The MOUT Homepage Research Site - The Map Room and Overhead Imagery Vault

Books:

Military Books Online (Comprehensive site - reviews - online purchasing from multiple sources)
The Military Book Club
Frank Cass Publishers (Long established company - worldwide reputation for publishing quality books and over 60 journals)
Military/Info Publishing (Specializing in military pub reprints)
Photocopies of Urban Operations Publications (Commercial site - hard to find older documents)
Telecommunications and the City (Center for Urban Technology)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu

General Reference:

Geographic to UTM and UTM to Geographic Coordinate Converters (TEC - under products and services)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Dictionary (University of Edinburgh)
GravityBox WorldView (Geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues)
Embassy Web (Worldwide diplomatic posts - all countries)
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms
Symbology Standards Management Committee (Military Symbology)
Topographic Map Symbols (USGS)
Center for Army Lessons Learned Dictionary and Thesaurus
Military Libraries
Worldwide Urban Planning Links
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
Compton's Encyclopedia Online
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict
Research-It! (Dictionary, thesaurus, translator, maps, and more)
Online Language Translating Dictionaries
Worldwide Telephone Directories on the Web
Worldtime (World-wide local time, sunrise, sunset)
Yahoo's Links to Geographic Name Servers
Yahoo's Links to World Population Count Sites
Virtual Reference Desk

Databases - Subscription Required:

Global Information System (GIS) (Worldwide)
Periscope Defense Information Services (USNI)

U.S. Army:

The U.S. Army Combined Arms MOUT Task Force (CAMTF)
Army Doctrine and Training Digital Library (ADTDL)
Command and General Staff College (CGSC)
Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO, regional military and security assessments)
Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL, Virtual Research Library)
A Company - 304th Military Intelligence Battalion (MOOTW Page)
The U.S. Army Military Police MOUT Page
The Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM - contains a CSS MOUT resource page)
Article and Review Essay Site (U.S. Army War College's Quarterly Parameters)
U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute
U.S. Army Infantry Center (Fort Benning)
U.S. Army Schools Links Page (TRADOC)
U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute (U.S. Army War College)
Center for Engineer Lessons Learned (CELL)
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Army Logistician (U.S. Army Logistics Bulletin)
Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin (MIPB)
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (Creative Ideas Site)
Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)
Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM)
Soldier Systems Command
U.S. Army Aviation Center (Fort Rucker)
Chemical and Biological Information Analysis Center (CBIAC)
Warfighter's Web (NBC, U.S. Army Chemical School)
Center of Military History (CMH)
Topographic Engineering Center (TEC)
Research Institute for the Behavorial and Social Sciences (ARI)

U.S. Marine Corps:

Marine Corps Research Center
Marine Corps University
Doctrine Division (MCCDC)
Concepts Division (MCCDC)
MAGTF Staff Training Program (MSTP)
Marine Corps Gazette (MCA)

U.S. Navy:

Naval War College Review
Naval Historical Center (NHC, U.S. Navy)

Other U.S. Department of Defense - U.S. and State/Local Government Sites:

The Air Land Sea Application Center (TTP Page)
Research Papers Homepage (Joint Staff)
Military Operations in Built Up Areas Terrain Database Project (Access restricted to DOD and DOD contractors)
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
United States Joint Forces Command (Joint Warfighting Center & Joint Training Directorate)
Terrain Modeling Project Office (NIMA)
Military Doctrine Related Websites (U.S.)
National Defense University (NDU)
Air University (USAF)
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
Federal Emergency Management Office (FEMA)
Virginia Department of Emergency Services Resource Guide
Patterns of Global Terrorism (State Department studies)
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (Publications - Intelligence Reports)

Commonwealth/NATO Sites:

Research and Analysis Newsletter (Land Warfare Studies Center - Australia)
American, British, Canadian and Australian Armies (ABCA Standardization Program)
Canadian Army Lessons Learned Center (ALLC)
War, Peace and Security Guide (Canadian Forces College, extensive Internet guide)
Advanced Military Studies Course (Canadian Forces College)
Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs (Canadian Forces College)
The Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Center
Canadian Infantry School (Includes the Infantry Journal)
Peacekeeper's Homepage (Canadian)
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Emergency Management Australia (EMA)
Australian Defence Force Peacekeeping Center (ADFPKC)
Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO - Australia)
Euro NATO Training Engineer Center

