The science of strategy is a theoretical system about strategy and a discipline that studies the overall guiding laws for the use and construction of military forces. Its main task is to reveal the essence, characteristics, and basic principles of strategy, to study the guiding laws of military conflict and army building as a whole, and to provide systematic and scientific theoretical guidance …
Several changes have occurred since the 1985 revision of General Information Leaflet (GIL) Number 7, Military Service Records in the National Archives of the United States. This reference information paper (RIP) replaces GIL 7 and updates much of its content. For example,some records listed under the Coast Guard section of GIL 7 as residing in the Washington National Records Center in Suitland…