US Military Intelligence (1894-1914)

Publications of the Military Information Division

Elihu Vedder Minerva (1896)

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

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