Researching FA and DoD Current and Historical Information.1. FieldArtillery Magazines On Line. We are in the process of putting entire editions of the magazine on line for researchers to download in pdf format: sill-www.army.mil/famag. As of the publication of this magazine, we had magazines on line back to 1989; the goal this year is to have all magazines on line back to 1980 and, eventually, back to the magazine's inception in 1911. Another goal is to add an engine for on-line searches of the magazine by subject, author, title, year or feature (article, column, interview, etc.). 2. Researching FA Unit Histories. You can search for a unit history or its lineage on line via the US Army Center of Military History, Fort McNair, Washington, DC: www.army.mil/cmh-pg. 3. Department of Defense (DoD) Research Sources. MERLN MERLN Military Education Research Library Network (Military Education and Research Library Network) is a database of 12 military libraries' catalogs on line: Air University Library, Combined Arms Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects. Though the lower-echelon units of a combined arms team may be of homogeneous types, a balanced mixture of such units are combined into an Research Library, Joint Forces Staff College Library, Marine Corps University Library, National Defense University Library, Naval PostGraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. Located in Monterey, California, it grants primarily master's degrees plus some doctoral degrees to its students, who are mostly active duty officers from U.S. and foreign military services. Library, US Air Force Academy Library, US Army War College Library and Military History Institute, US Coast Guard Academy Library, US Military Academy Library, and US Naval Academy Library. MERLN can be accessed via any of the 12 library web sites. MERLN's connection to the web site at the National Defense University: http://merln.ndu.edu. MERLN offers the combined resources of the largest and most comprehensive collections of military information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. in the world by providing access to the holdings of the participating libraries. You can search MERLN by key word, author key word, subject heading key word or advanced searching (Boolean, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m , ISSN ISSN abbr. International Standard Serial Number or Series). 4. Web Sources for Military History. Military history buffs can access http://members.aol.com/dann0l/military.html and find hundreds of links to military history web sites in America and around the world. The web site's originator is Dr. Richard Jensen, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago, who taught history for 30 years and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor Distinguished Visiting Professor is an academic title bestowed by American Universities on prominent scholars who have been invited to teach a course in their area of expertise for one semester or more to enrolled undergraduate and graduate students. at the US Military Academy at West Point. The site has 23 pages of on-line links organized by historical categories: Ancient, Medieval, l6th-l7th Centuries, 18th Century, American Revolution, Napoleonic Era, 19th Century, US Civil War, World War I, World War II, Cold War, Third World, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm to Kosovo and additional categories of Air Power/Aero-Space and Sea Power. Contributors include The History Channel, Yale University, the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). and many other institutions and individual experts. The web sources include bibliographies; official documents, letters, articles and books on line; maps; photos; drawings and paintings; poetry and literature; reenactments; historical societies and museums; and others sources. |
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