Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO Firepower Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. air and ground conventional firepower assets are procured mainly for the defense of NATO. Decisions concerning these weapons over the next five years will help shape the roles that U.S. forces play in NATO defenses. "Firepower," as used here, refers to the capability of conventional air and ground forces to deliver heavy ordnance and explosives against enemy forces near the forward edge of the battle area (the front). The primary function of U.S. conventional ground and tactical air forces in NATO is to defend West Germany. In this context, U.S. forces play three roles: * The equivalent of five U.S. divisions and their support, based in Europe, defend two of the nine sectors of the NATO Central Front in West Germany (see Figure 1 in Chapter III). * U.S. forces can assist the allies in defending other sectors of the front. As a practical matter, European based U.S. tactical aircraft can respond most rapidly to Pact attacks against allied ground forces. * U.S. forces based outside Western Europe can reinforce U.S. and allied forces in Europe. These reinforcements enable the alliance to respond to an attack too large to be stopped by the forces available in Europe and to sustain combat there until completion of a full NATO mobilization for war. How effective the United States would be in these roles depends critically on the capabilities of the NATO allies as well as on those of the Warsaw Pact. Significant differences in firepower may remain between the United States and two major allied forces in NATO's Central Region, West Germany and Great Britain. These differences could be important in the event of conflict. The purpose of this paper is to illuminate choices facing the Congress in the fiscal years 1979-1983 defense program by examining a range of U.S. firepower procurement decisions in light of available information on NATO's current firepower assets and planned allied force improvements.

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO written by G. Philip Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO written by Peggy L. Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO Mobility and Logistics Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defense budget that the Congress will be considering in fiscal year 1979 places a strong emphasis on improving U.S. conventional forces for NATO. U.S. decisions concerning air and ground conventional forces for NATO are, however, tied closely to, and must be assessed in terms of, the capabilities of our NATO allies. This paper outlines the increasing importance of mobility and logistics in NATO defense. It compares U.S. and allied capabilities in those areas and presents options regarding U.S. decisions on logistics and mobility. The paper is part of a CBO series on the U.S. military role in NATO. Other papers in this series are U.S. Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO: Overview (January 1978), Assessing the NATO/Warsaw Pact Military Balance (December 1977), and two forthcoming background papers, Air Defense Issues and Firepower Issues. This series was under taken at the request of the Senate Budget Committee. In accordance with CBO's mandate to provide objective analysis, the study offers no recommendations.

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO written by Sheila Kean Fifer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Congress makes decisions on targets for the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 1979, the appropriate size of the defense budget will be one of the most important issues. The principal role of a large part of the U.S. air and ground forces is to participate with U.S. allies in a defense of NATO Europe. Therefore, judgments about the requirements for that defense and the appropriate role of the United States in it will underlie Congressional budget decisions. The series of papers on U.S. forces for NATO of which this is a part is intended to lay out the current U.S. role in NATO's defense, to relate the U.S. role to the contributions of the various NATO allies, and to present a set of alternative defense programs corresponding to different conceptions of appropriate changes in the U.S. role. The other papers in this series deal at greater length with issues in the areas of firepower, air defense, and logistics. A companion piece, "Assessing the NATO/Warsaw Pact Military Balance," was published in December 1977. The series was undertaken at the request of the Senate Budget Committee.

Download or read book U S Air and Ground Conventional Forces for NATO Overview written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Congress makes decisions on targets for the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 1979, the appropriate size of the defense budget will be one of the most important issues. The principal role of a large part of the U.S. air and ground forces is to participate with U.S. allies in a defense of NATO Europe. Therefore, judgments about the requirements for that defense and the appropriate role of the United States in it will underlie Congressional budget decisions. The series of papers on U.S. forces for NATO of which this is a part is intended to lay out the current U.S. role in NATO's defense, to relate the U.S. role to the contributions of the various NATO allies, and to present a set of alternative defense programs corresponding to different conceptions of appropriate changes in the U.S. role. The other papers in this series deal at greater length with issues in the areas of firepower, air defense, and logistics. A companion piece, "Assessing the NATO/Warsaw Pact Military Balance," was published in December 1977. The series was undertaken at the request of the Senate Budget Committee.

Download or read book Conventional Forces for NATO written by Benjamin S. Lambeth and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper reviews the status of U.S. conventional forces committed to NATO. It highlights recent developments in the Soviet threat; examines the main trends in general purpose force deployment and combat capability; considers the intra-alliance political backdrop against which these trends must be evaluated; and indicates some of the key questions for future debate. The author suggests that unless NATO is content to retain a strategy that would assure either nuclear war or military defeat if deterrence fails, it will have to link its emerging conventional capabilities to an explicitly counteroffensive doctrine so as to raise the nuclear threshold to a more tolerable level without making a conventional war more likely in the process."--Rand abstracts.

Download or read book U S air and ground conventional forces for NATO written by Marshall Hoyler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment in air defense will cost about $22.5 billion over the next five years if current programs remain unchanged. Different mixes of ground-based and airborne air defenses explored in this paper could lead either to savings of $2.6 billion between fiscal years 1979 and 1983 or to added costs of $2.0 billion over the same five-year period, when compared to the costs of maintaining current policy. Savings would follow if improvements were restricted to enhancing the air defenses of U.S. forces, increased costs would result from an effort to enhance the allies' air defenses as welt. The primary justification for air defense forces, and for U.S. conventional ground and air forces in general, is the defense of NATO's Central Region (that is, West Germany) against a possible attack by the Warsaw Pact. Thus, improvements in these forces are made on the presumption that they will strengthen NATO's defenses against the Warsaw Pact. Regardless of the improvements that are made in U.S. forces, however, the overall strength of NATO's defenses will depend to a large extent upon the Western European allies. England, Belgium, Holland, and West Germany provide about three-fourths of NATO's ground and air forces in Central Europe. The ground units from these countries are stationed in, and responsible for defending, northern Germany-the area of the Central Region with the most favorable terrain for a Warsaw Pact attack. Yet, the allies defenses in northern Germany are weaker, in terms of logistical and firepower capabilities, than those of the U.S. and German sectors to the south. This endangers the defense of Western Europe, since a successful attack in the north could outflank U.S. and German forces in southern Germany and collapse NATO's defenses before major reinforcements could arrive.

Download or read book Synchronizing Airpower And Firepower In The Deep Battle written by Lt.-Col. R. Kent Lauchbaum and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning study on Synchronizing Airpower and Firepower in the Deep Battle, Lt.-Col. R. Kent Lauchbaum argues that current joint doctrine does not provide sufficient and acceptable guidance for synchronizing Air Force and Army deep operations. To improve such synchronization, Colonel Lauchbaum proposes five modifications to current joint doctrine.

Download or read book From Active Defense to AirLand Battle written by John L. Romjue and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Case Studies in the Development of Close Air Support written by Benjamin Franklin Cooling (III) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En gennemgang af udviklingen inden for taktisk flystøtte

Download or read book The Future of Air Power in the Aftermath of the Gulf War written by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the proceedings of a 1991 conference on "The United States Air Force: Aerospace Challenges and Missions in the 1990s," sponsored by the USAF and Tufts University. The 20 contributors comment on the pivotal role of airpower in the war with Iraq and address issues and choices facing the USAF, such as the factors that are reshaping strategies and missions, the future role and structure of airpower as an element of US power projection, and the aerospace industry's views on what the Air Force of the future will set as its acquisition priorities and strategies. The authors agree that aerospace forces will be an essential and formidable tool in US security policies into the next century. The contributors include academics, high-level military leaders, government officials, journalists, and top executives from aerospace and defense contractors.

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.