Air Power In The Age Of Primacy
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Author |
: Phil Haun |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2021-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108996631 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108996639 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Air Power in the Age of Primacy by : Phil Haun
Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors. In this age of primacy, air wars have been contests between unequals and characterized by asymmetries of power, interest, and technology. This volume examines ten contemporary wars where air power played a major and at times decisive role. Its chapters explore the evolving use of unmanned aircraft against global terrorist organizations as well as more conventional air conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against ISIS. Air superiority could be assumed in this unique and brief period where the international system was largely absent great power competition. However, the reliable and unchallenged employment of a spectrum of manned and unmanned technologies permitted in the age of primacy may not prove effective in future conflicts.
Author |
: Robert A. Pape |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 547 |
Release |
: 2014-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801471506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801471508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bombing to Win by : Robert A. Pape
From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people, or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe.Pape examines the air raids on Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as well as those of Israel versus Egypt, providing details of bombing and governmental decision making. His detailed narratives of the strategic effectiveness of bombing range from the classical cases of World War II to an extraordinary reconstruction of airpower use in the Gulf War, based on recently declassified documents. In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.
Author |
: Phil Haun |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2021-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108839228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108839223 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Air Power in the Age of Primacy by : Phil Haun
Analyzes the effectiveness of post-Cold War air wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and against terrorist groups.
Author |
: Phil Haun |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2023-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781009364171 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1009364170 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War by : Phil Haun
A theory of tactical air power explaining US air power effectiveness in Vietnam and the modern air wars that followed.
Author |
: Carl H. Builder |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2017-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351481298 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351481290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Icarus Syndrome by : Carl H. Builder
At the end of the Reagan era, many in the U.S. Air Force began to express their concerns about the health of their institution. They questioned whether the Air Force had lost its sense of direction, its confidence, its values, even its future. For some, these concerns reflected nothing more than the maturation of the most youthful of America's military institutions. For others it was a crisis of spirit that threatened the hard-won independence of the Air Force. Although the diagnoses for this malaise are as numerous as its symptoms, The Icarus Syndrome points a finger at the abandonment of air power theory sometime in the late 1950s to early 1960s as the single, taproot cause of the problems. That provocative diagnosis is followed by an equally provocative prescription the Air Force must follow to regain its institutional health. Author Carl H. Builder begins with an overview of this crisis of values within the Air Force, along with a litany of concerns about what seems to have gone wrong within that institution. The history of the U.S. Air Force, along with the role played in it by air power theory, is explored and is used to support Builder's thesis. The remainder of the book is an analysis of what went wrong and when, how these wrongs might be corrected, and the challenges for Air Force leadership in the future. Now available in paperback, The Icarus Syndrome will be of great interest to U.S. Air Force professionals, military and aviation historians, and institutional psychologists.
Author |
: Brian D. Laslie |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2021-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442274358 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442274352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Air Power's Lost Cause by : Brian D. Laslie
The first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Filling a substantial void in our understanding of the history of airpower in Vietnam, this book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the air wars in Vietnam. Brian Laslie traces the complete history of these air wars from the beginning of American involvement until final withdrawal. Detailing the competing roles and actions of the air elements of the United States Army, Navy, and Air Force, the author considers the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war. He also looks at the air war from the perspective of the North Vietnamese Air Force. Most important for understanding the US defeat, Laslie illustrates the perils of a nation building a one-dimensional fighting force capable of supporting only one type of war. ,
Author |
: Jeremy Black |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 2016-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442250970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442250976 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Air Power by : Jeremy Black
This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Considering both the theory and praxis of air power, the author begins with hot air balloons, and then highlights the use of zeppelins, piston engine fighters, jet bombers, and finally the so-called Military Revolution of today. While discussing the growth of American and European military aviation, Black, a pioneer in emphasizing the importance of non-Western military history for understanding global developments, also traces the emergence of air power in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Black breaks new ground by exploring not only to conventional war—both inside and outside Europe—but also to the use of air power in unconventional wars, especially critical given to the spread of insurgencies around the globe. He vividly describes traditional debates over the pros and cons of strategic bombing and aircraft carriers versus battleships and gives equal attention to managerial, doctrinal, and technological innovations. The author shows how better management resulted in increasing lethality of close air support of the RAF during the latter part of World War II and at the same times highlights the limits of air power with case studies of the two Gulf Wars. The author goes beyond our traditional understanding of air power associated with bombing and fighter engagements, adding the important elements associated with naval power, including ground/logistics support, anti-aircraft measures, and political constraints. As he explains, air power has become Western politicians’ weapon of choice, spreading maximum destruction with the minimum of commitment. His current and comprehensive study considers how we got to this point, and what the future has in store. Anyone seeking a balanced, accurate understanding of air power in history will find this book an essential introduction.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:227852369 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Paths of Heaven The Evolution of Airpower Theory by :
Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has altered the strategies of war or merely its tactics. If the former, then one can see airpower as a revolutionary leap along the continuum of war; but if the latter, then airpower is simply another weapon that joins the arsenal along with the rifle, machine gun, tank, submarine, and radio. This book implicitly assumes that airpower has brought about a revolution in war. It has altered virtually all aspects of war: how it is fought, by whom, against whom, and with what weapons. Flowing from those factors have been changes in training, organization, administration, command and control, and doctrine. War has been fundamentally transformed by the advent of the airplane.
Author |
: Robert L. Pfaltzgraff |
Publisher |
: DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 387 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781428992818 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1428992812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War by : Robert L. Pfaltzgraff
This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.
Author |
: Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold |
Publisher |
: Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 927 |
Release |
: 2015-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786251527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786251523 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Airpower Comes Of Age—General Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s World War II Diaries Vol. II [Illustrated Edition] by : Gen. Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold
Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 180 maps, plans, and photos. Gen Henry H. “Hap.” Arnold, US Army Air Forces (AAF) Chief of Staff during World War II, maintained diaries for his several journeys to various meetings and conferences throughout the conflict. Volume 1 introduces Hap Arnold, the setting for five of his journeys, the diaries he kept, and evaluations of those journeys and their consequences. General Arnold’s travels brought him into strategy meetings and personal conversations with virtually all leaders of Allied forces as well as many AAF troops around the world. He recorded his impressions, feelings, and expectations in his diaries. Maj Gen John W. Huston, USAF, retired, has captured the essence of Henry H. Hap Arnold—the man, the officer, the AAF chief, and his mission. Volume 2 encompasses General Arnold’s final seven journeys and the diaries he kept therein.