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  • First Aid - FM 4-25.11 US Army Field Manual (2002 Civilian Reference Edition)
    Navy and Air Force US Army
    Learn to Master First Aid For The Unexpected And For When Help Is DelayedPrepare yourself and brush up on your skills with this unabridged, high-quality Civilian Reference Edition reissue of the official First Aid US Department of The Army Field Manual FM 4-25.11, 2002 release (also published as FM 21-11, NTRP 4-02.1, AFMAN 44-163[I]). This is the latest edition of the US Army ...
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    36,92 €

  • First Aid - FM 4-25.11 US Army Field Manual (2002 Civilian Reference Edition)
    Navy and Air Force US Army
    Learn to Master First Aid For The Unexpected And For When Help Is DelayedPrepare yourself and brush up on your skills with this unabridged, high-quality Civilian Reference Edition reissue of the official First Aid US Department of The Army Field Manual FM 4-25.11, 2002 release (also published as FM 21-11, NTRP 4-02.1, AFMAN 44-163[I]). This is the latest edition of the US Army ...
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    21,30 €

  • The International Criminal Court Why We Need It, How We Got It, Our Concern About It
    Donald A. Maccuish / US Air Force
    I have been following the establishment of the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) as called for in the Treaty of Rome since I first began teaching an elective, Morality and War: Implications for the War Fighter, here at the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) in January 2000. I have found the process to be quite interesting. Almost from the beginning, my thoughts har...
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    20,19 €

  • The US Response to China’s ASAT Test
    Anthony J. Mastalir / US Air Force
    Nearly three years have passed since China’s successful antisatellite (ASAT) test ushered in a new era of space competition. China still offers no answers to one of the most troubling strategic space questions of the twenty-first century: why is China building space weapons? Fundamental changes in the way the United States approaches national security space are long overdue. Po...
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    20,08 €

  • Air Mobility
    Richard J. Hazdra / US Air Force
    Maj Richard J. Hazdra’s Air Mobility: The Key to the United States National Security is an examination of the force structure of Air Mobility Command (AMC) based on a model for two major theater wars. His study examines this organization’s current force structure. Air mobility is the key that unlocks the national security strategy (NSS). AMC’s force structure is crucial for the...
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    20,11 €

  • AU Monograph, Shortchanging the Joint Fight
    Charles J Dunlap / US Air Force
    This study analyzes the pitfalls of accepting Army/Marine counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine as the joint solution. It also offers insights and ideas from an Airman’s perspective for strengthening joint doctrine development in order to deliver fresh alternatives to our national decision makers and combatant commanders. Major General Dunlap’s assessment of Field Manual 3-24, Coun...
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    20,14 €

  • Technology Horizons
    Office of the US Air Force Chief Scienti
    A 2011 Air Force chief of staff reading list selection, Technology Horizons assesses what is credibly achievable from a technical perspective to give the Air Force capabilities suited for the strategic, technology, and budget environments of the next two decades. While visionary, its view is informed by the strategic context in which these technology-derived capabilities will b...
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    23,08 €

  • History of the Air Corps Tactical School 1920-1940
    Robert T. Finney / Robert TFinney / Us Air Force History &. Museums Program / Us Air Force History &Museums Program
    From the foreword: 'In the 1930s the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the birthplace and nurturing ground for American air doctrine. The work undertaken at the school became manifest in the skies over Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific in the Second World War. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared America for w...
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    25,40 €

  • To Save a City
    Roger G. Miller / Roger GMiller / Us Air Force History &. Museums Program / Us Air Force History &Museums Program
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    25,47 €

  • Safe Heavens
    David W. Ziegler / US Air Force
    This study attempts to understand the argument against weapons in space. It asks the question: Could pursuing a space sanctuary policy in the immediate future benefit the national interest? This study answers the question by articulating the strongest possible argument for a space sanctuary strategy today.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, an...
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    17,17 €

