US Military Intelligence (1894-1914)
Publications of the Military Information Division
In this age of the PDF, some digital volumes congregate in ways that reflect their origins. Thus, a magnificent collection of ‘personal experience monographs’ written by American veterans of the Second World War resides in a single, well-catalogued, easily-accessed repository. (I considered making a joke about ‘Fort Mel Gibson’, but decided against it.) Likewise, the good people at Gallica (which I like to call ‘Google Books done right’) have put all of the ‘Artillery Information Bulletins’ published between 1917 and 1919 in a comparably convenient place.
Alas, a number of digitized works, which originally rolled off the press as components of series, have been cast to the winds. Such is the case with the two series of monographs published by the Military Information Division of the American War Department in the two decades leading up to the First World War. (These, which cast a wide net over contemporary military affairs, offer much of interest to students of the military institutions of Europe and Asia, as well as those of the United States, during the period the French call la Belle Époque.)
In an attempt to mitigate this problem, I am setting up, and have resolved to maintain, a finding aid that will help readers locate (and, if possible, download) copies of these little books. (If you know of any members of this series that I have missed, please use the comments section to let me know, and, better yet, provide suitable links.)
Adjutant General’s Office
02 (1894) Report on the Organization of the German Army
04 (1894) Notes on Organization, Armament, and Military Progress
05 (1895) The Organized Militia of the United States
06 (1895) The Autumn Maneuvers of 1894
07 (1896) The Organized Militia of the United States
09 (1896) The Military Schools of Europe
10 (1896) Sources of Information on Military Professional Subjects
11 (1896) Notes on the War between China and Japan
13 (1897) The Organized Militia of United States
14 (1897) The Military Systems of Greece and Turkey
15 (1897) The Autumn Maneuvers of 1896
16 (Part 1) (1897) Subsistence and Messing in European Armies
16 (Part 2) (1898) Cavalry Pioneer Tools and High Explosives
16 (Part 3) (1898) Extracts from the new Drill Regulations of Russian Cavalry
17 (XVII) (1898) Sources of Information on Military Professional Subjects
18 (XVIII) (1898) Selected Professional Publications
19 (XIX) (1898) The Organized Militia of the United States
20 (XX) (1898) Military Notes on the Philippines
21 (XXI) (1898) Military Notes on Cuba
22 (XXII) (1899) Staffs of the Various Armies
23 (XXIII) (1899) Observations Abroad
24 (XXIV) (1899) French-English Military Technical Dictionary
25 (XXV) (1899) Reports of Explorations into the Territory of Alaska
26 (XXVI) (1899) The Autumn Maneuvers of 1898
27 (XXVII) (1900) The Autumn Maneuvers of 1899
28 (XXVIII) (1900) Report on the Island of Guam
29 (XXIX) (1900) The Organized Militia of the United States
30 (XXX) (1900) Notes on China
31 (XXXI) (1901) Explorations in Alaska
32 (XXXII) (1901) Notes of Military Interest for 1900
33 (XXXIII) (1901) Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China
34 (XXXIV) (1901) Colonial Army Systems of the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Belgium
35 (XXXV) (1902) Target Practice and Remount Systems Abroad
36 (XXXVI) (1902) Notes of Military Interest for 1901
37 (XXXVII) (1903) Classification and Index
38 (XXXVIII) (1903) Notes of Military Interest for 1902
War College Division, General Staff
1 (1903) Notes on Panama
2 (1904) Bulletin of Military Notes (Part I)
3 (1904) Bulletin of Military Notes (Part II)
5 (1905) Bulletin of Military Notes (Part III)
6 (1906) Actual Experiences in War (Soloviev)
11 (1907) Epitome of the Russo-Japanese War
15 (1909) Military Notes on Cuba
18 (1912) Classification and Index
“I considered making a joke about ‘Fort Mel Gibson’, but decided against it.”
You should have made it. Remember though, its Fort Mel Gibson and Madeline Stowe.
Gallica is a rabbit-hole I could get so lost. Maybe I'll run across some of those still-lost new Lts on the land nav course.