Military Field Manuals - /k/ (#63803060) [Archived: 1076 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/8/2025, 11:30:57 PM No.63803060
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Which U.S. field manuals have (you) found interesting? Has anyone found any worthwhile ones from other countries?
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Anonymous
6/8/2025, 11:33:56 PM No.63803071
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>>63803060 (OP)
Back when US Marines did the whole bush war death squad stuff to secure US corporate interests around the world in the 1890s-WWII period.

Basically a manual on how to conduct bush wars successfully.
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Anonymous
6/8/2025, 11:53:23 PM No.63803123
anyone get passed the captcha on https://www.militaryfieldmanuals.net/? i've opened it in two browsers and disabled my adblocker but the captcha never appears.
>>63803071
picked up.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 12:47:11 AM No.63803359
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>>63803060 (OP)
FM 20-60 Battlefield Illumination. Snapshot between when night was the end of operations and the rise of thermal/night vision.
The various manuals dealing with battle damage assessment and repair and damage control. Neat peek into how field expedient repairs put damaged equipment back into service. Pic related, a manual I haven't seen uploaded for free anywhere yet.
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Anonymous
6/9/2025, 5:57:18 AM No.63804428
>>63803359
>a manual I haven't seen uploaded for free anywhere yet

The modern stuff is here:

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/ContentSearch.aspx?q=Battlefield+damage+assessment
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 6:20:46 AM No.63804503
>>63803359
Here's the later smartbook guide for repairs: http://cdn.asktop.net/wp/download/GTA01-14-001.pdf
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 6:26:27 AM No.63804521
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i was looking through what was available and i noticed that there's a field manual for necropsy on military dogs (later subsumed by a more comprehensive bog on veterinary care as a whole), but none for humans.
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Anonymous
6/9/2025, 6:39:16 PM No.63806318
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Anonymous
6/9/2025, 6:51:47 PM No.63806368
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Anonymous
6/10/2025, 3:16:24 AM No.63808499
>>63804521
>but none for humans
that's because it wouldn't be a field manual and would go with the other medical manuals or whatever the national medical standard.
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 4:14:16 AM No.63808697
Itโ€™s not a military manual but it was about building various fighting positions within your home (get fuck cqb fags)


One of the specific structures was a โ€œgrave coffinโ€. Does this soun familiar to any anons?
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 11:44:41 PM No.63812101
moutain warfare is pretty comfy reading.
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 1:10:47 PM No.63814318
>>63803060 (OP)
The ones written by WW2 German Officers about fighting the Russians are interesting.
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:36:51 PM No.63816597
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:37:54 PM No.63816609
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:40:42 PM No.63816621
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:42:12 PM No.63816628
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>>63816621
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:44:35 PM No.63816640
>>63816621
I remember this! Do you have the parts about Russians being strong on the defense and dying in place but being psychologically weak to flanking and cut-off attacks?

Also these US interviews of German officers about the Eastern front are the origin of the common 3 to 1 ratio for attacks rule of thumb. Statistically Russians needed better than 3 to 1, sometimes 6 to 1; despite most western assaults relying more on suppressive fire and often using an equal or even smaller assault force to close into cqb.
Anonymous
6/11/2025, 10:46:15 PM No.63816649
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>>63816628
This same book has a great almost cinematic chapter detailing a single disabled KV-1 heavy tank holding back an advancing German infantry column for days, taking out some tanks, AT guns, vehicles and a lot of men before some ballsy pioneer crawled up to it on his belly and managed to throw a satchel charge under it
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:01:20 PM No.63816706
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:02:49 PM No.63816715
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:03:51 PM No.63816722
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:04:55 PM No.63816732
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:06:17 PM No.63816740
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:10:36 PM No.63816764
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>>63816740
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:12:36 PM No.63816777
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:13:38 PM No.63816782
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Anonymous
6/11/2025, 11:16:06 PM No.63816789
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One and only manual thats good for war.