Download or read book Report to the Congress Combat Readiness of the Strategic Air Command written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Combat Readiness of the Strategic Air Command written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report to Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 21 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 Alert Operations and the Strategic Air Command 1957 1991 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the SAC, which "entered the battle" in March 1956 and had relied on the alert force as its primary tactic since October 1957. SAC has accomplished its mission and is retired. The weapon systems it operated were transferred to several new Air Force commands. Black and white photos.
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 Strategic Air Command written by Rita F. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 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 Retrenchment written by Robert G. Swiech and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "General Russell E. Dougherty was a transformational Air Force leader during a key period of the Cold War. Inspired to serve his nation when Pearl Harbor was attacked, he led a military career defined largely by intellectual acumen. During his 35-year Air Force career, his gentlemanly manners and engaging disposition allowed him to be regarded as a 'new' kind of military leader. By the time he became Commander-In-Chief of Strategic Air Command, the preeminent nuclear deterrent force during the Cold War, he had validated the theory that one did not have to 'breathe fire' to motivate others. Dougherty was not without faults though. He missed the atrophy within Air Force tactical capabilities during operations in Korea, and failed to acknowledge the prerogative of civilian authority during operations in Vietnam. Retiring in 1977, Dougherty spent the next thirty years of his life devoted to the study of military readiness and national security affairs. He mentored an entire generation of Air Force general officers and became regarded as one of the most prolific writers and speakers of strategic thought of his generation. This study serves two purposes. One, is to provide a biographical overview of an Air Force leader on whom little scholarly attention has yet been devoted. Two, is to study the foreign policy of détente during the Nixon administration and assess its impact on U. S. nuclear readiness as represented by the Strategic Air Command arsenal. Surprisingly, détente had little if any bearing on the nation's nuclear operational posture. This thesis suggests that the Air Force should look back to the leadership example provided by General Dougherty as officers are selected for flag rank in an era of diminishing general officer billets. It also recommends the enduring legacy of perpetual readiness of the Strategic Air Command be studied as the utility of a nuclear weapons inventory continues to be defined in a post-Cold War age."--Abstract.
Download or read book Rethinking the Air Operations Center written by J. Taylor Sink and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Command Of The Air written by General Giulio Douhet and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.
Download or read book Combat Crew written by and published by . This book was released on 1957-07 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Readiness written by Richard K. Betts and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout most of American history, U.S. military forces proved unready for the wars that were thrust upon them and suffered costly reverses in early battles. During the Cold War, for the first time, U.S. defense policy tried to maintain high readiness in peacetime. But now, with the Cold War over and defense budgets falling, what will happen to U.S. military forces? Will they revert to a state of unpreparedness or find a new balance? Politicians and military planners alike have found this crucial issue especially difficult to deal with because they have often misunderstood what readiness really means. In this book, security expert Richard Betts surveys problems in developing and measuring combat readiness before, during, and after the Cold War. He analyzes why attempts to maximize it often have counterproductive effects, and how confusions in technical concepts cause political controversy. The book explores conflicts between two objectives that are both vital but work against each other because they compete for resources: operational readiness to fight immediately, and structural readiness—the number of organized units that increase military power, but require time during a crisis to gear up for combat. Betts also discusses the problem brought on by the Cold War and plunging defense budgets: mobilization readiness—the plans and arrangements needed to shorten the time for recreating a large military if it once again becomes necessary. Betts offers new ideas for understanding the dilemmas and tradeoffs that underlie debates on how readiness should be maintained in peacetime, and he explores the strategic consequences of different choices.
Download or read book Strategic Air Command written by Lindsay T. Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beskriver det amerikanske flyvevåbens Strategic Air Command (SAC) herunder flytyper, missiler, organisation, opgaver med mere.
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flying hour Programs of the Military Services written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
