3.2 Advance Training 6.4 Civilian 7 Forces 7.1 U.S. Armed Forces 7.1.1 Commands 7.1.1.1 Conventional Forces 7.1.1.2 Special Operations 7.1.2 Regulations 7.1.3 Military Law 7.1.4 Branch Specific 7.1.4.1 U.S. Marines 7.1.4.1.1 Overview 7.1.4.1.2 Ranks 7.1.4.1.3 Order of Battle 7.1.4.1.4 Departments 7.1.4.2 U.S. ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES : AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY 7.1.4.2.1 World War I 7.1.4.2.2 World War II 7.1.4.2.2.1 European Theater 7.1.4.2.2.2 North African/Middle East Theater 7.1.4.2.2.3 Pacific Theater 7.1.4.2.2.4 Small Unit Actions 7.1.4.2.3 Overview 7.1.4.2.4 Ranks 7.1.4.2.5 Order of Battle 7.1.4.2.6 Departments 7.1.4.3 U.S. Air Force 7.1.4.3.1 Overview 7.1.4.3.2 Ranks 7.1.4.3.3 Order of Battle 7.1.4.3.4 Departments 7.1.4.4 U.S. Navy 7.1.4.4.1 Overview 7.1.4.4.2 Ranks 7.1.4.4.3 Order of Battle 7.1.4.4.4 Departments 7.1.4.5 U.S. Coast Guard 7.1.4.5.1 Overview 7.1.4.5.2 Ranks 7.1.4.5.3 Order of Battle 7.1.4.6 Departments 7.2 Culture of War 7.2.1 Deaths 7.2.2 Wounded 7.2.3 Missing-in-Action 7.2.4 Prisoners-of-War 7.2.5 Media Attention & Effect 7.2.6 Social Understanding & Criticism 7.2.7 Joining the Military 7.2.8 Political Arena

[edit] Introduction

Military Studies can be described as the art and science of military applications. Throughout the ages, warfare has been all around us. Much of the world depends on warfare to advance both technologically and culturally. For example, without the development of the Manhattan Project, it may have taken much longer to utilize the practical energy uses of the atom for nuclear power.

Now, the military itself is a big part of what makes up this world of ours. So where do you start in something that can be approached in so many different ways? History, of course. The only way you can learn is by experience. History is nothing but experience--a few thousand years of it at least.

[edit] Military History

[edit] Ancient

If you follow evolution, you know you shared a common ancestor with a monkey. If you're more religious, then you believe that we are God's divine creatures. Divine creature or monkey, ancient history covers that period of time as well as it can. The further back you go into history, the fewer records there are. Today, you will even have records on your shoe size. The records for back a few thousand years only give us hints of great wars and campaigns commanded by leaders such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.

These men were both generals and kings of their respective empires, which they would have to have taken by force and luck. The armies they commanded demanded respect, extraordinary leadership, and--most of all--standing with their men right at the frontlines. There are many other generals and warlords that lived in Alexander's and Caesar's times, but these two great men risked their lives just like their soldiers. This is what separates leaders from great leaders.

Armies operated much the same from ancient times to even the 19th century in the American Civil War as large tight formations of moving blocks. Even if you applied modern tactics to ancient soldiers with swords and spears, they would have to be a guerilla force to be successful with what they had then. But these men would have to operate like North Vietnamese soldiers and not modern U.S. Special Forces. But this would have a bad effect on your reputation as a commander, and commanders in the day had to be honorable by ancient standards.

Commanders would have to be usually of a noble line or regarded as upper class to go through officer training to later lead armies. These commanders were plenty, but their valor was not. These commanders were mostly surrounded by veteran bodyguards far from the frontlines, but close enough to command the battle effectively. Battles would be long and fierce, and could be decided by simply looking at the number of forces alone. Sometimes this was not always true. While nations in general had average training and weapons, some like the Spartans or Romans would take training and weapons to a whole new level.

Spartan warriors were before the time of Roman supremacy. Even then, these Spartans could easily match Romans. Spartans lived and breath military training from almost the time of birth. This group of Spartans were only a city which was probably the most productive and efficient city in all the world. As a Spartan, you only did what was needed. You would never indulge except in physical and formation training. Spartan's were the Iron Men of all world history and would die in outnumbered battles such as in the battle of ((NEED RESEARCH ON MOUNTAIN BATTLE)) if it was a strategically reasonable. While the Romans operated differently then the Spartans, they would become the first world superpower we would see.

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[edit] Industrial

[edit] World War

[edit] Cold War

After the Allies had defeated Nazi Germany in 1945, two nations emerged out of the war as world superpowers - the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the Soviet Union or the USSR).

By the end of World War 2, they had earned their place as the strongest countries in the world. But although they had been fighting the war as allies, there were many things which seperated them:

• Economic System - the USA had a capitalist economic system which basically means that the industry is owned by private individuals who can make and keep their profit independently. The Soviet Union had a socialist economic system which made all industry and land owned by the government and the wealth generated from them shared out equally for the population.

• Social System - the USA believed in freedom of speech (for example, criticizing the government) and personal belief and freedom of the press and that each citizen had their own right to excercise this and express it without getting shot or arrested. The Soviet Union believed in censorship of things undesirable and potentially dangerous to the government, and control of the media and citizens.

