"Ruck it Up!": The Post-Cold War Transformation of V Corps, 1990-2001

"Ruck It Up!" chronicles the post-Cold War transformation of a traditional tank-heavy corps for the defense of Western Europe to a lighter reaction force readily deployable within the U.S. European Command area of operations. Charles E. Kirkpatrick discusses the changes that affected the Army at large while recording the organizational, technical, and tactical lessons learned by the forward-deployed units in Germany-the U.S. Army, Europe, and its principal tactical formation, V Corps-during...