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  • Us Interagency Regional Foreign Policy Implementation
    Air University Press / Robert S. Pope
    Colonel Pope's book examines current interagency structures, with a particular focus on the regional level, to describe and analyze several current or recent shortfalls in interagency unity of effort. He considers not only military operations but also nonmilitary US government responses, often in concert with other nations, to natural disasters around the world. While the US mi...
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    30,63 €

  • The Air War in Southeast Asia
    Air University Press / Herman L. Glister
    The author subjects five case studies of interdiction, close air support, and strategic bombardment to rigid analysis. Dr. Gilster shows the relationship between the strike effort and target damage of several air campaigns during the Vietnam War. First published in 1993. Contains maps, tables, graphs and photographs in black and white. 3 ...
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    18,49 €

  • Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency
    Air University Press / Shannon Caudill
    This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from...
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    31,89 €

  • Setup
    Air University Press / Earl H. Tilford / Earl HTilford
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    24,55 €

  • Air Power for Patton's Army - The XIX Tactical Air Command in the Second World War
    Air University Press / David N. Spires
    First published in 2002. From the foreword: 'This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during t...
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    54,53 €

  • Lorenz on Leadership
    Air Force Research Institute / Air University Press / Stephen R. Lorenz
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    32,01 €

  • A SIOP for Perestroika?
    Richard Szafranzki / Air University (U.S.) Press
    The evolving strategic relationship between the US and the Soviet Union appears to offer an unprecedented opportunity for both nations to develop nuclear weapons development and deployment policies based on a shared security commitment to deterrent stability and risk reduction, rather than on the latent insecurities that characterized cold war defense policy. Given that the Uni...
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    15,69 €

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Weapons of Mass Destruction
    Jeffrey N. Renehan / Air University (U.S.) Press / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study analyzes the characteristics and capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to determine their capability to carry weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The author presents an overview of the various forms of WMD: chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. The objective is to review the characteristics of both UAVs and WMD to determine if they are capable of being u...
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    14,74 €

  • Ground Maneuver and Air Interdiction
    Jack B. Egginton / Air University (U.S.). Press. / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    Warfare is an ever evolving mixture of combinations: attack and defense, symmetry and asymmetry, maneuver and firepower, mass and economy of force, etc. True operational art manifests itself when the right balance of these combinations is applied to war fighting. This paper analyzes one such combination; ground maneuver and air interdiction. Indeed, this is a treatise on the sy...
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    14,72 €

  • The Transportation Balance
    Michael D. Cassidy / Air University (U.S.). Press / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study analyzes the way the Department of Defense currently funds the Defense Transportation System (DTS). The central question that this study attempts to answer is does the current decentralized, service-centered, budgeting process optimize national mobility capabilities or would centralized budget authority, under United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), offer ...
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    17,14 €

  • Centralized Control of Space
    Ricky B. Kelly / Air University (U.S.). Press / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    Operation Desert Storm was the first conflict in which a land-based military force was directly and fully supported by space forces. For the first time in the history of warfare, space forces were an integral part of terrestrial conflict and crucial to its outcome. Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill A. McPeak called Desert Storm our first 'space war' when he remarked, 'Try to ima...
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    15,88 €

  • Military Resistance to Humanitarian War in Kosovo and Beyond
    Kenneth R. Rizer / Air University (U.S.) Press
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) success in the Balkan conflict overshadowed Pentagon resistance to military intervention in Kosovo. Using the new institutionalism, content analysis of actors’ statements, and recent civil-military relations studies, this paper explains why the Pentagon opposed war in Kosovo, and why it will likely oppose future such 'humanitarian wars....
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    17,17 €

  • Concepts of Operations for a Reusable Launch Vehicle
    Michael A. Rampino / Air University (U.S.) Press
    The United States is embarked on a journey toward maturity as a spacefaring nation. One key step along the way is development of a reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The most recent National Space Transportation Policy (August 1994) assigned improvement and evolution of current expendable launch vehicles to the Department of Defense while National Aeronautical Space Administration ...
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    17,23 €

  • The Quest for Relevant Air Power
    Air University Press / Christian F. Anrig / Christian FAnrig
    Christian Anrig examines the responses of France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden to the challenges of air power in the last two decades, His examination is both instructive and disheartening. Anyone who is detailed to work alongside these air forces will benefit considerably from understanding how and why they do what they do. Sadly, the author has only too clearly identi...
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    91,57 €

  • Airpower for Strategic Effect
    Air University Press / Colin S. Gray / Colin SGray
    Airpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower-what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. Airpower’s product is strategic effect on the course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic ...
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    30,94 €

  • No Sense Dwelling in the Past
    Air University Press / Ryan Shaughnessy
    This book examines the German air force monograph project known as the Karlsruhe project where the US Air Force employed former Luftwaffe generals to record the history of World War II from the German perspective. The Air Force monographs have proven useful to historians because of their high quality. The Karlsruhe monographs writers were insulated from outside pressure, and pr...
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    31,89 €

  • Biplanes and Bombsights
    Air University Press / George G. Williams / George GWilliams
    Originally published in 1999. Colonel Williams presents a comprehensive study of British bombing efforts in the Great War. He contends that the official version of costs and results underplays the costs while overplaying the results. Supported by postwar findings of both US and British evaluation teams, he argues that British bombing efforts were significantly less effective th...
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    35,03 €

