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Author : Walton S. Moody
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Building a Strategic Air Force written by Walton S. Moody and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walton S. Moody
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ISBN 13 : 9781610011082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Building a Strategic Air Force written by Walton S. Moody and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the 50s to the 80s, the Strategic Air Command was the keystone of the American nuclear deterrent and its primary arm for waging nuclear war. This is the official US Air Force history of the SAC, covering the years from the end of World War Two to the mid-1950s when the Cold War reached its peak, and SAC grew from a tiny force with just a few nuclear weapons into the most powerful military organization in the world."--
Author : Walton Moody
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478125570
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Building a Strategic Air Force written by Walton Moody and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the early years of the United States Air Force's effort to build and maintain a strategic striking force, for 1945 through 1953. It discusses the period of reorganization in national defense in the years after the end of the Second World War, as Army Defense Forces dealt with the questions of structure, doctrine, strategy, atomic weapons, and technology. Crucial decisions were made at the end of 1947 and that beginning of 1948, but fiscal austerity limited the new United States Air Force in implementing those decisions. The war in Korea triggered and expansion of the armed forces that culminated in a new look of the Eisenhower administration and emphasized nuclear air power as the foundation of a national strategy of containment and deterrence.
Author : Richard H. Kohn
Publisher : Air Force History & Museums Program
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Strategic Air Warfare written by Richard H. Kohn and published by Air Force History & Museums Program. This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of the American air forces to wage war independently and to carry the battle to the enemy's heartland has played a critical role in American air doctrine and military strategy since the 1930s. Generals LeMay, Johnson, Burchinal, and Catton explain their roles in flying and commanding bombing missions and campaigns during World War II, in creating the atomic force in the immediate postwar years, and in building the Strategic Air Command in the 1950s. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War are also discussed.
Author : Office of Air Force History
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507787809
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Building a Strategic Air Force written by Office of Air Force History and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1946 to 1991 the Strategic Air Command (SAC) operated the intercontinental and nuclear strike forces of the United States Air Force. During much of this period SAC was the premier operational command of the service. The rising tensions of the Cold War with Soviet-directed world communism gave the command a crucial role as the main force deterring potential aggression against the United States and its allies. Even after the emergence of airborne strategic nuclear forces in the late 1950s, SAC's status as an Air Force major command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff specified command gave it the pivotal role in national strategy. This volume deals with the early years of the Air Force's effort to build and maintain a strategic striking force, from 1945 through 1953. It discusses the period of reorganization in national defense in the years after the end of the Second World War, as the Army Air Forces dealt with questions of structure, doctrine, strategy, atomic weapons, and technology. Crucial decisions were made at the end of 1947 and the beginning of 1948, but fiscal austerity limited the new United States Air Force in implementing those decisions. Despite this, General Curtis E. LeMay, the SAC Commander, found means and developed methods to ensure a high state of combat readiness. The war in Korea triggered an expansion of the armed forces-including SAC-that culminated in the "New Look" of the Eisenhower administration. The New Look emphasized nuclear air power as the foundation of a national strategy of containment and deterrence. Walton S. Moody's analytical work discusses the challenges facing Air Force leaders in this time of stringent budgets, interservice disputes, and technological change. In particular, it examines the role of that leadership in fostering the development of an effective war-ready yet peace-keeping organization. The issues it raises are still relevant today, in a time when the distinction between strategic and tactical air power is less clear-cut, and when the armed services of the United States are redefining roles for themselves in the Post-Cold War era.
