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... WORLD WAR II OFFICIAL MILITARY HISTORY PROJECTS . . . .1 The von Rohden Project (1945–47) . . . . . . . 4 The Naval Historical Team, Bremerhaven (1949–52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The US Army’s German Military History Program (1945–61) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 CHRONOLOGY OF THE KARLSRUHE PROJECT (1952–69) . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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...uir S. Fairchild Research Information Center Cataloging DataShaughnessy, Ryan No sense in dwelling on the past? : the fate of the US Air Force’s Germ... ...aughnessy. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-58566-206-7 1. Germany. Luftwaffe—History. 2. Military history. 3. United Sta... ...itary history. 3. United States. Air Force —History.4. United States—Military relations—Germany. 5. Germany—Military relations—UnitedStates. I. Title.... ... . . . . . . 4 The Naval Historical Team, Bremerhaven (1949–52) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The U... ... Page 3 THE “UNFORESEEN BY-PRODUCT”: TOWARDS A NEW WEST GERMAN–AMERICAN AIR FORCE RELATIONSHIP . . . . . .... ...racle,” and Historical Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 West German Rearmament . . . . . . . . . . . . 48... ...of the 1861–65 Civil War pro-vided a precedent, but that conflict produced no long-term in-stitutional support for the production of official military... ...nd exploit the knowl-edge of senior Kriegsmarine (war navy) officers in US custodyuntil 1949. As laid out in the pages that follow, the initial AAFeff... ...in improving rela-tions among American, West German, and British military andhistorical establishments and was awarded the Legion of Merit. ...

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...At its core this work is a database covering Anglo-American strategic bomber operations against Germany, Italy, and Axis associated or occupied Europe. As such it allows swift and easy listing of day-by-day bombing, bombing of strategic target systems by location and tonnage, bombing of specific countries, comparisons ...

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...imited. Air University Press 131 West Shumacher Avenue Maxwell AFB AL 36112-6615 ... ...orces Command, and US Forces Korea Command. He began his assignment in Korea in May 2001. Before that he served as a senior historian wi... ...ffice, Bolling Air Force Base, Wash- ington, DC. He received his BA in history from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, his M... ... the combined US-UK strategic combined bomber offensive against Germany and of US Army Air Forces (AAF) doctrine and opera- tions in... ...jointness” at all three services’ pro- fessional military education establishments. He also edited “The USAF Desert Shield/Storm Oral Hi... ...tabase covering Anglo- American strategic bomber operations against Germany, Italy, and Axis associated or occupied Europe. As such it a... ... air staff had assumed that the first German blow would fall in the west. If the aerial portion of that initial German offensive fell he... ...sive, February 1943 to February 1944 (G.225497/DEW/9/49), n.d. [ca. 1949], 164. 30. Ibid., 165. 31. Edward R. Zilbert, Albert... ..., 62,176,433.06 Swiss francs, including interest, in October 1949.8 The mission lost 12 bombers; its escort claimed five kills in...

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...on and growing sophistication of American strategic thinking during the tumultuous period from 1942 through 1948. The results of the planning shaped, in many ways, the East-West struggle for much of the second half of the twentieth century. Elliott Converse has performed a great and remarkable service by capturing the often confusing and chaotic essence of the base planni...

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...stribution unlimited. Air University Press 131 West Shumacher Avenue Maxwell AFB AL 36112–6615 ... ...atplanning are important parts of the story that have gone largelyunexplored. In many ways, the evolution of planning for overseas basesfrom 1942 thr... ...sophisticationand political maturation of American foreign and military policy.In spite of the dismal failure of the League of Nations, early plan-nin... ...omthe strain of the war. France was in tatters both physically andpolitically. Germany was prostrate in its own rubble and dividedbetween East and Wes... ...litically. Germany was prostrate in its own rubble and dividedbetween East and West. Moreover, to a great many victims ofGerman aggression, the though... ...osed to the traditional pat-tern of relationships within the nation’s military establishmentsince he added in his own hand, the otherwise superfluous ... ..., Arnold Papers;and H. H. Arnold, Global Mission (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949),294–95. 60. Biographical data on Harris, Mason, and Harding was ... ...he Philippines 3. size of the postwar Navy. . . 4. examination of industrial establishments. . . and 5. reserve educational policy at the Naval Aca... ...minutes of JPS218th meeting, 5 September 1945, and 219th meeting, 12 September 1949,both in sec. 1, file CCS 334 Joint Staff Planners (6-2-43), RG 218...

