Mobility, Shock, And Firepower: The Emergence Of The U. S. Army's Armor Branch, 1917-1945
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: 1: America Adopts The Tank; title: Tank Corps; title: Tank Corps' demise; title: War department and the National Defense Act of 1920; title: Infantry tank development; title: Reconsidering the tank's battlefield role; title: Experimental mechanized force; title: Bureau system versus mechanization; title: Mechanized force; title: 2: Early Development Of The Mechanized Cavalry; title: Demise of the mechanized force; title: Birth of the mechanized cavalry; title: 1934 Fort Riley maneuvers; title: Reorganization of the mechanized cavalry; title: Bureau system and mechanized cavalry reorganization; title: Mechanization of a second cavalry regiment; title: Second army maneuvers of 1936; title: 3: Mechanization: The Chief Of Cavalry's Runaway Horse; title: American cavalry in the 1930s; title: Problem of the cavalry's image; title: Office of the chief of cavalry and the bureau system; title: Mechanized cavalry board; title: Cavalry school and mechanization; title: Chief of cavalry and cavalry modernization; title: 4: Infantry And Mechanization; title: Army doctrine in the 1930s; title: Infantry motorization; title: Division redesign; title: Foundations of infantry tank doctrine; title: Tank development and the infantry school; title: Infantry tank organization; title: Infantry tanks; title: 5: View From Abroad; title: Military intelligence division and its military attaches; title: Army intelligence dissemination; title: Confusion of British mechanization; title: French mechanized development; title: Military intelligence division and the Panzer division; title: World mechanization; title: 6: Cavalry At The Crossroads; title: Mechanized cavalry development, 1936-1939; title: Mechanized cavalry maneuvers, 1937-1938; title: Cavalry field manual of 1938; title: War department and mechanization; title: Case for horse cavalry; title: Future of cavalry; title: 7: New Beginning: The Armored Force; title: Building a mechanized cavalry division; title: Stepping back: the mechanized cavalry division rejected; title: First army maneuvers, 1939; title: Mechanized cavalry division revisited; title: Third army maneuver preparations; title: Crucible of mechanization: third army maneuvers, 1940; title: Armored force and the centralization of mechanized development; title: 8: Armored Force Development, 1940-1941; title: Building the training base; title: Command climate; title: New doctrinal base; title: Early training activities; title: Armored force and foreign experiences; title: Armored division development; title: Armored Corps?; title: War department's army; title: 9: Creating An Armored Force Nemesis; title: Antitank development in the 1930s; title: Building an antitank unit; title: Antitank weapons; title: Self-propelled antitank weapons; title: Foreign antitank developments; title: Problem of antitank doctrine, 1940-1941; title: Antitank the American way. 10: Art Of Maneuver, 1941; title: Louisiana maneuvers; title: Carolina maneuvers; title: Assessing mobile operations; title: Antitank operations; title: Maneuver management; title: Cavalry: a maneuver casualty; title: 11: From Armored Force To Armored Center; title: Armored force expansion and personnel shortfall; title: Training challenges and accomplishments; title: Question of separate branch status; title: Demise of the armored corps; title: Evolution of the armored division; title: Combat operations in North Africa; title: Armored division's new look; title: Applying lessons learned in North Africa; title: Armored materiel; title: Sustaining combat capability; title: Air support; title: Branch status resolution; title: Evaluating the armored wartime experience; title: 12: Tank Destroyer Development; title: Building a tank destroyer force, 1941-1942; title: Doctrine and organization; title: First tank destroyers; title: Combat debut; title: Tank destroyer criticism; title: Tank destroyer doctrine and training revisited; title: Organizational and materiel development; title: Tank destroyers; title: Uncertain future; title: 13: Armored Divisions In Battle, 1944-1945; title: Armored division doctrine; title: Armored division organization; title: Combat operations; title: Armored division air support; title: Armored materiel; title: Armored maintenance; title: 14: Armored Enablers: Mechanized Cavalry, Independent Tanks, And Tank Destroyers; title: Mechanized cavalry; title: Independent tank battalion readiness; title: Independent tank battalion combat operations; title: Rejection of independent tank battalion doctrine; title: Armored group; title: From tank destroyer to armored gun; title: 15: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Acronyms; title: Index.