| 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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| 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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| Requirements for Common Bomber Mission Planning Environment |
JUN 2006 |
106 pages |
| Authors:
III White Samuel G.; AIR FORCE INST OF TECHNOLOGY WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The mission planning environment for the strategic bomber is characterized by numerous man-to-machine relationships, data flows and organizational interactions. Currently, these activities are accomplished by several mechanisms using a variety of data formats. Several tools have been developed to address the complexity of not only bomber mission planning, but tactical (unit) level mission planning as a whole. Unfortunately, many of these initiatives have fallen short of seamlessly connecting the tactical ... |
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| Bombing the European Axis Powers. A Historical Digest of the Combined Bomber Offensive 1939-1945 |
APR 2006 |
639 pages |
| Authors:
Richard B. Davis; AIR UNIV PRESS MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The theory of strategic air bombardment states that airpower is best used offensively to penetrate an enemy's home territory and disrupt or destroy the economy and means of war production to force the enemy to surrender. Strategic bombing will succeed either because it has fatally compromised the ability to carry on hostilities or because bombing has broken the will of the people and/or leadership to continue the fight. In World ... |
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| Coercive Airpower in the Twenty First Century |
APR 2006 |
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| Authors:
David A. Mineau; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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 | The classical airpower theorists promoted air forces as a revolutionary new combat and capable of destroying the moral resistance of the enemy. Speaking about the effects of aerial bombardment, Giulio Douhet said, "A complete breakdown of the social structure cannot but take place in a country subjected to this kind of merciless pounding from the aft. The time would soon come when, driven by the instinct of self-preservation, would rise ... |
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| Operational Assessment of Space: Toward Efficiency and Effectiveness |
JUN 2005 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
Nathan J. Lindsay; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES
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| Assessing effects is one of the biggest challenges the Air Force faces today. The Air Force has struggled with assessing air operations since they began dropping bombs, and the problem persists today. As problematic as the assessment of combat effects might be for air operations, the assessment of effects from space operations is even more difficult. This thesis uses a theoretical framework to better understand the problem and provide a ... |
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| Bombers in the AEF |
JUN 2005 |
94 pages |
| Authors:
Shannon E. Kruse; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES
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| Since October 2001, the bomber force has, in effect, been in surge operations in order to support the regional combatant commander requests. This paper identifies bomber deployment difficulties and defines the causal factors of the deployment problem within the limits of the AEF construct and offers possible solutions. A brief historical review of the United States air force's pursuit of increased expeditionary capability and improved force management provides a foundation ... |
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| Effects-Based Operations Has Limitations |
17 MAY 2005 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Charles S. Dunston; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Effects-Based Operations (EBO) is one of the new Joint warfighting doctrines being developed by United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) to better advantage the U.S. military in the 21st century environment. Its origins began in the Second World War to analyze and identify critical enemy infrastructure for strategic bombing to target. Since then this concept has evolved to encompass application for all military operations with the potential to be used ... |
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| Bombing for Effect: The Best Use of Airpower in War |
17 JUN 2004 |
74 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick N. Ahmann; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Both joint and Air Force doctrine are clear on the intent of the US to use effects-based targeting in military conflicts for the foreseeable future. The Air Force embraced this concept as early as World War II, but has met with mixed results. This thesis answers the question of how the Air Force can improve its effects-based air campaigns. The author analyzes existing doctrine for the official guidance on effects-based ... |
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| An Examination of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Development Within the United States From 1952 to 1965 |
06 JUN 2003 |
96 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey A. Bair; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) development by the United States from 1952 through 1965 is marked by extreme urgency. The initial impetus for the development did not proceed within military channels; this paper explores possible reasons why the military channels were not the originator of the program. These reasons include the competition for mission and resources an ICBM capability represented to manned strategic bombers. Significant technological breakthroughs and strong leadership from ... |
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| Determination and Effectiveness of WWII Strategic Bombing Strategy |
07 APR 2003 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
T. T. Goetz; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Allies chose a strategy utilizing a combination of various military actions most notably a combined bomber offensive (CBO) to defeat Germany. The CBO was carried out through a combination of US daylight precision and UK night area bombing. The paper will show why the Allies chose this strategy and evaluate its success. |
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| Operation Rolling Thunder: Strategic Implications of Airpower Doctrine |
07 APR 2003 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
