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Landers, Michael D. "A proposed battalion and below command and control (B2C2) system architecture for the armor battalion." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA272063.
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Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology (Command, Control, and Communications)) Naval Postgradaute School, June 1993.<br>Thesis advisor(s): Boger, Dan ; Jones, Carl R. "June 1993." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.
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Petrouchkevitch, Natalia. "Victims and criminals, Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/MQ44823.pdf.
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Crager, Kelly Eugene. "Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texas's "Lost Battalion," 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, During World War II." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4737/.
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In March 1942, the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Division, surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Army on Java in the Dutch East Indies. Shortly after the surrender, the men of the 2nd Battalion were joined as prisoners-of-war by the sailors and Marines who survived the sinking of the heavy cruiser USS Houston. From March 1942 until the end of World War II, these men lived in various Japanese prison camps throughout the Dutch East Indies, Southeast Asia, and in the Japanese home islands. Forced to labor for their captors for the duration of the conflict, they performed extremely difficult tasks, including working in industrial plants and mining coal in Japan, and most notably, constructing the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway. During their three-and-one-half years of captivity, these prisoners experienced brutality at the hands of the Japanese. Enduring prolonged malnutrition and extreme overwork, they suffered from numerous tropical and dietary diseases while receiving almost no medical care. Each day, these men lived in fear of being beaten and tortured, and for months at a time they witnessed the agonizing deaths of their friends and countrymen. In spite of the conditions they faced, most survived to return to the United States at war's end. This study examines the experiences of these former prisoners from 1940 to 1945 and attempts to explain how they survived.
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McCandless, Ronald G. "Analysis of resupply options for an armor battalion." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/25679.
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Since World War II, the United States Army has been fielding combat vehicles with greater mobility, firepower, and survivability. The tactics and doctrine of the Army have become more offensively oriented to improve the utilization of these new combat systems' capabilities. The Warsaw Pact forces have been making similar improvements in their equipment and doctrine. While these advances have been made in the areas of combat vehicles, the logistic vehicles tasked to provide the logistic support for the combat vehicles and the AirLand Battle doctrine have not changed since the 1940s. The modern Army is still supported by wheeled, soft-skinned vehicles similar to the vehicles are lacking the mobility of modern fighting vehicles, and do not provide protection to the crew and cargo from artillery and small arms fire. The United States Army needs improved logistic vehicles if it to be successful on the modern lethal battlefield. Based upon this concept, this thesis will analyze two different logistic vehicles and five doctrines for support of the modern Army. Keywords: Statistical analysis, Resupply vehicles
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Helinski, Mary J. "Construction productivity improvement at a construction battalion unit." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/25785.
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The objective of this study is to improve the OBUs productivity, quality and competitiveness using a combination of OPI, BPl and reengineering techniques. This paper will organize the CBU to conduct this type of program, select, analyze and streamline/reengineer five specific processes, identify ways to measure and control these processes, and recommend future courses of action. (MM)
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Gregson, Adrian S. "The 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment and the Great War : the experience of a territorial battalion and its home towns." Thesis, Coventry University, 2004. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/384/.
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This is a study of the importance and significance of community identity to a fighting unit in the First World War. It is an analysis of the relevance of the local communities to the unit and its combat effectiveness; the role played by the unit in the local communities’ involvement in the War; and the post-War ramifications of this relationship. In focusing on 1/7th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment, a Territorial battalion based in Bootle, Southport and the surrounding area of south west Lancashire, the thesis follows a typical Territorial unit and its home towns from recruitment and establishment to demobilisation and beyond. A wide range of primary sources have been examined including local newspapers, local Council records, official War Diaries of the various units, battle reports and private papers of several of the combatants. In developing existing historiography the study is also believed to present new perspectives on several aspects of the War including the Lusitania riots; the battles of Festubert, 1915, and Givenchy, 1918; and the role of charities in post-War reconstruction work. It also raises general issues about the role of the Territorial Force and draws attention to several gaps in the social and military historiography of the War. The thesis concludes that local and community identity contributed significantly towards the 1/7th Kings’ morale, organisation and hence battle effectiveness. This contribution initially stemmed from the local recruits themselves but was actively nurtured and encouraged by commanders at Battalion, Brigade and Divisional level throughout the War. It also establishes that by putting the local Battalion at the centre of its concerns, the rather disparate communities were able to organise, coalesce and maximise their War effort and support. Finally, it demonstrates in the post-War years, that, despite the fluctuations in this mutually important relationship, the local identification with the Battalion was maintained in memorialisation, remembrance and reconstruction.
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Hodgkinson, Peter Eric. "British infantry battalion commanders in the First World War." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4754/.
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The evolution of infantry battalion commanders in the First World War progressed from a pre-war system based mainly on promotion by seniority to one largely based on merit. It remained a weighted process, however, favouring the professional officer, particularly during the first two years, and biased against the Territorial. The quality of the pre-war officer appears higher than has been estimated. Average command lasted 8.5 months. Eleven per cent of COs were killed, ten per cent promoted, and 18 per cent invalided. The army practised quality control, removing 38 per cent from command, although reduction in removals as the war progressed indicates a refinement of quality. The army committed itself to professional development, teaching technical aspects of the CO role, as well as command and leadership. Citizens of 1914 with no previous military experience rose to command, this progress taking on average three years. Despite the social opening-up of the officer corps, these men tended to be from the professional class. By The Hundred Days, infantry battalion commanders were a mix of professional soldiers, pre-war auxiliaries and citizens - younger, fitter and richly experienced; many being quick thinkers, self-assured, and endowed with great personal courage and well-developed tactical ability.
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McGeady, Thomas Daniel. "Outsourced Combatants: The Russian State and the Vostok Battalion." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76743.
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Shortly after the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution which ousted pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia orchestrated a rapid and mostly bloodless annexation of the Crimea. Following the removal of Ukrainian authority from the peninsula, the Kremlin focused simultaneously on legitimizing the annexation via an electoral reform in Crimea and fermenting political unrest in the Donbas. As violence broke out in the Donbas, anti-Ukrainian government militias were formed by defecting Ukrainian security forces members, local volunteers, and volunteers from Russia. The Kremlin provided extensive support for these militias which sometimes even came in the form of direct military intervention by conventional Russian forces. However, the use of state-sponsored militias by Russia is not a new phenomenon. Since the end of the Cold War, the Russian Federation has been relying on militias to help stabilize local security environments, and more recently, achieve foreign security policy objectives in the Near Abroad. By tracking the history of Vostok (East) Battalion during its two distinctly different iterations, first as a militia for the Yamadayev family which operated primarily in Chechnya as well as briefly in South Ossetia and Lebanon and then as separatist formation in Eastern Ukraine, my thesis seeks to examine why Russia uses militias. Using the theoretical frameworks of principle-agent relations and organizational hierarchy, my thesis examines post-Soviet military reforms to contextualize the Kremlin's rationale for utilizing militia groups as well as analyzing the costs and benefits Moscow ultimately incurs when it leverages militias as force projection assets domestically and in the Near Abroad.<br>Master of Arts
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Heisinger, Ryan R. "Optimization of a Marine Corps artillery battalion supply distribution network." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/07Sep%5FHeisinger.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2007.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Alderson, David L. "September 2007." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 22, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p.51). Also available in print.
