Mobility, shock, and firepower : the emergence of the U.S. Army's armor branch, 1917-1945 /
From the Preface: The following pages provide a narrative analysis of the U.S. Army's development of armored organizations and their related doctrine, materiel, and training activities in the period 1917-1945. This period marked the emergence of clear principles of armored warfare that became...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Center of Military History United States Army,
2008.
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| Series: | Army historical series.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1: America Adopts The Tank
- Tank Corps
- Tank Corps' demise
- War department and the National Defense Act of 1920
- Infantry tank development
- Reconsidering the tank's battlefield role
- Experimental mechanized force
- Bureau system versus mechanization
- Mechanized force
- 2: Early Development Of The Mechanized Cavalry
- Demise of the mechanized force
- Birth of the mechanized cavalry
- 1934 Fort Riley maneuvers
- Reorganization of the mechanized cavalry
- Bureau system and mechanized cavalry reorganization
- Mechanization of a second cavalry regiment
- Second army maneuvers of 1936
- 3: Mechanization: The Chief Of Cavalry's Runaway Horse
- American cavalry in the 1930s
- Problem of the cavalry's image
- Office of the chief of cavalry and the bureau system
- Mechanized cavalry board
- Cavalry school and mechanization
- Chief of cavalry and cavalry modernization
- 4: Infantry And Mechanization
- Army doctrine in the 1930s
- Infantry motorization
- Division redesign
- Foundations of infantry tank doctrine
- Tank development and the infantry school
- Infantry tank organization
- Infantry tanks
- 5: View From Abroad
- Military intelligence division and its military attaches
- Army intelligence dissemination
- Confusion of British mechanization
- French mechanized development
- Military intelligence division and the Panzer division
- World mechanization
- 6: Cavalry At The Crossroads
- Mechanized cavalry development, 1936-1939
- Mechanized cavalry maneuvers, 1937-1938
- Cavalry field manual of 1938
- War department and mechanization
- Case for horse cavalry
- Future of cavalry
- 7: New Beginning: The Armored Force
- Building a mechanized cavalry division
- Stepping back: the mechanized cavalry division rejected
- First army maneuvers, 1939
- Mechanized cavalry division revisited
- Third army maneuver preparations
- Crucible of mechanization: third army maneuvers, 1940
- Armored force and the centralization of mechanized development
- 8: Armored Force Development, 1940-1941
- Building the training base
- Command climate
- New doctrinal base
- Early training activities
- Armored force and foreign experiences
- Armored division development
- Armored Corps?
- War department's army
- 9: Creating An Armored Force Nemesis
- Antitank development in the 1930s
- Building an antitank unit
- Antitank weapons
- Self-propelled antitank weapons
- Foreign antitank developments
- Problem of antitank doctrine, 1940-1941
- Antitank the American way
- 10: Art Of Maneuver, 1941
- Louisiana maneuvers
- Carolina maneuvers
- Assessing mobile operations
- Antitank operations
- Maneuver management
- Cavalry: a maneuver casualty
- 11: From Armored Force To Armored Center
- Armored force expansion and personnel shortfall
- Training challenges and accomplishments
- Question of separate branch status
- Demise of the armored corps
- Evolution of the armored division
- Combat operations in North Africa
- Armored division's new look
- Applying lessons learned in North Africa
- Armored materiel
- Sustaining combat capability
- Air support
- Branch status resolution
- Evaluating the armored wartime experience
- 12: Tank Destroyer Development
- Building a tank destroyer force, 1941-1942
- Doctrine and organization
- First tank destroyers
- Combat debut
- Tank destroyer criticism
- Tank destroyer doctrine and training revisited
- Organizational and materiel development
- Tank destroyers
- Uncertain future
- 13: Armored Divisions In Battle, 1944-1945
- Armored division doctrine
- Armored division organization
- Combat operations
- Armored division air support
- Armored materiel
- Armored maintenance
- 14: Armored Enablers: Mechanized Cavalry, Independent Tanks, And Tank Destroyers
- Mechanized cavalry
- Independent tank battalion readiness
- Independent tank battalion combat operations
- Rejection of independent tank battalion doctrine
- Armored group
- From tank destroyer to armored gun
- 15: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Acronyms
- Index.