Toward Combined Arms Warfare:-

Toward Combined Arms Warfare:A Survey of 20th~Century Tactics,

Doctrine, and Organization

by Captain Jonathan M. House, U.S. Army

August 1984

U.S. Army

Command and General

Staff College

Fort Leavenworth, KS 660274900

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House, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Mallory),

Toward combined arms warfare.

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1. Tactics--History--20th

century. 2. Armies-Organization--History--20th

century. 3. Military

art and science--History--20th century. I. Title.

II. Series: Research survey (U.S. Army Command and

General Staff College. Combat Studies Institute; no. 2)

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CONTENTS

iii

Contents...........................

iv

Figures............................

Maps.............................

V

Introduction

1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

to 1914 ................

7

..................

19

Chapter One.

Prologue

Chapter Two.

World War I.

Chapter Three.

TheInterwarPeriod..............

. .

79

. . .

105

1945 . . . . e . . . . . . .

141

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

181

Chapter Four.

World War II:

Chapter Five.

World War II:

The Complexity

Chapter Six.

Conclusion

43

The Axis Advance, 1939-1942.

Combined Arms After

of Total

War, 1942-1945.

Notes .............................

191

Bibliography

207

.........................

iii

FIGURES

1¡®

Type French and German Divisions,

1914. . . . . . . . e .

10

2.

Type British

1914. a . e . e * . =

11

3.

Trench System, World War I.

. , . . a e . . .

23

4.

Type U.S. and German Divisions,

1918. . . . e . . . . a .

41

5.

Type German Panzer Division,

1935 . . a (F . c m . . * * .

56

6.

French Light Mechanized Division,

1934, and

Armored Division,.1940

e a s . . . . a . e e . . . = t s

62

Soviet Mechanized Carps, December 1935, and

MotorizedDivision,1939....

*..*

*.*..$..

67

8.

U.S, Triangular

74

9.

British

7.

and Russian Divisions,

Infantry

. . . * .

Division,

Armored and Infantry

l

June 1941. + . . . e .

Divisions,

90

. m. . = . . . . .

98

10.

Schematic of Blitzkrieg

11.

Soviet

Tank Corps5 1942, and Tank Army, 1943. * . . . . .

101

12.

Type U.S. Armored Division,

March 1942 and

September 1943. . . f . . . . c . . . . . . . e e * . .

109

13.

Soviet

V . . * . . . . . . . . .

124

14.

Type Soviet Tank Division,

1947, and

Mechanized Division,

1946/51. e . . . . . . . . . . . .

143

.

148

. . . * e . .

156

ROAD, 1965-1983 . e m . . . .

159

Assault

Encirclement.

1942. . * . . t .

Group Formation.

15.

Type U.S. Infantry

16.

U.S. Pentamic Infantry

17.

Type U.S. Armored Division,

18.

1st Cavalry

Division

and Armored Divisions,

Division

. e m. .

(Airmobile),

iv

1947. . . .

l

l

1965. . . . . . . * . e

163

MAPS

1.

Battle

2.

Second Battle

3.

The Maginot

4.

Khalkin-Gol,

5.

Sidi

Barrani,

6.

Sidi

Bou Zid - Kasserine

7.

Imphal-Kohima,

8.

Task Force Dolvin,

9.

Lam Son 719, February-March

10.

of Cambrai,

of Armageddon, 19-24 September 1918 ....

Line and the 1940 Campaign. .........

lo-31

70

December 1940 ...............

7th Armored Brigade

92

Pass, February

March-April

1943. ......

Korea,

5 February

1971. ............

at Abu Agheila,

1956. ........

120

136

1944 .............

Anyang-ni,

38

59

August 1939. .............

V

-

30

20-30 November 1917. .........

1951. ..

151

166

175

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