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Reinvigorating The Nuclear Enterprise
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Author :Headquarters United Headquarters United States Air Force Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781508470106 Total Pages :142 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (71 download)
Book Synopsis Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise by : Headquarters United Headquarters United States Air Force
Download or read book Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise written by Headquarters United Headquarters United States Air Force and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-14 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise is our highest priority. We've taken many actions over the past year based on the recommendations of several internal and external investigations, but more work remains. We have developed a strategic plan to revitalize the nuclear enterprise and reclaim the trust of our nation and confidence of our allies. We need the commitment of every Airman to this priority. This roadmap identifies a comprehensive set of actions the Air Force must and will take to overcome documented deficiencies and set the conditions for sustainable excellence across the Air Force nuclear enterprise.
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Download or read book Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commitment to Change Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise is our highest priority. We've taken many actions over the past year based on the recommendations of several internal and external investigations, but more work remains. We have developed a strategic plan to revitalize the nuclear enterprise and reclaim the trust of our nation and confidence of our allies. We need the commitment of every Airman to this priority. This roadmap identifies a comprehensive set of actions the Air Force must and will take to overcome documented deficiencies and set the conditions for sustainable excellence across the Air Force nuclear enterprise.
Book Synopsis Reinvigorating the Nuclear Enterprise by : Niki J. Kissiar
Download or read book Reinvigorating the Nuclear Enterprise written by Niki J. Kissiar and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifteen years ago, finding itself strapped for resources and desperately needing to draw down after the Cold War, the Air Force accepted risk by decreasing the number of MAJCOMs and reducing the number of career fields it maintained. As part of this initiative, they assigned ICBM forces to Air Force Space Command and merged the ICBM and Space operations career fields. What has occurred since the reorganization has diluted a career field once deep with nuclear experience. What remains is an environment where the Air Forces best and brightest nuclear officers transfer to space mission areas at the earliest opportunity because they understand that their skill set is not valued and they will not be competitive for promotion or command."--Abstract.
Book Synopsis Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise by : United States. Department of the Air Force
Download or read book Reinvigorating the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This roadmap identifies a comprehensive set of actions the Air Force must and will take to overcome documented deficiencies and set the conditions for sustainable excellence across the Air Force nuclear enterprise."--Exec. summ.
Book Synopsis Defending the Arsenal by : Adam B. Lowther
Download or read book Defending the Arsenal written by Adam B. Lowther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One important area of interest within military and policy circles focuses on an effort to revitalize the nuclear triad amidst a number of competing strategic interests. The difficulties arising from US engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading many scholars and policy makers to question whether a reinvigorated nuclear triad has any role in deterring modern adversaries. This volume takes an unashamed pro-nuclear modernization position and argues for designing and fielding new nuclear warheads and delivery systems (submarine, ICBM, and bomber) while also arguing against signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or agreeing to further reductions in the nuclear arsenal. It also argues that nuclear deterrence remains as relevant today, perhaps more, than it was during the Cold War. With so many authors advocating for "Global Zero" and highlighting perceived dangers from a nuclear arsenal, this work stands in stark contrast to the chorus of anti-arsenal works. Because of the work’s structure and effort to answer questions of current relevance, it should appeal to a broad audience including: service staffs, PME students, COCOM staffs, Pentagon personnel, Capitol Hill staffers, policy makers, academics, graduate students, and interested readers.
