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Navy and Marine Corps Base Newspapers
Command Level News Services
LifeLines Broadcast Network for Navy/Marine Corps News Broadcast
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Navy and Marine Corps Medical News
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Naval Education and Training Command (CNET) Public Affairs Office
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Non-DoD but Defense Related
Rongstad's Worldwide Military News Links
Specialized Search Engines
CALL's Military Domain Search Engine
CompletePlanet
GovSearch search engine [GlobalMaster]
Jane's Defence Discovery Search
The Wargames and Military History Search Engine
Major Invisible Web Search Sites
Directories / Gateways / Portals
Air University -- Air War College (AWC) Gateway to Internet Resources
Air University -- Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development (CPD) Gateway
Air War College Military Quick-Portal
DOD (Department of Defense) Resource Locator
InfoSpace.com - Military subcategory
PeopleSpot [Military category]
Trooper Military Directory and Magazine
World Wide Web Virtual Library: US Government Information Sources
Specialized Databases
8th Air Force Military Heritage Database
Air University Student Research Papers Database
Air University Faculty/Expertise Database
CALL (Center for Army Lessons Learned) Databases
Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analysis Center (CBIAC) Bibliographic Database
Chemical Propulsion Information Agency (CPIA) Propulsion Database
CHIANTI: A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line
CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory) Ice Jam Database
DoD Biomedical Research Database
DoD Ozone-Depleting Substance (ODS) MILSPEC Database
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Encyclopedia of World Military Aircraft
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
Globemaster—US Military Aviation Database
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
INFOSEC Security Products Database (SPD)
International Aerospace Information Network (IAIN)
Manufacturers Identification Code (MIC) Database
Military on-line database for modern military weapons and vehicles
Naval Supply Systems Command 's Naval Logistics Library Website
NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) Digital Library
NAIL (National Archives Information Locator) Database
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Technical Report Server
NASA Langley Technical Reports
NPARC Alliance Lessons Learned Database
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
Quadripartite Working Group on Army Operational Research Information DataBase
Research on Ongoing Acquisition Research (ROAR)
Royal Navy History On-Line Database
SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Military Expenditure Database
Standard Installation Topic Exchange Service (SITES)
VIETNAM-ERA PRISONER-OF-WAR/MISSING-IN-ACTION DATABASE
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Searchable Wall Database
Major Periodical & Publication Sites
Indexes & Lists
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI)
DoD and Military Electronic Journals
Electronic Journals In Military Science
SIPRI Cooperative Articles Database
U.S. Internet Government Periodicals
Individual Journals
Military Review [US Army Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS]
Publications
General Sites
Air Land Sea Application (ASLA) Center
Air University Student Research Papers
Air University Students Research Publications
Allied Contributions to the Common Defense - DoD
Annual Report to the President and the Congress - Dept. of Defense
Annual Report on Military Expenditures
ARI Papers (Airpower Research Institute, Air University)
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) Army Doctrine and Training Digital Library
Army Science and Technology Master Plan (ASTMP)
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) Program Documents
CADRE Papers (College of Aerospace, Doctrine, Research, and Education, Air University)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Center for Counterproliferation Research (CCR) - National Defense University
Center For Military History: Online Bookshelves
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP)
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
CPC Papers (Counterproliferation Center, Air University)
CP/CBP Web (Counterproliferation and Chemical/Biological Defense Programs)
CSAT Papers (Center for Strategy and Technology, Air University)
Defence Research Reports (Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC))
Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWITS)
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
Defense Science & Technology Planning Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E;) Publications
Directives, Instructions and Presidential Policy Documents
DoD, Inspector General Publications
DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
DOD -Directorate of Information and Operations and Reports [DIOR] Statistics -
Fact File pages focus primarily on weapons, ships, aircraft and related equipment:
Fairchild Papers (Air University)
Henry Clay Hofheimer II Lecture Series (Joint Forces Staff College)
House Armed Services Committee - Bills, Reports & Publications
ISR (Institute for Systems Research) Technical Reports
Joint Electronic Library (JEL)
Lectures At the Industrial College of the Armed Forces
Marine Corps Studies System (MCSS)
Maxwell Papers [Air War College, Air University]
Military Balance
Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL)
National Academy Press Online Publications or Alternate
National Security Archive (George Washington University)
National War College Student Papers 1995-1999
Naval Research Advisory Committee
Naval Research Laboratory's Ruth H. Hooker Research Library
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NETPDTC (Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center)
Newport Papers [Naval War College, Newport, RI]
