| The Air University Pantheon of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power Thinkers |
Aug-2009 |
124 pages |
| Authors:
Vicki J Rast; AIR UNIV PRESS MAXWELL AFB AL
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 | This compendium offers a broad sweep of some of the United States Air Force's most remarkable and memorable figures in the context of an evolving center for airpower education. 'Air University Pantheon of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power Thinkers' is an effort to identify the intellectual roots of Air University. By giving us a glimpse of the synergism of the exchange of progressive, nontraditional ideas among AU faculty and students, ... |
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| Role of Airpower for Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) |
Jun-2009 |
131 pages |
| Authors:
Irfan Ahmad; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis examines the role of air power in Counterinsurgency (COIN) operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The direct use of air power is a kinetic application whose aim is to physically destroy the insurgents. The indirect use of air power involves support roles such as transportation, logistics, surveillance, and reconnaissance. The former requires near-perfect intelligence and precision strikes to minimize unintended damage; the latter complements information warfare and supports ground ... |
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| Persistent Airpower for Unconventional Warfare: Revamping AFCENT's Operational Design |
04-May-2009 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Lee G Gentile; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The recent presidential decision to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 moves Operation Iraqi Freedom from stability operations to enabling Iraqi civil authority. However, even though the Iraqi Army will assume responsibility for defense, the Iraqi Air Force is not ready to assume control of air operations. Consequently, the U.S. will be required to provide the Iraqi Army and U.S. advisors with air support. Yet, why must ... |
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| The Supported Commander in High Intensity Anti-Access Maritime Conflict |
04-May-2009 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Nick O Guttman; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Both U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy service doctrines take a parochial and dogmatic approach to joint operations in the maritime environment, with both services claiming their service or associated functional component should earn the title supported commander. However, when measured against the backdrop of maritime conflict with a near-peer adversary conducting high intensity anti-access warfare, both services? beliefs lose legitimacy. This paper argues that to best leverage joint force ... |
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| Blinded by Doctrine: Lessons Learned from the Luftwaffe |
19-Mar-2009 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Brian D Spino; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper will conduct an analysis of the failure of the Luftwaffe during World War II (1939-1945) and identify lessons learned for the United States Air Force. The analysis will address lack of vision and institutional inflexibility in crafting air power doctrine, as well as explore the ensuing systemic mismatch of doctrine and strategy that characterized the performance of the Luftwaffe in World War II. The primary factor in the ... |
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| In Service to the Nation: Air Force Research Institute Strategic Concept for 2018-2023 |
Jan-2009 |
125 pages |
| Authors:
John A Shaud; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIR FORCE RESEARCH INST
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| On 12 September 2007, the Air University commander tasked the Air Force Research Institute to provide an outside-the-beltway look at what the U.S. Air Force (USAF) should look like 10-15 years from now, roughly 2018-2023. The goal of this study is to identify the enduring attributes of the nation's air, space, and cyberspace force in the context of major transitions. The study attempts to understand the value of the service's ... |
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| Enhancing Fires and Maneuver Capability Through Greater Air-Ground Joint Interdependence |
Jan-2009 |
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| Authors:
Lewis Jamison; Leland Joe; Jody Jacobs; Katherine Comanor; David Vaughan; David E Johnson; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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 | Although airpower capabilities have improved dramatically in the past decade, the joint warfighting potential offered by these capabilities is not being fully realized. Service transformation efforts and lessons learned during combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq highlight doctrinal and technical issues with air and ground integration. The authors propose several alternative options for improving the effectiveness of air and ground fires and maneuver. To compare the potential effectiveness of the ... |
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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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| Saving Darfur: Seductive Analogies and the Limits of Airpower Coercion in Sudan |
Jan-2009 |
28 pages |
| Authors:
Timothy Cullen; DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC
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| The humanitarian crisis in Darfur is a tragedy. In 2003 an unexpected rebellion in the remote states of Darfur drove the Sudanese government in Khartoum to initiate a brutal counterinsurgency campaign destroying thousands of villages and killing hundreds of thousands of Darfuris, many of them women and children. In a region of over 6 million people, nearly 2.7 million Darfuris remain internally displaced persons with an additional quarter of a ... |
