The U.S. Army Staff Reference Guide, Volume I: Unclassified Resources, December 2020, ATP 5-0.2-1 has been released.
Link to it is here: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN31193-ATP_5-0.2-1-000-WEB-1.pdf
There are ten references to “Dupuy” in the guide, which I believe is a first. I do not recall any previous Army manual referencing Trevor Dupuy’s work, even though I have seen his work in a manual or two without reference. It is nice that they have properly acknowledged his work.
The references are on:
- Page xi: “Acknowledgements”: four references, two for Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy and two to his son Arnold C. Dupuy,. Ph.D.
- Page 220: Table D-6. Division opposed rates of advance (km/day). I will have more comments about this table later.
- Page 285. Paragraph G-162, Casualty Estimates: Two references. I will probably have a blog post about this later.
- Page 402. References: Three references. I will probably have a blog post about this later also.
The two Trevor N. Dupuy books referenced in the Staff Reference Guide are the still out of print Numbers, Predictions & War (1979) and Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties and Equipment Losses in Modern War (1995). We still have 40 or so copies of Attrition for sale. See http://www.dupuyinstitute.org/booksfs.htm
I was happy to see the Dupuy books referenced as well. I was a staff officer in a plans shop for years and bought the Dupuy books for the same reasons that someone decided to include them as references in the staff guide.