John K. Ellsworth; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This SRP examines Operation ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968) bombing campaign in the context of military Principles of War and their applications. It analyzes accomplishment of strategic objectives and future implications for applications of airpower doctrine. It reviews the pre-Vietnam strategic situation, discussing its military, political, social, global, and doctrinal characteristics. It then analyses Operation ROLLING THUNDER by phases, focusing on its controversial aspects. This analysis concludes that Operation ROLLING THUNDER failed ... |
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| The Air Expeditionary Force in Perspective |
2003 |
55 pages |
| Authors:
Daniel R. Mortensen; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL AIRPOWER RESEARCH INST
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| The military has conducted expeditionary operations for centuries; airmen began to participate in expeditions from the very early days of flight. Descriptions of expeditions, with and without air components, evoke suggestive lessons for current expeditionary operations. Frequently the identification of lessons from past events provides planners and commanders the background, wisdom, and the equally important element of context that facilitate better judgment in the imperfect decision-making process. This collection begins ... |
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| On Target: Organizing and Executing the Strategic Air Campaign Against Iraq |
2002 |
398 pages |
| Authors:
Richard G. Davis; AIR FORCE HISTORY SUPPORT OFFICE BOLLING AFB DC
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| The war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 capped an era of USAF modernization and enhanced readiness begun in the late 1970s and that continued through the 1980s. The USAF shouldered the bulk of the fighting for the first 39 of the conflict's 42 days. This volume covers the air offensive against strategic military and economic targets within the pre-August 1990 borders of Iraq. The offensive air plan once again ... |
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| Von Pape on Airpower Meets Airpower for Dummies: A Comparative Review of Robert Pape's Bombing to Win and John Warden III's Air Campaign |
2002 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Robert E. Johnson; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
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| This paper will present a comparative review of two books both intended to describe successful methods for employing air power. Despite the similar goal, the books are designed for different audiences. Pape's, Bombing to Win, while informative to policymakers, is intended as a first step for social scientists to begin the study of the use of military coercion. Warden's, on the other hand, is aimed primarily at those who will ... |
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| 21st Century Air Power Theorists: Who Has It Right John Warden or Robert Pape? |
2002 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey G. Lofgren; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
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| The use of air power has dramatically shaped the modern battlefield since its inception. Because there are no boundaries restricting where air power can go, it has the unique ability to employ and influence the outcome of a conflict at all levels of warfare from strategic to tactical. Whichever theory senior military leaders follow heavily influences the military strategy they pursue. Theory then becomes the foundation for military strategy. The ... |
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| Operation Allied Force: Air Power in Kosovo. A Study in Coercive Victory |
05 MAR 2001 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas P. Yurovich; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| With the inception of airpower and the development of its warfighting capabilities, airpower theorists and airman have postulated that airpower could achieve strategic goals unilaterally. Does Operation Allied Force, the Air War over Kosovo, validate this thesis? Or does it offer further historical evidence of the invalidity of the proposition? Using Robert Pape's Coercive Model, Bombing to Win, this study analyzes Operation Allied Force to test the validity of the ... |
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| The War in the Air 1914-1994 |
JAN 2001 |
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| Authors:
Alan Stephens; AIR UNIV PRESS MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This book contains the proceedings of a conference held by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Canberra in 1994. Since its publication by the RAAF's Air Power Studies Center in that year, the book has become a widely used reference at universities, military academies, and other educational institutions around the world. The application of aerospace power has seen significant developments since 1994, most notably through American-led operations in Central ... |
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| Effects-Based Operations: Change in the Nature of Warfare |
2001 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION ARLINGTON VA
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| Well before dawn on January 17, 1991, Major Greg Biscone flew the first of two B-52s toward Wadi Al Kirr airfield a recently completed forward fighter base in central Iraq. His targets were the taxiways between the runway and hardened aircraft shelters. Skimming 300 feet over the desert at 500 miles per hour it was so dark the night vision goggles and low light TV system didn't help. Iraqi early ... |
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| Who's Killing Whom? The Modern Evolution of the Classification and Targeting of Civilians and Noncombatants |
30 APR 2000 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
William R. Abb; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The prosecution of war has always been tempered by constraints, both real and artificial. These constraints are described by Clausewitz as the factors which prevent the conduct of absolute war. These factors include moral and professional codes of conduct many of which have been codified through the Geneva and Hague Conventions, International Humanitarian Law, military doctrine and others to establish expectations for behavior. It is ... |
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| An Army Air Corps Test of Strategic Air Power: Operation MATTERHORN And the B-29 Superfortress |
10 APR 2000 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Paul D. Adams; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Army Air Corps played a pivotal role in bringing Nazi Germany to her knees through strategic bombing. General H. Arnold believed that strategic bombing alone could bring about strategic victory, saving lives of ground forces. General Arnold viewed the newly fielded B-29 "Superfortress", with its exponential increase in bombing capability, and the Pacific theater as an acceptable "proving ground" to test his theory. This ... |
