Download or read book Interservice Rivalry and Airpower in the Vietnam War written by Ian Horwood and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rivalry between the armed services of the U.S. relating to the employment of tactical airpower during the Vietnam War. Not being an American, Horwood is able to put a fresh perspective on this complex issue. This study focuses on tactical airpower in S. Vietnam between 1961 and 1968. Horwood avoids a lengthy discussion of the air war over N. Vietnam, focusing instead on the combat operations in the South. He examines a number of issues which are relevant to the use of airpower in irregular warfare: command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters, and different service understandings of the proper role of airpower in a counterinsurgency.
Download or read book Interservice Rivalry written by Stephen L. McFarland and published by . This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: The air force in the cold war, 1945-60: birth of a new defense paradigm; the US military in transition to jointness; surmounting old notions of interservice rivalry; service rivalry overshadowed.
Download or read book Interservice Rivalry and the Policy of Massive Retaliation written by Robert William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interservice Rivalry and Airpower in the Vietnam War written by Ian Horwood and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on tactical airpower in south Vietnam between 1961-1968. Some of the issues examined are command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters, and different service understandings of the proper role of airpower in a counterinsurgency.
Download or read book Interservice Rivalry in the Pacific written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was over fifty years ago that General Douglas MacArthur, on orders from President Franklin Roosevelt to save himself from certain Japanese capture, escaped from Corregidor for Australia. MacArthur's escape and newfound presence in the South Pacific triggered a chain of events that led to one of the more interesting and controversial decisions of the Pacific War: why did the United States adopt a divided command and attack strategy against Japan? Unfortunately, the record shows that the division of Army and Navy forces in the Pacific was more a solution to satisfy interservice rivalries and personal egos than an example of sound military practice. But the war is long over and the United States won. Why is this historical episode of any importance today? Because joint warfighting is the way of the future.
Download or read book The Battle for Britain written by Anthony J Cumming and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940. Anthony Cumming challenges the view that the Battle of Britain was a decisive victory won solely by the Royal Air Force through independent airpower operations. By re-evaluating the early stage of the Mediterranean conflict and giving special emphasis to naval battles such as Calabria and Taranto, Cumming argues that the Royal Navy played an equally important role in defeating Hitler’s early advances, buying critical time until the Americans could make a decisive contribution. His argument holds that the RAF’s role as an independent arm has been exaggerated and that contemporary strategists can learn from investing too much confidence in independent airpower.
Download or read book Essays on Interservice Rivalry and American Civil Military Relations written by Jessica Deighan Blankshain and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does interservice rivalry affect American civil-military relations? In three essays, I develop theoretical propositions about the relationship between interservice rivalry and civil-military outcomes; propose a two-stage model of civil-military interaction surrounding use of force decisions; and investigate the correlates of interservice rivalry with a focus on budget pressure.
Download or read book Punching Below Our Weight written by Frank Ledwidge and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 5,000-word e-book, the author of the bestselling Losing Small Wars looks at the problem of rivalry between the top ranks of the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. He argues that senior generals, admirals and air marshals have focused more on empire-building within their own services rather than on the needs of the UK armed forces as a whole, with enormously damaging results. In particular, the UK involvement in Libya was hampered by a total lack of aircraft carriers - sacrificed to preserve the Typhoon, a fighter jet designed for Cold War combat that never happened. Written with Ledwidge's trademark insight and panache, this is an incisive condemnation of the British armed forces at the very top, and ending with some pertinent suggestions for how the UK could reorient its military priorities.
Download or read book Abdicating Close Air Support written by Steven G. Olive and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the start of the Global War on Terror, the United States' military has gained combat experience that is broader than anything seen since World War II. Yet even as the military services take the lessons from this "long war" and convert them into future capabilities, there is a danger that long-standing service cultures and animosities may degrade the outstanding working relationships built through the common bond of combat. This paper will look at one of those issues, Close Air Support (CAS). While close air support represents a long-standing struggle between the services, it must be looked at as symptom of the larger ill of unhealthy inter-service rivalry. This essay will trace the evolution of CAS, beginning with the early years of aviation, the maturation of the debate through World War II, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and moving through the first Gulf War and the events after September 11, 2001. These historical cases illuminate the reasons this disagreement arose and became a major point of conflict between the Army and Air Force. Finally, this paper will look at the present situation, assess future trends that should force mutual understanding between the services and create a more effective joint team.
