The General Staff Archives

75% is what we have now. 3.484 field manuals are now in the library, which is 75% of 4.614, which is the number of all field manuals of which we have knowledge so far.

Today we’re uploading another 200 MOS Field Manuals to the library, which brings the total to a little over 3400 of the 4500 FMs we know of as today.

Just a short update: Another 99 (so not quite a decime) Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) field manuals have been added to the library, bringing the total to over 3100, with hundreds still left to be processed.

Another research trip brought us to the Stanford Library, which hosts links to more than 1500 FMs in its catalogue.

One of our side projects has been expanded in the past days, and we thought we share: We recently found 340+ FMs published between 1976 and 1980 on google books, each defining a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), setting skill levels and knowledge exp…

This is the second part of the large update announced yesterday.

Google Books scanned a large amount of books from the New York Public Library, amongst them hundreds of FMs.

day we have another first: The first two FMs exclusively available on this site, contributed by a reader!

Yet another batch of field manuals, closing more gaps in the Cold war department.

The US Army Field Manual Collection has grown again, and is slowly being enlarged into an Online Doctrine Library . which means other documents than field manuals are being prepared for this year.