George F. Hofmann "Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry"
University Press of Kentucky | English | 2006-07-03 | ISBN: 0813124034 | 600 pages | PDF | 8,7 MB
The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the traditional horse cavalry to a mechanized branch is arguably one of the greatest military transformations in history.
Analysis of Air-Based Mechanization and Vertical Envelopment Concepts and Technologies
RAND Corporation | ISBN: 0833029665 | 2001 | PDF | 82 pages | 9.54 MB
The Army After Next (AAN) concept of rapidly deployable mechanized battleforces in a tactical environment requires the forces to be readilytransported by vertical, or near-vertical, lift aircraft. In the nonlinearAAN battlefield, this may require the forces to be deployed near the enemy1ssecond echelon.