  • How Small Is Too Small?
    Paul E. Kladitis / US Air Force
    The Department of Defense (DOD) anticipates the realization of biomimetic bird and two-inch, insect-sized systems within the 2015-47 period. Although robot systems of one millimeter or smaller are not explicitly specified in current DOD and Air Force technology road maps, the technological aims towards this size can be clearly inferred from official documents. This research ass...
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    17,17 €

  • Paradigm Lost
    David W. Allvin / US Air Force
    Colonel Allvin analyzes the theater airlift implications for the United States Army’s vision, Army After Next (AAN)-now called the Army Vision: The Transformation of the Army, which is a continuum of the AAN-for land warfare in the twenty-first century. He identifies theater airlift capabilities critical to the AAN concept and examines emerging systems that seem likely to furni...
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    17,80 €

  • Lifeline From the Sky
    John Steven Brunhaver / US Air Force
    Major Brunhaver seeks to answer the question, what are the doctrinal imperatives of providing effective airlift support to enclaves? He states that doctrinal imperatives are those necessary and sufficient propositions that describe the optimal way to employ airlift forces in support of an enclave. This paper attempts to determine the best way to conduct airlift operations to su...
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    17,20 €

  • Bedding Down With C-O-T-S
    Christopher J. Bence / US Air Force
    Major Bence examines the feasibility for the United States Air Force (USAF) to obtain and field a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) cargo aircraft in order to meet the current and future airlift requirements of the United States. He discusses the current capacity, the three types of cargo, and the total force structure of the USAF. Major Bence offers five alternatives, including ...
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    17,30 €

  • AWPD-42 to Instant Thunder
    James R. Cody / US Air Force
    Major Cody analyzes the air war plans in World War II and the Persian Gulf War. His goal is to ascertain whether there is a continuity of thought reflected in American air planning over the years. He assesses Air War Plans Division-1/42 and Instant Thunder as to their importance to contemporary airpower theory. Major Cody concludes that there is a continuity of thought reflecte...
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    17,30 €

  • Eliminating the Rhetoric
    Mark C. Nowland / US Air Force
    Major Nowland identifies criteria that will provide objective analysis of a halt-phase strategy. He examines air combat in three operations: the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the 1973 Golan Heights battles of the Yom Kippur War, and the Iraqi Republican Guard escape from Basra. His study consists of three sections: assessment of prehostility preparation, examination of actual com...
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    17,57 €

  • Recapitalizing Nuclear Weapons
    Edgar M. Vaughan / US Air Force
    More than six decades after Hiroshima and almost two since the end of the Cold War, the US nuclear weapons stockpile is undergoing an extensive and expensive life-extension program to ensure the continued safety, security, and reliability of the legacy weapons well into the future. The current stockpile does not meet post-Cold War national security challenges. Today’s challenge...
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    17,50 €

  • Outsourcing the Air Force Mission
    William G. Palmby / US Air Force
    Colonel Palmby’s study not only serves as a primer for readers not intimately familiar with either outsourcing or the acquisition/manpower career fields, but also provides Air Force leadership and decision makers recommendations designed to help them resolve or prevent the numerous pitfalls that accompany the outsourcing process. Toward those ends, it provides background on the...
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    17,47 €

  • Developing Doctrine for the Future Joint Force
    Charles Q. Brown / US Air Force
    Colonel Brown argues that recent operations have highlighted seams and shortfalls in joint doctrine that need to be addressed in the shaping of a more effective future joint force. Using the current doctrine command and control tenets and Joint Operations Concept attributes as a framework, Colonel Brown develops the foundation of air-ground doctrine for the future joint force. ...
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    20,12 €

  • The Credibility of America’s Extended Nuclear Deterrent
    William G. Eldridge / US Air Force
    As Iran moves ever closer to a nuclear weapons capability, will other area powers such as Turkey decide to acquire their own nuclear weapons and embark on a crash nuclear weapons program to provide their own deterrent? Or will Turkey’s leaders trust in the United States’ extended nuclear deterrent for Turkey’s security? Col William G. Eldridge has explored this question in dept...
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    20,21 €