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| Morality in Modern Aerial Warfare |
APR 2000 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey L. Gingras; Tomislav Z. Ruby; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The United States finds itself today in the position of being able to attack a wide variety of targets throughout the world with precision undreamed of even 20 years ago. This precision engagement capability, a core competency of the U.S. Air Force (USAF), leads to a serious debate about the ability of the United States to project power at any place and at any time with a precision that will ... |
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| Steadfast and Courageous: FEAF Bomber Command and the Air War in Korea, 1950-1953 |
2000 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
AIR FORCE HISTORICAL STUDIES OFFICE BOLLING AFB DC
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| For 3 years, beginning in June 1950, air and ground crews of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) conducted bombing operations with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses in support of the United Nations (UN) forces engaged on the peninsula of Korea. Powered by four large radial piston engines, the propeller-driven Superfortress had been the most advanced very long-range heavy bomber developed during World War II, but it was now considered just a medium ... |
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| Endgame in the Pacific: Complexity, Strategy and the B-29 |
27 MAY 1999 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Gerald S. Gorman; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| War is the outward expression of competition between complex adaptive political and military systems. In war, competing systems introduce new technological means to gain comparative advantage over other systems and the environment. Greater technological complexity, however, creates greater uncertainty. This uncertainty is the result not only of technical problems associated with new military machines, but also of unintended consequences of technology within the chaotic environment ... |
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| The Role of Air Power in the Battle of the Bulge |
APR 1999 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Glenn W. Carlson; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes offensive) was the first time air power was used to halt a counter-offensive. The mission most often associated with air operations during the Ardennes offensive was the re-supply of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne. However, air power played a key role in Allied victory by effectively executing close air support, air interdiction and in the more traditional strategic bombing mission. This paper and ... |
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| Standing on One Leg: The Future of the Russian Nuclear Triad |
APR 1999 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Charles E. Costanzo; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| The Russian nuclear triad has existed for over 40 years and has become a familiar part of the international military scene but will it continue to exist, and if so, in what form? This paper seeks to answer that question by examining recent professional journal articles by Russian and American experts alike, as well as Congressional testimony, academic studies, and a wide variety of national and international newspapers and periodicals. ... |
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| Precision Naval Fires in the Age of Information Superiority: Is The Day Of The Carrier Over? |
05 FEB 1999 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas E. Waters; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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| In the coming age of Information Superiority, there are those who question the United States Navy's continued focus on the big-deck aircraft carrier. Advanced cruise missiles, strategic bombers, Air Expeditionary Forces (AEFs), and distributing aviation onto smaller, more numerous carriers have all been proposed as options to the expensive and presumably ever more vulnerable big-deck carrier in the future. However, there are problems with each of these proposed alternatives to ... |
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| Weaponization of Space: Understanding Strategic and Technological Inevitabilities |
JAN 1999 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas D. Bell; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| It is inevitable that humankind will weaponize space and equally likely that this will take place in the next 30 years. The United States is in the early stages of a transition from using space assets to support combat operations on the surface of the earth to using space assets to conduct combat operations in space, from space, and through space. This paper discusses factors driving the United States to ... |
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| Retreat from the Web: The Shift in United States Air Power Theory |
02 NOV 1998 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
Jim Riggins; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
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| Ironically, Operation DESERT STORM was at once a victory for air power theorists, and a shift away from fundamental air power theory since 1917. Coalition air power in 1991 did not contribute to the defeat of Iraq by collapsing the nation, but by degrading the military and stripping away Iraq's security. The war's conduct signaled that United States (U.S.) air power theory is shifting focus toward a counter-military strategy, and ... |
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| What's Left of Douhet? |
02 NOV 1998 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Andrew B. Twomey; NATIONAL WAR COLL WASHINGTON DC
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| Since the advent of the airplane as a military tool, debate has raged with regard to the question of how to best use it to achieve victory. The promise of technology and a fundamental desire to seek an alternative to the bloody and uncertain nature of ground combat have provided a constant impetus to a search for an air power-based theory of victory. Commencing with Douhet's vision of victory through ... |
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| Bombing to Surrender. The Contribution of Airpower to the Collapse of Italy, 1943 |
AUG 1998 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Philip A. Smith; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES
