Flying High

By Sherwood, John D.

Book Id: WPLBN0000705996
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 412.48 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Flying High
Author:	Sherwood, John D.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; e-Asia Digital Library


Citation APA MLA Chicago Sherwood, J. D. (n.d.). Flying High. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Excerpt
Excerpt: In 1990, the Air University commissioned Carl Builder, an analyst with RAND, to study the institutional Air Force culture. The president, Lieutenant General Charles Boyd, and the commandant of the Air Command and Staff College, Brigadier General Phillip Ford, believed that careerism amongst occupational specialties had eroded the military professionalism of their service. In particular, both officers decried stovepiping, by which specialists looked to their own profession rather than the operational chain of command and allowed their loyalties to follow their professional needs rather than the operational mission. Boyd and Ford surmised that careerism was linked to the confusion over the Air Force mission. Builder concurred, and The Icarus Syndrome: The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force resulted from his study.