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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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| How Should the Joint Force Handle the Command and Control of Unmanned Aircraft Systems? |
18-Nov-2008 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
Scott R Cerone; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The purpose of this monograph is to formulate an improvement to, and highlight deficiencies in, the current command and control of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs). The monograph consists of four sections. Section 1 describes the difficulty associated with classifying aircraft and defines key terms associated with UAVs. Section 2 examines the historical circumstances that precipitated the centralization of the command and control of air power in the U.S. military. This ... |
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| Battle Management as a Basic Air Force Doctrine Operational Function |
13 JUN 2008 |
82 pages |
| Authors:
Jon M. Rhone; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| According to JP 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, battle management is "The management of activities within the operational environment, based on the commands direction, and guidance given by appropriate authority." The crews that execute the battle management function are awarded the 13B AFSC and are called Air Battle Managers. This thesis explores the validity or feasibility of adopting battle management as an operational function in ... |
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| CV or Not to Be? Alternatives to U.S. Sea-Based Air Power |
01-Jun-2008 |
117 pages |
| Authors:
Yniol A Cruz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The thesis focuses on aircraft carriers and identifying an appropriate path towards the future of U.S. sea-based air power by studying historical cases of air power integration into the war fighting capabilities of the fleet. It analyzes current utilization and effectiveness of the aircraft carrier, given its operational requirements with respect to identified threats as described in security and strategy statements. It can be agreed upon that the U.S. Navy ... |
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| Strategic Studies Quarterly. Volume 2, Number 2, Summer 2008 |
JUN 2008 |
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| Authors:
AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| UNDERSTANDING REQUIREMENTS OF FUTURE STRATEGY: As our founding fathers of American aerospace power have done over the past century, it is critical we continue to evolve our knowledge and understanding of aerospace power. Our greatest asset remains the minds of our people. More than any specific weapon system, investment in the minds of our people will result in the greatest payoff for any given outlay we might make. We must ... |
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| Recapitalizing the Air Force Intellect: Essays on War, Airpower, and Military Education |
MAY 2008 |
271 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis M. Drew; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The essays and speeches in this anthology, written over the years by Dennis M. Drew, Colonel, USAF, retired, are grouped into four broad subject areas, within which they are arranged chronologically. Part 1, "Considering the Past -- Contemplating the Future," examines some classical military themes and their relationship to modern military problems and the use of modern airpower. The essays in part 1 were written and published during the 1980s. ... |
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| Tactical Air Control Party Support in Distributed and Special Operations |
May-2008 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
James A Schnelle; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| The Marine Corps is the United States' choice expeditionary force. The expeditionary strength of the Marine Corps is exemplified in the Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). The MAGTF of choice to support Combatant Commands' Theater Security Cooperation plans is the Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). United States Special Operations Forces (SOF) have all the requisite skills and strengths to support when partner nations request a small U.S. presence. ... |
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| Joint Force Quarterly, Issue 49, 2nd Quarter 2008: Focus on Airpower |
APR 2008 |
174 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC
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| Featured articles include: (1) "The Challenge that is USAFRICOM" by Isaac Kfir; (2) "Hizballah Rising: Iran's Proxy Warriors," by Shannon W. Caudill; and (3) "National Security and Global Climate Change," by Sean C. Maybee. |
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| Discrete Event Simulation of a Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) Mission |
MAR 2008 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Ahmet A. Candir; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH DEPT OF OPERATIONAL SCIENCES
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| Contemporary military campaigns increasingly count on the use of air power. Suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) operations have been a crucial element of military air power for 50 years. Several developments and evolution in both air defense and attack systems suggest that SEAD missions will continue to have growing importance to air forces. Since SEAD operations have a significant impact on air campaigns, it is important to examine their ... |
