NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price  Edgar F. Raines Jr.’s The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983, the second volume in the U.S. Army Center of Military History’s Contingency Operations Series, provides an account of how Army logistics affected ground operations during the Grenada intervention and, in turn, how combat influenced logistical performance. Noteworthy is the book’s emphasis on the role of individuals and of the decisions they made based on the necessarily incomplete and sometimes misleading information available at the time. The narrative ranges through all levels of war—from the meetings of the National Security Council,where the president grappled with the question of whether to intervene in the wake of a bloody coup, to the jungles of Grenada, where a sergeant in combat coped successfully with a Cuban ambush despite a lack of hand grenades. Raines is careful to place Army logistical planning and operations in a joint context as well as grounding them in the Army’s post-Vietnam reform of logistical organization and doctrine. In addition to furnishing a fascinating account of a complex operation, The Rucksack War identifies many issues that may well influence the conduct of U.S. forces in future short-notice contingency operations.  Military historians and political scientists, active duty and reserve soldiers, military leaders, as well as military science students may be interested in this volume. Related products:Spearhead of Logistics: A History of the United States Army Transportation Corps can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00597-2United States Army in World War 2, War Department, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940-1943 can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00056-3 Other products produced by the U.S. Army Center of Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061

Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics In Grenada, October-November 1983 (Contingency Operations Series)

History

Raines Ph.D, Jr. Edgar F.

Americas

Government Printing Office

Warfare has had its third dimension, air, for so long that no soldier or airman now serving has a personal memory of the expectations, adaptations, or debate that accompanied its early years. Air enthusiasts often appear to forget that the most effective applications of air power have been in concert with ground forces. Indeed, for three wars running - World War II, Korea, and Vietnam - the close support technique of choice featured airborne eyes and ground artillery. This volume examines the institutional origins of modern Army Aviation by recounting the experiences of the men who flew observed fire missions in light aircraft for the Field Artillery during World War II. The War Department designated these aircraft "air observation posts," but the ground troops they supported affectionately referred to them by such names as "Maytag Messerschmidts" and "biscuit bombers" instead. Aircraft served as a key component of the Field Artillery indirect fire system - and also played a crucial role in the command and control of armored divisions during mobile operations. The author takes care to delineate how air observation posts interacted with each element of the combined arms team. Eyes of Artillery identifies the circumstances and debate that gave rise to the Air-Observation-Post Program. The development of military aviation generated an extended struggle within the Army for the control of aerial observation and posed related questions concerning how air and ground elements should interact with one another. The author gives primary emphasis to the period from January 1939, when the Field Artillery began to actively seek control of its own observation aircraft, until September 1945, when Japan surrendered and the War Department prepared to expand the organic light aircraft program to the other ground combat arms. Many of the traditions, concepts, and disputes that still characterize Army Aviation originated during these critical years.

Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern U. S. Army Aviation in World War II

Military

University Press of the Pacific

The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983

Profusely illustrated with full color maps and photographs. Center of Military History Publication number CMH 55-2. Contingency operations series. Second volume in the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Contingency Operations Series, provides an account of how Army logistics affected ground operations during te Grenada intervention and, in turn, how combat influenced logistical performance. Emphasizes the role of individuals and the decisions they made basd on the necessarily incomplete and sometimes misleading information available at the time during an unexpected and short-notice contingency operation.

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Military Bookshop

<p>Profusely illustrated with full color maps and photographs. Center of Military History Publication number CMH 55-2. Contingency operations series. Second volume in the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Contingency Operations Series, provides an account of how Army logistics affected ground operations during te Grenada intervention and, in turn, how combat influenced logistical performance. Emphasizes the role of individuals and the decisions they made basd on the necessarily incomplete and sometimes misleading information available at the time during an unexpected and short-notice contingency operation.</p>

U.S. Army Center of Milita

Originally published in 2000 by the United States Army Center of Military History.  Examines the institutional origins of modern Army Aviation by recounting the experiences of the men who flew observed fire missions, or Air Observations Posts (AOP) in light aircra ft for the Field Artillery during World War II. Identifies the circumstances and debate that gave rise to the AOP program.

Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern United States Army Aviation in World War II

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Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics In Grenada, October-November 1983 (Contingency Operations Series)

Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern U. S. Army Aviation in World War II

The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983

The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983

Eyes of Artillery: The Origins of Modern United States Army Aviation in World War II