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.... . . . . . . . . vii PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . .xvii Essays Airpower in World War I, 1914–1918 . . . . . . .1 Robin Higham The True Believers: Airpower between the Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Alan Stephens Did the Bomber Always Get Through?: The Control o...

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... American Edition Edited by Alan Stephens RAAF Aerospace Centre In cooperation with the RAAF Aerospace Centre Air University PressMaxwe... ... Force Base, Alabama January 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataThe war in the air, 1914-1994 / edited by Alan Stephens ... ... . . . . . . . . 85 Vincent OrangeWorld War II: The Bombing of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Richard J. OveryDefinite L... ...and Aerospace Historian (1970–88), and remainseditor of the Journal of the West (1977–). He has published anumber of books, including Britain’s Imperi... ...e the first American citizen to fly theSoviet MiG-29 fighter and the first Westerner invited to fly acombat aircraft of any type inside Soviet airspac... ...ntral flying school to set and maintain standards;research and development establishments for the technologi-cal edge; a cadet college at Cranwell to ... ...ighter: The Memoirs of Claire LeeChennault (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1949), 20. 35. Thomas H. Greer, The Development of Air Doctrine in the Army... ...0 were not happy ones, and one student of thesubject has suggested that by 1949 most senior Army com-manders “appear to have regarded close air suppor... ...ussian services to reach out and embraceproven practices of other military establishments around theworld. He admonished each to “apply the experience...

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... 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, orTransmitted, in any form or by any means, electron... ... story of the author’s life. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in itare the work of the author’s recollection of the gone by times. Only a... ...eds of males in that tribe to drive that warring clan to the further north-west of India. Nevertheless, my father had given an explanation to me with... ...he Camps established by the Britishers to control the tribals on the north-westernFrontier. However, these stations were non-family stations for Men i... ...ngst the fore-runners after the mid-term examination, conducted in January,1949. It let me gained popularity amongst the boys. I felt elated and tried... ...was there as part of the family of my Kishan Bhaiya. By the end of April, 1949, I had been declared passed in the final examination for the middlesch... ...uggested that I should now go in for searching some suitable job inprivate establishments, because I won’t be considered by the government for any of ... ...e suggested me to get my eyes examined by the highly qualifieddoctors from Germany who were on a short stint to train Indian doctors in the applicatio... ...hildren as and whenthey having had opted to set up their separate domestic establishments. In fact, for self he hadchosen a path of `sanyas`, as presc...

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...d Mosaic of U.S. History is a history of the United States as it pertained to the common man and woman, boy and girl. It is unlike most history books in that, rather than focusing on political leaders and events, and European-Americans almost exclusively, much about the common people of all races is included. ...

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...o the Fox’s Tail Uniting of Couples and Colonies Marshfield Marshal Sole Survivors Barnstable Constable Cruelty and Hard Usage A Sword or a Gun in the Belly Which Witch is Which? A Courtship Interrupted by the Court A Gentleman and a Scholar The Severity of the Season Burden of Beasts Letter from Plymouth Jail Peace and Love Paperwork and Nostalgia French an...