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Crusellas, Antonio. "Implementation of Total Quality Leadership in U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Units." Thesis, Springfield, Va. : Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA302153.
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Park, Rae Yoon. "Crew training and the reliability of a battalion fire support system." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26441.
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Finlon, Matthew A. "Analysis of the field artillery battalion organization using a Markov chain." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27958.
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Iarocci, Andrew. "The Mad Fourth, the 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion at war, 1914-1916." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65199.pdf.
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Williamson, Annita. "The role of the 22nd Australian Infantry Battalion in World War II /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2005. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arw7291.pdf.
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Minami, Nathan A. (Nathan Andrew). "Re-architecting the Battalion Tactical Operations Center : transitioning to network centric operations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42370.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-134).<br>As the Army conducts transformation in the midst of an ongoing information driven Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and the War on Terror, it has realized the need to develop leaner, more agile, versatile and deployable forces. As part of its latest transformation to Brigade "Units of Action," the Army realized the need to improve the "tooth to tail" ratio of its forces and transferred from a Cold War "Divisional" force structure to one focused around more deployable and sustainable Brigade Units of Action. Ironically, this transformation to what is suppose to become a more lean and deployable force structure has produced larger and more heavily staffed battalion, brigade and division command posts. Despite introduction of the Army Battle Command System (ABCS), a system of digital systems that are intended to help speed up the Army's ability to transfer information, improve situational awareness, make decisions, and out "OODA" (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) its opponents, in many aspects the Army has actually taken a step backwards. The end result is that these larger command posts are becoming more hierarchical and bureaucratic, and are reducing the Army's ability to get ahead of the enemy's decision cycle. Platoon Leaders and Company Commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan constantly lament that "if they only had the information they needed 48 hours earlier," they could have captured the target. This study examines one small aspect of this tremendous problem, the architecture of the Battalion Tactical Operations Center (TOC). It analyzes the current information revolution, the contemporary operating environment, network centric warfare, other emerging Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) concepts, and the current Battalion TOC configuration and doctrine. It then applies System Dynamics techniques and develops a set of heuristics to address the problem. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop a practical concept for an improved organization, structure and function of the command post.<br>by Nathan A. Minami.<br>S.M.
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Hochman, Jindřich. "Návrh strategie zapojení 42 mechanizovaného praporu do zahraničních misí." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-73564.
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After official signature of Dayton contract on December 1995 preface Czech Republic era priority transmission troops to the campaign multinational units headed by NATO, fated to exaction peace, resulting freeze and renewal critical region. Character contemporary campaign, way their lead, neighbourhood, in which they are led, asymmetrical enemy and considerable distance to the site of action and resources laying diverse demand on unit`s abilities. In Diploma thesis they are most often used logical methods, especially analysis, synthesis, inductance and deduction. Further is improved observational method, in analytical part is usued document analysis and SWOT analysis. Like information gathering is utilized structured talk. Strategy Draft for the 42nd Mechanized Battalion Integration in Foreign Missions purpose is warn thereon, that should document contain and wherewith the strategy should have deal with. The proposal is not introduce entire policy, but only her major principles and outline inevitable element. Strategy Draft for the 42nd Mechanized Battalion Integration in Foreign Missions should have be found upon this see: Build-up slip-over and interoperable units, reservation efficient organization, steerage and handling of units, education, preparation and training. Global aim formation get past formulate this way: Sharing on build-up functional system defence of the state. Battalion mission should have be performance netted public houses and lands -- outer national security, in contemporary security neighbourhood by means of active incidence in campaign outside the area member country NATO and EU. Himself processing and realization strategy should have be above all object activities unit staff.
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Westerfield, Scott A. "Tactical signals intelligence in Marine Forces Pacific building the new First Radio Battalion /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379628.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 2000.<br>Thesis advisor(s): Gates, William R. ; Jansen, Erik. "December 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48). Also available in print.
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Ulbrich, David J. "Thomas Holcomb and the advent of the Marine Corps defense battalion, 1936-1941." Quantico, Va. : History and Museums Division, Marine Corps University, 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/55759480.html.
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Wilson, Donald L. "A plan for marriage and family enrichment for an Army Light Infantry Battalion." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Ulbrich, David J. "Thomas Holcomb and the advent of the Marine Corps Defense Battalion, 1936-1941." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1027125.
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Using recently declassified material, this thesis traces the Commandant Thomas Holcomb' s role in the development of the Marine Corps Defense Battalion. It thus combines biographical and institutional history. Holcomb was an excellent strategist, manager, and publicist. The defense battalion provides a case study for examining Holcomb's leadership as well as the larger historical context. On a tactical level, planners designed these units to defend island outposts against air, sea, and amphibious assaults. In holding island bases in the western Pacific, defense battalions fit into the grand strategy of the United States Navy. The units comprised one half of the Corps's dual mission: amphibious assault and base defense. Defense battalions also served an equally pivotal public relations function as Holcomb struggled -albeit with little success -- to secure scarce resources for the Corps. Understanding Holcomb's actions and the defense battalion's development illuminates the mentality of America's military and government before World War II.<br>Department of History
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Baxell, Richard. "The British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1661/.
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This thesis is an examination of the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigade, in Spain's civil war of 1936-1939. The study analyses the composition of the British contingent, particularly their social, economic and political background, but also other aspects, such as their age and geographical origin. It examines the motivations of the volunteers, using the wealth of memoir and interview material, to explain why almost two and a half thousand men and women left Britain to fight 'in a far away country.' The volunteers' experiences within Spain are traced, from the 'first few' who fought with the multifarious militia units in the defence of Madrid in the autumn and winter of 1936, to the creation and development of the International Brigades, into which these volunteers and the later arrivals were integrated in early 1937. The role of the volunteers in the battles around Madrid of 1936-1937, and the battles of Aragon in 1937-38, is examined in particular detail. The narrative strand of the thesis concludes with an examination of the brutal experiences of the British captured and imprisoned by the Rebels during the war. Finally, the thesis discusses some of the more contentious issues surrounding the role of the volunteers in the British Battalion in Spain. The organisation of the brigades and the role of the Comintern, and the maintenance of discipline, desertions, and the execution of volunteers are all examined closely. The study concludes that discipline was indeed tough in the International Brigades, particularly as all the members of the battalion were, after all, volunteers. However, it is argued that, in the main, this discipline was driven by military, rather than political necessity, and recent studies have over-played the extent of 'Stalinist' control within the battalion.
