increasing the probability of more destructive flooding and inundation in major cities1,2,3. However, these impacts may be exacerbated by coastal subsidence—the sinking of coastal land areas4—a factor that is often underrepresented in coastal-management policies and long-term urban planning2...
Last year I had the opportunity to visit theJohn M. Browning Museumin Ogden, Utah and I was thrilled to see the ‘hammerless’ prototype on display. Very little has been written about the development of this particular pistol with Browning and Gentry explaining that during the US Army’s lo...
1942 –ed). Its purpose was to furnish a general guide for the balanced training of Army Medical Department units so that they could be prepared to take to the field in the Zone of Interior or in a
United States of America/Kingdom of the Netherlands (1941) Light Tank – 194 Built After years of neglect, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Koninklijk Nederlandsch-Indisch Leger, abbreviated to ‘KNIL’) tried to re-equip itself with new material starting in 1936. Four Vickers tanks, ...
U S.Army PlWilar HWsforv Instiljfe ENGINEER FIELD MANUAL VOLUME II MILITARY ENGINEERING (Tentative) PART TWO DEFENSIVE MEASURES PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1932 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D...
Given the education of the men that found themselves there, and the culture of the army officer corps and Political Service, it proved seemingly impossible for British administrators and soldiers to dissociate this space from Alexander’s campaigns. (C.A. Hagerman’s article, “In the ...
The unit cost of dredging was taken from the Army Corps of Engineers annual analyses of dredging costs [41]. Use of dredged material was generally more cost effective than trucking in fill from offsite. Dredging will not always be possible due to lack of suitable dredging material or ...