SAAS Theses (School or Advanced Airpower Studies, Air University)
Science Boards
U.S. Army Center for Military History
U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office
U.S. Army Military History Institute
US Coast Guard Research & Development Center
US-Russia Joint Commission Documents Database
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
United States International Information Programs Virtual Technical Reports Center
(University of Maryland Libraries)
World Military Expenditures (Center for Defense Information)
Wright Flyer Papers (Air University)
Watchdog Agencies
Government Accountability Office [GAO] (formerly: General Accounting Office)
Army Inspector General
Coast Guard Inspector General
Congressional Materials
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Pentagon Library
Military Bibliographies
General Military Information Sites
AFLIS – Air Force Library & Information Service
American Wars, Military History, and Military Affairs (University of Texas History Department)
DoD and Government Internet Resources by Marie O'Mara (DTIC)
Federation of American Scientists
GPO ACCESS Browse Topics- military history
HyperWar: a hypertext history of World War II on the web
Maritime History Research on the Internet
Military Education and Research Library Network [MERLN]
Military Information, Where to Find It
Naval Historical Center and the Navy Department Library's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB)
Rongstad's Worldwide Military Links
U.S Joint Forces Command -- Joint Warfighting Center/Joint Training Directorate
War, Peace, and Security Web Server, in English, from Canadian Forces College
Web Sources for Military History
World Wide Web Virtual Library
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Naval and Maritime
Doctrine Websites
General Dennis J. Reimer Training and Doctrine Digital Library
DCSDOC, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe
Joint and Army Doctrine Directorate, Fort Monroe
Infantry Doctrine, Fort Benning
Engineer-Proponent Publications, Fort Leonard Wood
Air Defense Artillery Doctrine, Fort Bliss
Military Intelligence Doctrine & Publications Home page, Fort Huachuca
The Center for Army Lessons Learned, Fort Leavenworth
Aviation Doctrine, Fort Rucker
Field Artillery Doctrine, Fort Sill
Signal Corps Doctrine, Fort Gordon
U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM), Fort Lee
Military Police Doctrine, Fort Leonard Wood, MO
Chemical Doctrine, Fort McCellan
Air, Land, Sea Application Center
Navy Warfare Development Command
Marine Corps Doctrine Development Command
Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk
National Training Center, Fort Irwin
Military History Sites
Air Force Historical Research Agency
Air Force History Support Office
Army Center for Military History
Army Military History Institute
International Organizations
Alphabetical List from Northwestern University Library
International Organizations and NGOs
Individual Sites
Inter-American Defense Board (IADB)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) -
Think Tanks and Research Centers
Annotated List of 36 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers: Fiscal Year 2002
International Affairs Network (IANWeb) Resources
International Think Tanks and Policy Centers
NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks
Individual Sites
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
ANSER Institute for Journal of Homeland Security
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs [BCSIA]
British American Security Information Center (BASIC)
Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies
Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Center for International Policy (CDI)
Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) (Stanford University)
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Monterey Institute for International Studies
Center for Security Policy (CSP)
Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Center for the Study of Technology and Society - National Security
Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS)
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (CMSS)
Century Foundation [formerly Twentieth Century Fund]
Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC)
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Institute for Creative Technologies
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
International Relations and Security Network
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
Logistics Management Institute (LMI)
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Project on Defense Alternatives, Commonwealth Institute
Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies (RCISS) University of Pittsburgh
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Military Think Tanks
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Air University Center for Strategy and Technology
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Center for Counterproliferation Research, National Defense University
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities
Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL)
Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, National Defense University
College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education (CADRE) - Air University, Maxwell AFB
Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)
Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)
George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) (National Defense University)
Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
Near East - South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Peacekeeping Institute (PKI) - Army War College
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) - Army War College
Triangle Institute for Security Studies [TISS]
United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center [Maxwell AFB]
Military Schools & Libraries
Extensive listing can be found at both the DefenseLink site and the Dudley Knox Library sites.
