| Forty-Five Years of Frustration: America's Enduring Dilemma of Fighting Insurgents with Airpower |
Jan 2011 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Clodfelter; AIR AND SPACE POWER JOURNAL MAXWELL AFB AL
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 | Analogies are popular among strategists, and the Vietnam War is a favorite target for comparisons. Pundits, policy makers, journalists, and historians have raised the specter of a Vietnam-like quagmire in virtually every conflict that the American military has fought since the fall of Saigon, and the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are no exceptions. As America's involvement in Iraq deepened, the cover of the 22 November 2003 issue of ... |
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| Strategic Studies Quarterly. Volume 3, Number 3, Fall 2009 |
Jan-2009 |
154 pages |
| Authors:
James G Rickards; Klaus Naumann; Ralph Rotte; Christoph Schwarz; James C Moltz; Mark Clodfelter; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| The contents of this Quarterly includes: 1) An Editorial on Framing Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century; 2) Featured Articles on Economic Security and National Security: Interaction and Synthesis; Security without the United States? Europe's Perception of NA; Shared Challenges-Joint Solutions? The United States and Europe Face New Global Security Risks-High Times for Grand Strategy; Toward Cooperation or Conflict on the Moon? Considering Lunar Governance in Historical Perspective Back From the ... |
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| Back from the Future: The Impact of Change on Airpower in the Decades Ahead |
Jan-2009 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Clodfelter; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Forecasting the future is an inherently uncertain endeavor that carries great implications for military force structures and doctrines. As military leaders try to determine if their services are postured to thwart anticipated threats and flexible enough to adapt to unknown challenges, they confront the notion of change -- the conviction that war is an evolving phenomenon subject to periodic transformations. The Joint Operating Environment 2008: Challenges and Implications for the ... |
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| A Strategy Based on Faith: The Enduring Appeal of Progressive American Airpower |
Jan 2008 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Clodfelter; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
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| For the past eight decades, many progressive-minded airmen have argued that bombers offer a way to win wars more quickly and more cheaply than a reliance on surface forces. Vastly improved technology has reinforced the notion that bombing can achieve almost antiseptic results, and the idea of a near-bloodless victory has had a special appeal to Presidents as well as to Air Force pilots. That is not to say that ... |
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| The RMA and Air Force Roles, Missions, and Doctrine |
Jun 1995 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Clodfelter; Fawcett; John M Jr; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The latest techno-thriller from the master of the trade [Tom Clancy] portrays a United States vulnerable to an attack aimed not at its key military installations, but rather at its Wall Street economic brain. The target is information, and by manipulating the data fed into the vast computer network of the American stock market, a foreign businessman triggers financial chaos and threatens economic ruin. As usual, Tom Clancy's work focuses ... |
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