Author : J. C. Hopkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Development of Strategic Air Command, 1946-1986 (the Fortieth Anniversary History) written by J. C. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walton S. Moody
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Building a Strategic Air Force written by Walton S. Moody and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rita F. Clark
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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Strategic Air Command written by Rita F. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Mazarr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780833098320
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Strategic Planning and the U.S. Air Force written by Michael J. Mazarr and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The U.S. Air Force has embarked on a new round of strategic planning, under the auspices of its 2015 Strategic Master Plan (SMP), to help set the future direction of the service. Refining the Air Force's strategic planning process may help the service align itself to its environment and keep key initiatives on track. To offer the Air Force actionable findings on strategic planning, we surveyed a number of major topics and literatures for common themes and findings. The basic concept and approach of the SMP has promise. Our review of history and theory supports the idea that a consistent, ongoing planning structure would offer important advantages to any military service. Yet we also found that the actual design and execution of the SMP could potentially obstruct, rather than facilitate, these objectives. The SMP retains many elements of an old-style strategic planning process — forecasting an identifiable future, building an exhaustive, pre-set plan, and identifying hundreds of specific tasks — which creates a focus on execution over creative and flexible responses."--Publisher's description.
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 : United States. Air Force ROTC.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Air Science: Principles of leadership and management written by United States. Air Force ROTC. and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan Burke
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626166242
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower written by Ryan Burke and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal textbook for classes on modern airpower and joint operations.
Author : Richard Kohn
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781477598795
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Strategic Air Warfare written by Richard Kohn and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Interview with Generals Curtis E. LeMay, Leon W. Johnson, David A. Burchinal, and Jack J. Catton. In June, 1984 some thirty-five of the retired four-star generals of the USAF gathered in Washington D.C. Form that group, several agreed to participate in a group oral interview on the history of strategic air warfare. Strategic Air Warfare is part of a continuing series of historical volumes produced by the Office of Air Force History in direct support of Project Warrior. Since its beginnings, Project Warrior has captured the imagination of Air Force people around the world and reawakened a keener appreciation of its fundamental purpose as a service - to deter war, but to be prepared to fight and wind should deterrence fail.
Author : J. C. Hopkins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Development of Strategic Air Command, 1946-1976 written by J. C. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob Neufeld
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Development of Ballistic Missiles in the United States Air Force, 1945-1960 written by Jacob Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following World War II, the onset of nuclear weapons, long-range jet bombers, and ballistic missiles radically changed American foreign policy and military strategy. The United States Air Force, led by men of far-sighted vision and uncommon dedication, accepted the challenge of organizing and leading a massive research and development effort to build ballistic missiles. In the quarter of the century since, these weapons have constituted one of the tree legs of the strategic triad, the basis of AmericaÆs strategy of deterring nuclear war, yet they have received less attention from the public and within the Air Force than the more glamorous manned bombers of the Strategic Air Command or the missile-launching submarines of the U.S. Navy. This volume attempts to correct the imbalance by telling the story of development of Air Force ballistic Missiles. It concentrates on the first generation of ballistic missiles: the intercontinental Atlas and Titan, and the intermediate range Thor. Although the effort to develop rockets has a longer history than commonly assumed, the modern history spans the relatively short era from 1945 to 1960. During this brief interval, missiles advanced from drawing board to alert status, where the next generation now remains poised to deter war
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160869303
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Air Force roles and missions: A History written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of three-dimensionality in war: surface forces flow became prey for attackers operating above and below the earth and its oceans. The aerial weapon, prophesied for centuries, became a reality, as did air power projection forces. This insightful book by Warren A. Trest traces the doctrinal underpinnings of the modern United States Air Force, the world's only global air force. We the men and women who serve in the Air Force, but also our fellow airmen in America's other military services are the heirs and beneficiaries of a long heritage of doctrinal development and military thought. Our predecessors pursued a vision of airborne global reach and power that often put them at odds with those who could not break free of the confines of conventional thought and lock-step traditionalism. Fortunately, they had the courage of their convictions and the faith in their vision to continue to pursue the goal of global air power despite such resistance. Today, America is a genuine aerospace power, and that pioneering vision dating to the days of the Wright brothers, has expanded to encompass operations in space and between the mediums of air and space. As we approach the new millennium, it is well to ponder the lessons and the history of how a small group of truly gifted airmen transformed their nation's military establishment, and, in so doing, the world around them.
Author : Melvin G. Deaile
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682472493
Total Pages : 328 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 328 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.