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| Throughout this first century of airpower, military theorists have proposed numerous schemes as the best use of airpower. Airmen of many nations tried and tested these theories in wars large and small, and they have learned, ignored, or forgotten many lessons. Of the four major coercive mechanisms available to airpower-punishment, risk, military denial, and decapitation-Robert Pape in Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War ... |
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| Strategic Bombing - A Decisive Military Force? |
21 MAY 1998 |
102 pages |
| Authors:
Gary E. Phillips; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The following monograph is a circumscribed look at the effects of air power on achieving political objectives. It is no way intended to be a commentary on the relative bravery of airmen compared to soldiers and sailors or an attempt to justify budgetary decisions on defense spending. The nature of the subject implies a competition for primacy between the Army and Air Force. My intent is not to pursue the ... |
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| Air Power in the Korean War |
APR 1998 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
James A. Grahn; Thomas P. Himes; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This technology project focuses on the Korean War from the U.S. Air Force perspective. It details the start of the war and possible causes. It outlines major players in the war to include President Truman, FEC Commanders MacArthur, Ridgway, and Clark, and FEAF Commanders Stratemeyer and Weyland. The product then chronicles major events of the war in time slices from one month to two years long. Major operations discussed include: ... |
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| A People's Air Force: Air Power and American Popular Culture |
10 JUL 97 |
416 pages |
| Authors:
Steven C. Call; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| Central to the rise of American air power was America's cultural fascination with aviation. Just as many Americans ascribed near miraculous powers to airplanes and predicted salvation through air power. Interwar figures used popular culture to urge the public to trust air power for national defense, but isolationism and anti-militarism limited the success of these efforts. World War II brought unprecedented public support for air power and ended American isolationism. ... |
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| Airpower Employment of the Fifth Air Force in the World War II Southwest Pacific Theater |
MAR 1997 |
49 pages |
| Authors:
James A. Barr; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This research project studies the employment of airpower by the Fifth Air Force, under Gen George C. Kenney, in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. The research began with two basic assumptions. First, it assumed that the strategic bombardment theory developed by the Air Corps Tactical School in the 1930s was the definitive doctrine of the Air Corps upon entry into World War II. Second, it assumed that ... |
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| The Neglect of Long-Range Escort Development During the Interwar Years (1918 1943) |
MAR 1997 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Robert A. Eslinger; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| America's lack of effective long-range escort for strategic bombardment was the Army Air Force's worst failure of World War II. The basic cause for peacetime negligence of long-range escort development was that air power decisions were influenced more by budget considerations and less by sound doctrine. This historical study uses a chronological approach to describe the evolution of long-range fighter escort. Air power doctrine was driven by technical advances and ... |
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| Competing Visions of Aerospace Power: A Language for the 21st Century |
21 FEB 97 |
144 pages |
| Authors:
Peter R. Faber; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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| This report argues that current members of U.S. aerospace forces do not have a language or lexicon to differentiate one theory of airpower from another. To solve this problem, this report (1) describes the prison house of language that thwarted airpower theorists in the past, (2) provides a model to analyze airpower theory properly, and (3) reviews different theories of airpower, with a primary emphasis on five post 1960 theorists. ... |
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| B61-11 Concerns and Background. Los Alamos Study Group |
10 FEB 1997 |
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| Authors:
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB NM
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| The United States is now fielding a new tactical and strategic nuclear military capability that has already been used to threaten a non-nuclear country. This new capability was certified without nuclear testing, using an existing surrogate testing facility with capabilities much less than those under construction and planned. The weapon was developed and deployed in secret, without public and congressional debate, contrary to domestic and international ... |
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| Forward Presence: Is It an Equal Opportunity Employer? |
07 FEB 97 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
James H. Flatley Iv; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| Since the 'Revolt of the Admirals' in 1949, an interservice rivalry has persisted between the Navy and the Air Force. The current debate, similar to the one fifty years ago, has the Air Force promoting its bombers as a more cost effective weapon in comparison to the flexible and responsive aircraft carrier. In the post-Cold War world, the military has experienced a drawdown typical of past post war periods. With ... |
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| Air Power Doctrine and the Strategic Label |
07 FEB 97 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas H. Fehrmann; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI
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| Joint Force operations have improved dramatically in recent years. Development of a robust joint doctrine must receive some credit for this improvement. In turn, each Service should evaluate its doctrine for compatibility with the policies and principles in joint doctrine. Strategic bombardment theory is a doctrinal concept that has greatly influenced air power thinking. Doctrine is one means of changing attitudes and emphasizing principles that promote team concepts essential to ... |
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| Proposal for United States Air Force Air Refueling Operations Doctrine |
NOV 96 |
106 pages |
| Authors:
Philip A. Iannuzzi Jr; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| The United States Air Force, the aerospace arm of the United States' armed forces, has developed basic aerospace doctrine to guide and direct operations in the aerospace medium. The basic objective of aerospace forces is to take decisive action against an adversary's vulnerable strategic centers of gravity. Although aerospace forces perform many crucial "force-enhancement" missions, one is uniquely important to the success of military air operations - air refueling. Air ... |
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| AWPD-42 to Instant Thunder: Consistent, Evolutionary Thought or Revolutionary Change |
JUN 1996 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
James R. Cody; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES
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| This study analyzes the air war plans in World War II and the Persian Gulf War. The goal of this study is to ascertain whether there is a continuity of thought reflected in American air planning over the years. This study assesses Air War Plans Division-1/42 and Instant Thunder as to their importance to contemporary airpower theory. This study concludes that there is a continuity of thought reflected in major ... |
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| Theory, Doctrine, and Ball Bearings: Adapting Future Technology to Warfare |
13 JAN 96 |
52 pages |
| Authors:
Robert F. Gass; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MIL ITARY STUDIES
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| This study examines factors influencing the development of theory and doctrine based on emerging and future technology. It uses the air power theory of Giulio Douhet and the unescorted daylight strategic bombing doctrine of the US Army Air Force to illustrate hazards in projecting into the future as a means of constructing theory and doctrine. This study begins with Douhet's strategic bombing theory. It traces the difficulty in applying the ... |
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| Maximizing the Psychological Effects of Airpower: Lessons from Past Wars |
JAN 96 |
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| Authors:
RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
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| The psychological effects of air operations can help shorten wars and reduce their costs, particularly in lives. In some conflict situations, these effects may in fact exceed the physical effects in importance. In Psychological Effects of U.S. Air Operations in Four Wars, 1941-1991: Lessons for U.S. Commanders, Stephen T. Hosmer focuses on two types of air operations: (1) those aimed at strategic targets and (2) those aimed at deployed forces; ... |
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| Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War |
1996 |
56 pages |
| Authors:
Wayne Thompson; Bernard C. Nalty; AIR FORCE HISTORICAL STUDIES OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in World War II. In that earlier, larger war, victory over Japan came after two atomic bombs destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in Korea five years later, the United States limited itself to conventional ... |
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| Piercing the Fog: Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War 2 |
1996 |
511 pages |
| Authors:
John F. Kreis; Jr. Cochran Alexander S.; Robert C. Ehrhart; Thomas A. Fabyanic; Robert F. Futrell; Williamson Murray; AIR FORCE HISTORICAL STUDIES OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European and Pacific theaters did not exist. Piercing the Fog tells the intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organizations to collect and process information about the enemy and to produce and ... |
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| Are We Really Ready for an RMA? |
1996 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Brian Sullivan; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC INST FOR NATIONAL STRATEGIC STUDIES
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| As the debate over whether a revolution in military affairs is emerging in the United States continues, a relevant book has appeared. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period presents seven case studies on how new forms of warfare developed between the two World Wars. It also offers three chapters on the problems of radically changing the ways in which armed forces fight. Each case examines how three different militaries advanced ... |
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| Vigilant and Invincible |
JUN 1995 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Stephen P. Moeller; ARMY SPACE AND STRATEGIC DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL
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| 'Vigilant and Invincible' was the motto of the U.S. Army Air Defense Command, or ARADCOM. From the first deployment of World War II-vintage antiaircraft guns in 1950 to the inactivation of the last NIKE HERCULES missile system in 1974, ARADCOM provided a deterrent to the Soviet strategic bomber threat for the U.S. homeland. During this period, the Army built, operated, improved and then dismantled a vast network of defenses. These ... |
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| Lieutenant General William H. Tunner in the China-Burma-India 'HUMP' and Berlin Airlifts: A Case Study in Leadership in Development of Airlift Doctrine |
APR 95 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Billy J. Hoppe; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Airpower in the early part of the twentieth century was dominated by the development and demonstration of the power of the strategic bomber and the high performance fighter. Yet, airlift, one of the last elements of airpower to emerge from this era, proved to be one of the most instrumental in our nation's ability to project power quickly throughout the world by moving large numbers of men and materiel. This ... |
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| Coercive Air Strategy: Forcing a Bureaucratic Shift |
JAN 95 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
John I. Pray Jr; AIR UNIV MAXWELL AFB AL SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES
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| The purpose of this work is to provide the air planner with an air strategy that may, under certain defined conditions, be more likely to yield success than current air power theories. Our current stock of strategic ideas tend to rely on a unitary, rational actor assumption to describe the decision making environments of our potential adversaries. We believe reliance on this simplistic assumption may skew the counter strategy development ... |
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