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| Genocide and Airpower |
Jan-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas C Peifer; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This article explores how and when genocide prevention became an issue in the U.S. political realm, how genocide was defined by the United Nations, and how scholars and activists have pushed to expand the public understanding of the term. Moving from definition to evaluation, conceptual frameworks are introduced for recognizing the warning signs and stages of genocide and mass killings. Having defined the term and provided a conceptual framework, the ... |
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| Developing Twenty-First-Century Airpower Strategists |
Jan-2008 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
R M Worden; AIR WARFARE CENTER NELLIS AFB NV
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| Many argue that we are in a period of history with potentially cataclysmic dangers. are we on the cusp of a series of dramatic upheavals? Will global demographic shifts, changing age structures, and population migrations lead to friction and ultimately violent conflict? Will rapid urbanization and unassimilated cultural enclaves collapse weak or failing states or paralyze others? Will the competition for energy and arable land or water lead to new ... |
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| Strategic Studies Quarterly. Volume 2, Number 4, Winter 2008 |
Jan-2008 |
153 pages |
| Authors:
AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This issue of Strategic Studies Quarterly begins with an editorial titled, Charting a Strategic Course in Interesting Times, by Lt Gen Allen G. Peck, USAF. Feature articles are as follows: Transformation in the French Air Force in an Era of Change, by General d'armee aerienne Stephane Abrial; In Service to the Nation...Air Force Research Institute Strategic Concept for 2018-2023, by Gen John A. Shaud, USAF, Retired; Understanding Airpower: Bonfire of ... |
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| Understanding Airpower: Bonfire of the Fallacies |
Jan-2008 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Colin S Gray; READING UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM)
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| This study rests upon two vital assumptions, both of them anathema to post-modern minds. First, it believes that historical truth can be found, or at least approached. Second, it believes in the utility of ambitious theory. The discussion here flatly rejects the proposition that history simply comprises competing fables told by historians with interests and attitudes. Similarly, it dismisses almost out-of-hand the belief that one theory is worth about as ... |
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| The Drawdown Asymmetry: Why Ground Forces Will Depart Iraq but Air Forces Will Stay |
Jan-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Clint Hinote; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| While many elements of combat power have increased in and around Iraq over the past year -- including sea, air, and space power -- both public officials and members of the media have described the increase in military force almost exclusively in terms of major ground units. The most common description of the surge highlights the increase in brigade combat teams (BCT) from 15 to 20. The current debate over ... |
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| Shortchanging the Joint Fight? An Airman's Assessment of FM 3-24 and the Case for Developing Truly Joint COIN Doctrine |
2008 |
125 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Dunlap Charles J.; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIRPOWER RESEARCH INST
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| Is America's counterinsurgency (COIN) effort being shortchanged? Does a one-dimensional doctrine fail to exploit America's full COIN potential? Would a genuinely joint approach provide better options to decision makers confronted with the harsh realities of 21st century insurgencies? This study insists the answers are unequivocally "yes." It analyzes the pitfalls of accepting Army/Marine tactical doctrine as the joint solution. It also offers insights and ideas from an Airman's perspective for ... |
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| The Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare: The Need for Strategy |
DEC 2007 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Colin S. Gray; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIRPOWER RESEARCH INST
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| The United States has long suffered from a serious strategy deficit. As long as Americans short-change the strategic function, the leverage of U.S. air power will be much less than its potential. The major purpose of this study is to help reduce America's strategy deficit. A common and serious error is the belief that air power theory is uniquely immature and contested. Currently, literally every dimension of U.S. military power ... |
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| Adapting Airpower in Counterinsurgency: A Roadmap for the Operational Planner |
06-Nov-2007 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
James McCall; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Over its first 100 years, the airplane has become an integral part of American combat power and a difference maker on the battlefield. Yet when applied to counterinsurgency, many struggle to draw conclusions regarding its effectiveness and utility. Today, the operational commander faces new and irregular enemies operating in diverse environments. American combat forces will be forced to evolve in response to adversaries who respect its conventional advantages and instead ... |