Professional Military Educations [PME] Schools
Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), Ft. McNair, Washington, DC
Information Resources Management College (IRMC), Ft. McNair, Washington, DC
Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC), Norfolk, VA
National Defense University (NDU), Ft. McNair, Washington, DC
Air Force
Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
Air Force Officer and Accession and Training School (AFOATS), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
Air War College (AWC), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education (CADRE), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
College for Enlisted Professional Military Education (CEPME), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development (CPD), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
School for Advanced Airpower Studies (SAAS), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (SNCOA), Maxwell Air Force Base, AL
Army
Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), Ft. Leavenworth, KS
Army Management Staff College (AMSC), Ft. Belvoir, VA
Army Noncommissioned Officers Academy, Ft. Knox, KY
Army Sergeant Majors Academy (USASMA), Ft. Bliss, El Paso, TX
Army War College (AWC), Carlisle Barracks, PA
Combined Arms and Services Staff School (CAS3), Ft. Leavenworth, KS
School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), Ft. Leavenworth, KS
Marine Corps
Amphibious Warfare School (AWS), Quantico, VA
The Basic School (TBS), Quantico, VA
Command and Control Systems School (CCSS), Quantico, VA
Marine Command and Staff College (MCSC), Quantico, VA
Marine Corps College of Continuing Education (CEE), Quantico, VA
Marine Corps War College (MCWC), Quantico, VA
Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (SNCOA), Quantico, VA
Navy
List of Chief of Naval Education and Training (NETC) Schools
Command Leadership School (CLS), Newport, RI
Naval Command and Staff College, Newport, RI
Naval Command College (NCC), Newport, RI
Naval Staff College (NSC), Newport, RI
Naval War College (NWC), Newport, RI
Military Freedom of Information Act [FOIA] Sites
Army Training and Doctrine Command FOIA
Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) FOIA Program
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
Defense Security Service (DSS)
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
Office of the Inspector General (DoD IG)
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms
Defense Budget Information
Finding Defense Budget Figures
Research Laboratories
LabLINK (DD laboratory community)
DoD Laboratory Activities List
Locator Services
Global SpecOps Military Locator Services Directory
Military.com Personnel Locator
Military Locator and Reunion Services
Military Personnel Locator Services
DoD Sites
Department of Defense NIC (Network Information Center)
Defense Switched Network (DSN)
Air Force
Unofficial USAF Email Locator for past, present and retired members
Army
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Navy
Abbreviations & Acronyms
Army Acronyms and Abbreviations
DoD & Information Technology Acronym List
DOD Dictionary of military terms
Glossary of Military Terms, Phrases, Abbreviations, Slang
Glossary of U.S. Naval Code Words (NAVEXOS P-474)
HyperWar World War II on the WorldWideWeb Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords, Terms
Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations
Navy related Acronyms and Abbreviations
Miscellaneous Sites
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Fun
Naval Logistical Library's Recipe Repository
The Canonical list of Murphy's Laws of Combat
Murphy's Laws of Combat Operations
Guard Toons - military cartoon about the Army and Air National Guard
Page Created by Greta Marlatt
Service Level
Site Index
Alphabetical listing of the official site
NavyOnLine
Alphabetical and categorical lists of commands and their websites
Military Service Lists
Command subscribe DMIL-L
Assists DoD librarians in their automation activities.
[open]
[Restricted to Navy Libraries] Send message to Kathy Wright
[Restricted to Air Force Libraries and their staff.] Send email to Debbie Meyers
[Military Librarians Division of the Special Libraries Association] MLD-L focuses on MLD business and activities and DoD job listings. MLD-L became a moderated list open to MLD members only.]
This is the official catalog of LISTSERV lists. Over 48,000 public listserv lists are listed.
This is a listing of scholarly and professional mailing lists and groups. It can be searched or browsed
Email signup for FedTechnology and FedReport.com
Daybook daily email notices of newly released GAO reports and testimony
Information about government information and the Federal Depository Library program
FEDLIB is a moderated mailing list intended for the staff of libraries and information centers in the US federal government but others are welcome to join.
FEDLIBIT is a moderated list intended for libraries and information centers in the federal government; however, other subscribers are welcome to join.
FEDREF-L is a moderated list for reference librarians in the federal government, although other subscribers are welcome to join.
For persons interested in sharing government information worldwide and covers subjects such as freedom of access to government information, trends in government publishing, announcements of new government publications of note, including indexes, web sites, and other tools that assist in accessing government information.
H-War is a moderated electronic discussion group and bulletin board for scholars, librarians, and teachers in the field of military history.
H-Minerva is a discussion network devoted the study of women and war and women in the military, worldwide and in all historical areas.
This is a directory of over 90,000 mailing lists. - it can be search or there is a subject directory
This site allows you to search for groups by subject or browse their categories
Official Defense Sites
Newsletter for Armed Forces Personnel and Retirees [weekly email sign-up]
[U.S. Defense Systems and Technology News]-- Free E-news
[Internet Defense and Aerospace news] Free email headline service
Free news sign-up
also has links to regional news
[free emails]
The newsletter of the Military Librarians Division of the Special Libraries Association
Without frames
Archive
[freely weekly email newsletter giving the latest news and information covering changes affecting the military community
Archives page
Has links to a number of important reports and useful charts (e.g. military and civilian pay schedules, drill pay charts, leave charts and more)
Subscription signup
This is a newsletter for Military World. As well as news articles, it is a good way to keep up with the new links being added to their website. The web edition has archives back to November 2000.
Subscription signup
This digital library of world naval operational news provides listing of open sources news sites. The articles are specifically related to naval topics.