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Slifer, Gordon G. R. "Assessing the U.S. Army's Combat Vehicle Command and Control system at the battalion level." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA248965.
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Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology (Command, Control and Communications))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1992.<br>Thesis Advisors: Sovereign, Michael ; Caldwell, William J. "March 1992." Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64). Also available in print.
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Brown, Darrell H. "The impact of rechargeable batteries: quantifying the cost and weight for a Marine Infantry Battalion." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10747.
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Since the implementation of distributed operations with a higher density of tactical field radios, optics and electrical tactical equipment, the demand for batteries has increased significantly. While advances in technology have increased the lethality of Defense (DoD) forces, sustainment and increased resupply convoys have increased the risk of logistical support and costs. This thesis examines the viability, cost savings, and operational weight associated with the use of rechargeable batteries.
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Coffman, Natalie Brooke. "The Mormon Battalion's Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Identity during the Mexican-American War." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/509.
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This thesis examines the experience of the Mormon Battalion, a group of five hundred Mormon soldiers commissioned by President James K. Polk to enlist in the U.S. military and aid in the newly declared war against Mexico in 1846. The war was a result of a belligerent and aggressive form of territorial expansion justified by the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Polk and many other Americans believed it was their Manifest Destiny to dominate a continental nation, and the Mormon Battalion was assigned to march to California to conquer Mexican territory for the United States. An examination of the Mormon soldiers' journals and letters, as well as official Mormon Church records and correspondence, reveals that, despite participating in a war that promoted aggressive expansion, the Mormons' understanding of Manifest Destiny contained unique perspectives regarding racial hierarchies and displays of masculinity, key elements of that popular ideology. The peculiar approach that the Mormons' had to Manifest Destiny was directly influenced by their history as a persecuted body of believers. Ultimately, the Mormon soldiers agreed to volunteer for the war not because they wanted to express patriotism, but because they had a firm dedication to their church and resolved obedience to their leader, Brigham Young.
Additionally, an examination of popular contemporary media outlets and their responses to the enlistment of the Mormon Battalion, as well as the relevant historiography, is included to demonstrate the evolution of the Mormon Battalion in historical memory, both inside and outside the Mormon Church. The treatment of the battalion by popular media outlets reflected changing attitudes regarding the implications of promoting a martial and aggressive society, while the role of the battalion in Mormon history evolved in tandem with Mormons' fluctuating identities as U.S. citizens.
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Blomqvist, Torbjörn. "Karolinsk Stridstaktik : artilleriets och pikens roll 1700-1712 samt bataljonens stridsformering." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-208514.
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From a new perspective, this paper will examine the artillery and the pike role in the period 1700-1712 and the battalion´s battle formation in the Caroline combat tactics. Carolinian battle tactics were practiced during the period 1700-1721. The results from my study will be compared to existing research opinion regarding the selected subject areas, if the result confirms the thesis or question the existing research opinion. The source material used consists of eyewitness accounts from the period consisting of diaries, memoir, biography, general muster rolls and historical literature covering the subject. The analysis shows that the Caroline artillery took part in 12 battles during the period of 1700-1712. The analysis also shows that there was a close working between the infantry and artillery in attacks. This result contradicts the existing facility research mixture view that artillery was subordinate other weaponry because it prevented the Caroline attack tempo. In the analysis of the pike role in Caroline combat tactics, reveals nothing that confirms existing research opinion that the pike was an offensive melee weapon. Instead it seems that the pikes role was a support weapon with a defensive focus. The analysis of the battalion`s battle formation shows that the Caroline battalion battle formation did not follow the regulations of the battle formation. According to the existing research the battalion´s battle formation was as required by regulations. But according to the general muster rolls, there are differences between the battalions when it comes to the relationship of forces. So the Caroline battalion battle formation could not have been strictly required by regulations.
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Kim, Ki Hwan. "ROK Army manpower force structure validation of organizational (Officer, NCO, and Enlisted Personnel) staffing of an infantry battalion." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FKim.pdf.
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Craggs, Tracy. "An 'unspectacular' war? : reconstructing the history of the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3626/.
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This thesis focuses on one battalion of infantrymen who trained for, and served during,the D-Day landings and north-west Europe campaign. Battalion histories in this detail are rare, as they usually form part of self-serving and uncritical histories produced by the parent regiment. This small unit acts as a microcosm of the' infantry of the line during the period, reflecting the typical high casualty rates and long periods on the front line. The existing sparse evidence about the 2nd Battalion was enhanced by interviews with veterans of the unit, which proved central to the study. Their memories revealed a wealth ofrich and previously unknown detail. Existing secondary literature is critical of the battalion's, and 3rd Division's, efforts on D-Day and the units of the 3rd Division were dubbed 'The Unspectaculars' in the press. These criticisms are challenged in the first three chapters of the thesis, which examine the level of training the infantrymen received; the battalion's performance on D-Day; and the progress ofthe battalion from D-Day onwards. The performance of the battalion is argued to have been solid yet unspectacular for much of the campaign. However in February 1945 came its spectacular moment, at the Battle of the Bridge. Chapters Four and Five address what life was like for the infantrymen of the battalion and assess what happened to these soldiers when they returned home, since for many, the war did not end when Germany surrendered. The thesis provides a social and cultural history of the 2nd Battalion, albeit within the military sphere. While individual memories remain an important source, the narrative of the battalion also' forms a group memory, particularly focusing on one outstanding officer, Major 'Banger' King. A group record is also apparent during commemorative events, in particular the 60th anniversary of D-Day, in June 2004.
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Dagenais, Maxime. ""Une permission!C'est bon pour une recrue": Discipline and illegal absences in the 22nd (French-Canadian) Battalion, 1915--1919." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27346.
