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  • A Metaphor Theory of Airmindedness
    Robert Killefer / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    'The language Airmen use to understand war, society, and man’s place in them reflect how Airmen think about reality. Successive generations of Airmen have evolved a worldview termed 'airmindedness.' Airmindedness reflects individual and group understanding built over decades through the interplay and competition between ideas. Concepts, theories, and strategies are the key idea...
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    20,11 €

  • More Than Just a Nuisance
    C. G. Tredway / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    Strategic bombing against civilian targets was attempted on a grand scale during the Second World War against Britain, Germany, and Japan. Although the physical destruction was great, the coercive effect on the leadership of these states was questionable. However, in 1991, air attacks of negligible military or destructive value against cities in Israel imperiled the very existe...
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    15,91 €

  • Once in a Blue Moon
    Howard D. Belote / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    In the 52-year history of the United States Air Force (USAF), only one airman has risen to serve as a regional commander in chief (CINC). In the same period, 74 soldiers, sailors, and Marines have filled CINC billets. To determine if, and perhaps how, airmen could become geographic CINCs in the near future, this paper examines the root of the issue through historical analysis a...
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    20,08 €

  • 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 €

  • Improving US Air Force Performance in Irregular Conflict
    Timothy W. Childress / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    US leaders have identified irregular threats as a major challenge facing the United States over the next few decades. While other US military services are responding to these threats, the US Air Force is falling short in preparing for irregular warfare. Although the US Air Force must balance its capabilities to address all potential threats, including major combat operations, t...
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    17,47 €

  • A Potential Policy for Australian Military Space
    Stephen B. Cook / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    Space is a critical vulnerability for Australia and its allies. This thesis seeks to identify a potential space policy for Australia as it attempts to address its space vulnerability. The guiding question answered in this thesis is 'how is Australia vulnerable in space and what can be done to mitigate this vulnerability?' This thesis comprises an analysis of contemporary issues...
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    17,33 €

  • The Quest for Commonality
    David S. Grantham / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study is a comparative analysis of the effect that joint development has had on the TFX and JSF aircraft development programs. The two programs have been compared to determine the degree of interservice commonality present, the methods used to achieve the common designs, and the effects the demand for commonality have had on the design and performance of the aircraft.This ...
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    17,23 €

  • Peering Into the Future
    Mark D. Bontrager / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    'This thesis focuses on the capabilities of an emerging technology known as Peer-To- Peer (P2P) technology and its potential to improve intelligence support to operational and tactical warfighters. First popularized by a popular music-sharing program called Napster in May 1999, P2P technology enabled the sharing of millions of music files over the Internet between anyone who wa...
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    17,78 €

  • A Kill is a Kill
    Michael A. O’Halloran / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    As the 20th Century closes, efforts towards organizing, training, and equipping U.S. airpower assets remain based on the assumption of face-to-face conventional confrontations. This is a comforting hypothesis, as U.S. technological superiority should keep the odds stacked in out favor for decades to come. Air strategists may be overlooking the fact, however, that this very tech...
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    17,57 €

  • Bear Market Coercion
    Maximilian Bremer / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study considers the efficacy of economic coercion as a means of securing national interests. It begins by defining coercion as one state using positive or negative efforts to cause another state to alter perceptions of its own interests. These efforts can take the form of deterrence, compellence, or a combination of the two. Using a framework of capability, credibility, co...
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    17,78 €

  • Commanding the Air Force During a Continuum of Conflict
    George A. Holland / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    Gen John P. McConnell progressed through many eras of Air Force history toemerge as the sixth Chief of Staff commanding the Air Force during the frigid years ofthe Cold War and the sweltering torpidity of the Vietnam War. An intellectual in his ownright and leader throughout beginning as the First Captain of Cadets at West Point in1932, his career was dominated and defined by f...
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    17,17 €

  • Hearts, Minds, and Defense
    Samuel B. Highley / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study examines the war of ideas concept, as discussed and studied after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and as the United States began its self-described global war on terrorism. The study examines the many different definitions of this concept, considers why it is important, and analyzes polling and media content analysis data to determine views and opinions of...
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    20,24 €

  • The Value of Long-Range Strike
    Jason R. Combs / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    'The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report (QDR) directed the Air Force (AF) to 'develop a new land-based, penetrating long-range strike [LRS] capability to be fielded by 2018.' To meet this directive, the AF began a capabilities-based planning effort that is primarily ahistoric. The paper presented here uses case studies of the B-52 and B-1 to suggest attributes the next gene...
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    17,60 €

  • The Limits of Decentralized Execution
    Mustafa R. Koprucu / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    This thesis investigates the effects of technological advances on decentralized execution of air operations. It specifically seeks to answer the question of how advanced sensor and communication capabilities in Air Operations Centers might lead to centralized execution.The research focuses on three case studies of air operations: Linebacker II, Desert Storm, and Allied Force. I...
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    17,72 €

  • De-Ranged
    Robert A. Colella / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This is a story of long-range airpower, from General Henry 'Hap' Arnold’s vision of a Global Mission to the Global Strike Task Force and Expeditionary Air Forces of the year 2001. It examines global power from its origins as Strategic Air Command built a fleet of bombers and tankers to meet the needs of the global nuclear deterrent policy of the Cold War. With the end of the Co...
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    20,11 €

  • The Moral Domain of War
    Walter Anthony Grady / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study uses Brigadier General J.F.C. Fuller’s theory of war to investigate the motivation of pilots flying in combat. The study holds the physical and cognitive domains of war variables constant and analyzes the moral domain effects on pilot behavior. Vietnam era F-105 pilots serve as the case study. A pilot combat motivation model based on J.F.C. Fuller’s theory served as ...
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    17,60 €

  • 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 €

  • Lt. Gen. Ned Almond, USA
    Michael Lewis / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study analyzes the historical debate between the Army and Air Force over the issue of close air support (CAS). Specifically, this thesis examines four CAS sub-issues from World War I through the Korean War: priorities in the employment of airpower, the ownership and apportionment of CAS assets, the most effective CAS command and control (C2) system, and the debate over whe...
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    21,15 €

  • 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 €

  • Shaping an Air Force
    Adam Smith / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    The USAF has reached a turning point. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are ending, and prognosticators claim the occurrence of an MCO is unlikely. CTNA operations and Air/Sea Battle have emerged as the most likely roles for the USAF in the near future. However, what do the USAF’s former leaders say about that? The following interviews with past CSAFs will not only cover the opt...
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    17,60 €

  • Smart Tankers
    Martin R. Hertz / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    Multi-tasking weapons systems has become the new Air Force standard, and the air refueling tanker is one of the first to be adapted to the new paradigm. The Air Force is in the early stages of developing a capability for the KC-135 tanker that will allow it to perform command and control duties as a digital data link relay platform. This is only the first step in multi-tasking ...
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    20,19 €

  • Airpower’s Role in Homeland Defense
    Roger J. Witek / Air University (U.S.). School of Advance
    This study analyzes airpower command and control issues for United States homeland defense at the level of international relations. The author assesses hemispheric historical cases such as antisubmarine warfare during World War II, the development of NORAD during the Cold War, and counterdrug operations during the last two decades. Sovereignty, cooperation, and capability issue...
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    20,06 €

  • Gaining and Maintaining Cyberspace Superiority
    Merna H.H. Hsu / Air University (U.S.) School of Advance
    Controlling cyberspace as a military domain is a challenge that demands critically assessing issues, questions, and assumptions, especially those at the foundation of the military’s decision making for operations and requirements. This thesis examined whether cyberspace can be held in like manner to existing mediums. A brief survey of classical control theories for the land, ma...
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    17,33 €