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Author : David M. Cohen
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Download or read book Vital Link: The Tanker's Role in Winning America's Wars written by David M. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Cohen
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Download or read book The Vital Link written by David M. Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the unique and vital capabilities of the US Air Force's KC-135 tanker fleet. It analyzes historic and current tanker usage, tanker operational employment, and the capability of today's tanker fleet, with emphasis on force structure and force management. In light of decreasing budgets, aging airframes, increase downtime for maintenance, and an explosion in the operations tempo, this paper proposes a four-pronged methodology addressing tanker vision, organization, training and employment, as the correction needed to get the KC-135 weapon system back on centerline. This will allow the tanker to effectively aid the Air Force in successfully deterring conflict and, if needed, quickly win the nation's future wars.
Author : Major Usaf David M Cohen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781479387564
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book The Vital Link: the Tanker's Role in Winning America's Wars written by Major Usaf David M Cohen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the unique and vital capabilities of the US Air Force's KC-135 tanker fleet. Specifically, historic and current tanker usage, tanker operational employment, and the capability of today's tanker fleet are analyzed, with emphasis on force structure and force management. Given that the KC-135 is the USAF's primary air refueling asset and that no planned replacements are due on the flightline for some time, how can the current KC-135 method of employment and force structure support future DOD and coalition operations? Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the KC-135 has undergone numerous configuration as well as mission changes. One constant throughout has been the reliance of the nation's airpower on this critical asset, whether it was sitting alert during the cold war, or providing mission essential fuel for F-117s en route to Baghdad during the Gulf War. The success of combat operations in Operation Allied Force was made possible due to the rapid, massive, and professional employment of the KC-135 in the theater of operations. This success, however, can be attributed more to the actions of the tanker community than to any planned, deliberate inclusion of air refueling assets into the operations plan. In light of decreasing budgets, aging airframes, increased downtime for maintenance, and an explosion in the operations tempo, this paper proposes a four-pronged methodology addressing taker vision, organization training and employment, as the correction needed to get the KC-135 weapon system back on centerline. This will allow the tanker to effectively aid the Air Force in successfully deterring conflict and if needed, quickly win the nation's future wars.
Author : David M. Cohen,, David MCohen , USAF
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ISBN 13 : 9781463767365
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book The Vital Link written by David M. Cohen,, David MCohen , USAF and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1991, the Air Force was running short of cockpits for their pilots. As a result, about one-half of my pilot training classmates were "banked," that is, they were given nonflying jobs for about three years until cockpits opened up. At the assignment pick for undergraduate pilot training (UPT) Class 92 03, I was faced with the choice of a T-37 to Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, a KC-135A to K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan, or a KC-135R to Loring Air Force Base, Maine. I took the R-model to Loring, and without sounding too dramatic, it changed my life forever. With the exception of Antarctica, the tanker has taken me to every continent on the planet. I flew the first KC-135 airlift mission supporting the Somalia relief effort, and earned com - bat time over Iraq. I greased a landing in Rio de Janeiro with 15 general officers on board, and delivered six new F-16s to the Republic of Singapore. In short, I've done an unbelievable number of things in the "Mighty Stratotanker," and wouldn't trade them for the world (with the exception of the five sum - mer tours in Southwest Asia). I'm told you can't love inanimate objects, and I suppose feelings of affection for an entire weapon system would be ridiculous as well. That said, I have a great deal of respect for the KC-135, its history, and those crews, planners, maintain - ers, and support personnel who have kept a 40+ year-old airplane flying and supporting vital national objectives. I also give my thanks to those tanker crews and maintainers who have given the ultimate sacrifice, most recently, in the woods outside Geilenkirchen, Germany, nearly two years ago. My goal in writing this paper was to get the message out that tankers are important. We're usually a footnote in any war story or statistic, but try fighting without us. It just won't happen. A number of people have helped me with this work by pro - viding background, data, interviews, guidance, and general encouragement. Thanks go to my research advisor, Lt Col Ladonna Idell, who helped me focus and cut through the red tape.
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Author : Mark Clodfelter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264540
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Download or read book The Limits of Air Power written by Mark Clodfelter and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be thwarted in the context of a limited guerrilla struggle in Vietnam. Although a faith in bombing's sheer destructive power led air commanders to believe that extensive air assaults could win the war at any time, the Vietnam experience instead showed how even intense aerial attacks may not achieve military or political objectives in a limited war. Based on findings from previously classified documents in presidential libraries and air force archives as well as on interviews with civilian and military decision makers, The Limits of Air Power argues that reliance on air campaigns as a primary instrument of warfare could not have produced lasting victory in Vietnam. This Bison Books edition includes a new chapter that provides a framework for evaluating air power effectiveness in future conflicts.
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Author : Robert C. Stern
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473820200
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book The US Navy and the War in Europe written by Robert C. Stern and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Big Gun Battles “shows how the US Navy was slowly but surely drawn into WW2 in the Atlantic theatre of operations . . . well researched” (Warships Magazine). Although the defeat of Japan was the US Navy’s greatest contribution to the Second World War, it also played a significant role in the battle against Hitler. Even before Germany declared war in 1941, US naval vessels were actively engaged in Atlantic convoy battles, and suffered their first casualties long before the Pearl Harbor attack formally pitched America into the conflict. Thereafter the US Navy immediately sent reinforcements to the over-stretched Royal Navy, taking part in attacks on German-occupied Norway, flying aircraft to Malta and Egypt from its carriers and adding protection to the convoys to Russia. Its involvement in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic was also substantial, and the invasions of North Africa and Europe from 1942 onwards would have been unthinkable without the massive US forces. As late as 1945 the crossing of the Rhine by the Allied armies was heavily dependent on US Navy assets and expertise. It is not surprising that the Pacific campaign should have received so much attention from naval historians, but as a result the European effort has been undervalued and largely side-lined. This book is intended to redress the balance—not just to chronicle the many little-known US operations in the Atlantic, Arctic and Mediterranean, but to reach a more rounded judgment of the US Navy’s contribution to victory in Europe.
