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.... . . . . 17 3 CONCEPTS, DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES . . . .19 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4 SOME SEMINAL THINKERS ON TECHNOLOGY AND DOCTRINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 5 WEAPONS AND DOCTRINE: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Notes . . . . ....

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises t...

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...ernment protect the right of every citizen to have access to knowledge without regard to an individual’s ability to pay.? -- Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- About Michael Hart -- Bibliography -- Index --...

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...de nor indoctrinate but rather to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of ... ...out regard to an individual’s ability to pay.‖ Time Line of Information Technology Revolutions Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author A... ...s the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written wor... ...rid odors from their melting pots of metal. As the current Information Technology revolution got underway, those experiences set me looking into ... ...e. My most surprising discovery was that the wedding of information and technology took place when our Homo sapiens ancestors first made their app... ...ces on this planet for thousands of years. In fact, the term ―information technology‖ remained unused until almost the end of the twentieth century. ... ...onary still treated them as singles, defining information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science imme... ...mediately before information theory. There‘s no definition of information technology between them.) In its 2011 online dictionary, however, Merria... ... its 2011 online dictionary, however, Merriam-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and u...

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...ect our ground forces during small wars need not involve the most advanced aircraft available. This “low-tech” approach does not suggest using lesser technology per se but proposes a different look for the types of aircraft that can perform a specific mission and for their manner of employment—that of protecting ground forces while combating the elusive insurgent. These sa...

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...area of stability, identified as numerical attrition, is consistent with the traditional notion that kill ratio is largely a function of training and technology. It is also consistent with most of the historical record, including the early campaigns of World War II, that suggested that nominal changes in the relative mass of forces brought about little change in the kill r...

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...s and electronic countermeasures support for its strikers? Why had they given the electronic combat (EC) mission almost entirely to the Navy? Was the technology of stealth really the driving force, or was there more? They needed money and technology to make them work. In short, I found the four elements of the model I propose in this paper....

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...1 COMPLEXITY AND TECHNOLOGY IN WAR . . .1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 ENDGAME AGAINST JAPAN: THE STRATEGIC PROBLEM . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3 DOCTRINAL AND TEC...

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................. 9 The Nuclear Imperative............................. 15 Notes.................................................. 21 3 THE EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGY.................. 25 Real Smarts in Small Packages .................26 Near Nukes and Real Nukes .......................32 Space: Star Wars in Context .....................40 Notes.................................

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...aft in ways that truly enhance force application and mobility operations without unduly undermining one in favor of the other? The answer, because of technology enhancements and budget constraints, is definitely yes. The second question targets technology, specifically, by asking whether engineers could place some elements of both missions on a single aircraft? Again, the ...

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...o achieve success Strategic Paralysis requires four key ingredients: 1) Correctly identifying the enemy’s National Elements of Value (NEVs), 2) High technology, 3) An enemy dependent upon a well developed, modern and vulnerable infrastructure, and 4) Aerospace Control. The bulk of this study is devoted to defining this strategy and bettering our understanding of the first...

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...reasons why the weather operations portion of information-in-warfare has not caught up with current USAF doctrine.Significant advances in information technology and advent of effects-based operations are propelling the USAF weather community away from traditional, single-inject stand-up briefings towards continuously updated advice to war fighters at every step of campaign...

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...g statistical and effects-based evaluation techniques, using Air Force Special Operations forces to evaluate target system degradation, and acquiring technology that can conduct “top-down” assessment of the enemy’s war-making systems....

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...be met in the airpower environment provided the weak force has sufficient ingenuity and the necessary resources. An investigation of recent trends in technology and the prevailing strategic environment indicates that it increasingly possible for a weak force to obtain these resources. The author assesses that air guerrilla warfare is a viable warfighting strategy, but poin...