"Part of The US Army Large-Scale Combat Operations Series, The Last 100 Yards is a collection of historical case studies involving crucial close combat from the period 1917 through 1991. Today senior leaders are looking at the US Army's future and reevaluating education and training processes to prepare for a possible future war against a near-peer threat that the US Army has not seen since the Korean War. The Last 100 Yards provides large-scale combat operations lessons learned from the past to help prepare military professionals for future conflicts and, most important, war. The case studies include Korea, Rapido River, Darwin-Goose Green, Operation Spark, Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse, Bataan, the Meuse-Argonne, and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team."--Provided by publisher.

Series foreword written by Lieutenant General Michael D. Lundy, US Army. Series enumeration from Army University Press.

Foreword /Michael D. Lundy -- Introduction / Col. Paul E. Berg -- "¡Arriba muchachos!" : The fight for Hill 167 in Korea, 18-19 July 1952 / by Lt. Gen. (Retired) Daniel P. Bolger -- Attacking unsupported : the 36th Infantry Division at the Rapido River, 20-22 January 1944 / by Christopher M. Rein -- 2 Para and the Battle of Darwin-Goose Green, May 1982 / by Lt. Col. (Retired) Thomas G. Bradbeer -- Breaking the German encirclement at Leningrad : Operation Spark, January 1943 / by Robert F. Baumann -- The defense of Gallipoli : Suvla Bay operations / by Lt. Col. George S. Patton Jr. -- Tough jobs : the death and rebirth of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, November-December 1950 / by Col. (Retired) Kevin C.M. Benson -- Defeat from victory : Korea 1950 / Lt. Col. (Retired) Robert J. Reilly -- The Battle of Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse : the assult of Kampfgruppe Meyer/Wunsche, 8-9 June 1944 / by Capt. (Canadian Army) Arthur W. Gullachsen -- Battle of Bataan, 1942 : Security Force Assistance in the close combat fight / by Maj. Mark J. Balboni -- Surgeons to the front : twentieth-century warfare and the metamorphosis of battlefield surgery / by Thomas S. Helling and W. Sanders Marble -- Assured mobility and river crossing operations / by Lt. Co. (Retired) Keith R. Beurskens -- The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 : Company level close combat, the beginnings of fire and maneuver from the trenches into the open fields beyond / by David Scott Stieghan -- The Vosges Mountains campaign, 1944 : the rescue of the "Lost Battalion" by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team / by Capt. (USAF Reserve) David F. Bonner -- The future of close combat / by Maj. Gen. Gary M. Brito and Lt. Col. Alicia L. Pruitt. "¡Arriba muchachos!": the fight for Hill 167 in Korea, 18-19 July 1952 / by Lt. Gen. (Retired) Daniel P. Bolger -- Attacking unsupported: the 36th Infantry Division at the Rapido River, 20-22 January 1944 / by Christopher M. Rein -- Para and the Battle of Darwin-Goose Green, May 1982 / Lt. Col. (Retired) Thomas G. Bradbeer -- Breaking the German encirclement at Leningrad: Operation Spark, January 1943 / by Robert F. Baumann -- The defense of Gallipoli: Sulva Bay operations / by Lt. Col. George S. Patton Jr. -- Tough jobs: the death and rebirth of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, November-December 1950 / by Col. (Retired) Kevin C.M. Benson -- Defeat from victory: Korea 1950 / by Lt. Col. (Retired) Robert J. Rielly -- The Battle of Bretteville l'Orgueilleuse: the assault of Kampfgruppe Meyer/Wunsche, 8-9 June 1944 / by Capt. (Canadian Army) Arthur W. Gullachsen -- Battle of Bataan, 1942: security force assistance in the close combat fight / by Maj. Mark J. Balboni -- Surgeons to the front: twentieth-century warfare and the metamorphosis of battlefield surgery / by Thomas S. Helling and W. Sanders Marble -- Assured mobility and river crossing operations / by Lt. Col. (Retired) Keith R. Beurskens -- The Meuse-Argonne, 1918: company-level close combat, the beginnings of fire and maneuver from the trenches into the open fields beyond / by David Scott Stieghan -- The Vosges Mountains campaign, 1944: the rescue of the "Lost Battalion" by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team / by Capt. (USAF Reserve) David F. Bonner -- The future of close combat / by Maj. Gen. Gary M. Brito and Lt. Col. Alicia L. Pruitt.