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threat from, 206, 209, 212, 242, 285, 286,
290, 299, 310, 316
Soyang River, battle of, 202, 204
Spalding, Col. George R., 141
Split-trail system, 36
Spotsylvania Courthouse, battle of, 67
Springfield, Mass., 19
Sputnik I, 219
Square division, 113, 148, 157, 158, 167
St. Clair, Maj. Gen. Arthur, 20
St. Mary’s, Ga., 22
St. Mihiel campaign, 117
Stahr, Elvis J., 258
Starry, General Donn A., 303
Statement of a Proper Military Policy for the
United States (1915), 104
Steel used for artillery pieces, 37, 78, 79, 81.
See also Bronze; Copper; Iron; Nickel.
Stevens, Maj. Ebenezer, 7–8
Stevens, William, 39
Stimson, Henry L., 103
Stimson plan, 103, 104, 105, 107
Stock-trail system, 36, 40, 48–49
Story, Brig. Gen. John P., 99–100
Strategic Air Command, 218
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) II, 239
Summerall, Brig. Gen. Charles P., 120
Superior board, 141, 142, 143
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
(SACEUR)
and release of nuclear warheads, 222
and Pershing, 240
and Pershing II, 238, 240
QRA mission of, 232
Sweden, 11
System for the Discipline of Artillery of the
United States (Stevens), 39
Système anglais modifié, 35. See also Stocktrail
system.
Tactical fire direction system (TACFIRE),
297, 298, 307, 320
Tactical Mobility Requirements Board, U.S.
Army. See Howze board.
Tactical zones. See Corps Tactical Zones
(Vietnam).
Tactics, 27, 34, 58–59, 60, 62, 72, 76, 77,
84n32, 102, 141, 159, 189, 300, 303,
304
and artillery group, 179
and artillery reserve, 64
barrages, 119, 120, 121, 123, 139
and communications, 120, 121
and countermeasures, 120
391
German, 119
impact of improved transportation, 119
importance of mobility, 119
linear, 11–12
in Mexican War, 46
Napoleonic, 40, 41, 46, 58, 82
Prussian, 82
in the Revolutionary War, 11–12
shift from offensive to defensive, 47n1, 119
“shoot ’n scoot,” 231, 312
siege, 14, 15
and trenches, 14, 119
use of rapid-fire weapons, 119
Tampa, Fla., 88, 90
Tank Destroyer Battalion, 702d, 174n29
Tank Destroyer Training Center, 173
Tank destroyers, 167, 172, 173, 180
Tanks, 121, 158, 166, 167, 173, 180, 214,
230n51, 315, 320
enemy, 172, 276, 285, 286
and forward observers, 182, 190, 299
and rockets, 174
warfare, 164
Target acquisition, 122, 249, 285. See also
Targets.
corps asset, 294–95, 306, 307, 309
decentralized at division level, 295, 296,
297, 298–99, 301, 304, 305, 308, 319
in field artillery brigade, 296
in field artillery group, 296
and Firefinder radar, 316
and Lance, 237
and missiles, 242
and Operation De s e r t st o r m, 316, 320
organization of, 297
and Sergeant, 228
“sky” cavalry, 220
in Vietnam, 268, 269, 280, 281–83
Targets, 11, 138, 157, 170, 171, 180, 198,
202, 203, 205, 249, 275, 276, 288, 291,
314, 320. See also Observation; Target
acquisition.
and aerial photographs, 184
artillery as, 64, 71, 261, 290
and Copperhead, 286–87, 315
difficulty in identifying, 10, 71, 281
and direct fire, 12, 95, 121
and Field Artillery Digital Automatic
Computer, 263
and fire direction center, 150–54, 184
and indirect fire, 95, 96, 97, 121, 122
and massed fire, 78, 146, 149, 186, 272
and missiles, 209, 214, 216, 217, 218, 223,
236, 238, 239, 242