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This thesis explores three issues relating to the Canadian experience during the First World War, but more specifically, to that of the 22 nd (French-Canadian) Battalion (commonly referred to as the 'Van Doos'). It first considers the assumption that the 22nd Battalion suffered from a disciplinary problem, and determines whether this was the case in a meaningful comparative context. Several Canadian historians have examined the unit's discipline. While some have argued that its thousands of infractions and five executions demonstrate that it suffered from a disciplinary problem, others believe that without proper comparison with other units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), these figures are meaningless. By examining the disciplinary records of the other three battalions of the 5th Brigade (the brigade of which the 'Van Doos' were a part) and comparing them to that of the 22nd Battalion, this thesis conclusively demonstrates that the unit did suffer from a disciplinary problem, and confirms the assumptions of several historians. This thesis also examines in detail the unit's disciplinary problems, and attempts to explain why it suffered from such aberrant behaviour. Evidence suggests that poor morale was the likely cause. One of the most important elements in combat, morale can spell the difference between a disciplined and a disobedient unit. This thesis demonstrates that the arrival of hundreds of untried reinforcements after the Somme offensives of 1916, and the loss of the unit's commanding officer (Lieut.-Col. Thomas Tremblay) had a significant impact on the spirits of the men, which subsequently led to poor discipline. Finally, this thesis considers the issue of illegal absences. Not only were illegal absences the most common infractions in the 'Van Doos', they were also for the entire 5th Brigade. For so considerable a problem amongst the soldiers of the CEF, the subject surprisingly has yet to receive the full attention of Canadian historians. This thesis thus attempts to find factors that could explain why soldiers would risk courts-martial, and perhaps their lives, by leaving their units without permission. Several factors were discovered such as battle exhaustion, poor conduct, and neuropsychological issues.
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Gross, Logan M. "The 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion at the Falaise Pocket, 1944: The Application of Tank Destroyer Doctrine in the Field." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2324.
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During World War II, the United States Army employed a new weapon on the battlefield in an attempt to defeat German armor tactics: the tank destroyer. Tank Destroyer Force was created to stem the tide of German armored attacks and form an opening for American tanks to make their own counter-attacks. Since the end of the war, tank destroyer battalions have been regarded as a failed experiment, despite the evidence that they effectively did their jobs. The negative feedback in the immediate post-war period lead to the dissolution of the Tank Destroyer Force. Many of the studies of tank destroyers focus on the doctrine they followed and the faults in it. However, most of the studies do not look at the successful application of tank destroyer doctrine in the field by tank destroyer battalions. This paper will examine operations of the 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion and its application of tank destroyer doctrine during the Battle of Chambois from August 17-21, 1944, for which it won a Presidential Unit Citation.
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Watt, Mary R. "The 'stunned' and the 'stymied' : The P.O.W. experience in the history of the 2/11th Infantry Battalion, 1939-1945." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1996. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/966.
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Stimulated by a pronouncement of Joan Beaumont that prisoners of war are a neglected subject of historical inquiry this thesis undertakes an empirical and analytical study concerning this topic. Within the context of the prisoner of war experience in the history of the 2/11th Infantry Battalion during the Second World War, it puts a case for including non-operational strands of warfare in the body of Australian official military history. To facilitate this contention the study attempts to show the reasons for which historians might study the scope and range of the prisoner of war experience. Apart from describing the context and aims of the study, the paper utilizes Abraham Maslow's theory of a hierarchy of needs to highlight the plight of prisoners of war. Amongst the issues explored are themes of capture, incarceration and recovery. Suggestions are made to extend the base of volunteer soldiers curriculum in favour of a greater understanding of the prisoner of war and an awareness that rank has its privileges. In addition to the Official Records from the Australian War Memorial, evidence for the study has been drawn mainly from the archive of the 2/11th Infantry Battalion, Army Museum of Western Australia, catalogued by the writer as a graduate student, December 1992, and military literature that were readily available in Perth. At every opportunity the men are allowed to speak for themselves thus numerous and often lengthy quotations are included.
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Algotson, Olle. "Artilleritaktik : Kodifiering i två tidsepoker, konsekvenser?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4789.
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Det svenska artilleriet är på väg att införa ett nytt haubitssystem till artilleribataljonerna. Det är inte bara ett nytt haubitssystem som är under införande utan också ett nytt reglemente. Det reglemente som finns idag är Förhandsutgåva Artillerireglemente Artilleribataljon 2012 och som titeln avslöjar är det en förhandsutgåva. Syftet med detta arbete är att analysera hur de grundläggande förmågorna tydliggörs i reglementet idag i jämförelse med reglementets föregångare Artillerireglemente Artilleribataljon 1985. Hur skildras de grundläggande förmågorna i reglementena och skiljer sig taktiken kopplat mot förmågorna idag mot den vi hade på 80-talet? Genom en kvalitativ textanalys av reglementena med grund ur 1985-års upplaga kommer utvalda delar att jämföras och analyseras. Därefter kommer taktiska konsekvenser av skillnaderna mellan reglementena att diskuteras. Resultatet av undersökningen påvisar tydliga skillnader i hur tydligt de grundläggande förmågorna och åtgärder som kopplas mot dessa presenteras i reglementena. Orsaker till detta, liksom utformningen av reglementena lyfts i diskussionen.<br>Artillery Tactics Codification in two eras, consequences? - The Swedish Artillery is in the process of instituting a new howitzer system to the artillery battalion. Not only is the new howitzer system being introduced, but also a new artillery regulation. The regulation currently used is a preview release called Förhandsutgåva Artillerireglemente Artilleribataljon 2012. The aim of this work is to analyze how the essential abilities demonstrated in the current regulations compare with its forerunner Artillerireglemente Artilleribataljon 1985. How are the basic abilities depicted in the regulations and do the tactics in relation to the abilities differ between the current and the old regulation? Through a qualitative analysis of the regulations with the basic text from the 1985-years edition, selected parts are to be compared and analyzed. Thereafter, tactical implications of differences between the regulations are discussed. The results points to obvious differences in how clearly the essential abilities are presented in the regulations. Causes for these differences as well as the overall design of the regulations are argued in the discussion.
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Schneider, Michael W., and Anthony R. Ferrera. "A command and control wargame to train officers in the integration of tactics and logistics in a field artillery battalion." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26925.
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Swande, Eliasson David. "Mekaniserad spaning i dag och i framtiden." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-61.