Provides almost daily updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories and more. You can subscribe to get the newsletter at the website
Good for keeping up with new search tools and specialized databases. You can sign up for:
Public Affairs Offices
[October 1994 forward]
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Press Releases
[1998 forward]
Transcripts
[1997 forward]
(audio) [archive June 1998 forward]
(audio and video)
["AFRTS provides stateside radio and television programming, "a touch of home," to U.S. service men and women, DoD civilians, and their families serving outside the continental United States."]
Talon Online
[Task Force Eagle's magazine. 2000 forward]
Archive
[1995-1997]
[restrictions]
FBIS [New Website]
If you are registering for a new FBIS account, please use the New Website. Current FBIS account holders will be transitioned to the the new website.
[password restriction] 'FBIS collects and translates current political, economic, technical, and military information from the media worldwide for the U.S. government"
[1997 forward]
Press Releases
[1994 forward]
Speeches
Press Briefing Transcripts
[1994 forward]
Testimony
[1999 forward]
Provides a full-time, live, radio and television service from the United States to
over 750,000 U.S. service members and their families serving overseas. Emphasis is on
real-time news, information, and sports, as well as other time-sensitive events.
Air Force
The Air Force News Agency anonymous file transfer protocol server.
[1995 forward]
brings together television, radio and print -- into one daily news multicast
[live press briefings]
[1997 forward]
[1999 forward]
[ forward]
[1999 forward]
[1998 forward]
[June 2000 forward]
[July 2000 forward]
[1997 forward]
This site also has links to the various PACAF base news services
[July 1996 forward]
This has Army news stories, news releases and speeches
This is a five-minute radio newscast produced Monday through Friday.
This service provides command information, news and entertainment to Army installations in the US and overseas
[from Rongstad's Worldwide Links]
[October 1996 forward]
[1997 forward]
[1998 forward]
[May 2000 forward]
Navy
[1996 forward]
[from Rongstad's Worldwide Links]
[audio & video]
[January and July 2000 forward]
[1993 forward]
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Alternate
(Html and Streaming Video)
[1993 forward]
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[from Rongstad's Worldwide Links]
[2000 forward]
[December 2002 -]
Press Releases
[1998 forward]
Archives
[July 2000 forward]
[U.S. Defense Systems and Technology News]
[Center for Defense Information]
[Internet Defense and Aerospace news]
[Washington Post column by William M. Arkin
[includes military breaking news sources]
Provides comprehensive news, in-depth analysis, and commentary of significant geopolitical, economic, and military events. Categories include: global, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Russia & CIS, hotspots, Global Intelligence update, weekly analysis, forecasts.
Hotspots
Web Search Sites
[a "meaning-based" search tool]
[over 2000 search engines, indices and directories]
list of 701 search engines covering mp3, web, people, news, regions, etc.
Searches Multiple (Military related) Sites, including CALL, Army, Army field Manuals, Army regulations, Corps of Engineers, Early Bird, Joint Service, Mitre Corp., NATO, Navy, Rand, USAF, USCG and USMC.
[Search U.S. Government Web Sites with GPO's Pathway Indexer]
[WebSearch Alliance Directory, is a selective collection of over 3,000 specialist search engines and topical guides]
[Searches only .gov and .mil]
[.mil & .gov only - combines SearchMil.com and SearchGov.com]
[Search Engine that indexes only US Government and Military web sites]
This is a free specialist search engine which searches military government, defense industry and
non-governmental organizations (NGO's) pages.
