Monte Cassino Battle

In this lesson you will continue to review the key agencies and major force management processes used in developing warfighting capability provided to combatant comman

This paper was written by Dr. Richard L. Kugler from the National Defense University, Center of Technology and National Security. Operation Anaconda was a success, but taught many lessons for modern-era force operations and defense transformation that deserves to be remembered (Kugler, 2007). Even though the battle plan was complex and sophisticated, it was not followed by the Afghan forces, which left US ground troops to do the battle alone. US forces had to replan the battle at a moment's notice.

The military tactics used and created during the Italian Campaign lead to the rest of the victories in Europe. Thomas Tandy Lewis’ article “Operation Mincemeat” explains, “...Hitler was persuaded that the … planned attack will be directed mainly against Sardinia and the Peloponnesus….On July 10, the Germans were unprepared. Of the 300,000 defending troops on the island, more than two-thirds were poorly armed and ill trained Italian soldiers.” Operation Mincemeat was an ingenious military plan created by the Allies

Although kinetic fires are used to physically destroy enemy capabilities, “the greatest effect of fires is… not the amount of physical destruction, but the effect of that physical destruction on the adversary’s moral strength” (MCWP 3-43.3, 1-1). Fires play a vital role in supporting a commander’s plan to preserve his force. This is achieved by utilizing the targeting process to identify high payoff targets and utilizing fires to destroy or degrade the enemy’s capabilities, interdict their air and missile capabilities, and eroding their will to fight. Specific force protection measures can include counter battery fire and the jamming of electronic surveillance to deny the enemy information about friendly forces. By focusing fires assets on creating disproportionate results through psychological effects, a commander can increase his unit’s productivity and combat effectiveness while simultaneously safeguarding U.S.

The German’s also had an established railhead to transport mass supplies and troops into at the Austrian controlled City of Tolmein, which was one of the objectives of the Italian Army for the region. The Central Powers was scheduled the attack that would become known as the Battle of Caporetto for mid-October of 1917, which gave them a mere five to six weeks to prepare for the major offensive. In addition to the movement of men into the region, Germany also supplied over one and half million artillery rounds and nearly eight hundred tons of explosives to support the attack. The increase in the presences of German supplies and men strengthened the front, but also proved to improve morale in the already demoralized Austrian forces. The arrival of Germany gave the Austrian troops on the front a boost of confidence that they may be able to break out of the mountains that they have come to loth.

The Battle of Monte Cassino and Anzio were two of some of the biggest battles in World War II. The Battle of Monte Cassino or the Bombing of Monte Cassino was a battle were the Allies made four assaults against the Gustav Line which was also called the Winter Line which was being held by the Axis forces. The Battle of Monte Cassino caused 200,000 deaths in a span of four months and is considered one of the most appalling battles in World War II (Oxford University Press). The point of the attack was to get to Rome and the plan worked and the Allies were able to get to Rome. He actually stood and watched as the planes went over and dropped the bombs on the Monte Cassino Abbey. Capturing Rome the capital of Italy was a huge deal and real difference

In the next week the Allies moved in seven miles fighting off the scattered but increasing Germans. As the moved along the Anzio-Albano Road toward Campoleone, they captured the town of Aprilia, which created a massive dent in enemy lines, but were unbale to breakout of the beachhead. Although they met some heavy resistance on the way to Cisterna and Littoria, that eventually halted their advance, they managed to increase their numbers, and built anti-air guns impairing the German Luftwaffe. Despite their progress because they did not immediately drive towards Rome the Germans were able to recover and retaliate. Most of the German counterstrikes were random air raids on the snarl of trenches the allies had dug. The allies broken and weary from the random barrage of artillery were more then ready to escape the trenches of Anzio and head towards the capital Rome.

As we examine warfare from 1914 to the 1990s, we examine multiple tactics that include one lethal weapon, the tank. At the introduction to World War I during the Battle of the Marne trench warfare began to appear. A few months later a stalemate was in place and neither side could advance through the thick machine gunfire the moment a soldier stood. It became apparent that a reliable breakthrough vehicle was necessary to assault the heavily armed trenches that the germans dug. The weapon soon appeared as the tank, the tank was extremely heavily armed and armored with the weaponry that was required to break the stalemate during World War I. After the conclusion of World War I, Hitler's panzer army broke into poland and occupied the small country. During

The Battle of Stalingrad, which involved over two million soldiers and lasted 200 days , is known as the turning point of the Second World War and is often thought to have been the end of Nazi Germany’s peak. However, the question of the extent to which the Axis defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad lead to their eventual loss of the war is an intricate one that requires the analysis of the reasons for the outcome of the battle in order to conclude on its effect on the outcome of the war. The Soviet victory and the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad can both be attributed to several factors.

The topic I chose to write about is the Battle of Caporetto. During the eleventh battle of Isonzo, Germany provided assistance to the Austro-Hungarian forces because they needed help. According to Trueman, the German commanders "felt it was prudent to support [them]" (pg.1). Later on, the Germans launched an attack on a front near of Caporetto. It was sudden, but that area was the weakest spot for Italy. Although the Italian army had an advantage in army forces, they still lost the battle. Even the German commanders were surprised because they thought their chances of winning was low. The result of this battle made the Italian army have a lot of losses.

The victory for the Red Army at the Battle of Kursk had marked a change in World War II where the German Wehrmacht’s use of blitzkrieg had finally been destroyed. This study consolidates why the battle happened and its overall outcome. Synthesizing both what the German command believed to be failures, and its antithesis, the Soviet success, the assault on Kursk will be understood through not only the immediate triumph, but specifically how the Soviet Union changed the direction of the Eastern Front.

Rommel then led his entire detachment up the camouflage path into the Italian position and expanded the breach along the line fifty yards on either side and captured several dozen more Italians who were seeking shelter within their dugouts. Rommel’s breach of the Italian line was done without firing a shot and created an opening for troops to poor into the rear of the second line and cut it off from any support. This tactic was repeated up and down the Italian lines was great success and supported the unprecedented advance of the Central Powers in the region.

In the exploration of the art and craft of Deception and Denial operations, there have been many times where a low tech force has been able to overcome a force that has more technology. In the US and NATO air war during Operation Allied Force, the use of air power was countered by the Serbs through deceptions seen in the past. In this paper, the exploration of the use of these techniques as well as the background of their use will be shown. The use of their low tech D&D techniques will be shown and the lead up to the Air War. In 1999 the US and the NATO campaign of Operation Allied Force was started in order to force Serbs to remove from Kosovo, as well as quell their aggression from Mar 24 1999 to June

It examines the national essential that made the Mediterranean such a vital theater for each of these powers and it analyses their actions and performances over the entire five-year campaign from 1940 to 1945. Particularly in this coverage of naval surface combat during that time is filled with fresh perspectives and same supported by wide-ranging research in

The Battle of Monte Cassino was one of the most important battles of World War 2. Monte Cassino was effectively blocking the Allies route north to Rome and had to be taken despite the many difficulties of doing so with many numerous mountains surrounding Cassino. The Allies reached the western end of the German Gustav Line in Italy in mid-Jan 1943. The main German positions generally ran along the valleys created by the Rapido River, Liri River and the Garigliano River. German troops established positions on the hill of Monte Cassino, which dominated over the valleys, but they had stayed out of the nearby historical Benedictine monastery per orders of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring. The allies Field Artillery played a very