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<p>Den mekaniserade bataljonens främsta sensor att samla in underlag till underrättelsesektionen är spaningsplutonen. Spaningsplutonen på mekbataljon har bytt organisation över åren och gått från att vara ett terrängbils eller bandvagnsburet förband till sin nuvarande form med stridsfordon 90. Men har förbandet använts på rätt sätt sedan det tillfördes stridsfordon? Hur bör framtidens chefer nyttja plutonen för att maximera effekten?</p><p>Arbetet baseras på de reglementen som finns idag samt intervjuer med personal tillhörande spaningsplutonerna och bataljonsstaber. Utöver det kommer en jämförelse med US Army Armored Cavalry göras.</p><br><p>The mechanized battalion foremost instrument of gathering information to its intellegence cell is the reconnaissance platoon. The reconnaissance platoon on the mechanized battalion has evolved over the years from being a unit using crosscountry vehicles to its modern shape with Combat vehicle 90. But have the unit been used the right way since then? And how should tomorrows commanders use the recon platoon for maximum output?</p><p>This work will be based on the manuals that are valid today and interviews with staff officers and officers that belong to the recon platoons. The results will be compared with US Army Armored Cavalry.</p>
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Jones, Allyson. "History Steps Off the Page: The Past in the Future, A Case Study of How the Mormon Battalion is Making History Interactive." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/621.
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This thesis addresses the presentation of the Mormon Battalion's history in three interactive forms. The Battalion served in the U.S.-Mexican War between 1846 and 1847. In 2008 a group known as Battalion Trek chose to rehike the original trail as closely as possible. The three chapters of this thesis address the reenactors who planned and completed the rehike, the blog they kept as they did so, and a program which allows those interested to learn more about the trail. Analyzing what such presentations have to offer is important as history moves into the hands of the public and as the world moves deeper into the technological realm.
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Morrison, Gloria Alice. "The voices of those who served: The early war years and the men of the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (MG)." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9442.
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The intent of this endeavor is to consider the Second World War from the perspective of one group of men who served with a machine gun regiment based out of Ottawa. The objective is to rediscover what the early war experience was like for these Canadian soldiers. All the questions considered in this undertaking may be subsumed into three basic queries: Who were these men who came forward to serve? Why had they 'volunteered' to go to war? And, what were the early war years like for these predominantly young Canadians? The third query comprises the bulk of the attention in this thesis. The time period under review is from September 1939 until May of 1941. This covers the mobilization period in Ottawa and the unit's first overseas posting in Iceland. This time frame concerns an overlooked aspect of war service---the induction and foundation period for Canadian Armed Forces. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Ericsson, Johnny. "Vita praeponitur : Livet främst." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-78.
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<p>En teoretisk kontroll av luftvärnsbataljonens sjukvårdsfunktion</p><p>Syftet med detta arbete är att inom ramen för funktionsmålsättning för Försvarsmaktens hälso- och sjukvård kontrollera om luftvärnsbataljonens sjukvårdsfunktion enligt org. 09 är korrekt dimensionerad.</p><p> Frågeställningen är: När, med hänsyn till grupperingsgeometri, medicinska tidskrav samt evakueringskapacitet blir sjukvårdsfunktionen en begränsande faktor för luftvärnsbataljonen.</p><p> För att svara på detta jämförs luftvärnsbataljonens TOEM med kraven ur funktionsmålsättning för Försvarsmaktens hälso- sjukvård i syfte att kontrollera om sjukvårdsfunktionen ges förutsättning att lösa ställda uppgifter. Vidare analyseras faktorerna, aktionsradie, förlustskadeberäkningar preventiv medicin, samt evakueringskapacitet och grupperingsgeometri.</p><p>Den viktigaste slutsatsen ur arbetet är: Det är inte sannolikt att samtliga enheter inom bataljonen kan åtnjuta möjligheten till adekvat sjukvård inom de tider som de medicinska kraven ställer.</p><br><p>The purpose of this essay is to investigate if the medical function in the Air Defence Battalion is enough.</p><p> The question to be answered in this essay is as follows: When, considering deployment geometry, medical time-demands and evacuation capacity does the medical function become a limiting factor for the AD Battalion?</p><p> A descriptive method is used in this essay. Material has been gathered and analysed to show the limitations of the battalion considering the medical function. A study has also been made. The material and the study are used as a base in the discussion and from the discussion and the results from the analysis, conclusions are drawn.</p><p>One of these conclusions is that: It is not probable that all units in the Air Defence Battalion will receive proper medical attention within the time-span established in the guiding medical documents.</p>
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Birath, Johan. "Bataljonsspaning : Ett verktyg i manöverkriget." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-138.
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<p>Den här uppsatsen har initierats av en upplevd känsla att spaningsförbanden i den svenska armén på senare tid har eftersatts vad gäller antal och hur de nyttjas. Från att ha funnits i stor mängd vid flertalet förband finn nu endast vissa bataljonsspaningsförband kvar.</p><p>Hur dessa nyttjas kopplat till manöverbataljonernas strävan att tillämpa manövertänkande är också svårt att finna svar på i den litteratur som är aktuell i den svenska försvarsmakten.</p><p>Mitt syfte med uppsatsen är att skapa en vetenskaplig text som redogör för hur bataljonsspaningen vid den luftburna bataljonen skulle kunna utnyttjas för att stödja bataljonen i dess strävan att lyckas med manöverkrigföring.</p><p>Med min uppsats gör jag en ansats för att skapa en vetenskaplig text som svarar på frågan:</p><p><em>Hur bör bataljonsspaningsplutonen nyttjas för att stödja bataljonen i dess genomförande av manöverkrigföring?</em></p><p>För att svara på frågan använder jag mig i uppsatsen av en kvalitativ textanalys som jag i vissa fall kompletterar med intervjuer av inom området kunniga individer.</p><p>Det resultat jag kommit fram till är tätt kopplat till hur bataljonen kan använda sig av bataljonsspaningsplutonen för att stödja det dynamiska beslutsfattandet i syfte att maximera möjligheten att tillskansa sig ett ledningsöverläge gentemot motståndaren. Till exempel vikten av att använda bataljonsspaningsplutonen på djupet mot bataljonens andrahands mål och beredduppgifter i syfte att möjliggöra ett högt stridstempo.</p><br><p>This essay discusses how the Swedish air assault battalion could use its recon platoon to maximise their efforts to achieve manoeuvre warfare. The purpose with this essay is to clarify how to use the recon platoon in an effective way and to bring up some thoughts about the need for a manual on how to use recon platoons in light infantry battalions.</p><p>I have used literature that discusses the use of similar units to the air assault recon platoon and also literature that discusses how to lead a battalion in my efforts to clarify how the platoon should be used to support the battalions’ effort to achieve manoeuvre warfare. With help of the literature I have made a discussion and finally I came to some conclusions about how to use the battalions’ recon platoon in order to support the battalions´ effort to achieve manoeuvre warfare. For example one conclusion is the importance to use the recon platoon towards the battalions´ secondary objectives in order to gain a high tempo in operations.</p>
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Stack, Wayne. "A New Zealand Style of Military Leadership? Battalion and Regimental Combat Officers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces of the First and Second World Wars." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10568.