Book Synopsis Independent Assessment of the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise by : Paul Kaminski
Download or read book Independent Assessment of the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise written by Paul Kaminski and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of an independent assessment of progress towards the goal of reinvigorating the Air Force nuclear enterprise in support of the strategic nuclear deterrent mission. The Air Force leadership implemented extraordinary measures following two serious incidents in 2007 and 2008. These measures included policy, inspection, organization, and leadership changes. This report finds that these measures have been effective in their intended purpose of re-establishing the professionalism expected of personnel in the nuclear enterprise, although some are not sustainable or desirable for the long term. The report discusses and provides recommendations in the areas of logistics, organization and guidance, the inspection regime, operations, personnel and morale, and the personnel reliability program. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Book Synopsis Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons by : Herbert Lin
Download or read book Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons written by Herbert Lin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technology controlling United States nuclear weapons predates the Internet. Updating the technology for the digital era is necessary, but it comes with the risk that anything digital can be hacked. Moreover, using new systems for both nuclear and non-nuclear operations will lead to levels of nuclear risk hardly imagined before. This book is the first to confront these risks comprehensively. With Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, Herbert Lin provides a clear-eyed breakdown of the cyber risks to the U.S. nuclear enterprise. Featuring a series of scenarios that clarify the intersection of cyber and nuclear risk, this book guides readers through a little-understood element of the risk profile that government decision-makers should be anticipating. What might have happened if the Cuban Missile Crisis took place in the age of Twitter, with unvetted information swirling around? What if an adversary announced that malware had compromised nuclear systems, clouding the confidence of nuclear decision-makers? Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, the first book to consider cyber risks across the entire nuclear enterprise, concludes with crucial advice on how government can manage the tensions between new nuclear capabilities and increasing cyber risk. This is an invaluable handbook for those ready to confront the unique challenges of cyber nuclear risk.
Download or read book To Kill Nations written by Edward Kaplan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone from advanced undergraduates to experts in the field." ― Strategy Bridge In To Kill Nations, Edward Kaplan traces the evolution of American strategic airpower and preparation for nuclear war from this early air-atomic era to a later period (1950–1965) in which the Soviet Union's atomic capability, accelerated by thermonuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, made American strategic assets vulnerable and gradually undermined air-atomic strategy. Kaplan throws into question both the inevitability and preferability of the strategic doctrine of MAD. He looks at the process by which cultural, institutional, and strategic ideas about MAD took shape and makes insightful use of the comparison between generals who thought they could win a nuclear war and the cold institutional logic of the suicide pact that was MAD. Kaplan also offers a reappraisal of Eisenhower's nuclear strategy and diplomacy to make a case for the marginal viability of air-atomic military power even in an era of ballistic missiles.
Book Synopsis Status of the Air Force Nuclear Security Roadmap by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee
Download or read book Status of the Air Force Nuclear Security Roadmap written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Strategic Forces Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Status of the Nuclear Enterprise by : Morris W. Firebaugh
Download or read book The Status of the Nuclear Enterprise written by Morris W. Firebaugh and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Is the National Nuclear Enterprise Workforce Postured to Modernize the Triad? by : Laura Werber
Download or read book Is the National Nuclear Enterprise Workforce Postured to Modernize the Triad? written by Laura Werber and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Towards a Fail-Safe Air Force Culture by : U. S. Military
Download or read book Towards a Fail-Safe Air Force Culture written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inadvertent transportation of nuclear cruise missile warheads on a B-52 from Minot AFB and the shipping of non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile components to Taiwan are contemporary incidents that reveal shortcomings. Dr. Schlesinger's 2008 report to the Secretary of Defense documented atrophy in the Air Force's nuclear enterprise as a primary cause for these failures. The report highlighted "a serious erosion of focus, expertise, mission readiness, resources and discipline in the nuclear weapons enterprise within the Air Force." The Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley both resigned in the wake of these incidents, and on October 24th 2008 the new Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz issued their "Strategic Plan to Reinvigorate the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise." Notably, the strategic plan identified the establishment of a "zero-defect" culture as a primary attribute for a successful Air Force nuclear enterprise, stating "there is no tolerance of complacency or shortcuts as we rebuild a "zero-defect" culture." Each of these incidents represents a catastrophic institutional failure - failures which must be prevented. Ceding the impossibility of omnipresence, Col Goldfein correctly observes that choice of vision and cultural development are leadership's fundamental tools in building a successful organization. The cultural options available to espouse span a continuum from a ruthless Zero-Defects method to a gentler Tolerance-Based style. While a Zero-Defect approach can garner short-term success, the ensuing culture of fear and reprisal are not conducive to sustained excellence. Conversely, a tolerant approach may achieve short-term morale benefits, but the resulting lack of discipline arising out of a culture of ambivalence dampens long-term productivity. Ultimately, long-term high performance is possible through a Fail-Safe culture which paradoxically embraces failure in building a resilient enterprise. Modern research on High Reliability Organizations (HRO), coupled with contemporary leadership theory, provide a framework to expose the shortcomings of both the Zero-Defect and Tolerance-Based approaches, assess current culture and then define the cultural characteristics required to implement a mindful approach to ensuring the Air Force can achieve its mission by maximizing our ability to "fly, fight and win ... in air, space and cyberspace."