Download or read book Fighting to Get Along Doctrine and Interservice Rivalry written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our theories on interservice rivalry are wrong. Why, in the midst of one of the largest draw downs in military history are the services working so closely? Has the bureaucratic process suddenly changed? Or were we just looking at the wrong factors? Most organizational theorists view interservice interaction from the perspective of the Washington, DC bureaucratic and political arena. Their bureaucratic and political outlook has all but filtered out the fundamental service interaction process from view. Removed from the battlefield and operational environment, these theorists have thus missed the root factors that actually govern how the services interact. War fighting doctrine and the proper distribution of combat power on the battlefield are the two root factors that operational military commanders are concerned about. The proper application of these factors assures physical survival for the country and the minimum loss of life to allied forces. The focus of this study is the examination of the two primary variables that shape service interaction. Operational war fighting doctrine is the first and primary factor. The secondary factor is the desired equitable or efficient distribution of combat power in a theater of operation. This study shows how these two variables combine to define four categories of service interaction. These categories are cooperative, competitive, adversarial and toleration. Air support of combat troops is examined during the Korean, Vietnamese, and Gulf Wars. Interaction categories are established for these wars based on the governing service doctrine and perceived adequacy of support or distribution of combat power. A predictive tool to gauge how services will interact is thus made available through the study of these interaction categories.
Download or read book Purple Virtues Curing Unhealthy Interservice Rivalry written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unhealthy interservice rivalry due to poor ethical conduct on the part of individuals and the general military bureaucratic system has long been, and continues to be, problematic for harmonious joint military activity. This paper argues a common code of military virtues would help promote healthy interservice competition and retard unhealthy rivalry by improving the ethical focus of jointness. The study begins with analysis of interservice rivalry, assessing causes and situational variables. Rivalry is traditional and exists due to competing paradigms based on functional differences and competition for resources. It is personal, and it is institutional. Interservice competition itself is not a bad thing for it can produce initiative, efficiency, and esprit de corps. If manifested in lying or other breaches of integrity, however, interservice rivalry becomes unhealthy to working relations between the military services. This was the situation in the historical case study of the Revolt of the Admirals in 1949. After showing unhealthy interservice rivalry at work in this case, this study analyzes ethics, integrity, values, and virtues to argue virtues are fundamental to healthy jointness. Presently the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines have different core values to help members focus on professional performance. Yet, all members of the same profession of arms, regardless of service component, should have a common virtuous bond which different core values may not effectively promote. A better system would be to use the West Point motto, Duty, Honor, Country, or a DoD code of virtues, since virtues correspond more appropriately than values to morality and ethics. Suggested in the paper is a code of cardinal virtues, based on the four ancient cardinal virtues prudence (or wisdom), fortitude (courage), temperance (selflessness), and justice (truthfulness).
Download or read book Making Waves written by J. Schencking and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent,' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus—if not the overriding preoccupation—of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. This study convincingly demonstrates that as the Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders expanded their political activities to secure appropriations commensurate with the creation of a world-class blue-water fleet. The navy's sophisticated political efforts included lobbying oligarchs, coercing cabinet ministers, forging alliances with political parties, occupying overseas territories, conducting well-orchestrated naval pageants, and launching spirited propaganda campaigns. These efforts succeeded: by 1921 naval expenditures equaled nearly 32 percent of the country's total budget, making Japan the world's third-largest maritime power. The navy, as this book details, made waves at sea and on shore, and in doing so significantly altered the state, society, politics, and empire in prewar Japan.
Download or read book Interservice Rivalry Mission Consolidation and Issues of Readiness in the DoD written by Christopher C. Kirkham and published by . This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of interservice rivalry and the roles and missions debate, the trend towards jointness and mission consolidation within the Department of Defense, and their effects on issues of logistics, funding and readiness. A case study of recently established EA-6B prowler Joint-Service Expeditionary Squadrons organized to replace the Air Force EF-111A Raven highlights the implications of mission competition and consolidation in the post-Cold War era and serves as the focal point for analysis in the areas of logistics, funding and readiness. This study begins with a review of interservice rivalry, jointness and mission consolidation providing both historical and current examples. The case study of the Joint Service Expeditionary Squadrons covers initial planning and organization through recent developments and progress toward Navy assumption of the electronic warfare mission for the Department of Defense. Finally, an analysis of logistics, funding and readiness based on the case study is presented. The thesis concludes with a summary of findings, proposed areas for continued research and concluding remarks.
Download or read book Military Incompetence written by Richard A. Gabriel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1986-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1970, American forces have been committed in five operations ... and in each case they have failed.
Download or read book Bureaucracies that Know how to Fight written by Raymond W. Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study is a historical treatment of the frequently stormy relations between leaders of America's armed forces during the Second World War. It examines the role that inter-service rivalry played in the Japanese attack on Pear Harbor, the creation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the response to the U-boat menace, and the problems in establishing a single commander in the Pacific theater"--P. 1.
Download or read book The Evolution of US Army Tactical Doctrine 1946 76 written by Robert A. Doughty and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the formulation of doctrine since World War II. In no comparable period in history have the dimensions of the battlefield been so altered by rapid technological changes. The need for the tactical doctrines of the Army to remain correspondingly abreast of these changes is thus more pressing than ever before. Future conflicts are not likely to develop in the leisurely fashions of the past where tactical doctrines could be refined on the battlefield itself. It is, therefore, imperative that we apprehend future problems with as much accuracy as possible. One means of doing so is to pay particular attention to the business of how the Army's doctrine has developed historically, with a view to improving methods of future development.
Download or read book Movement and Maneuver written by S. Rebecca Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense"--Title page.