[a military related search engine and portal]
[fee for service]
Searches the political web -- think tanks, public policy, lobby groups and politician web sites
[Searches only .mil]
[search engine directory with more than 16,000 search engines]
[British Wargames Press]
[compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools]
[from About.com]
[from about.com]
[search engine of search engines]
[software tool]
Alphabetic listing of the official military sites of countries around the world
[official community website of the Air Force]
This site includes links organized for topics such as USAF Counterproliferation Center, Center for Strategy & Technology, International/Regional Studies, Issues, Forces, & Capabilities, Information Operations, Special Operations, Space Operations & Systems, Military and Space Doctrine, Strategy & Military Theory, Military Education Online, Education and Technology, Future Studies, Visioning & Strategic Planning, Military Medicine, and Health and Fitness
This site includes links organized for topics such as Leadership, ethics and command, NCO & enlisted, Chaplain resources, family support and travel, communications and thinking skills, resources for AF historians, laws and legal links, Personnel & Resource management, and military professionalism
[Military Web Portal for all DOD Civilians]
[this is the only official U.S. Government portal to the over 30 million pages of government information]
Society > Military
[over 2,000 entries]
Society > History > War
[over 1800 entries]
Society > Issues > War, Weapons and Defense
[over 450 entries]
Science > Technology > Military Science
[over 100 entries]
Society > Military > Studies
[over 15 entries]
[bills itself as a online network for military communities - it has a large number of links]
Links to sites of the U.S. military, schools, veterans, POW/MIA, news, jobs, weapons, chat
Military Databases
[includes a list of searchable military databases]
Over 3,2000 links. Categories include; Military organizations [US and international], weapon systems [US and worldwide], military pages [groups and personal], weapon builders [US and worldwide] and more
This provides a good central site for the dissemination of information and services to members of the armed forces
A military resource and information guide
[directory of military related information]
[Military World was created to serve all active and retired United States Military personnel and their families]
[This database has thousands of entries for any day history, and is searchable back to about 300 A.D. Here you can search by date for famous historical events, deaths and births]
[one of the largest military history databases, you can do a site search, an article search or a book review search]
You can have this site track and notify you when any changes are made to a particular URL
[LC Subject Headings]
Society > Military
[The Portal link list is an on-line military resource for researchers, hobbyists, military professionals and all others with an interest in military history, science and defense. The list is composed entirely of sites relating to the active prosecution of warfare and military issues.]
[includes full-text]
[some .mil restrictions]
[restricted]
The web version of the CPIA unlimited-distribution Propulsion Information Retrieval System (PIRS) and contains over 19,000 citations of unlimited-distribution DoD, military services, NASA, and contractor technical reports and JANNAF and AIAA conference papers covering 25 years of propulsion technology.
[has images, aircraft data weapons data and history for each aircraft – primarily US planes]
DTIC is the central Department of Defense facility for providing access to and facilitating the exchange of scientific and technical information.
DTIC's Public STINET
Defense Technical Information Center's Scientific and Technical Information Network. This provides access to all unclassified, unlimited document citations added into DTIC from December 1974 to the present. This includes the full-text collection from September 1998 on. Also included are: Research and Development Descriptive Summaries [RDDS] and the full-text links to DOD Specifications and Standards. DTIC
users can register for PRIVATE STINET, which has access to the unclassified but limited reports, gray literature, the British Library's "inside web." Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information's CISTI Source, and Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information's CISTI Source and ProQuest's Research Library Complete.
Find It
This lengthy page provides links to a large variety of pages either related to DTIC or produced by DTIC.
How To Get It - A Guide to Defense Related Resources
Produced by DTIC, this is a guide for locating various technical report literature published or sponsored by DoD.
Includes country information [taken from the World Factbook], audio national anthems with the text of lyrics, current weather and related links specific to each country.
This allows the user to do a distributed search across many of the energy-related collections available on the web.
FIRST is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public and is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The information available includes: agreements, conflicts and peacekeeping activities, arms production and trade, military expenditure, weapons of mass destruction, armed forces and conventional weapons holdings, political systems and country indicators and more.
This site simultaneously searches the Dept of Energy (DOE), Dept of Defense (DOD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sites. Includes a large number of full-text reports.
[log-in required]
[This index contains all 758 articles currently found on TheHistoryNet]
Provides access to articles, conference papers, research reports and slide presentation in the Operations Research field. Coverage begins in 1976.
[links to comprehensive collections of aerospace and aerospace related information, data sets, publications, image archives and more]
[Maritime Signal Flags and Semaphore Flags]
[restricted]
This provides the Coast Guard's current list of US and Canadian recreational boat manufacturers and importers.
[American Civil War]
[This site contains only approved documents and is free to all users]
All the NACA reports are available full-text.
This can be used to search the various holdings of many of the National Archives holdings across the country. Included are: microfilm publications descriptions, archival holdings descriptions and digital copies.
NASA-funded project that provides free access to the full text of articles in astronomy and astrophysics. Most of the major astronomical journals are included.
A database of over 8,000 abstracts, citations and full text technical reports.
This database provides access to publicly available online NASA documents covering aeronautical and space science. There are over 2,000 full-text reports.
NPARC Alliance is a partnership between the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) and the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) dedicated to the establishment of a national, applications oriented computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capability.
This is a clearinghouse of government produced technical report literature (including public release DOD reports). Unlike DTIC, none of the NTIS reports are available as full-text.
[Center for Defense Information]
is a system that enables acquisitionpersonnel to easily identify key acquisition studies and research findings electronically.
Search DSMC, ROAR or all publications
[Indexes the various fleets and warships of the Royal Navy from 1939-45. Specs and histories are indexed by ship name, type, and service.]
