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...different from conventional wars, develops lessons from two case studies, highlights the challenges that US airmen face, and examines the adequacy of Air Force and Joint doctrine for counterinsurgency operations....

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...ally Different.....11 Counterinsurgency: The US Airman’s Challenge .....12 Methodology of this Study......14 Limitations of the Study....15 SOUTH VIETNAMESE COUNTERINSURGENCY CAMPAIGN AND OPERATION FARMGATE, 1961-1964.....16 Origins of Conflict ......16 Overview of FARMGATE .....18 Program Inception....18 Concept of Operations ......19 Analysis of Operations........

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... . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Dealing with Future Conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2 AIR POWER IN SMALL WARS : THE BRITISH AIR CONTROL EXPERIENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Air Control's Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Air Control: From Concept to Doctrine . . . . .22 The Requirements of Britis...

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...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one as a medic. The other two of the four friends, in trying to avoid the war, become ...

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...n the mountains north of Long Thiueu for about five years. My name is Leonard Blair.” “Well, pleased to meet you, Father. I’m Jim Morris of the U.S. Air Force. And this here is Bryan Zastrowski of Air America.” “Pleased to meet you boys.” “How long have you been a captive?” “For just about a month.” “Group of soldiers came through the area I was working in. Guess they...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultu...

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...143 7 Berlin Crisis of 1958--59 . . . . . . . . . . . .193 8 Berlin Crisis of 1961 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221 9 Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251 Part 3 Summary 10 Sticks, Carrots, and Positive Diplomacy: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293 11 Some Final Thought...

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...The United States Air Force has long favored attacking electrical power systems.Electric power has been considered a critical target in every war since World War II,and will likely be nominated in the future. Historically, there have been four...

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...Survey . . . . . . 25 Notes . . . . . 28 4 ELECTRICAL POWER TARGETING IN THE PAST— ATTACKS IN LIMITED WAR . . . . . 33 Korean War . . . . . . 33 Vietnam War . . . . . 37 Desert Storm . . . . . 41 Notes . . . . . 42 5 TARGETING ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS . . . 45 Failures . . . . 45 When to Target Electric Power . . . 48 Conclusions and Implications . . . . 53 Not...

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...e to sign, what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his brav... ...he gnarled hand flicked the silver fish onto the flat rock. The fish gasped for air and then, after a moment, lay still. The old Chief lifted the si... ...of the land? The idea is strange to us .. .Ifwe do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part o... ...ul Bearer But his stubbornness and over-riding sense of obligation to duty had forced him further away from her, and above all, into be­ coming a cr... ... Hawk poked his head inside and the sensuous smell of lilac sifted through the air. He closed his eyes for an instant, inhaled deeply and smiled. R... ...d in a clump of rocks. For a moment he stared, transfixed by the firelight. He forced himself to look away, his eyes adjusted to the night, and he ... ...f the hundred young men under his command who were slaughtered in the fields of Vietnam. He knew he had no choice. He had committed himself to a nob... ... At the age of eighteen, he had enlisted in the Army. The protests against the Vietnam War, and the so-called Peace Movement, made his blood boil. ... ...looking for. And, Ryan obliged them by taking on every danger­ ous mission. The Vietnam War broke lesser men, but it made Ryan stron­ ger. Why? Becau...

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...1 Between the world wars, even though the US Army Air Corps received more than its fair share of funds from the Army, it continued to complain, agitate, and ask for more. . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2 Entering World War II, the Air Corps’s unba...

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........................................................................................................................ 27 POWER AS A MOTIVATING FORCE ... ...cles. Each recognizes similarities in our functions--but each emphasizes a different part. So Sigmund Freud saw pleasure as the major driving force ... ...ith our conscious minds what might be influencing us and others. ―Our behavior is directed by a combination of conscious and unconscious forces... ...f-actualization.‘ These needs Maslow called the meta needs. ‗Meta‘ is from the Greek word meaning ‗highest‘ ―The physiological need for air is... ...onscious or the unconscious mind, they express powerful needs. But even these needs have a priority. If I am being suffocated, my drive to get air wi... ...ad rage where a driver uses his car to express his anger against one and all. ―Buying clothes and accessories that carry with them an air of... ...gassing undesirable gypsies and Jews along the way. The Korean War‘s propaganda was even more effective. And by the time the warriors invaded Vietna... ...y to outright lie. Look at the Bush-Cheney duo of some years ago. They denied the truth by lying. Lyndon Johnson lied to the electorate about Vietna... ...enigrate college because it would put their children ahead of them academically. On the other hand, being against an unwise war, like Iraq or Vietna...

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...omplex process:  We contract muscles to squeeze the rib cage and push air out from our lungs through the windpipe (trachea).  Then the air en... ... box (larynx) that lies well below the back of the tongue.  There, the air flows up between the vocal cords to produce a buzzing sound that becom... ...out five million years ago separate our ancestors from other primates and force them to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory develope... ...at, Tongue, And Lips Harmonize? Biologist Hardy contended that primates—forced from the forest by competition— moved to the seashore to search for ... ...e back of the nose. With the larynx in that position, most of the exhaled air passes out through the nostrils, resulting in mostly nasal sounds. ... ...ereus lusted for Philomela on the voyage. When they arrived in Thrace, he forced her to a cabin in the woods and raped her. The defiant Philomela ... ...n China to the shores of the Danube in eastern Europe and from Siberia to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf. ―The Mongol Khans, from Genghis Khan throu...

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...4 5:25 PM Page vii Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page viii p. 15 FAA Air Traffic Control Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defens... ...t the same time protecting our country against future attacks.We have been forced to think about the way our government is organized.The massive depar... ...ags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the air- craft. This did not hinder Atta’s plans. 2 Atta and Omari arrived in B... ...d by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny by the air- line’s customer service representative at the check-in counter. He did... ...aps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key , to force one of them to open the cock- pit door, or to lure the captain or fir... ...pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.The... ...exposure of its botched effort to land Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs.The Vietnam W ar brought on more criticism.A promi- COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 89...