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Author : Karen Lewis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (956 download)
Download or read book A Systemic Study of Air Combat Command Cold War Material Culture written by Karen Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brent D Ziarnick
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682475883
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book To Rule the Skies written by Brent D Ziarnick and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War fills a critical gap in Cold War and Air Force history by telling the story of General Thomas S. Power for the first time. Thomas Power was second only to Curtis LeMay in forming the Strategic Air Command (SAC), one of the premier combat organizations of the twentieth century, but he is rarely mentioned today. What little is written about Power describes him as LeMay's willing hatchet man--uneducated, unimaginative, autocratic, and sadistic. Based on extensive archival research, General Power seeks to overturn this appraisal. Brent D. Ziarnick covers the span of both Power's personal and professional life and challenges many of the myths of conventional knowledge about him. Denied college because his middle-class immigrant family imploded while he was still in school, Power worked in New York City construction while studying for the Flying Cadet examination at night in the New York Public Library. As a young pilot, Power participated in some of the Army Air Corps' most storied operations. In the interwar years, his family connections allowed Power to interact with American Wall Street millionaires and the British aristocracy. Confined to training combat aircrews in the United States for most of World War II, Power proved his combat leadership as a bombing wing commander by planning and leading the firebombing of Tokyo for Gen. Curtis LeMay. After the war, Power helped LeMay transform the Air Force into the aerospace force America needed during the Cold War. A master of strategic air warfare, he aided in establishing SAC as the Free World's "Big Stick" against Soviet aggression. Far from being unimaginative, Power led the incorporation of the nuclear weapon, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the airborne alert, and the Single Integrated Operational Plan into America's deterrent posture as Air Research and Development Command commander and both the vice commander and commander-in-chief of SAC. Most importantly, Power led SAC through the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Even after retirement, Power as a New York Times bestselling author brought his message of deterrence through strength to the nation. Ziarnick points out how Power's impact may continue in the future. Power's peerless, but suppressed, vision of the Air Force and the nation in space is recounted in detail, placing Power firmly as a forgotten space visionary and role model for both the Air Force and the new Space Force. To Rule the Skies is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War and beyond.
Author : Melvin G. Deaile
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682472493
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Always at War written by Melvin G. Deaile and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always at War is the story of Strategic Air Command (SAC) during the early decades of the Cold War. More than a simple history, it describes how an organization dominated by experienced World War II airmen developed a unique culture that thrives to this day. Strategic Air Command was created because of the Air Force’s internal beliefs, but the organization evolved as it responded to the external environment created by the Cold War. In the aftermath of World War II and the creation of an independent air service, the Air Force formed SAC because of a belief in the military potential of strategic bombing centralized under one commander. As the Cold War intensified, so did SAC’s mission. In order to prepare SAC’s “warriors” to daily fight an enemy they did not see, as well as to handle the world’s most dangerous arsenal, the command, led by General Curtis LeMay, emphasized security, personal responsibility, and competition among the command. Its resources, political influence, and manning grew as did its “culture” until reaching its peak during the Cuban Missile Crisis. SAC became synonymous with the Cold War and its culture forever changed the Air Force as well as those who served.
Author : Mary Beth Reed
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Savannah River Site at Fifty written by Mary Beth Reed and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Final Historic Building Inventory and Evaluation Report, General Mitchell International Airport Air Reserve Station, Milwaukee, Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Homestead Air Force Base (AFB), Disposal and Reuse written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Griffiss Air Force Base (AFB), Disposal and Reuse of Airfield Property written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Chapters 1 through 9 written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donita M. Moorhus, Robert P. Grathwol
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160872761
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Bricks, Sand, and Marble: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947-1991 (Paperback) written by Donita M. Moorhus, Robert P. Grathwol and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Pub 45-2-1. U.S. Army in the Cold War. Traces the activities of American military engineers from the reconstruction that began in Greece after World War II through the construction of air bases in North Africa, the massive building program in Saudi Arabia, and support for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. The history provides a background of the present role and position of the United States in that vital region.
Author : United States. Department of the Air Force
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Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement: Chapters 1 through 9 written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert P. Grathwol
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Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bricks, Sand, and Marble written by Robert P. Grathwol and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: The work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in military construction in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East created the infrastructure that made the U.S. policies of deterrence and containment possible. This work included not only construction in support of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force in these areas but also work executed on behalf of Middle East allies paid for with funds they provided. This book traces the activities of American military engineers from the reconstruction that began in Greece after World War II through the construction of air bases in North Africa, the massive building program in Saudi Arabia, and support for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. The history provides a background of the present role and position of the United States in that vital region.
Author : Philip Shiman
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Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Forging the Sword written by Philip Shiman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DoD) Legacy Resource Management Program was established in 1991 to "determine how to better integrate the conservation of irreplaceable biological, cultural, and geophysical resources with the dynamic requirements of military missions." One of Legacy's nine task areas is the Cold War Project, which seeks to "inventory, protect, and conserve DoD's physical and literary property and relics" associated with the Cold War. In early 1993, Dr. Rebecca Hancock Cameron, the Cold War Project Manager, assisted by a team of DoD cultural resource managers, formulated a plan for identifying and documenting the military's Cold War era resources. They adopted a two-pronged approach. The first phase was to conduct a series of studies documenting some of the nation's most significant Cold War era sites. The second step had a much broader focus. Recognizing the need to provide cultural resource managers and historians with a national framework for future Cold War studies, the Cold War Project recommended con- ducting a series of theme and context studies that would examine the impact of prominent military weapon systems and missions on the American landscape.