Free access but password required
(Worldwide relocation information on major military and associate installations for use by Service men and women and their families during permanent change of station moves.) [Restricted]
(Naval Sea Systems Command, Carderock Division, Hydromechanical Directorate)
[Library of Congress, Federal Reference Division]
[detailed information for names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial]
[from Internet Movie Database Genre—War – over 2,000 hits]
This covers sites which house the full-text of periodicals, and various publications including technical reports, research reports, theses or other reports done that have an emphasis on military, defense or national security issues. Other sections which also include links to publications include: Defense Budget, Congressional Materials, Military History, Doctrine sites, International Organizations, Military Think Tanks, Watchdog Agencies, Military FOIA, Military Bibliographies, Specialized Databases.
Periodicals
The Internet version begins in 1990 and provides indexing to significant articles, news items, editorials and books reviews appearing in military and aeronautical periodicals, many of which are not indexed elsewhere.
This was developed to support the curriculum of the Armed Forces Staff College, this is similar to the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals and provides selected citations to journal articles and selected documents and reports. Subject, author and keyword indexing is provided. Access is via the Military Education and Research Library Network [MERLN]
This list is compiled and maintained by the staff of the Air University Library
This list is complied and maintained by the staff at the Naval Postgraduate School's Dudley Knox Library.
This list is complied and maintained by the staff at the National Defense University Library.
[with over 58,000 entries in English, German and Spanish, results are from SIPRI, NATO Review, CIDOB (Centre d'Informació i Documentció Internacionals a Barcelona) and FIIA (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
[by subject, title or SuDocs number by the Washburn University School of Law. Defense publications are in the D section]
Aerospace Power Journal Index
Air University Review Index [predecessor to the Aerospace Power Journal]
Military Review Index, 1922-1996 (Choose CALL Database)
Military Review English Edition Index 1997 to the present
Naval War College Review Subject Index
1948 to the present
US Army War College Quarterly, The United States Army's Senior Professional Journal
Index of articles and review essays
Service Publishing Pages
Electronic Publications
Major Air Command (MAJCOM) Publishing Libraries
Air Armament Center (AAC) Electronic Publishing Library
AFMC Field Libraries
PDL Reading Room
[designed to provide a comprehensive listing of selected military publications [magainzes, base newspapers etc] as well as selected non-DOD publications or repositories]
"Rapidly and responsively develop multiservice tactics, techniques, and procedures, facilitating joint information exchange and operational solutions across the entire military spectrum."
[includes ACSC, AFFP, AFIT, AWC, CADRE, SAAS]
Special Collections of Award winning papers
[1995 forward]
[1995 forward]
[US Dept of State]
became part of the Department of State in April 1999. The archive is available as part of the Electronic Research Collection of historic State Department materials hosted by the federal depository library at the University of Illinois at Chicago at where speeches, reports, treaties and more can be found
This is s the single repository of approved Army training and doctrine information and includes: administrative publications, soldier manuals, field manuals, Joint/Multi-service publications, TRADOC publications and more.
[including the BMDO Annual Report to Congress]
Located at the Naval War College, these are the personal papers of Rear Admiral Richard W. Bates (1892-1973) and cover the years 1915-1973. They consist of correspondence, subject's files, writings, speeches, and miscellaneous items.
[News From the Front, Special Editions/Studies, Newsletters, Combat Training Center Bulletin & Trends, Handbooks, Combined Arms Center Histories, Special Products, Combined Arms Assessment Team (CAAT) TTPs, and more]
[includes World Factbook, Factbook on Intelligence, CIA Annual Reports and more]
[including Studies in Intelligence, and books and monographs by this Center]
"The Cold War International History Project
disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world"
Virtual Document Library
[includes the Bulletin, Working Papers and Book series]
this has full-text reports organized in categories such as National Security, Science, Space and R & D policy, and Trade & International Affairs
Reports
[including the Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (NBC) Defense Annual Report to Congress and the Counterproliferation Program Review Committee Annual Report to Congress ]
[.mil restriction]
This page provides links to the following types of documents from 1996 to the present. Basic Research Plan (BRP), Defense Technology Area Plan (DTAP), Defense Technology Objectives (DTOs), and Joint Warfighting Science and Technology Area Plan (JWSTP)
[this NPS library page provides links to the various DOD, and service directives and instructions as well as the many presidential decision and policy documents]
[Hillsdale College - collection of primary source documents on military history - categories include: ancient, medieval, early modern history, French Revolution, 19th century, and naval warfare. Currently has over 300 documents]
[restricted]
[FY 1990 forward] and Audit Policy and Oversight Reports [FY 1997 forward]
The Hofheimer Lecture Series includes lectures yearly by former military or political leaders of national reputation and stature. Each of these leaders lectures, teaches, and writes about matters of national or international strategic importance.
