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Major Agency Web Sites
- Defenselink
Home page for the Defense Department as a whole. Includes a search box and a site map.
- Central Intelligence Agency
Gathers information related to U.S. national security, drug trafficking, and foreign political-military developments. Publishes handbooks of information on foreign countries and maps.
- Homeland Security Department
Newest federal department formed by merger of various agencies such as Immigration and Naturalization and Coast Guard with homeland defense functions.
- National Reconnaissance Office
Runs the nation's spy satellites. Offers limited information about the agency, its activities, and an online index to the documents produced under Corona, the satellite-based reconnaissance system in place from 1960 to 1972.
- Selective Service System
Draft registration information, publications, and an online registration feature.
Statistics
- DOD Personnel and Military Casualty Statistics
Statistics on military and civilian personnel back to the 1990s. Names and statistical data about U. S. military deaths. Includes characteristics of those killed including age, sex, race, rank and unit. Covers all U.S. wars through Iraq and Afghanistan. From the Statistical Information Analysis Division of the Department of Defense
- DOD Procurement Reports and Data Files
Current and historical reports and data on procurement products, services and contractors. From the Statistical Information Analysis Division of the Department of Defense.
- Global U.S. Troop Deployment, 1950-2003
Dataset which covers U.S. troop deployments by continent and country on a year by year basis. Accompanied by highlights and analysis from a conservative point of view. From the Heritage Foundation.
Periodicals
Annuals and Handbooks
Armed Forces
- Air Force Link
Home page for the Air Force. Features include a search link, a long list of photo images, and a library of publications and related web sites.
- Army
The official web site for the U.S. Army. Features include alphabetical, date, and keyword indexes, a search box, installations, personnel, and leadership information.
- Coast Guard
Covers mission, publications, data, and history of the Coast Guard.
- JCS Link: Joint Chiefs of Staff
News, hot topics, people and publications of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Marine Corps
The official web site for the U.S. Marine Corps. Features include links to current news, current and recent operations, and a history and traditions page.
- Navy
The official web site of the U.S. Navy. Features include a site index, digital images, a fact file and a "Ships" page which covers aircraft carriers and submarines.
- National Guard
News, resources, and historical information about the military force which has traditionally provided homeland security. From the National Guard Bureau.
- State National Guard Websites
Offers a list of all state-based National Guard websites.
Awards
- Medal of Honor Citations
Offers full text of the citations for Medal of Honor recipients from 1861 to the Iraq War. Sponsored by Army's Center of Military History.
- Medal of Honor Recipients
Information about Medal of Honor recipients from a private source, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
Compensation
- Military Compensation: Background Papers
6th edition of the classic work on military compensation and its legislative history. Covers pay for active and inactive duty forces, all forms of postservice compensation, benefits for active and inactive duty forces, and other miscellaneous payments that are manpower-related costs. From the Department of Defense.
- Military Compensation: Background Papers: Volume II: Statistical Tables
For the 6th edition, Statistical tables showing the cost of individual compensation categories and the number of personnel receiving that compensation have been placed in a separate volume from the text that describes the legislative history of the compensation. From the Department of Defense.
Family Support
- Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library
A collection of health, environmental and psychological materials for members of the armed forces and their families. From the Defense Department
- Lifelines
Offers information about quality of life issues such as health care, family support, child care, crisis counseling, career assistance and other topics to naval personnel and their families.
Freedom of Information
- Master OFOISR Reading Room List
An index of all documents available through the Defense Department's Office of Freedom of Information & Security Review. Not available electronically via the Internet, but only by filing a FOIA request through the Information and Security Review office.
- Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Electronic Reading Room
A collection of electronic documents, organized around 40 main topics, released to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. From the Defense Department.
Military Bases
Military Law and Justice
- The Law of Land Warfare, Army Field Manual 27-10
Covers the basic rules of war including treatment of prisoners of war and civilians. From the Army Department.