  • The Expeditionary Airfield as a Center of Gravity
    Jeff D. Philippart / US Air Force
    This study explores the contemporary relevance of the Guadalcanal campaign to current military operations. Specifically, it uses expeditionary joint air operations flown from Henderson Field during the period August 1942 to February 1943 as a case study for the employment of airpower from an austere airfield. Henderson Field provides a historical example of the expeditionary ai...
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    17,14 €

  • Looking Skyward
    Ronald G. Machoian / US Air Force
    The twentieth century’s first decades were a time of enormous technological achievement that had profound influences on the modern battlefield. The invention of the airplane and its subsequent adaptation for military use inarguably changed the face of twentieth-century warfare. It was during this dynamic period that America’s earliest Airmen began to articulate ideas on how air...
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    15,82 €

  • Reducing the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Alert Rate and the Impact on Maintenance
    Stephen M. Kravitsky / US Air Force
    We have been at war for four and one-half years. The financial burden of executing Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom caused military services to undergo extensive cost-cutting efforts. The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) community is not exempt. Recently, the Air Force Nuclear General Officer Steering Group (AFNGOSG) requested an additional study of lower ...
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    17,60 €

  • Using an Intratheater Regional Hub Heuristic in Iraq
    Robert L. Charlesworth / US Air Force
    Ongoing casualties inflicted on convoys transgressing dangerous roads highlighted airlift’s important role in intratheater logistics operations within Iraq. While airlift can help decrease the number of convoys on the roads in combat zones, the finite number of airlifters must be managed effectively and efficiently to maximize its impact in supporting operations. This research ...
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    15,94 €

  • Transformational Satellite (TSAT) Communications System
    Maurice M. McKinney / US Air Force
    The Transformational Communications Office’s (TCO) 17 December 2003 report states, 'The current SATCOM and data relay systems are unable to meet future bandwidth demands. They lack capacity, in both aggregate data rate and the number of users they can support. . . . Furthermore, the life expectancies of the existing space segments and much of their associated terminal and manag...
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    15,79 €

  • A Game of Simon Says
    J. Lee Bennett / US Air Force
    A little over 200,000 votes in Mexico’s 2006 presidential election determined whether or not the United States might soon share a border with a potentially communist country. A closer look reveals Mexico was nearly another domino in a rash of leftism that is sweeping through Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In fact, there are as many leftist countries in the LAC region to...
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    15,82 €

  • Waste to Watts and Water
    Amanda Sue Birch / US Air Force
    Looking to the national security environment in 2030, Major Birch’s research explores one technology-the microbial fuel cell (MFC)-that gives life to self-contained facilities decoupled from vulnerable supply lines and infrastructure networks. MFCs could become a diplomatic and economic tool to pursue a better state of peace by building a foundation for democratic and economic ...
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    17,66 €

  • Transforming Air Force ISR for the Long War and Beyond
    Michael Grunwald / US Air Force
    Air Force intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is undergoing a tremendous transition-as a growing core competency and an operational entity in its own right. This paper draws on well-established close air support doctrine and organizational models to build new ISR organizational and execution constructs to bridge the gap between theater-level ISR assets and tact...
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    15,69 €

  • Airpower and the Cult of the Offensive
    John R. Carter / US Air Force
    Major Carter explores three case studies that have important similarities: the doctrine of Great Britain’s Royal Air Force from 1918 to 1938, the Israeli Air Force’s strategy from 1967 to 1973, and the United States Air Force’s strategy from 1953 to 1965. He begins by establishing the theoretical background necessary for case study analysis. He dissects the relationship between...
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    20,12 €

  • Unmanned Intratheater Airlift
    Kevin J. McGowan / US Air Force
    This paper investigates the DOD’s tactical logistical challenges and each service’s tactical lift requirements, especially with respect to the movement of supplies from forward supply hubs to forward forces. To address these challenges and requirements, the author suggests the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) as a potential solution. Focusing on existing and quickly emerg...
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    21,15 €


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