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| Divining Victory: Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War |
AUG 2007 |
356 pages |
| Authors:
William M. Arkin; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| In the summer of 2006, Israel fought an intense 34-day war with Hezbollah, the first sustained modern air campaign conducted by a country other than the United States. As soon as the fighting was under way, many were declaring airpower oversold and inadequate. Commentators clamored for more-decisive ground action, asserting that only ground forces could defeat Hezbollah rocket fire, that the ground alternative would produce a "cleaner" and less tangled ... |
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| Vantage Points: Perspectives on Airpower and the Profession of Arms |
AUG 2007 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
Charles M. Westenhoff; Michael D. Davis; Daniel Mortensen; III Conway John L.; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This book is a compilation of maxims and quotations from a variety of well-known military strategists, military theorists, military commanders, philosophers, historians, scholars, and presidents and heads of state, from both the United States and abroad. The overall theme of the book is Air Power, and it is divided into the following sections: Theory of War; Patriotism; Air, Space, and Cyber Power; Doctrine; Education, Training, and Lessons Learned; Preparedness, Security, ... |
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| Command in Air War. Centralized Versus Decentralized Control of Combat Airpower |
JUN 2007 |
348 pages |
| Authors:
Michael W. Kometer; AIR UNIV PRESS MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This work will develop a more complete picture of the various ways airpower is controlled in combat, and their subsequent consequences, by presenting airpower as a system, placing the above theories in their proper context within that system, and accounting for the interaction among them. While using primarily historical concepts to illustrate types of control, this study attempts to add to the body of knowledge on human-technology systems and about ... |
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| The Operational Artist and the Air Power Palette |
10 MAY 2007 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Lance J. Luksik; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Air power theorists and operational commanders have struggled to realize the irresistible promise of quick, decisive victories through employment of air power since the invention of the airplane. Historically, U.S. operational commanders have misunderstood and misapplied the lessons of their predecessors regarding the employment of air power to achieve operational objectives. A historical analysis of past successes and failures reveals that an integrated combined arms approach to warfare, under the ... |
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| Airpower in Counterinsurgency: The Search for Missing Doctrine |
10 MAY 2007 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas D. Barber; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The United States' overwhelming dominance in conventional airpower has often overshadowed its significance in the lower intensity type of conflict resembling insurgency and counterinsurgency (COIN). Today, airpower has not only evolved into a major player in conventional warfare but will likely serve a dominant role in COIN operations well into the 21st century. While insurgency and COIN are established terms in joint doctrine, research has revealed critical shortfalls in current ... |
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| Coercive Effects-based Operations Targeting Enemy Resolve: No Bang for the Buck |
10 MAY 2007 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis R. Rieke; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Since the advent of the airplane air warfare theorists, and arguably strategists, have often overstated or misrepresented the capabilities of air power. There is no doubt that air power has capabilities and advantages that far outweigh conventional naval and ground forces. The ability to strike at your enemy over great distances, with great accuracy and at speeds unattainable by conventional forces puts air power in a class all it's own. ... |
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| Roles and Relevance: Army Air and Missile (AMD) in the Post 9/11 World |
04 MAY 2007 |
55 pages |
| Authors:
Tristan S. Higgins; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| This monograph examines two critical issues: one, guerilla air war; and two, whether or not the existing US Army AMD structures can meet the challenge of such attacks and defeat them at the tactical level. The US Army has recently removed all tactical level AMD units. Army maneuver commanders do not posses organic surface to air systems that would enable them to engage current air threats from a guerilla air ... |
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| Information Operations as a Counter to US Air Dominance: A Rival's Perspective |
02 MAY 2007 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Harris David A.; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The purpose of this monograph is to answer the question of what lessons over the past ten years of US air operations have foreign militaries integrated into their doctrine and organizations to counter US air dominance. By examining the air campaigns in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq through the lens of Chinese and Russians analysts, information operations has been the key lesson learned to counter US air dominance. From this analysis, ... |
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| The Moral and Ethical Implications of Precision-Guided Munitions |
01-Mar-2007 |
88 pages |
| Authors:
Scott F Murray; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES
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| This work explores the relationship between one of the most significant military developments to emerge in the past century, namely, aerial precisionguided munitions and their relationship with the just-war tradition. The thesis is straightforward. There are moral, social, and political dilemmas associated with a perfect aerial precision bombardment capability that are influenced by the just-war tradition and may not be readily apparent to political decision makers and military strategists. This ... |
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| Gen Otto P. Weyland: Close Air Support in the Korean War |
MAR 2007 |
100 pages |
| Authors:
Michael J. Chandler; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES
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| This study analyzes General Otto P. Weyland's impact on close air support (CAS) during the Korean War. First, the author briefly traces the history and evolution of air-ground support from its infancy to the start of the Korean War. Second, he shifts his focus to the effectiveness of CAS throughout the conflict and addresses why this mission was controversial for the Army and Air Force. Third, he highlights General Weyland's ... |
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| Airpower versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies |
MAR 2007 |
96 pages |
| Authors:
Todd R. Phinney; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES
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| This study analyzes the effectiveness of airpower versus terrorism using three case studies. The first case study is Operation El Dorado Canyon, America's response to Libyan state-sponsored terrorism. The second case study is Operation Infinite Reach, America's cruise missile response to the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The third case study is the Israeli use of airpower versus the second Palestinian intifada of September 2000. ... |
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| The Twelfth US Air Force. Tactical and Operational Innovations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943-1944 |
FEB 2007 |
83 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew G. St. Clair; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES
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| This paper analyzes the participation of the US Twelfth Air Force in the Mediterranean theater of operation from 1943 to 1944 and also studies the coalition and joint operations required in the air campaign. Coalition and joint warfare provides numerous command, control, and coordination problems that are not easily de-conflicted. The requirements of the coalition air campaign in the Mediterranean theater provided significant challenges to the leadership of the US ... |
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| Divine Victory for Whom? Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War |
Jan-2007 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
William M Arkin; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL STRATEGIC STUDIES QUARTERLY
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| Air warfare is inherently a difficult to imagine activity, and images of urban devastation, carpet bombing, and mass civilian casualties dominate public discourse. With the emergence of 24/7 television and the Internet in the 1990s--a period that also coincided with the maturation of precision weapons and airpower as the dominant component of strategic warfare--the challenge of seeing airpower ironically magnified even more. Air warfare statistics and gun camera video accumulated, ... |
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| Airlift Capabilities for Future U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations |
2007 |
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| Authors:
Robert C. Owen; Karl P. Mueller; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| As its prominence as a national security challenge has grown since 2001, insurgency has become a subject of increasing interest across the armed services, in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and elsewhere in the U.S. Government. Although ongoing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq give particular immediacy to the problem, the challenge of combating insurgencies extends well beyond these specific conflicts. It is important, therefore, that the U.S. Air Force ... |
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| The Role of Airpower in the Overlord Invasion: An Effects-based Operation |
2007 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Michael P. Dahlstrom; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIRPOWER RESEARCH INST
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| Conventional wisdom has long held that the strategic airpower supporting the Normandy landings on D-Day was generally ineffective. Time and again, the OVERLORD researcher is told that the Eighth Air Force failed to provide the landing troops, particularly on Omaha Beach, with any significant support in establishing the beachhead. The eminent Max Hastings, in his outstanding book "Overlord", opines that air power was "unable to inflict significant damage upon German ... |
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| Learning Large Lessons: The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post-Cold War Era. Executive Summary |
2007 |
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| Authors:
David E. Johnson; RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| U.S. post-Cold War military operations have witnessed a shift in the relative roles of ground power and air power in war fighting, but the joint war fighting potential of this shift is not being fully realized. This is the hypothesis of a larger report, "Learning Large Lessons: The Evolving Roles of Ground Power and Air Power in the Post Cold War Era", by David E. Johnson (MG-405-1-AF, 2007). This summary ... |