[University of Maryland] includes abstracts and full-text from 1985 to the present.
This provides access to all current Joint Publications.
Joint Publications
Capstone Pubs
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
Reference Pubs
Series 1-0: Personnel
Series 2-0: Intelligence
Series 3-0: Operations
Series 4-0: Logistics
Series 5-0: Planning
Series 6-0: C4 Systems
Service Publications
History Publications
CJCS Directives
Research Publications
Joint Force Quarterly
Common Perspective
"Transcripts of unclassified lectures given at ICAF. Currently only lectures from 1946,
1955 and 1956 are posted in an author list; a complete author/title listing is in
production at this time. At completion almost 1200 lectures will be included
representing the years 1946-1965. These papers are searchable through MERLN.
[National Defense University]"
(providing evaluations and advice on maritime transportation and marine engineering and technology)
(Oxford University)
[more than 2,000 online publications in subject areas such as: computers & technology, engineering, environmental issues, health& medicine, international issues, mathematics & physics, policy& research issues, space, transportation and more]
[Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)]
"394 selected short papers of topical interest related to the curriculum of NWC; the
papers address military strategy, international relations, military leadership, etc.
These papers are searchable through MERLN. [National Defense University]"
They have digitized the NRL technical reports and they are available through their online catalog
Reports
[limited full-text]
Report Archives
[1995 forward]
List of Reports and Executive Summaries
[1988 forward]
Completed Research Technical Report, Abstracts & Executive Summaries
[Library of Congress, Federal Reference Division]"…(the so-called "Task Force Russia" documents) consist of the minutes of plenary sessions, reports from the working group sessions, and the translation of Russian-language documents retrieved from various archives in the Russian Federation pertaining to American personnel missing from World War II to the present."
[Peace Watch, Peaceworks, & Special Reports]
[includes categories such as Current Issues, Washington Files, U.S. Policy, Regions, Issues in Focus, Information & Services (with electronic journals, publications, foreign media in the US etc.) and more]
links to Institutions that provide either full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the web. These include technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports
A collection of on-line maps covering wars from the eighteenth century to the present day.
includes fact sheets with information back to FY'97
[primary source documents on the web]
GAO is the investigative arm of Congress. They examine the use of public funds and evaluate federal programs and activities
[Legislative Information on the Internet]
This site provides access to bills, laws, documents, reports, committee information, roll call votes and the congressional record.
CBO provides Congress with nonpartisan analyses of information needed for economic and budget issues. The web site has full-text studies and reports, testimony, cost estimates, technical papers and other documents.
This arm of the Library of Congress publishes a number of very useful reports on a large number of topics. A number of sites capture and host the full text of their reports. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has the best collection of military and defense related ones.
Congressional Research Service Reports (Dudley Knox Library)
Provides links to the various House committees. Most committee sites have links to recent publications, hearings and bills. Of particular interest are several House Armed Services Committee series.
Provides links to the various Senate committees. Most committee sites have links to recent publications, hearings and bills.
Many are done on various topics by different military libraries or groups. Some of interest are:
Dudley Knox Library bibliographies as well as links to other sites
Featured topics, Gulf War Syndrome, national defense links,
academies, demonstration units, military vehicles, organizations, magazines,
surplus gear
provides a comprehensive list with links to all Air Force libraries including breakdowns by library type and find [e.g. major command]
[Defense industry]
Links currents projects, equipment catalog, A-Z company index, organizations and more.
Projects link
[main battle tanks, armored fighting vehicles, artillery systems, attack and support helicopters, air defense missile systems, anti-armor missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles
[links to base listings for the service branches including the Coast Guard]
This guide, out of a UK university, covers military resources around the world.
Military Seals [JPS, EPS and/or WMF formats of the color and black and white seals for DOD, JCS, each service, the Coast Guard, Coast Guard Reserve, the National Guard and Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve
Joint Combat Camera Center
[DoD Imagery Server contains more than 80 thousand still images and more than 175 QuickTime previews of videotapes.]
["FAS conducts analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy, including national security, nuclear weapons, arms sales, biological hazards, secrecy, and space policy"]
[free but registration is required – for help with finding military personnel – former and active]
[unofficial USN Chief Petty Officer page with lots of good links and background information]
[this is an unofficial page for the USN's aviation warfare systems operators]
[categories -- Politics & Diplomacy, Military/Service Histories, Pacific Theater of Operations, European Theater of Operations and more]
Provides access to library catalogs at each branch of the armed forces' academies and war colleges and other PME schools. This also allows you to search the Air University Library Index to Military periodicals as well as the Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI)
This page maintained by the Naval Postgraduate School's Library, provides links to finding military information in topical areas such as: Awards, Insignia, Medals, Seals, Budget and Expenditures, Military Equipment, Military History, Manpower, Organization, Safety and more.
very comprehensive, this page compiles links to documents related to this topic from numerous sites, a good "one stop" link to this topic.