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This thesis examines the origins, selection process, training, promotion and general performance, at battalion and regimental level, of combat officers of the New
Zealand Expeditionary Forces of the First and Second World Wars. These were easily the greatest armed conflicts in the country’s history. Through a prosopographical
analysis of data obtained from personnel records and established databases, along with evidence from diaries, letters, biographies and interviews, comparisons are made not only between the experiences of those New Zealand officers who served in the Great War and those who served in the Second World War, but also with the officers of other
British Empire forces.
During both wars New Zealand soldiers were generally led by competent and capable combat officers at all levels of command, from leading a platoon or troop through to command of a whole battalion or regiment. What makes this so remarkable was that the majority of these officers were citizen-soldiers who had mostly volunteered or had been conscripted to serve overseas. With only limited training before embarking for war, most of them became efficient and effective combat leaders through experiencing battle. Not all reached the required standard and those who did not were replaced to ensure a high level of performance was maintained within the combat units.
Casualties were heavy among the battalion officers, especially with platoon commanders. The constant need for replacements during both wars led to the promotion
of experienced non-commissioned officers from the ranks who had proven their leadership abilities in the turmoil of fighting on the front line. Such measures further enhanced the performance of the New Zealand divisions, where a team ethos, reflective of the character of New Zealand society, was embraced. The opportunities for promotion on merit at all levels, regardless of previous civilian social class or occupation, provided a sense of egalitarianism seldom found in professional military forces. This, together with the familiarity between the officers and other ranks within
the regional-based infantry battalions that formed the foundations of the forces, led to a preferred style of leadership that the New Zealanders responded well to. It was these
officers who provided this leadership in the cauldron of battle who helped forge the expeditionary forces into elite fighting formations.
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Kahlin, Magnus. "Ubique Vigilans: Verksam överallt : Telekrigsförmåga i Amfibiebataljonen." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-813.
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<p>Det svenska försvarets övergång till insatsförsvar och internationella insatser har lett till omfattande förändringar av Försvarsmakten. Inom ramen för detta är ny amfibiebataljon under framställning. Denna bataljon bör agera med telekrigsförmåga och därmed undersöks vilken typ av system bör vara lämpligt för amfibiebataljon 2014. Initialt så framställs en genomgång av elektronisk krigföring för att skapa förståelse för ämnet och telekrigsförmågans utveckling i både Armén och Marinen. Amfibiebataljon 2014 presenteras för att beskriva förbandet som amfibieregementet skall ansvara för. För att förstå det sammanhang i vilket amfibiska styrkor skall använda sig av telekrigssystem, så beskrivs tre amfibiska scenarier för att möjliggöra en kommande analys. En intervju med tre nyckelpersoner inom det svenska försvaret förs fram för att säkerställa att aktuell information används i uppsatsen. Analysdel av uppsatsen kommer att baseras på de olika telekrigssystemen med en metod att utvärdera dessa från Försvarsmakten grundläggande förmågor. Därefter kommer de system som skall ha utvärderats på grunder av för- och nackdelar sättas i kontext i samband med de scenarier som har lagts fram. Målet är att ta reda på vilket system som är till nytta för amfibiebataljon, samt för- och nackdelarna med ett sådant system. Resultaten visar att ett medelstort system bör användas av amfibiebataljon på grund av sin förmåga till verkan samtidigt som den uppfyller krav på skydd och rörlighet. Dessutom bör ett lätt telekrigssystem användas av amfibiebataljonen på grund av dess kapacitet inom rörlighet och underrättelseinhämtningskapacitet.</p><br><p>The Swedish Armed Forces transition to a force specified against international missions has brought extensive transformations of the armed forces. As part of this a new amphibious battalion 2014 is in the progress of being organized. This battalion should act with electronic warfare capabilities and thus, this essay will investigate what kind of system should be appropriate for the amphibious battalion. The essay begins with a review of electronic warfare in order to create an understanding in general as well as its development in both the Army and the Marine forces. Amphibious battalion 2014 is also presented to describe the upcoming unit which the amphibious regiment shall be responsible for. To understand the context in which amphibious forces shall make use of electronic warfare systems, descriptions of three amphibious warfare scenarios are presented to allow an upcoming analysis. An interview with three key personnel within the Swedish Armed Forces is brought forward to ensure that current information is used in the essay. The analysis part of the essay is based on the various electronic warfare systems with a method of evaluating these from the Armed Forces essential abilities. Thereafter, the systems will be evaluated on the basis of the produced pros and cons in correlation with the operation scenarios that has been presented. The goal is to find out which system is of use for the amphibious battalion, and the pros and cons of such a system. The results indicates that a medium-sized system should be used by the amphibious battalion because of its ability for effect while it meets demands for protection and mobility. Also, a light electronic warfare systems should be used by the amphibious battalion because of its capacity in mobility and intelligence gathering capability.</p>
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Mikheel, Andreas. "Marina förmågor : kamp mot otydlighet." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1480.
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Försvarsmaktens definitioner av olika förmågor är inte tillräckligt preciserade. Förmågorna beskrivs i dagsläget av Försvarsmakten på ett otydligt sätt där missförstånd kan uppstå. En analysmodell har tidigare utvecklats för att lösa detta problem. Analysmodellen är uppbyggd för att kringgå det problemet då faktorerna som vävs in har en direkt anknytning till verkligheten och de scenarion förbanden kan ställas inför. Faktorerna miljö, motståndaren och effekt utkristalliseras utefter förmågan och scenarion bildas. Eftersom modellen är relativt ny kommer det i denna uppsats behandla och kritisera denna. Modellen byggs upp och testas genom en analys av Amfibiebataljon 2014. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka styrkor och svagheter med en analysmodell för att bättre bedöma marina förmågor. Resultatet är att analysmodellen ger en bra inblick i hur väl förmågor hanteras av förband. Nackdelen är främst det stora utfallet av scenarier vilken medför att modellen lätt blir svårhanterlig. Åtgärden mot detta är att generalisera de ingående faktorerna.<br>The Swedish Armed Forces definitions of various abilities are not sufficiently precise. In the current situation, the abilities are described in a vague way in which misunderstandings can occur. An analytical model was previously developed in a previous essay. The model is structured to circumvent the problem of the factors that are interwoven with a direct connection to the realities and scenarios troops may face. Environmental factors, the adversary and effects emerge along ability and the formation of scenarios. Because the model is relatively new, this paper will criticize it. The model is built and tested by an analysis of the Amphibious Battalion 2014. The purpose of this paper is to examine the strengths and weaknesses with an analytical model to better assess marine abilities. The result is that the analytical model gives a good insight into how well the abilities of units handled. The disadvantages are primarily the major outcomes of the scenarios which means that the model can easily become unmanageable. The measure against this is to generalize the input factors.
