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:
Download or read book Strategic Air Command written by United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book The Development of Strategic Air Command written by United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Development of Strategic Air Command 1946 1981 written by J. C. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Progressive Development of Strategic Air Command 1946 1957 written by United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Strategic Air Command 1946 1981 written by J. C. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winning Armageddon written by Trevor Albertson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning Armageddon provides definition to an all-too-long misunderstood figure of the Cold War, General Curtis E. LeMay, and tells the story of his advocacy for preemptive nuclear strikes while leading the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In telling this story, Trevor Albertson builds for the reader a world that, while not in the distant past, has been forgotten by many; the lessons of that past, however, are as applicable today as they were 65 years ago. This work brings to life the challenges, fears, and responses of a Cold War United States that grappled with a problem that did not have a clear solution: nuclear war. LeMay argued for striking first in a potential nuclear conflict--but only if and when it was clear that the enemy was preparing to launch their own surprise attack. This approach, commonly referred to as preemption, was designed to catch an attacker off-guard and prevent the destruction of one's own nation. LeMay hoped that rather than plunging the world into a fruitless nuclear exchange he could diffuse the conflict at its outset.
Download or read book The Progressive Development of the Strategic Air Command 1946 1965 written by United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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.
Download or read book Strategic Air Command written by Norman Polmar and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronology compiled by the Office of the Historian of the Strategic Air Command under the direction of John T. Bohn.
Download or read book Capability and the Development of Strategic Air Command 1946 1950 written by Harry R. Borowski and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Strategic Air Command written by United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Command written by Edward G. Longacre and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