- Military Law and Legal Links
A collection of resources related to military law procedures and institutions including military courts, commissions and tribunals, Judge Advocate Generals offices, laws of war and war crimes, court martial procedures and more. From Air War College.
- Military Legal Resources
Selected holdings from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center in Charlottesville, a collection of primary source materials and publications in the field of military law. Includes historical monographs, treatises, manuals for courts-Martial, war crimes trials materials, military law periodicals and more. From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
National and Homeland Security
- National Security Agency
Offers limited information about the agency which gathers foreign intelligence through open source analysis and cryptologic techniques. Some access to declassified publications through the public information release programs.
- National Security Council
Advises and assists the President on matters of national security and foreign policy. Features news releases and speeches of the National Security Advisor.
- History of the National Security Council, 1947-1997
A concise treatment of the major themes and organizational changes in the National Security Council from the Truman to the Clinton Administrations.
- Homeland Security Digital Library
A collection of government and private reports, laws, studies and papers on the broad topic of homeland security. From the Department of Homeland Security.For William and Mary and other subscribers.
- National Fire Department Census Database
Provides addresses and basic information about nearly 23,000 local fire departments in the U.S. From the Department of Homeland Security.
- U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century Reports
Also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission. Includes reports from all three phases of the commission's work.Issued a series of reports with the title: New World Coming: American Security in the 21st Century.
- Virginia Terrorism Toolkit
Describes current threat level and what citizens and businesses should do. Includes links to citizen preparedness guidebooks.
News and Information
- American Forces Information Service
Offers information, news, and entertainment for the U.S. military. Also offers links to the primary web news sites for each of the armed services and the Joint Chiefs.
- Defense Fact File.
A collection of factual information on the U.S. military establishment for public affairs purposes.
- Missile Defense Agency
Features ballistic missile defense news and features, including budget, glossary of terms, and latest developments.
- U.S. Military Personnel and Veterans
Current military news, family support resources, pay and benefits, training and career transition resources, consumer services, voting assistance and more for active military personnel, reservists, ROTC, and veterans. Also includes a "library" section with military personnel and veterans data, directories of military installations, associations, and organizations, and DOD publications, regulations, and forms. From FirstGov.
Pentagon
Persian Gulf War
Policy and Strategy
- DOD Issuances and Directives
A database of documents that establish or describe DOD policy, programs, and organizations, define missions, and assign responsibilities.
- Quadrennial Defense Review
Details of the comprehensive study of defense forces and strategies conducted every four years.
Proliferation and Arms Sales
Research Databases
- Foreign Military Studies Office Intelligence Center Publications
Analytical studies on regional military and security issues based on open source media and engagement with foreign specialists. Based at Fort Leavenworth Kansas.
- MERLN: Military Education and Research Library Network
Combined access to major American military library collections in the U.S. including the Armed Forces Staff College Library in Norfolk. Some resources require a login and are restricted by license to participating institutions.
- Military Index to the Internet
Alphabetical list of links to military web sites. From Air University of the U.S. Air Force.
- Navigating the Military Internet
A list of web links to U.S. military sites organized by topics. From Dudley Knox Library of the Naval Postgraduate School.
- Navy Department Library Online Publications and Documents
An extensive collection of online materials arranged by chronology, subject and title. Topics covered include major wars, uniforms, ranks, prisoners of war, Cold War, Navy life, women and more.
- Our Military Atlases, Department of History, United States Military Academy
A collection of military atlases covering the art of war from "Ancient Warfare" to the Vietnam War. Includes coverage of all major U.S. wars plus Arab-Israeli Wars, the Chinese Civil War and others.
- Sources on U.S. Naval History in the United States
Covers official records of the U.S. Navy plus private papers of naval officers and enlisted men, civilian officials and business firms acting as naval contractors. Identifies location of material within repositories by state. From the Naval Historical Center.
- STINET: Scientific and Technical Information Network
A clearinghouse of defense-related scientific and technical documents, many in full-text, available from the Defense Technical Information Center. DTIC also makes available a handy multi-database search site at STINET MultiSearch
Specifications and Standards