United Nations Sites:

United Nations (UN)
UN Lessons Learned Unit: Resource Center (Current and Completed Missions)
Peacekeeping Training Courses Database (Worldwide)

Non-official Military Reference Sites:

Special Operations.Com (Internet guide to special operations)
SpecWarNet (Internet guide to special operations)
The Strategy Page
Heavy Metal - Tanker's Home Page
Olive-Drab (Portal to the Military Web)
The Advanced Tactical Manual (Devoted to training and tactics)
Combat-Online (UK military reference site)
Sniper Country (Internet guide to sniper operations)
Sniper's Paradise (Internet guide to sniper operations)
UltimateSniper.Com
The Defender Homepage (USAF Security Forces)
The War Page (Weapons of war, war as an art, and more)
The War Times Journal (Portal to on-line military resources)
Soldier of Fortune
Tac Ops ("Tactical Internet Resources for Tactical Operators")
War Dogs (Resource for the U.S. Army's use of dogs)
The S2 Company ("Resources for Tactical Intelligence Professionals")
Missiles*Munitions*Armor (Articles)
Military Operations Research Society (MORS - articles)
The Dropzone Virtual Museum (World War II)
German Armed Forces in WWII (Ground, naval, air, battles and more)
WWII in the South Pacific – Frankel-y Speaking
Federation of American Scientists (FAS, Military Analysis Network)
Military Parade (Russian defense magazine)
Russian Military Zone
Dovey's Army Pages (South Africa)
Rhodesia and South Africa Military History Page
The Medical Planner's Resource Guide (Pubs - Articles - Lessons Learned)

Law Enforcement - Emergency Services - First Reactors:

SWAT Team Directory (Index of SWAT Teams with WWW pages)
Firehouse.com (Fire, rescue and EMS)
Emergency Services WWW Site Lists
U.S. Federal and Military Law Enforcement Agencies (Numerous links)
Los Angeles County Sheriff Emergency Operations Bureau
Domestic Prepardness Web Site
Emergency Response and Research Institute (ERRI, Emergency Net)
Hazardous Materials Operations Page (Emergency Net)
The Police Officers Internet Directory
Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ)
Hazards and Risks Virtual Library (Civil disturbances, fires, geological events)
Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice (Crime Mapping Research Center)
Yahoo's Search and Rescue Links

Other Sites:

War, Chaos and Business (Articles - discussion groups - more)
Strategic Analysis (Monthly Journal of the IDSA - India)
The Project on Peacekeeping and the United Nations
The Sphere Project (Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response)
National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NI/USR)
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance Field Reports
NEO Related Information (NEO Links and Bibliography)
National Security Archive (FOIA material - George Washington University)
7 Pillars Partners (Net-Based Open Source Intelligence)
ForeignWire.com (International Affairs)
Crisisweb (World's hotspots)
OneWorld Online (World's hotspots)
Out There News (World's hotspots and issues)
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Rand Corporation
The Cato Institute
Stratfor.com
Governments on the WWW (Comprehensive international database)
The Online Intelligence Project
The Intelligence Pages (Numerous intelligence and security links)
Global Statistics (Country and urban area profiles)
Fielding's DangerFinder ("The World's Most Dangerous Places")
The Urban Environment (World Resources 1996-97)
Jane's Information Group
Yahoo's Information Warfare Links
Infowar.Com (Information Warfare)
Information Warfare on the Web (FAS)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare
Chem-Bio.Com (Internet Resource Center)
Yahoo's Chemical and Biological Warfare Links
NBC Links (Extensive list of links to nuclear, biological and chemical warfare related pages)
Terrorism Counter-terrorism Page (ERRI)
The Terrorism Research Center
The History Net (THN)
The History Channel (Schedule of TV programs)
The History Index (Huge collection of links)

Regional Research Pages:

Library of Congress Country Studies
The World Factbook 1998 (CIA)
ABCNEWS Country Profiles
Regional Affairs Page (Department of State)
Stratfor.com (Includes regional intelligence centers and world hotspots)
Refworld Writenet Country Papers (UNHCR)
People on War (ICRC - conflicts around the world)
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Inventory of Conflict and Environment (ICE - conflict case studies organized by region)
Radio Free Europe
Center for Russian Studies (Norway)
Slavic Research Center (Hokkaido University)
Russia Today
African Studies Newsletters
Africa News Online
East Asia Studies (Asian studies portal)
Cities of Asia
Regional Conflict eGroups (E-mail groups)