Author : Department of Defense
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ISBN 13 : 9781521021187
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Cold War Infrastructure for Air Defense written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating survey and detailed history of air defense fighter and command mission properties addressing the history of flightline real property supporting these missions from 1947 to 1991, with an emphasis on buildings and structures of the 1947 to 1963 period. It is a companion volume to the book Cold War Infrastructure for Strategic Air Command (SAC): The Bomber Mission. During the more than half-century that unfolded between the closing months of World War II and winding down of the Cold War in 1989-1991, the U.S. War Department evolved into the Department of Defense as it is now understood, with its primary supporting arms of the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, and its reserve forces of the Army, Air Force, and Air National Guards. American military infrastructure is predominantly a phenomenon of the 1939-to-present period, thus precisely paralleling the modern movement in Western European and U.S. architecture and engineering. Chapter 1 - Cold War Events and the Operational Infrastructure of the Air Force * 1946-1950 * The Germans * The Major Commands and First Generation Infrastructure * ADC and ANG * SAC * The 1950s * Evolution of the Directorate of Civil Engineering * Achieving Standardized Design * Prefabricated Structures, the Steel Industry, and Mobilization * The Major Commands and Second Generation Infrastructure * ADC and TAC * SAC * After 1960 * Chapter 2 - Evolution of Key Property Types * First Generation Alert Hangars * The Overseas, Mobilization Hangar * The Gable-Roofed Anomaly * Primary Buildout: the Strobel & Salzman Hangar * The Butler Alert Hangar * First Generation Modified, and Second Generation, Alert Hangars * Modifications for the First Generation Hangars * Second Generation ADC Alert Hangar * TAC Hangars of the 1960s and 1970s * Support Structures for Alert * The Readiness Crew Dormitory and Squadron Operations * Flight Simulator * Readiness/Maintenance Hangars * Aircraft Shelters * Electronics and Calibration Structures * Hardened Aircraft Shelters for Overseas * Weapons Checkout and Storage * First Generation: Small Arms Storage * Second Generation: FFARs and GARs * Third Generation: The Nuclear-Tipped Genie * First Generation ADC Command and Control Structures * Second Generation ADC Command and Control: SAGE * Third Generation ADC Command and Control: BUIC and Post-BUIC * Chapter 3 - Character-Defining Features and National Register Integrity * First Generation Alert Hangar * First Generation (Modified) and Second Generation Alert Hangars * TAC Hangars * Support Structures for Alert * First Generation Command and Control * Second Generation Command and Control: SAGE * Third Generation Command and Control: BUIC and Post-BUIC * Chapter 4 - Real Property Management of Historic ADC and TAC Infrastructure * Barksdale Air Force Base * Beale Air Force Base * Cannon Air Force Base * Davis-Monthan Air Force Base * Dyess Air Force Base * Ellsworth Air Force Base * Holloman Air Force Base * Langley Air Force Base * Minot Air Force Base * Moody Air Force Base * Mountain Home Air Force Base * Nellis Air Force Base * Offutt Air Force Base * Seymour Johnson Air Force Base * Shaw Air Force Base * Whiteman Air Force Base * Chapter 5 - Recommendations * Current ACC Installations: Issues of Inventory * Fighter-Interceptor Alert Hangars * Support Structures * Command and Control * Current ACC Real Property: Issues of Documents and Drawings * Fighter-Interceptor Alert Hangars (1951-1959) * TAC Flightline Hangars (1961-1977) * Support Structures (1951-1962) * Air Force-Wide: Issues of Inventory and Recordation Across Real Property Types * Air Force-Wide: Issues of Documents and Drawings * Bibliography * General: U.S. Department of Defense and Related * Baseline Cold War Property Inventories: U.S. Air Force * Documents: U.S. Air Force * Drawings: U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author : Stephen B. Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation, 1945-1965 written by Stephen B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : General Giulio Douhet
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782898522
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160841644
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Lake Levels in the Great Lakes written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in military construction in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East created the infrastructure that made the U.S. policies of deterrence and containment possible. This work included not only construction in support of the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force in these areas but also work executed on behalf of Middle East allies paid for with funds they provided. This book traces the activities of American military engineers from the reconstruction that began in Greece after World War II through the construction of air bases in North Africa, the massive building program in Saudi Arabia, and support for the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. The history provides a background of the present role and position of the United States in that vital region.
Author : Risa Brooks
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804768092
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Creating Military Power written by Risa Brooks and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Military Power examines how societies, cultures, political structures, and the global environment affect countries' military organizations. Unlike most analyses of countries' military power, which focus on material and basic resources—such as the size of populations, technological and industrial base, and GNP—this volume takes a more expansive view. The study's overarching argument is that states' global environments and the particularities of their cultures, social structures, and political institutions often affect how they organize and prepare for war, and ultimately impact their effectiveness in battle. The creation of military power is only partially dependent on states' basic material and human assets. Wealth, technology, and human capital certainly matter for a country's ability to create military power, but equally important are the ways a state uses those resources, and this often depends on the political and social environment in which military activity takes place.
