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  • The Teaching of Leadership
    Christopher P Fedyschyn / Michele G Smith / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    ACSC put a renewed focus on teaching leadership during the 1996 academic year. A fresh examination of 'teaching leadership' was called for by this renewed emphasis. In order to provide the ACSC faculty with information and resources to develop the best leadership curriculum possible, this development study examined the course structure, content, teaching methods and evaluation ...
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  • American River Crossing Doctrine
    Edwin J. Arnold / Gerald T. Yap / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    This study examines current river crossing doctrine to determine its compatibility with current force structure and the AirLand Battle concept of the modern battlefield. Using the historical example of the 80th Infantry Division’s assault crossing of the Moselle River in September, 1944, the study identifies six factors which promoted successful river crossings in World War II....
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    17,11 €

  • A Desperate Struggle to Save a Condemned Army
    Mike Thyssen / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Stalingrad is often described as the turning point of the German war with the Soviet Union, or perhaps even the entire European war. This paper argues that the actual turning point was probably earlier in the Barbarossa campaign, and that the decision to hold Stalingrad, while a serious mistake, followed several other strategic blunders of Adolf Hitler. Given that, this essay r...
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    17,17 €

  • Asymmetries of a Warrior-Class Society
    Andrew J. Gale / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Recent literature raises the specter of 'warrior societies' and questions if we are prepared to face them in battle. Looking back at American history, the American Indians were a warrior society that posed many asymmetrical challenges for European and American militaries. In particular, their individual skills, methods of fighting, and societal culture produced asymmetries that...
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  • Developing Capability
    Craig A. Perkins / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S / Office of Justice Programs: Bureau of Ju
    US forces rely heavily upon various systems in order to navigate, communicate, employ weapons, synchronize data links, and transfer a wide variety of data. Nearly all battlefield systems rely upon some form of electronic technology to function and can be hindered in one way or another. Geography, atmospherics, bandwidth, intentional and unintentional interference, and jamming c...
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  • Military Occupation
    Todd A. White / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Occupation of a state surrounding conflict begs a single question -- why? There may be a single, compelling reason or a cocktail of motives -- deny resources to an enemy, prevent the state from entering the conflict against the occupier, resource exploitation, annexation or an ideological approach in the forms of religious and ethnic animosity. Benvenisti states in his book on ...
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  • The Making of a Great Captain
    Theodore G. Weibel / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Classifying people as Great Captains is largely a subjective perception. What attributes, accomplishments, positions attained or battles won that make one person a Great Captain and the other not? Herein lays the dilemma, for ages academics have argued what criteria should be included or not, but it remains a highly subjective yet colloquial anti-analytical process. This paper ...
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    15,72 €

  • The Mission Support Advisor (MSA)
    Debra A Zides / Sheila Mulhern / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    This study investigated using the Mission Support Advisor (MSA) as the conduit for the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Community’s (M and P) transformation from a Cold-War transactional service provider to a strategic advisor for field commanders and base-level customers. External and internal environmental factors such as the Global War on Terrorism, the shrinking Department ...
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  • A Matter of Convenience
    John W. Collins / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Africa is emerging as a crucial focus area for United States security policy. The current administration’s dual security and humanitarian goals give rise to the question: What is the real foundation of U.S. foreign relations with African states? Is it based in interest or compassion? To answer these questions, this paper makes a case study of U.S. relations with Liberia. Liberi...
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  • Debarment
    Louis J. Cherry / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    This study explores the capability of the commander of a military installation to debar--that is, permanently remove--individuals from the installation under his or her command. Debarment is one of many tools installation commanders can use to maintain good order and discipline on the installation. Often the most extreme of the tools available to commanders, a debarment must be...
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    15,76 €

  • Al Qaeda
    Gloria D. Fuentes / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    On September 11, 2001, a new Epoch War emerged. Terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airplanes and attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist group, Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for those attacks. Fighting against transnational terrorist networks has become the task of the day. The terrorist groups who comprise this network pose t...
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  • Airpower in COIN a Coercive Approach
    Zachary Wood / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    The purpose of this paper was to explore airpower’s coercive capabilities in counter-insurgency operations. Traditional theories hold that airpower is not as effective in fighting a COIN due to its primarily kinetic applications. Using a less familiar definition of coercion allows addressing the non-kinetic capabilities airpower brings to the fight. Based on two case studies, t...
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  • Drinking Water in Nigeria
    Roderick L. Boyce / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Nigeria is a country suffering from the crippling burden of disease resulting from unsafe drinking water. The prevalent diseases of unsafe drinking water in Nigeria include cholera, guinea worm, hepatitis, and shigellosis. Additionally, the country is dealing with security issues and instability from religious squabbles between Muslims in the northern region of Nigeria and Chri...
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    15,88 €

  • Training a Priorty [SIC] National Guard Tank Battalion
    David C. Cogdall / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    The National Guard has a more viable role now then ever seen before. Is the National Guard ready for the next call up? Is Active Component / Reserve Component (AC/RC) enhanced Support Battalion (eSBn) concept effective in training a priority National Guard unit for activation? Additionally, how well does the National Guard priority unit compare to a non-priority unit? And furth...
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    15,94 €

  • Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control
    Kang Hosug / Steven A. Ernst / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    The objective of the research was to determine what, if any, relationship existed between the United States’ nuclear weapons employment policy and its arms control policy from the 1950s to the present. Specifically, we sought to determine if one policy was a causal factor for the other, or if the policies evolved in a cooperative manner. The research involved building a compara...
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    17,78 €

