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...ruct that current doctrine is probably wrong, but what matters is the capability of the military to get it right when a particular conflict begins. In the course of this evaluation, Lt Col Aldon E. Purdham Jr. examines several important airpower factors to include familiarity with the nature and geography of the conflict; parity with the adversary, especially in term...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE KOREAN WAR, 25 JUNE–25 JULY 1950 . . . . . .5 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, 2 MARCH–1 APRIL 1965 . . . 27 Notes . . . . . . . . ....

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...red for publicrelease: distribution unlimited. This CADRE Paper and others in the series are available electronically at the Air University Research W... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE KOREAN WAR, 25 JUNE–25 JULY 1950 . . . . . . 5 ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 INITIAL PERIOD OF OPERATIONS IN THE VIETNAM WAR, 2 MARCH–1 APRIL 1965 . . . . . . 27 ... ... Stratemeyer:His Korean War Diary (Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and MuseumsProgram, 1999), 61–66. 17. Ibid. 18. Futrell, The United States Air ... ...c Bombardment, ed. R. Cargill Hall (Washington, D.C.: AirForce History and Museums Program, 1998), 482. 48. Futrell, The United States Air Force in Ko... ...United States Air Force, 1950–1997 (Washington, D.C.: Air Force Historyand Museums Program, 1997), 207. 36. Ibid. 37. Ibid., 263. 38. John Schlight, T... ...for Korea and Vietnam, respectively. Notes 1. Benjamin S. Lambeth, The Transformation of American Air Power(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Uni... ...bert J. Dixon, “TAC-TRADOC Dialogue,” Strategic Review, winter1978, 45. 6. Lambeth, 84. 7. Ibid., 87. 8. Eliot A. Cohen, Gulf War Air Power Survey (GW... ...the Persian Gulf (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995),160–62. 25. Lambeth, 60. 26. Ibid., 62. 27. Gerald Volloy, “Red Flag in Perspective,” U...

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...Dr. David R. Mets’s The Long Search for a Surgical Strike: Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs is a broad, thought-provoking examination of the relationship between the advancement in conventional weapons guidance technology and the “revolution in military affairs” (RMA). He defines an RMA as a rapi...

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...INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 WHAT IS A REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS (RMA)? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 WHAT WERE THE NOTIONS OF THE FIRST AIRPOWER ADVOCATES OF RMA? . . . . . . . .4 HOW DID RMA WORK OUT IN WARS FROM 1939 TO 1972?. . . . . . . . . ...

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... Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs Thank you for your assistanc... ...rch for a Surgical Strike Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs DAVID R. METS, PhD School of Advanced Airpowe... ... Alabama 36112-6615 October 2001Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMets, David R. The long search for a surgical strike : p... ...the idea. My conclusion isthat because of the long time involved, Benjamin Lambeth isprobably correct in arguing that airpower has been trans-formed (... ...assed since thedays of Douhet and Mitchell. But in my own opinion,Benjamin Lambeth’s choice of Transformation for the title ofhis new book is not too ... ...c Bombardment, ed. R. Cargill Hall (Washington,D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998), 623. The idea thatbombing could reduce human suffer... ...ity: The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949(Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998). 40. Stephen Ambrose, Eisenhower, vol. 2, The Presid... ...t Refueling: Highlights,1923–1998 (Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program,1998), 76. 107. ABC News.com, “B-2 Sees First Combat,” 24 M... ...: Office of Air ForceHistory, 1978), 386; and Rosen, 258. 119. Benjamin S. Lambeth, The Transformation of American Air Power(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Uni...

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...First, this study develops a generalized model for United States military transformations in peacetime. To develop the model the author combines observations made by several historians about recurrent trends in military strategic innovation. The author concludes that, after taking into account inevitable uncertain...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 2 THE TRANSFORMATION TRINITY . . . . 9 3 THE SPACE POWER VISION: MECCA OR MIRAGE? . . . . .23 4 CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE MILITARY SPACE COMMUNITY . . . . 39 5 ASSESSING SPACE THEORIES OF VICTORY . . . . 59 6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . 73...