• Election Process - the USA believed in free, multi-party elections which allowed all types of parties no matter how far right or left they were, to be represented and allowed to be voted for in elections, and the party which won the majority of votes by the population would get into power. The Soviet Union only allowed one type of party in the election process.

[edit] So what was the problem?

They might have been fighting the war hand in hand, but when it was over and there was no common enemy to unite against, they soon fell out and bore a deep grudge against each other which lasted for the next 40 years or so and became known as the 'Cold War'.

[edit] East vs West: The Ultimate Love-Hate Relationship

The countries in the West never had a particularly good relationship with communism. It dates way back to 1917, when the Bolsheviks, a powerful and very popular hardline communist party back then took control of Russia in a coup. Russia, back then was a hundred years behind the West and was in a terrible position - there was a lack of food, all-time low living conditions, mass poverty and an expensive war that was draining away the limited money and resources. There were three main events that eventually led up to the Bolshevik take-over:

1) Revolution of 1905 - this wasn't really a revolution but it was a massive spasm of violence with no real political aim directed against the ruling monarchy at that time, but the government still manages to just cling on and ruthlessly suppress it

2) February Revoution of 1917 - this was what you'd call a revolution. There is again a massive rebellion against the government but this time it is a co-ordinated assault on government buildings by various anti-monarchist forces. In March, the government is deposed and a new provisional government is formed

3) October Revolution of 1917 - another assault on key buildings, but this time by Bolshevik communist forces under Lenin. The privisional government is eventually deposed and a new communist government is formed. Russia makes peace with Germany and withdraws from World War 1

But this comes as very bad news for the West. They have just lost a crucial ally in the war against Germany and it's allies, and having witnessed the bloody events in Russia they are absolutely terrified that it might happen to them, from their own socialist parties.

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[edit] Historic Figures

[edit] Leaders

[edit] Soldiers

[edit] Authors

[edit] War Applications

[edit] Tactics

[edit] Strategy

[edit] Combat

[edit] Psycology

[edit] Logistics

[edit] Doctrine

[edit] Military Education

[edit] Paramilitary Organizations

[edit] High School Programs

[edit] Teen Programs

[edit] College & University

[edit] U.S. Service Academies

[edit] Personnel Development

[edit] Initial

[edit] Basic

[edit] Enlisted

[edit] NCO Courses

[edit] Advance Training

[edit] Officer

[edit] Officer Courses

[edit] Advance Training

[edit] Civilian

[edit] Forces

[edit] U.S. Armed Forces

[edit] Commands

[edit] Conventional Forces

[edit] Special Operations

RANGERS IN COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

[edit] Regulations

[edit] Military Law

[edit] Branch Specific

[edit] U.S. Marines

[edit] Overview

[edit] Ranks

[edit] Order of Battle

[edit] Departments

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[edit] U.S. ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES : AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY

• AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY

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[edit] World War I

[edit] World War II

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[edit] European Theater

• 1. CMH Pub. 100-7: SALERNO : American Operations From the Beaches to the Volturno, 9 September - 6 October 1943
  2. CMH Pub. 100-8: FROM THE VOLTURNO TO THE WINTER LINE, 6 October - 15 November 1943
  3. CMH Pub. 100-9: FIFTH ARMY AT THE WINTER LINE, 15 November 1943 - 15 January 1944
  4. CMH Pub. 100-10: ANZIO BEACHHEAD, 22 JANUARY - 25 MAY 1944
  5. CMH Pub. 100-11: OMAHA BEACHHEAD, 6 June-13 June 1944
  6. CMH Pub. 100-12: UTAH BEACH TO CHERBOURG, 6 June-27 June 1944
  7. CMH Pub. 100-13: ST-LO, 7 July - 19 July 1944

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[edit] North African/Middle East Theater

• 1. CMH Pub. 100-6: TO BIZERTE WITH THE II CORPS : 23 April - 13 May 1943

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[edit] Pacific Theater

• 1. CMH Pub. 100-1: PAPUAN CAMPAIGN : The Buna-Sanananda Operation, 16 November 1942 - 23 January 1943
  2. CMH Pub. 100-2: THE CAPTURE OF MAKIN : 20 - 24 November 1943
  3. CMH Pub. 100-3: THE ADMIRALTIES : Operations of the 1st Cavalry Division, 29 February - 18 May 1944
  4. CMH Pub. 100-4: MERRILL'S MARAUDERS : February - May 1944
  5. CMH Pub. 100-5: GUAM : Operations of the 77th Division, 21 July - 10 August 1944

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[edit] Small Unit Actions

• CMH Pub 100-14: SMALL UNIT ACTIONS

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[edit] Overview

[edit] Ranks

[edit] Order of Battle

[edit] Departments

[edit] U.S. Air Force

[edit] Overview

[edit] Ranks

[edit] Order of Battle

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[edit] U.S. Navy

[edit] Overview

[edit] Ranks

[edit] Order of Battle

[edit] Departments

[edit] U.S. Coast Guard

[edit] Overview

[edit] Ranks

[edit] Order of Battle

[edit] Departments

[edit] Culture of War

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Wounded

[edit] Missing-in-Action

[edit] Prisoners-of-War

[edit] Media Attention & Effect

[edit] Social Understanding & Criticism

[edit] Joining the Military

[edit] Political Arena