  • Genocide, Airpower, and Intervention
    George A. Stanley / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    In response to a question about believing in God, Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peace keeping force in Rwanda, known as the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda or UNAMIR, stated that he had shaken hands with the devil in Rwanda, and since he knew the devil existed, he had to believe in God.1 While most Americans simply changed the c...
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    15,79 €

  • Nationalism as a Contributing Factor in the American Civil War
    Scott A. Ofsdahl / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    The research question seeks to determine the degree that nationalism played as a contributing factor in the American Civil War. The United States currently applies analytic and diagnostic frameworks to potential hotspots around the globe in order to determine their likelihood or potential for violence. Foreign policy and preventive measures are shaped by the predictions of thes...
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    15,94 €

  • A Scenario-Based Look at the Future of Commercial Space
    Helene A. Wilson / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    It is undeniable that one of the United States’ strengths is its capitalist society, where private or corporate ownership is involved in the production and distribution of capital goods.2 However, the government still controls the majority of the space industry. Why? It is not because private companies cannot handle it. The past is filled with private companies handling’big sci...
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  • Is the US Investing Wisely in Latin America?
    Freddie A. Rosas / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    Is the US investing wisely in Ecuador? Yes, the United States appears to be investing wisely in Ecuador and the rest of the region even if the public perception indicates otherwise. The increased level of anti-American sentiment in the region occurred from a combination of factors that had nothing to do with putting more money into Ecuador and the region. There are multiple fac...
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  • Assessing the Nation’s Need for a National Center of Excellence for Radiological Dispersal Devices & the Feasibility of Locating it at Argonne National Laboratory
    Kang Hosug / Steven P. Ernst / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    The objective of the research was to determine what, if any, relationship existed between the United States’ nuclear weapons employment policy and its arms control policy from the 1950s to the present. Specifically, we sought to determine if one policy was a causal factor for the other, or if the policies evolved in a cooperative manner. The research involved building a compara...
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    14,72 €

  • Is Space Big Enough for a US-SINO Partnership?
    Jeremiah O. Klomp / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    With the recent slowdown in US space activities and the current economic downturn, US advances in space have slowed and are unlikely to turn around in the short term. At the same time, China has made significant advances in both funding and capabilities regarding space, with a large budget and big plans for the future. This paper explores the pros and cons of a possible US-Chin...
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    15,66 €

  • Power Projection
    Peter A. Lee / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    'The end of the Cold War and the changing world strategic environment has brought about a dramatic shift in the emphasis of forces throughout the military. In the past decade, the U.S. has continually been sending ad hoc deployments of forces in reaction to Iraqi actions. Several times the Air Force has deployed forces to augment a Carrier Battle Group (CVBG) already in theater...
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    15,85 €

  • The PRT Model
    Pedro A. Cotto-Perez / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    Colombia, one of the oldest democratic nations in the Americas, has been engaged in an internal conflict for over 40 years. Initially the conflict was a classic democratic-marxist ideological clash, however as cocaine entered the scene in the 80’s, the ideology gave way to greed as the rebels dominated the Colombian drug trade. US aid and assistance began to flow in 1999, total...
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    15,82 €

  • Effective Drop Zone Control
    Gregory J. Petrequin / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    Current drop zone control doctrine and guidance is inadequate for the warfighter. While current regulations direct procedure, they do not cover the tactics and techniques or the 'art' of drop zone control. This has resulted in a deficiency of knowledge among the chief players in the airdrop game, the aircrews and the ground party that supports them. In addition, much of the cur...
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    17,33 €

  • Free to Flow
    Scott A. O’Malley / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    As information systems evolved within the Department of Defense (DoD), safeguards were developed to protect the information being stored and processed. The levels of protection put in place are commensurate with the potential consequences of inappropriate disclosure, following the US government’s policy of information sharing based on 'need to know.' The military’s homeland def...
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    15,85 €

  • Information Warfare
    Frederick Okello / Richard Ayres / Air University (U.S.) Air Command and St
    Information warfare is a nebulous concept, but widely cited as a keystone in any future campaign. Even though information warfare has been used for centuries, current doctrine, policies, and guidance provide little help for the warrior to understand first, what information warfare is, and secondly, how to do it.Information Warfare: Planning The Campaign provides a logical appro...
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    17,47 €

  • Space Power 2010
    James L. Hyatt / Paul L Laugesen / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    The authors present six basic 'Space Power 2010' concepts of operations (CONOPS). These six CONOPS are space strike, information blockade, space denial, omniscience/omnipresence, operational spacelift, and massively proliferated and networked microsat constellations.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civil...
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    20,12 €

  • Maintaining the Wing? An Analysis of the Changes Implemented in Aircraft Maintenance as a Result of the Chief’s Logistics Review
    Mark E. Harris / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Throughout its history the United States Air Forces has fluctuate between centralized and decentralized control of aircraft maintenance. In 1999, the Air Force Chief of Staff directed a study that resulted in the latest shift. This most recent attempt at organizational change placed all aircraft maintenance functions in Air Force wings under the centralized control of a single ...
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    15,76 €

  • Force Protection in the Wake of the Dhahran Bombing
    Eugene A. Robinett / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    promises to continue into the immediate and possibly distant future. This research project provides a general historical analysis of Air Force efforts in antiterrorism and force protection policy and programming since the early 1980s. It examines two significant cold war terrorist attacks and resulting Air Force policy and programming changes designed to deter the threat. It th...
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    15,82 €

  • Waste to Watts and Water
    Amanda Sue Birch / Air University (U.S.). Air Command and S
    Combat support is not sexy in the United States Air Force. And future combat supportthat can draw yawns from even the most eager support officers. In the service known for glamorous, cutting-edge technologies, why doesn’t American innovation show up in the support realm? If funding policies continue to ignore the state of the art for military facility construction, America will...
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    17,35 €


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