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...ON: MECCA OR MIRAGE? . . . . . . . 23 4 CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE MILITARY SPACE COMMUNITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... iii Abstract “The world that lies in store for us over the next 25 years will surely challengeour received w... ...anceAmerican values.” With these words, the Commission on National Security in the21st Century captured the exciting challenges this study sets out to... .... B. Holley Jr., Ideas and Weapons (Wash-ington, D.C: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1983). 8. Two of the most important books on patterns of ... ... inSpace: 1945 to the 21st Century (Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Pro-gram, 1998). 10. A significant organizational study is Dana J.... ... the Achievement of Air Superiority (Washington, D.C.: AirForce History and Museums Program, 1985), 9–53. 46. Isaacson, Layne, and Arquilla, 54. 47. W... ...tes was themanned orbiting laboratory (MOL). Stares 239–42. 16. Benjamin S. Lambeth, The Transformation of American Air Power (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cor-nell ... ...It (New York: Basic Books, 1989), 231; and Peebles, 211–34. 17. Benjamin S. Lambeth, The Transformation of Airpower (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Uni-versity... ... in Peebles, 76. 21. Cromer. 22. Spires et al., 255–59; Peebles, 73–79; and Lambeth, 207–11. 23. For a brief discussion of the “uncomfortable fit” of ...

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...ifies specific dilemmas associated with the two sorts of judgments required by the just-war tradition, namely, jus ad bellum (justice of war) and jus in bello (justice in war), and explores their ramifications. The aim of this study is to encourage moral and ethical reflection by politicians, strategists, and tacticians at all levels. The issues at hand are aerial precisio...

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... March 2007 This School of Advanced Air and Space Studies thesis and others in this series are available electronically at the Air University Resea... ...elationship between one of the most significantmilitary developments to emerge in the past century, namely, aerial precision-guided munitions and thei... ...uired by the just-war tradition, namely, jus ad bellum (justice ofwar) and jus in bello (justice in war), and explores their ramifications. Theaim of ... ...r remains a very controversial episode in American mili-tary history. Benjamin Lambeth states succinctly the conclusions of manyhistorians and politic... ... of airpower percolated among professional military circles.But, at what cost? Lambeth is correct when he states that PGMs in Vietnam “offered a tell-... ...underground facilities to a more limited degree. According to author Ben-jamin Lambeth “American airpower has been transformed over the pasttwo decade... ...10 Propositions Regarding Air Power. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1995.———. “Towards a New Airpower Lexicon or Interdict...

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My intent in this book is to help overloaded researchers get started in their quest for good sources on airpower.

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...First edition 1995Revised edition 1997 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMeilinger, Phillip S., 1948- [American airpower biograp... ...Academy, Colonel Meilinger was assigned tothe Air Staff’s doctrine division in the Pentagon, where he wroteand edited numerous Air Force and joint-doc... ...nt-doctrine publications,worked roles-and-missions issues, and participated in the plan-ning cell for Instant Thunder during the Gulf War of 1991. Aco... ...t S. Vandenberg: The Life of aGeneral (1989; reprint, Air Force History and Museums Pro-gram, 2000); 10 Propositions Regarding Air Power (Washing-ton,... ... Propositions Regarding Air Power (Washing-ton, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1995);and several dozen articles and reviews on airpower ... ...he Life of a General (1989;reprint, Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and MuseumsProgram, 2000), I conclude that Vandenberg was an excep-tionally we... ...ronment, the coercive use of airpowershould grow in importance. Benjamin S. Lambeth’s The Transformation of American Air-power (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell ... ...ent overview of air warfare during the last decade of thetwentieth century. Lambeth actually begins with a look at howthe Vietnam War shook the faith ... ...the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and the conflictswith Serbia that followed. In Lambeth’s words, “American air-power now possesses the wherewithal for neu...

