Citation map
Larger dots are cited by more publications across the Vault. Arrows point from a manual to the ones it cites, and heavier lines mean more citations; zoom in to see the lightest. Select a dot to see its connections. Zoom with the buttons, Ctrl and scroll, or a pinch; drag to move around.
Military manuals are built on each other. Each one lists the publications it relies on and cites them throughout the text, and because every publication has a precise designation, those citations can be traced. We read them in every manual and matched them to the Vault, which gives us a web of 68,608 links between 3,857 publications.
That web shows you:
What a manual is built on. The Ranger Handbook cites ATP 3-21.8, the Army's infantry platoon and squad manual, 16 times. That tells you where to go for more depth.
Who relies on it. ATP 3-50.21 Survival is cited by the Army's mountaineering manual and by Marine Corps publications, so a search that starts in one service can lead you into another.
Where it came from. The same survival manual still cites FM 3-05.70, the manual before it, so you can walk a subject back through its older editions.
Open any manual and the reader's sidebar shows its References, everything it cites, and Cited by, everything that cites it. A grayed-out reference is a publication that exists but isn't in the T.REX Vault, because it is classified, out of print, or lost. Citations on the page itself are links too.
The map shows the 200 publications cited by the most others across the Vault, and the citations between them. Select a dot to see its own connections, or a service in the map's corner to pick out its publications.