The last 100 yards : the crucible of close combat in large-scale combat operations / edited by Paul E. Berg.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Berg, Paul E., 1970- editor.

Army University Press (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

The US Army large-scale combat operations series

Standardized Title:

Last 100 yards (Army University Press (U.S.))

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Combat sustainability (Military science)--History--20th century--Case studies.

Combat sustainability (Military science).

Operational art (Military science)--History--20th century--Case studies.

Operational art (Military science).

Hand-to-hand fighting--History--20th century--Case studies.

Hand-to-hand fighting.

United States--History, Military--20th century--Case studies.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Edition:

1st edition.

Other Title:

Crucible of close combat in large-scale combat operations

Last one hundred yards

Place of Publication:

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : Army University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Part of The US Army Large-Scale Combat Operations Series, The Last 100 Yards is a collection of historical case studies involving crucial close combat from the period 1917 through 1991. Today senior leaders are looking at the US Army's future and reevaluating education and training processes to prepare for a possible future war against a near-peer threat that the US Army has not seen since the Korean War. The Last 100 Yards provides large-scale combat operations lessons learned from the past to help prepare military professionals for future conflicts and, most important, war. The case studies include Korea, Rapido River, Darwin-Goose Green, Operation Spark, Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse, Bataan, the Meuse-Argonne, and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"¡Arriba muchachos!": the fight for Hill 167 in Korea, 18-19 July 1952 / by Lt. Gen. (Retired) Daniel P. Bolger

Attacking unsupported: the 36th Infantry Division at the Rapido River, 20-22 January 1944 / by Christopher M. Rein

Para and the Battle of Darwin-Goose Green, May 1982 / Lt. Col. (Retired) Thomas G. Bradbeer

Breaking the German encirclement at Leningrad: Operation Spark, January 1943 / by Robert F. Baumann

The defense of Gallipoli: Sulva Bay operations / by Lt. Col. George S. Patton Jr.

Tough jobs: the death and rebirth of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, November-December 1950 / by Col. (Retired) Kevin C.M. Benson

Defeat from victory: Korea 1950 / by Lt. Col. (Retired) Robert J. Rielly

The Battle of Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse: the assault of Kampfgruppe Meyer/Wunsche, 8-9 June 1944 / by Capt. (Canadian Army) Arthur W. Gullachsen

Battle of Bataan, 1942: security force assistance in the close combat fight / by Maj. Mark J. Balboni

Surgeons to the front: twentieth-century warfare and the metamorphosis of battlefield surgery / by Thomas S. Helling and W. Sanders Marble

Assured mobility and river crossing operations / by Lt. Col. (Retired) Keith R. Beurskens

The Meuse-Argonne, 1918: company-level close combat, the beginnings of fire and maneuver from the trenches into the open fields beyond / by David Scott Stieghan

The Vosges Mountains campaign, 1944: the rescue of the "Lost Battalion" by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team / by Capt. (USAF Reserve) David F. Bonner

The future of close combat / by Maj. Gen. Gary M. Brito and Lt. Col. Alicia L. Pruitt.

Notes:

"July 2019"--Page iv.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Army, viewed April 12 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781940804569

1940804566

OCLC:

1090283350