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... June 2006 This School of Advanced Air and Space Studies thesis and others in this series are available electronically at the Air University ... ...n-guished graduate of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps at Lehigh Univer-sity in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Colonel Fredriksson began his military... ...s engineer and program manager for the Global Positioning SystemJoint Program Office in Los Angeles, California. In 1994 he was selected for abroadenin... ... 25SPACE AND MILITARY POWERIn The Transformation of American Airpower, Benjamin Lambeth arguesthat airpower’s technology, organization, and employ... ...envisioned by the early advocates, but notin a way that they could have foreseen.”5 Lambeth uses airpower’s successin the Gulf War and the Balkans to ... ...vy.mil/newrulesets/TheAmericanWayofWar.html (accessed 13April 2003). 5. Benjamin S. Lambeth, The Transformation of American Airpower (Ithaca, NY: Corn... ...linger, Ten Propositions Re-garding Airpower (Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1995). 28. Smith defines the upper boundary of the... ...lip S. Ten Propositions Regarding Airpower. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1995.Menon, P. K. The United Nations’ Efforts to ...

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...IFE Lieutenant Colonel, USAF Air University Press in collaboration with the College of Aerospace Doctrin... ...SERT STORM AND BEYOND . . . . . . . . . . 103 Increasing Turbulence in Airpower Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...rm: The Crucible of Combat . . . . . . 112 Post–Desert Storm: Changes in the Wind . . . . 117 Analysis and Summ... ...ne, vol. 2, 1961–1984, 559. 59. Ibid. 60. Ibid., 560. 61. Ibid., 489. 62. Ibid. 63. Lambeth, Transformation of American Air Power, 60–61. 64. Cl... ...rican Air Power, 60–61. 64. Clancy, Every Man a Tiger, 127–28. 65. Ibid., 128–29. 66. Lambeth, Transformation of American Air Power, 62. 67. Day, ... ... Initiatives.” 7. Gen John L. Piotrowski, interview by the author, 13 January 2002. 8. Lambeth, Transformation of American Air Power, 92–96. 9. Mat... ...trategic Bombardment. Edited by R. Cargill Hall. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1998.———. The 31 Initiatives: A Study i... ...Struggle for Air Force Independence, 1943– 1947. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1997.Worden, R. Michael. Rise of the Fight... ...s Air Force. 2 vols. Edited by Bernard C. Nalty. Washington, DC: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1997. 153 C...

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...have they adapted to the challenges of costs and technologies? He convincingly argues that budgetary provision has not been the most important factor in generating effective air power....

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... Base, Alabama August 2011 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataAnrig, Christian F. The quest for relevant air powe... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Employment of Western Air Power in Real Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... How Has the French Air Force Responded to the New Intellectualism in Air Power Thinking and Doctrine? . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...ney and Cohen, Gulf War Air Power Survey, 15. 93. Ibid., 21. 94. Benjamin S. Lambeth, The Transformation of American Air Power (Ithaca,NY: Cornell U... ...gazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2005/February%202005/0205fallujah.aspx. 115. Lambeth, Transformation of American Air Power, 178. 116. Col Robert C.... ...ower over Bosnia (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air Univer-sity Press, 2003), 131–32. 121. Lambeth, Transformation of American Air Power, 178. 122. Owen, “Summar... ...r, 10 Propositions regarding Air Power (Washington,D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 1995), 61. 11. Mason, Air Power, 249. 12. Lorell, Fu...

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...In the end, the theories we considered can be synthesized to form a better overall description of the control of combat airpower. Centralized control and decentralized execution is a good concept at any level, but it suffers ...

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...lodfelter 4 The Influence of Aviation on the Evolution of American Naval Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Dr. David R. Mets 5 Airpower Thought in Continental Europe between the Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Dr. James S. Corum 6 Interwar US Army Aviation and the Air Corps Tactical School: Incubators of American Airpower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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