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...CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 1st Edition, published in 2021. This manuscript is written in comprehensible English to accom... ...a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence, Copyright © 2021 Nico F. Declercq. Imageswith p in the caption are licenced under CC0, and so are all the shown postcard im... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 5.11.5.2 Germany (3100-7000 years ago; weights 1-5) . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 18.3.12 The Liberation of the Westerlo castle in 1591 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...,gouwen'), Bamboren ('Vanvooren'), Roman (widespread in both countries), Westerling (Westerlin, Heusterlin, Hesterlin, Esterlin). We found an in-De ... ... same year as Valentine Declercq (1910-1939), a daughter of in Bruges in 1949. Like his brother, he was the son of Camillethe Declercq-Devenyn fam... ...ge for a few months just after the war and must have talked Flanders, from 1949 to 1971. Demedts was a Royal Academyabout it to Michel. When Michel w... ...as an arduous ordeal. Maurice has often36.24. After having visited various establishments, they stopped begged to die so that he would be released fro... ...her interest the Portuguese. The reasonsfor their economic and political establishments. In 1519, for in- mentioned above led to Vasco da Gama, as...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi A Perspective from the Commander in Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Barack H. Obama SECTION I: RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION 1 Religion in the Military: Finding the Proper Balance . . . . . . . . 15 Barry W. Lynn 2 Burning Bibles and Censoring Prayers: Is Th...

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...ttitudes Aren’t Free Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces James... ... Air Force Base, AL 36112-6026 http://aupress.maxwell.af.mil Chapters appearing in this volume have been printed with permission of the resp... ...ein Sondheimer, Isaiah Wilson III, Thomas Greco, Kevin Toner, and Cameron West 23 Warrior-Civilians: Nonmilitary Personn... ... sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea, and enabled democracy to take hold... ... to uphold human rights is excused by the false suggestion that these are some- how Western principles, foreign to local cultures or stages of a... ...re no complaints or questions about the constitutionality of government religious establishments until modern-day secularists decided ... ...; and H. Michael Gelfand, Sea Change at Annapolis: The United States Naval Academy, 1949–2000 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Pre... ... PhD in political economy and government from Harvard in 1962. He served in Vietnam, Germany, and Korea, and was the military assistant to t... ...o Policy of the United States Army, 1775–1945,” Journal of Negro History, January 1949, 22. 5. Reddick, “Negro Policy,” 22; and Bern...

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... energy nuclear weapons of which we have full knowledge and understanding of, and build and use them regularly across the globe. DEW is a common term in the nuclear weapons industry and does not refer to yet-to-be-developed laser or scaler weapons. DEW commonly refers to nuclear weapons designed specifically to direct their energy to a highly confined soliton — the space a...

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...:00am — 11:00am, approximate, September 11th, 2001Selected Works By Experts In The Field Of Nuclear Weapons & Atmospheric Physics • a je... ...E OF ENRICHED URANIUM The origin of Enriched Uranium [man-made uranium] in wars following the first Gulf War in 1991 is puzzling. It has been foun... ...nd chemical properties to those of lanthanum and 5. Zachariasen, W. H. (1949). “Crystal chemical studies of the 5f-series ofgranddaughter of 232Th... ...d Environmental Analysis, Microtrace Minerals, Rohrenstrasse 20, Hersbruck, Germany3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8 Denver, Colorado4... ...te Physicist, bitplant.de GmbH & Co. ATD-Services KG Fabrikstr. Heidenheim, GermanyBeverly S. Cohen a , Maire S. A. Heikkinen a & Yair Hazi b, Aug 201... ...ly gamma rays. Therefore, at a givenThese include clandestine operations by western governments, the US, Israel and others, in the October 23rd, 1983 ... ...er4. It’s to the foreign policy, national security, and military-industrial establishments and were interesting, e... ...decade, and during that time nuclear weapons remained the news topic in the western world, likea hit album that never dropped out of the charts.Today,... ... care of A-bomb orphans. Then in 1949, programs for financial support of some as “adopted” ...

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...cord the mainstream of thought within the United States Air Force (and its predecessors) concerning the role to be played by air and aerospace power in a deadly struggle for national survival . It seeks to trace the development of a theme of institutional thought, describe the organizational framework in which the thinking took place, and identify individual thinkers an...