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| Establishing Air Component Starting Conditions for Army Exercises |
15 DEC 2006 |
124 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony W. Rush; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Lessons learned from Operation Iraqi Freedom and doctrinal changes highlight a need for the Army to modify scenario development by changing how the Army integrates air component play into exercises. Thus, the central question is: What process can scenario developers utilize to replicate the planning, employment and application of airpower in order to establish intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and targeting starting conditions for training Corps and Division staffs? Examining joint ... |
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| The Use of Air Power for Maritime Homeland Defense |
DEC 2006 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Alexus G. Grynkewich; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
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| This thesis uses a capabilities-based methodology to determine what gaps exist in the military's current ability to perform maritime homeland defense against unconventional and asymmetric opponents. This approach reveals that including joint air assets as part of the maritime defense force can significantly enhance protection of the homeland. In the short term, the military can use air power from each of the services for long-range maritime surveillance and interdiction. Additionally, ... |
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| Air Power: A Decisive Coercive Strategy? |
23 OCT 2006 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Jr Van der Veer David G.; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Over the last 15 years US military and political leaders have turned to air power as the primary or sole military instrument of power during many conflicts. Air power is viewed as a rapid and low risk option to be used in a coercive strategy. This paper examines air power's role during Operation ALLIED FORCE in Kosovo and the recent Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in southern Lebanon. This paper defines the concept ... |
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| Targeting Enemy Will from the Air: An Effects-Based Operation in Futility |
23 OCT 2006 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey T. Anderson; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| When Clausewitz introduced the concept that an enemy's power is derived from his total means plus his will to resist, a debate has centered on which is more important, the enemy's military capability or his will. Air power theorists entered this debate and have long maintained that tactical and strategic aircraft alone have war winning capability because they can strike targets deep within a nation's interior. While trying to prove ... |
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| Guided Standoff Weapons: A Threat to Expeditionary Air Power |
SEP 2006 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey A. Vish; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Air Base has long been a potential target of attack for enemy planners. An effective way to attack the United States Air Force (USAF) is to avoid the United State's usual dominance in the air, attacking airbases with ground forces inserted into the Joint Rear Area. The history of airbase ground attacks from 1942 to 1994, documented in the book Snakes in the Eagle's Nest, shows that the dominant ... |
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| Regime Change and the Role of Airpower |
AUG 2006 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
David T. Fahrenkrug; AIR UNIV PRESS MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Drawing from the vision of airpower theorists and building on insights gained from studies on various regime changes, this thesis advances a theory of regime change and outlines a strategy for the use of airpower. To remain in power, regimes must continue to provide goods to the group of people responsible for its rise to power--the winning coalition. Different types of regimes rely on different types of goods to satisfy ... |
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| Airpower and the 1972 Easter Offensive |
16 JUN 2006 |
122 pages |
| Authors:
Matthew C. Brand; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| In the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive, three-pronged attack into South Vietnam that was eventually repulsed by South Vietnamese forces, United States advisors, and massive amounts of American airpower. This thesis investigates the factors that were key to South Vietnam's successful defense, specifically, the role of U.S. airpower in defeating North Vietnam's attack. The paper first examines the strategic and operational environment surrounding the 1972 offensive, including ... |
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| Centralized Execution in the U.S. Air Force |
JUN 2006 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
III Schaefer John J.; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| This monograph addresses the continued relevance of airpower's master tenet in light of advances in technology. The purpose of this monograph is to examine the doctrinal assumptions used to justify centralized control with decentralized execution. Current Air Force doctrine assumes that this model of employment allows commanders to achieve effective span of control and to foster disciplined initiative, situational responsiveness, and tactical flexibility. Each of these assertions is explored relative ... |
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