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Barry, Steven Thomas. "Battle-scarred and Dirty: US Army Tactical Leadership in the Mediterranean Theater, 1942-1943." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313541748.
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Cesari, Jill R. "The perceptions of the role of the Company Officer at the United States Naval Academy from the perspective of Senior Officers, Battalion Officers, Company Officers and Senior Enlisted Leaders." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FCesari.pdf.
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Simpson, John B. "How implementation of TQM and the development of a process improvement model, within a Forward Support Battalion, can improve preparation of the Material Condition Status Report (DA Form 2406)." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA242968.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.<br>Thesis Advisor: Sessions, Sterling. Second Reader: Kang, Keebom. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 2, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Management planning and control, quality control, quality, management, Battalion Level Organizations, TQM (Total Quality Management), quality management, Theses. Author(s) subject terms: Process imporvement model, implementation of TQM. Includes bibliographical references (p. 70). Also available in print.
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Larsson, Johan. "Kompetenshöjande utbildning för gruppchefer vid Arméns jägarbataljon." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-65.
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<p>De situationer och uppgifter svensk militär kan komma att ställas inför i sitt arbete att försvara Sverige vid ett väpnat angrepp och vid internationella insatser kan vara komplexa, otydliga och krävande. Dessa parametrar ställer höga krav på de chefer som skall leda förbanden. Ett av kraven är att cheferna, oavsett ledningsnivå är välutbildade och kompetenta inom just sitt område, de ska vara duktiga på just det de skall göra.</p><p>Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att analysera behovet av militärteoretisk utbildning för gruppcheferna vid arméns jägarbataljon. Vad blir effekten av en sådan utbildning? Vidare var också syftet av ge förslag på vilka delar ur militärteorin en sådan utbildning skulle kunna innehålla, för att specifikt passa jägargruppchefer.</p><p>Inledningsvis gjordes en analys av populärversion TOEM AJB, där förbandets uppträdande och uppgifter särskilt analyserades. Ur resultatet återfanns förbandsspecifika faktorer som kunde nyttjas som motiv till en militärteoretisk utbildning för gruppcheferna. Därefter kopplades faktorerna till liknande delar ur militärteorin i syfte att påvisa vilka delar som skulle kunna ingå i en utbildning. Delar som är direkt jämförbara med förbandets sätt att uppträda och metoder man använder vid lösandet av uppgifter. Slutligen besvarades frågeställningen i en avslutning.</p><p>Resultaten pekar på att en militärteoretisk utbildning skulle öka gruppchefs förmåga att fatta självständiga beslut. Resultatet visar också att de delar ur militärteorin som skall ingå är uppdragstaktik, indirekt metod innehållandes tyngdpunkt, kritisk sårbarhet, systemkollaps och initiativ. Vidare bör även en mindre del i utbildningen omfatta de olika ledningsnivåerna; taktisk- operativ- och strategisk ledningsnivå.</p><br><p>Situations and tasks that the Swedish armed forces may confront on missions abroad can be complex, diffuse and demanding. This means that the unit leaders face high demands. One of the demands is that the leaders, irrespective of what level they are at, are well prepared and competent in their own area. They must be good at what they do.</p><p>This essay´s purpose was to analyse the need of a theoretical, military education of squad leaders at the Army Ranger Battalion and what effect such an education could give. The purpose was also to suggest what areas the military theory should cover to suit the ranger squad leaders.</p><p>As an introduction, an analysis of the TOEM AJB was made. The analysis focused on the unit´s behavior and tasks. The result identified factors which were specific to the unit. These factors could be used as motives for a theoretic, military education for the squad leaders. The factors were then connected to similar parts of the theory in order to show what parts could be included in an education. These parts were directly comparable with the unit´s behavior and methods they use when they operate. Finally the questions at issue were answered.</p><p>The results show that a military theoretic education should raise the squad leaders´ capacity to make their own decisions. The results also show that the parts which should be included in an education are mission tactics, indirect method including main effort, critical weaknesses, system crash and initiative. However not crucial, tactical, operative and strategic leadership should also be included in the education.</p>
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Samuelsson, Emil. "Artilleribataljonen och vapenanskaffning : taktiskt eller organisatoriskt rationellt?" Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-816.
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<p>Försvarsmakten har förändrats från ett invasionsförsvar till ett insatsförsvar. Det har inneburit nedläggningar och omstruktureringar av organisationer. Artilleriet är en av de vapenslag som har gått från flertal regementen till idag ett regemente. Artilleribataljonen som är artilleriets insatsförband har kännetecknas som ett förband med lång räckvidd och kraftig verkan. Med pjäser som har kaliber 15,5cm understödjer de manöverförbanden. Idag har artilleribataljonen 8cm granatkastare som sekundär beväpning, ett vapen som har dålig räckvidd jämfört med 15,5cm pjäser, ett vapen som inte kan bekämpa pansar mål eller precisionsbekämpa. Detta arbete är en studie om varför artilleribataljonen anskaffat 8cm granatkastare. Är det av taktiskt rationella anledningar eller är det organisatoriskt rationella anledningar? Arbetet utgår från två hypoteser som förklarar varför artilleribataljonen anskaffat 8cm granatkastare. Studien visar på att artilleribataljonen utökar sina uppgifter genom att anskaffa 8cm grankastare. Det gör att artilleribataljonen har teoretiska möjligheter att konkurrera om platser vid eventuella missioner eller en platsvid Nordic battlegroup. Studien analyserar även artilleribataljonens uppgifter, dessa uppgifter skall organisationen klara av. Enligt resultatet har artilleribataljonen inte de förutsättningarna att lösa alla uppgifter utan 8cm granatkastare. Därför är det taktiskt rationellt att anskaffa 8cm granatkastare som sekundär beväpning.</p><br><p>The Swedish armed force has changed from defending the country from invasions to a military force that can be used as a military intervention at different places around the world. This change has meant that some organizations has been discontinued and reorganized. The artillery is one of the branches of the fighting services who have gone from several regiments to only one. The artillery battalion is recognized as a unit that has a long range and powerful impact. With 15,5 guns they support the maneuver units. Today the artillery battalion have 8cm mortars as secondary armament, a weapon that has bad range compared to 15,5 guns and a weapon that can’t penetrate armored targets and has bad accuracy. This essay is a study about why the artillery battalion has acquired 8 cm mortars. Is it because of tactical rational reasons or is it because of organizational rational reasons? The essay takes stand from two hypotheses that explain why the artillery battalion has acquired 8 cm mortars. The study indicates that the artillery battalion increases their assignments by acquiring 8 cm mortars. This enables the battalion theoretical possibilities to compete for places in missions or places in the Nordic battlegroup. The study also analyses the artillery battalion’s tasks, tasks that the organization should manage. The artillery battalion has, according to the result, not the resources to solve all the assignments without the 8 cm mortars. Therefore it is tactical rationally to acquire 8 cm mortars assecondary armament.</p>
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Black, Brian C., Laura H. Bollock, Sinene Bouabid, et al. "Sea TENTACLE: Track, Engage, & Neutralize Threats - Asymmetric & Conventional - in the Littoral Environment." Thesis, Monterey, California : U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/7275.