  • A-10s Over Kosovo
    Air University Press / Christopher E. Haave / Christopher EHaave / Phil M. Haun / Phil MHaun
    First published in 2003. The NATO-led Operation Allied Force was fought in 1999 to stop Serb atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This war, as noted by the distinguished military historian John Keegan, 'marked a real turning point . . . and proved that a war can be won by airpower alone.' Colonels Haave and Haun have organized firsthand accounts of some of the people ...
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    34,84 €

  • The Praetorian STARShip
    Air University Press / James L. Hobson / Jerry L. Thigpen
    Through the eyes and ears of Jerry L. Thigpen, the story of the Combat Talon sees the light of day. Based on thorough research, with a mind to details, Thigpen tells the story of how the Combat Talon became the weapon of choice in long-range, clandestine operations. Combining the chronological and thematic approaches, this book begins with a historical background that opens wit...
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    68,69 €

  • A Need to Know
    Air University Press / John T. Farquhar
    More than a tool of policy makers to gather intelligence, Air Force reconnaissance efforts shaped early Cold War doctrine and war planning. Dr. Farquhar argues that a lack of information on Soviet strategic capabilities dominated the organization, operational planning, and equipment of the postwar Air Force. To support his assertion, Farquhar traces the development of aerial re...
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    20,38 €

  • Airpower Leadership on the Front Line
    Air University Press / Douglas A. Cox
    Colonel Cox examines the command of Lt Gen George H. Brett in his wartime assignments. General Brett's leadership did not take him to four stars, why? Cox looks at the reasons why he was not promoted, especially, as he began his war time service second in command to Gen Henry 'Hap' Arnold. In his examination, first published in 2004, Cox shows the reader Brett's outstanding lea...
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    18,66 €

  • AU-18 Space Primer
    Air Command and Staff College / Air University Press
    The US National Space Policy released by the president in 2006 states that the US government should 'develop space professionals.' As an integral part of that endeavor, 'AU-18, Space Primer', provides to the joint war fighter an unclassified resource for understanding the capabilities, organizations, and operations of space forces. This primer is a useful tool both for individu...
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    35,19 €

  • From the Mind to the Feet
    Air University Press / Lawrence A. Kuznar / Lawrence AKuznar / Sarah Canna
    The 12 essays in this volume examine the concept of intent in defense, security, and foreign-policy contexts. They provide operational and academic perspectives on measuring the intent of adversaries, including nation-states and nonstate actors, and understanding the relationship of intent to behavior. The essays apply the insights and methods of multiple disciplines-anthropolo...
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    23,91 €

  • Deterrence in the Twenty-first Century
    Air University Press / Royal United Services Institute
    Sponsored by the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) and the Royal United Services Institute, the conference was held by Kings College London on 18-19 May 2009 and focused on deterrence 'to help understand and begin to develop policy frameworks that fit the current and emerging security context.' Assembling some of the best minds on deterrence, the conference afforded speakers ...
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    35,22 €

  • Attitudes Aren't Free
    Air University Press
    'Attitudes Aren't Free: Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces', is a collection of essays (and a few speeches), most written for this volume, on the themes of religious expression, homosexuality, gender, race, and ethics in the military. The contributors include activists, military members, academics, and other experts. Attitudes Aren't Free does not promote on...
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    48,24 €

  • Military Airpower
    Air University Press / Charles M. Westenhoff
    Col Charles M. Westenhoff, USAF, retired, has compiled a thought-provoking collection of ideas from an array of luminaries-including contemporary and legendary generals, innovative tacticians and strategists, world leaders, and philosophers. The quotations were chosen for their value to Airmen and the profession of arms. The aim of this book is to supply Airmen with useful thou...
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    24,73 €

  • Heirpower!
    Air University Press / Bob Vasquez
    'So you’re 22 years old, you’ve just gotten your commission, you’ve arrived at your first duty station, you’ve met with your commander, and you’re now ’in charge’ of a group of enlisted men and women, all of whom have been in service longer than you, know a whole lot more about military life than you, and are expecting more than you know. To top it all off, your first ’subordin...
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    12,28 €

  • AU-2 Guidelines for Command
    Air Command and Staff College / Air University Press
    From the introduction by Michael Moseley, USAF Chief of Staff: 'This book, 'Guidelines for Command', is the result of countless hours of research and contains the collective thoughts and lessons learned from many previous commanders. It has a wealth of information to assist you during your tenure as a commander. Use it in conjunction with your personal leadership skills, your b...
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    24,69 €

  • Space Power Integration
    Air University Press
    This book is the culmination of Gen Lance Lord’s vision to initiate vigorous discussion about how best to integrate space to support the war fighter. From the first Space Weapons Officer Air and Space Integration Conference in 2005 come nine research papers that form the basis for this publication and fulfillment of General Lord’s vision. The papers address issues across a spec...
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    25,02 €

  • Reflections of a Technocrat
    Air University Press / John L. McLucas / John LMcLucas
    In documenting his wide-ranging career in science and technology, Dr. McLucas offers new information and insights on the history of key private-sector and government agencies during the Cold War era-most prominently, the US Air Force. After naval service in World War II, he began a long affiliation with the Air Force as a civilian engineer and Air National Guard officer. He con...
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    33,42 €


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