Overhead Imagery:

Microsoft TerraServer (Commericial interactive overhead imagery)
City Scenes: "Cities of the World" (Currently U.S. only, interactive overhead imagery)
Autometric Incorporated (Commercial imagery and GIS services)
Exploiting The New High Resolution Satellite Imagery: Darwinian Imperatives? (CSIS)

Maps and Mapping Resources:

National Mapping Information (USGS)
TerrainLINK
Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice (Crime Mapping Research Center)
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection: City Map Site (University of Texas)
Magellan Maps
Maps of World Cities
Mapquest Interactive Atlas
3D Atlas Online (Maps, country Internet Links)
Quick Maps of the World (Theodora.com)
Maps in the News (University of Minnesota)
Microsoft Expedia Maps (Interactive)
National Geographic Map Machine
World Maps Interactive Atlas (Epicurious)
Relief Web Map Center
Library of Congress: Military Battles and Campaigns (Currently U.S. maps only)
Maps of Vietnam (Vietnam Veterans Homepage)

Bibliographies and Reference Lists:

The DTIC Review: Urban Warfare (Bibliography of related documents available from DTIC)
Naval War College - Urban Warfare Bibliography
Air University's Bibliographies
Military Intelligence Bibliography
CMC's Reading List
Urban Combat/Street Fighting Bibliography (Jan 95)
Non-lethal Weapons Bibliography
MOOTW Bibliography (Military Operations Other Than War)
Peacekeeping Bibliography (Jan 95)
Instances of Use of U.S. Forces Abroad, 1798-1993 (Naval Historical Center)
Frontier Missions: Peacespace Dominance Bibliography (Airforce)
Sniper Bibliography
Operation Just Cause Bibliography
U.S. Army Infantry School: Doctrine and Training Bibliography (Mil Docs)
Peacekeeping Operations Bibliography (UN)

Internet Search Engines:

SearchMil.com bills itself as the most complete index of the .mil domain.

CALL's Military Domain Search Engine

Google uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk. This analysis allows Google to estimate the quality, or importance, of every web page it returns. The importance of a web page is entirely independent of any query.

Copernic 2000 is an Internet search application that you install on your computer, just like your browser or your e-mail software. It's an indispensable add-on tool for all your information needs. No matter what you're looking for on the Internet, Copernic 2000 can find it by efficiently and simultaneously using the best Internet search engines. Copernic 2000 also stores the results on your disk, organizes them in a clear manner and removes duplicates automatically. Copernic 2000 lets you download search results onto your computer for offline browsing and consultation any time, saving you lots of Internet connection time. It also automatically updates its list of search engines. The software is free.

Search Engine Colossus offers links to a large number of country- or region-specific search engines. The search engines are organized by country, with a link to the service, the language(s) it uses, its point of origin, and a short description when available.

FAST Search is a new search engine with three times the amount of the Internet indexed as most search engines (over 200 million urls) and like the name implies, it is fast.

Northern Light provides www search plus hits in its special collection. The special collection provides information from over 2,900 journals, books, magazines, databases and newswires not available on any other search engine. For example, a search for "urban combat" would hit on MOUT related articles from past issues of the Marine Corps Gazette. These articles can be purchased online for one to four dollars and be accessed instantly. Another Northern Light feature are custom search folders that aid in narrowing down a search that has multiple hits.

AltaVista's advanced and simple search integrates multiple search engines to provide excellent search results. AltaVista also provides an Internet language translation site where you provide either plain text or an address (url) for translation. Languages currently available for translation are English, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and French.

HotBot, rave reviews and integrated results. A great feature is the ability to select 100 hits per page with a short description of the site. You can also specify results by date, domain, links to an url, or whether the page contains audio, video and images.

Ask Jeeves! is one of the newer search services and can be a quick solution for many of your searches. Type in your question and (usually) quickly get several sources of the answer.

Yahoo!, like the Web itself, is too large to be explored entirely link by link. However, with over half a million sites divided into more than 25,000 categories, Yahoo! is both browseable and searchable. Use these two features and you will almost always find something to match your interests.

Lycos offers users a full-service Web destination complete with fast and easy search and navigation resources.

Excite is a leading Web portal, offering free, personalized information and services, including 18 content channels, state-of-the-art search technology and Web-based email.

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