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Includes supplementary material.<br>Sea TENTACLE is a proposed afloat platform whose primary mission is to utilize the state-of-the-art technology of unmanned vehicles to monitor and neutralize all subsurface enemy threats in the littorals. This mission can be specified further as anti-submarine warfare, mine warfare and maritime surveillance. The design philosophy of Sea TENTACLE embodies the ideal of providing a multi-mission capable sea frame extending network-centric warfare into the littorals. The design goals of the TSSE team were first to develop a platform to deploy, recover, and maintain unmanned vehicle (e.g. UUVs, USVs, UAVs) and second to enableto ship to act as an afloat network operations center for distributed assets. Allowing all units to work together seamlessly to conduct focused missions in the littorals makes the Sea TENTACLE a creitical component within the network-centric environment. The versatility of its cargo hold and modular design allows Sea TENTACLE to be outfitted dynamically to complete a veriety of secondary missions including humanitarian aid, salvage and spacial operations support. Sea TENTACLE's combat management and operations system will employ the Enterprise architecture design enabling C4ISR capabilities that will meet emerging network centric warfare needs.
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Bean, Christopher B. "James Earl Rudder: A Lesson in Leadership." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4371/.
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This thesis is the about the life of Rudder. The emphasis of this work, however, is that Rudder was successful primarily because of his character and leadership style. Much of the study was drawn from primary sources. Secondary sources were also consulted. This thesis opens with a brief Introduction, which discusses the need for this work. Chapter 1 discusses Rudder's life prior to WW II, emphasizing particular characteristics that benefited his leadership ability. Chapter 2 examines the 2nd Ranger Battalion's transformation under Rudder's leadership and guidance. Chapter 3 chronicles the 2nd Ranger Battalion's assault on the Pointe du Hoc battery, ending in December 1944, when Col. Rudder was reassigned to the 109th Infantry Regiment. Moreover, the controversy surrounding the Ranger's mission is also examined in this chapter. Chapter 4 describes Col. Rudder's leadership with the 109th in the Battle of the Bulge. A chapter accounting Rudder's political career and leadership follows. Chapter 6 examines his term as chancellor and president of the Texas A&M University system, until his death in 1970, and the major institutional changes that he enacted during his tenure, which resulted in A&M becoming the respected research university it is today. This significance and recapitulation of Rudder's life and leadership will follow in the Conclusion.
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Jones, Joseph W. "Advisor 2.0 advancing the Military Transition Team model /." Quantico, VA : Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA490884.
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Buzan, C. Craig. "Operational implications of 3 x 8 field artillery battalions." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA238796.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1990.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Barr, Donald ; Dryer, David A. Second Reader: Read, Robert R. "September 1990." Description based on title screen viewed on December 17, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Artillery, employment, battlefields, missions, platoon level organizations, fires, statistical analysis, battles, scenarios, yield. DTIC Identifier(s): Artillery fire, artillery units, army training, battery level organizations, field army, combat effectiveness, firepower, military doctrine, janus war games, military force levels, analysis of variance, factor analysis, platoon level organizations, computerized simulation, field artillery, scenarios, theses. Author(s) subject terms: Field Artillery, artillery, National Training Center, JANUS. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34). Also available in print.
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Sandberg, Jonas. "Kan inte alla samma språk? : Möjligheten till ett gemensamt GGIS på mekaniserade förband?" Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-766.
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<p>Försvarsmakten har under de senaste åren gått igenom radikala förändringar, som fortfarande inte är klara. Samtidigt som fokus ligger på personalförsörjning samt annat så går den teknologiska utvecklingen framåt. Jag vill med denna uppsats belysa vad ett gemensamt geografiskt informationssystem skulle kunna innebära för chefer på en lägre nivå inom mekaniserade bataljoner. Med denna uppsatts vill jag skapa förståelse utav gemensamma geografiska informationssystem och vilka möjligheter de skulle kunna bidra med. I uppsatsen tar jag reda på om systemen skulle kunna underlätta för chefer i sitt ledarskap på slagfälten, likväl vilka effekter det stridstekniskt skulle kunna bidra med. Jag tar också reda på om Försvarsmakten med dagens materiell och teknologi kan uppbringa ett sådant system. Slutsatsen som dras är att Försvarsmakten inte med dagens materiell kan uppbringa ett sådant system, materielen är föråldrad och den främsta begränsningen är dataöverförningskapacitet. Andra slutsatser är att system som dessa underlättar för chefer ur flertalet perspektiv. Främst så skulle systemen kunna bidraga till högre stridseffektivitet och underlätta för så kallade mixade förband.</p><br><p>The Swedish Armed forces have under the past years gone through some radical changes and some of them are still going on. As focus is set on manpower, the technologic development moves forward. I want to highlight what a common graphical information system could mean to commanders on lower command level at mechanized units. With this essay I want to create an understanding of common geographical information systems and what opportunities it could help with. In the essay I will find out if the systems could favor commanders in their leadership on the battlefield, as well which effects it could have on battle tactics. I also find out if the Swedish Armed forces with today’s equipment could procure such a system. Conclusions of the essay is that the Swedish Armed forces cant with today’s equipment procure such an system, because of the equipments obsolete status and the prominent restriction is data transfer rate. Other conclusions are that systems like these favor commanders in several perspectives. Most prominent, could system like these contribute to higher battle efficiency and favor for mechanized- mixed unit types.</p>