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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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