Looking for older FID manuals
Does anyone have accessible copies of the older FID manuals from the 1960s and 1970s? I'm a PhD student with the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom trying to ascertain what guidance was available to the first Western officers trying to reconstruct armies after civil wars in the 1980s: especially Zimbabwe with the BMATT but also later efforts.
Cheers and thanks
Combined Arms Research Library
Try this link to Fort Leavenworth.
http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/CARL/index.asp
They have a large number of manuals that are obsolete in PDF files that are easily downloaded. If you go back to the 1950s and 1960s you will need to use key words such as counterinsurgency (look for the 1963 field manual US Army in COIN) and counter-guerrilla operations as FID was not yet invented. Also you will need to look for Low Intensity Conflict.
Australia had no 'FID' pams
but if you want I can send you a copy of 'The Division in Battle. No. 11 Pam, Counterinsurgency PM me.
The other guys you must talk to (you probably know this) are Alex Alderson at Warminster, Richard Iron (in your loc, I think) and David Benest (maybe also in your loc).
Also look up Daniel Marston ( I can provide contact) and you would be crazy to ignore Mockaitis' work,
cheers
Mark