Open Source Military Information Database with categories such as Intelligence Agencies, Military Information, Terrorism and Conflicts]
[more than 2,500 links]
the U-Boat war of 1939-1945 has over 7,000 pages
[access to various specific sites most of which are restricted – General Public, DOD/NATO, PfP (Partnership for Peace) Nations, Other Nations and JWFC/J7 members]
The DOD/NATO site includes the Peace Operations Research Library, Joint Center for Lessons Learned, and more]
War, Peace and Security Guide
[Comprehensive guide to military and defence-related resources on the Internet]
Armed forces of the world
Contemporary conflicts
[world map or text links to sites of conflict]
International organizations
[alphabetical list of links to various organizations]
International relations
[topical links]
Military art and science
Military biography
Military history
[informational links by period, subject or history or wars]
Peace and disarmament
Graphical Quick Reference to Armed Forces, Conflicts and military history
provides links to military related information. Link categories include: aviation, historical sites, general military sites, naval sites, and ground forces sites. The site has it's own search engine and you can sign up for their mailing list
Web rings are groups of sites that have linked together around a similar topic.
or Alternate
[Richard Jensen] – very comprehensive site or
Links to a large number of well-organized topical sites that are then broken down to sub-categories. Categories include: engineering, international affairs, regional studies, and science.
Each of the following examples have numerous sub-categories
Sub-links include: aviation, coast guard, Marine Corps, international navies, periodicals, piracy, SEALs, ships, submarines and more.
(Formerly the Army Doctrine and Training Digital Library)
Comprehensive Links Sites
a listing of over 40,000 international non-profit organizations for the Union of International Associations (UIA)
Official Documents
This international military organization promotes cooperative security interest in the Western Hemisphere.
Comprehensive Links Sites
[current listing of 36 FFRDCs located in the US, along with descriptions.]
[policy research institutions, think tanks and research institutes]
Think Tanks, Associations and Independent Research
Air War College Gateway
Indexes by country, acronym, and area
[guide to public policy experts and organizations]
[topics include: government & politics, economics, international affairs, and defense policy]
[topics include Canadian military affairs, security issues and international relations]
Publications
this is a public policy research institution covering areas which include world regions, national and international security and more
presents national security related stories gathered from a number of prominent online sources and updated continuously.
Analytical papers
Key Issues
Publications Library
[categories include: foreign policy and national security]
National Security.org
Foreign Policy.org
[a compendium of online resources about Chinese military policy & capabilities] --
[a gateway to full-text online resources about the Revolution in Military Affairs, information war, and asymmetric warfare]
Online Research Publications
[topics include: Gulf War Studies, International Policy, Information Technology, Logistics, Military Manpower, Military Strategy and Tactics and more]
Research Areas
Arroyo Center [Army Research Division]
Project AIR FORCE
Center for Russia and Eurasia
this organization does research in areas such as arms transfer, arms production, military expenditures, military technology, chemical and biological weapons and European Security and more. Some of their information is available on the web.
Research Topics
[include defense and foreign policy, European issues, military forces and strategy, nuclear issues, international peacekeeping, arms trade issues, military spending]
Defense Almanac
Publications
[Army War College]
Ft Leavenworth, KS
Publications
[includes Strategic Assessments]
US Air Force Academy, CO
Major Collections
This list includes technical, medical and post or base libraries worldwide.
[Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School] - this link includes government and presidential as well as military
DOD
this page provides links to various FOIA reading rooms for many of the Navy Commands
Defense Budget
This page includes links to the National Defense Budget Estimates, M-1, O-1, P-1, R-1, C-1, etc.
[Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School]
This is a listing of the five university research laboratories that the Navy maintains an MOU [Memorandum of Understanding] with and they work on problems that are of interest to the Navy
Commercial Sites
[includes a list of current reunions]
This is a listing from About.com
[with personnel search]
[restricted]
[compiled by the Air Force Research Laboratory]
[searchable database of more than 190,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations.]
[list is a substantial list of links to various DOD and non-DOD sites]
compiled by the
[contains abbreviations and acronyms of all military service branches]
[done by Navy Acquisition, Research and Development Information Center NARDIC, this is a list of acronym sites]
[Essays on internet open source intelligence and infrastructural warfare threat models]
is designed to assist students and other individuals interested in International Relations, International Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy
[is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more
than 7,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to
users of public libraries.]
This is one of the largest databases in the world and it provides stored satellite imagery of the U.S.
[send images as postcards]
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