Download or read book Missileer written by George L. Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examines the Air Force ICBM operators, missileers, and their evolution from the 1950s to 2017. The Air Force has long struggled to embrace and share the story of the missileer and the ballistic missile mission. Rather than provide yet another study on nuclear strategy, proliferation, and deterrence, this paper serves to show how technology, organizational structures, and personnel and mission challenges have influenced missileers as a corps of nuclear professionals for 60 years. The story of missileers has been captured through the periodization of three epochs: The Rise of the ICBM Mission, 1959-1989; Post-Cold War ICBM Drawdown, 1989-2009; and, Reinvigorating the ICBM Mission, 2009-2017. The influences of technology, organizational structure, personnel and mission challenges, varied in relative influence in each of these periods. Chapter 4 provides analysis from the vantage point of how missileers were developed and promoted through the personnel system throughout the three epochs. The final chapter of this study provides several observations and implications drawn from an assessment of the influences on missileers and the ICBM mission. Missileer heritage has largely been lost from contemporary discourse following two-decades of neglect. The recent creation of Air Force Global Strike Command, its elevation to a four-star command, and establishing an independent 13N Air Force Specialty Code for the Nuclear and Missile Operations officer is demonstrative of contemporary refocusing on the nuclear enterprise. While these actions hold the promise of institutional course-correction, it cannot be assumed a panacea to prevent future service parochialism and functional tribalism that has undermined missileers and the ICBM mission in the past. Primacy must be given, not just to nuclear weapon systems, but also to those who operate them as their solemn stewards—the missileer"--Abstract.
Download or read book Assured Destruction written by David Bath and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in the United States and their equally swift demise after the Cuban Missile Crisis, revealing how these drastic changes negatively influenced both the Air Force and the missile community. David W. Bath contends that the struggle to create and control nuclear ballistic missiles threatened both the dominance of the United States during an intensifying Cold War and the strategic airpower mission of the newly created Air Force. The book details the strenuous efforts required to create and prepare a missile arsenal before the Cuban Missile Crisis, which occurred only five years after the first missile was declared operational. It uses the personal recollections of former missileers and the professional military education theses they wrote to highlight some of the concerns that have faced the missileers who operated and worked on these powerful weapons from 1957 to the present. The highlight of the book, however, is the personal stories of the missileers who served during the missile crisis, revealing the efforts that they went to in order to prepare these unique and untried weapons for what many thought might become the third world war.
Book Synopsis Thinking about Deterrence by : Air Univeristy Press
Download or read book Thinking about Deterrence written by Air Univeristy Press and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With many scholars and analysts questioning the relevance of deterrence as a valid strategic concept, this volume moves beyond Cold War nuclear deterrence to show the many ways in which deterrence is applicable to contemporary security. It examines the possibility of applying deterrence theory and practice to space, to cyberspace, and against non-state actors. It also examines the role of nuclear deterrence in the twenty-first century and reaches surprising conclusions.
Book Synopsis A Brighter Tomorrow by : Pete V. Domenici
Download or read book A Brighter Tomorrow written by Pete V. Domenici and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The senior Senator from New Mexico, Pete V. Domenici, has written a thoughtful assessment of the progress Americans have made in their efforts to bring the benefits of nuclear power to mankind. He outlines what went wrong and why, and in this noble quest, what we must now do to recover from and repudiate past blunders. Senator Domenici has been called Congress' chief apostle for nuclear power and in this book he shares his vision and passion for a renewed commitment, by this nation, and the rest of the world, to the dreams that nuclear energy can help us fulfill. It is also a book about what kind of world our grandchildren could inhabit if we fail in making and keeping such a commitment. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Book Synopsis Command Of The Air by : General Giulio Douhet
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.