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... E~f7s?q~E~~'~ Volume IIDEAS, CONCEPTS, DOCTRINE: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force 1907-1960 ... ... Force Base, Alabama 36112-5532 December 1989Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataFutrell, Robert Frank. Ideas, concepts, doc... ........ .......... .............. 89 Mobilization for Western Hemisphere Defense............ .................. ... ...Air Force... ......................... ..... 191 Key West Agreements on Roles and Missions............................ ... 259 6 RESPONSES TO SOVIET NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND LIMITED WAR, 1949-53 ............ ... ................. .................. ..., which was moved from Washington, D.C., to the AirUniversity, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, in 1949. At the Air University he was professorofmilitaryhistory ... ...o their fundamental ideas as doctrines. The termdoctrine had an old meaning in military establishments as a teaching, or, in acollective sense, a body... ...ld be less efficient than thedirigible balloons that were already being used by France, Germany, and England."For the purpose of dropping explosives o... ...es on shore as an arm of the mobile army;against enemy aircraft in defense of all shore establishments ; or alone, incooperation with other arms of th...

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...olution, is only indirectly addressed through the evolution of airpower. The biographical approach, emphasizing scientific and technological elements in Arnold’s and Kármán’s lives, is essential because the interaction of personalities, as well as their institutions, is inexorably linked to the development of American airpower. The importance of the personalities involved ...

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...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataDaso, Dik A., 1959- Architects of American air supremac... ... instructor pilot at LaughlinAir Force Base, Texas. He then flew two tours in the RF-4CPhantom, stateside and in Korea. He also flew the F-15 Eagle fo... ... O. DuPre, is merely a summary of Arnold’sown Global Mission, published in 1949. As is frequently pointedout, some dates are wrong and some names are ... ...appendices include a brief career summary for GeneralArnold, including his West Point records, and Kármán’s twosummary reports, Where We Stand (includ... ...972); and Henry H. Arnold, Global Mission (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949).6. Michael H. Gorn, The Universal Man: Theodore von Kármán's Life in... ...ologyInstitute Archives, now housed in the new Beckman Centerbasement; the West Point Archives; and the National Archives atCollege Park, Maryland. Pa... ...to America to escape the radicallychanging social and political climate in Germany where he hadbeen teaching during the 1920s. Enticed by the deep poc... ...cal research will be enhanced by the fact that many industrialand military establishments still try to obtain relative safety bygoing under ground. ... ...5 Special study should be made of the problem of destruction ofunderground establishments. In the last war submarine berths wereattacked with bombs, b...

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...have they adapted to the challenges of costs and technologies? He convincingly argues that budgetary provision has not been the most important factor in generating effective air power....

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... Base, Alabama August 2011 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataAnrig, Christian F. The quest for relevant air powe... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Employment of Western Air Power in Real Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Employment of Western Air Power in Real Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183GAF units assisting during Germany’s floods . . . . . . . . . . 185F-4F Phantom ... ...um of air power capa-bilities for outside interventions, while the majority of WesternEuropean states were primarily concerned with territorial defenc... ...er Doc-trine, predominantly targets a military audience at the staff train-ing establishments. A link between doctrine and the teaching ofair power th... ... function between the FAF and the American armedforces, be it through training establishments in the United Statesor through ventures such as setting ... ...d (Basic Law for theFederal Republic of Germany [German constitution]), 23 May 1949, art. 24,para. 2, http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bundesrecht/gg... ...erbellum period.”50 Since the signature of the North AtlanticTreaty on 4 April 1949, Dutch security has been viewed exclu-sively in transatlantic term...

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...some of the detritus that obscures the subject, thus allowing more informed debate on the real issues concerning airpower and strategic bombing. This in turn, hopefully, will give our political and military leaders a better basis on which to form decisions in future conflicts....

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...gic bombing was a wasted effort that produced only minor effects. . . . .63 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 9 Airpower was a failure in Vietnam, losing the war and letting the Army down. Why even have an Air Force if it can’t beat a fourth-rate power like North Vietnam?. . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 10 Strategic...

