Author: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Title: G1/G4 Battle Book, Student Text 101-6; format: English-language, staple-bound student manual produced by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College for advanced adult education in military science and logistics.
Front cover presents a plain yellow cardstock design printed in black with the CGSC crest and motto, the CGSC header, the designation "Student Text 101-6," and the title "G1/G4 Battle Book," along with imprint information for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, dated July 1997 and three-hole punching along the margin for binder use.
Preliminary pages include a detailed table of contents and publication notes indicating that this July 1997 edition of ST 101-6 replaces the earlier July 1996 version, establishing it as an updated doctrinal reference for G1 personnel and G4 logistics staff officers.
Chapter 1, "CSS Planning and Consumption Data," covers combat service support planning factors such as personnel, hospitalization, supply, materiel loss, and transportation data needed to develop support estimates and forecasts.
Subsequent chapters describe theater and corps personnel service support units, including personnel, finance, and press camp headquarters organizations, followed by corps CSS units such as headquarters and corps support command, medical, ordnance, quartermaster, transportation, and aviation elements.
Additional sections address division and separate brigade or armored cavalry regiment CSS units, including division support command, main and forward support battalions, aviation support battalions, support squadrons, and support commands for heavy, light, air assault, and airborne formations.
Later chapters present guidance on preparing personnel and CSS estimates, mission analysis considerations, and the format and instructions for developing and briefing the concept of support, with coverage of mission analysis, course of action, wargaming, decision, and operations order briefings.
Appendices supply a glossary, brigade, division, and corps concepts of support, CSS overlay samples, concept of support matrices, completed matrix examples, CSS unit terrain requirements, conversion factors, summaries of equipment for heavy divisions, logistics force structures, and theater of operations combat service support data.
Interior content combines narrative doctrine with tables, forms, and black-and-white organizational charts depicting organizations such as Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) units, medical troop support squadrons, supply and transport companies, and other combat service support elements.
Genre and topics: U.S. military science and logistics, combat service support doctrine, and staff planning, designed as an illustrated student manual for advanced-level officer education at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
Condition: Yellow card covers show moderate shelf and handling wear with creasing at the upper right front corner, minor edge bends, and tearing and chipping around several of the three-hole punches. A black marker block obscures a name on the front top margin, and the lower text-block edge carries a handwritten "G1/G4 Battle Book" notation. Staples and binding remain intact, and interior pages are clean, legible, and securely attached, with no writing or highlighting visible on the pages shown.