Thread 63803060

Which U.S. field manuals have (you) found interesting? Has anyone found any worthwhile ones from other countries?

>>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.

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.

>>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.

>>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

>>63803359
Here's the later smartbook guide for repairs: http://cdn.asktop.net/wp/download/GTA01-14-001.pdf

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.

>>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.

It’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 “grave coffin”. Does this soun familiar to any anons?

moutain warfare is pretty comfy reading.

>>63803060 (OP)
The ones written by WW2 German Officers about fighting the Russians are interesting.

>>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.

>>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

One and only manual thats good for war.