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 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 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 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:

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 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 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 Ground Forces and the Conventional Balance in Europe written by Frances M. Lussier and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 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 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 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 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 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 NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020 written by Frans Osinga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies. The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of paramount concern to scholars, strategists and policymakers. Ours is a period of considerable strategic turbulence, which in recent years has featured a renewed emphasis on nuclear weapons used in defence postures across different theatres; a dramatic growth in the scale of military cyber capabilities and the frequency with which these are used; and rapid technological progress including the proliferation of long-range strike and unmanned systems. These military-strategic developments occur in a polarized international system, where cooperation between leading powers on arms control regimes is breaking down, states widely make use of hybrid conflict strategies, and the number of internationalized intrastate proxy conflicts has quintupled over the past two decades. Contemporary conflict actors exploit a wider gamut of coercive instruments, which they apply across a wider range of domains. The prevalence of multi-domain coercion across but also beyond traditional dimensions of armed conflict raises an important question: what does effective deterrence look like in the 21st century? Answering that question requires a re-appraisal of key theoretical concepts and dominant strategies of Western and non-Western actors in order to assess how they hold up in today’s world. Air Commodore Professor Dr. Frans Osinga is the Chair of the War Studies Department of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Special Chair in War Studies at the University Leiden. Dr. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.

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Download or read book A Concise History of the U S Air Force written by Stephen Lee McFarland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1997 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.

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