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...for public release: distri-bution unlimited. Air University Press 131 West Shumacher Avenue Maxwell AFB AL 36112–6615 http://aupress.max... ... Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 9 Airpower was a failure in Vietnam, losing the war and letting the Army down. Why even ... ...81 vMyth Page10 Strategic bombing failed in Vietnam because Rolling Thunder did not break the will of Ho... .... . . . . 125 IllustrationsFigure 1 US Bomb Tonnage Dropped on Germany by Month . . . . . 33 2 Targets Struck by Category ... ...our at GHQAir Force. In fact, it appears that afterthe death of Maj Gen Oscar Westover,the Air Corps chief, in a plane crash,Andrews received consider... ...The Memoirs of ClaireLee Chennault, ed. Robert Hotz (New York: G. P.Putnam’s, 1949), 18. 8. Report of the Secretary of War to the President(Washington... ...ust 1941, Air War PlansDivision, Plan 1 (AWPD-1) called for thedestruction of Germany’s industrialstructure through a sustained bombingcampaign. Its o... ... 28utilities; factories; steel mills; oil refiner-ies; “and other similar establishments.”3 Itdoes not mention the targeting of popula-tion center...

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...This study chronologically traces the historical development of the aerospace concept, from its initial inception in 1944 as it was embodied in the far-reaching vision of Gen Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, until its public appearance in 1958. This study also uncovers reasons why airmen came to see their primary area of responsibility differently...

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... iii Abstract First impressions are lasting impressions. In late 1958 Air Force Chief of StaffThomas D. White first evoked the t... ...ed by a line and to be readily separated intotwo distinct categories; they are in truth a single indivisible field of operations.”Unfortunately, also ... ...pe. Stalin’s first major postwar ad-dress in February 1946 was received in the West as a declaration of ideo­logical war on capitalism.3 Soon, the Sov... ...would be seriouslyeyeing space as well. Dr. von Braun played a leading role in Germany’s rocket program, andthe extent to which the Germans had develo... ...technology madehim a prize catch in World War II’s aftermath. Husbanded out of Germanyin a secret intelligence operation known as Paperclip, von Braun... ...ecognition that America’s long-term interest was ul­timately tied to a healthy West European economy, Congress enacted theMarshall Plan to accelerate ... ...urope. During the remainder of Truman’s lastterm, the cold war went global. In 1949 Communism triumphed in China, and the Soviet Union suc­cessfully t... ...hey were once again ready to make a significantmark on history. On 24 February 1949, von Braun and company fired aV-2-modified WAC Corporal 244 miles ... ...ps would include: To give to each other a complete blueprint of our military establishments, from beginning to end, from one end of our countries ...

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...Kenneth Newton Walker had significant influence in the early days of airpower’s rise to prominence. Ms. Byrd has brought us the man behind the influence....

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...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataByrd. Martha, 1930-1993 Kenneth N. Walker: airpower’s... ...ng NOTE:Pagination changed.Approved by Air University Press editor:page 57 in text, “Hasher” has been corrected to “Hassemer”Index removed from e-publ... ...faint stirrings toward industrializationand even toward democracy. Farther west, Pax Britannica wasentering its twilight. Industrialization was procee... ...ntering its twilight. Industrialization was proceeding much morerapidly in Germany and Japan than in Russia. Both were beginningto build great navies ... ...orld:Washington and Moscow. In the process, two world wars left thecore of Western Civilization in economic and physical ruin. Butthat is only a part ... ...ere in possession of a bombardment force capable of destroying[vital enemy establishments].” By this time, he had dismissed pursuit; “whenever we spe... ...1.10 Claire Lee Chennault, Way of A Fighter (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,1949), 18.11 Mamie Lee Andrews, telephone interview with author, 28 August ... ...hePacific War, With Maps by the Author (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce,1949; reprint, Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History [OAFH], 1987),... ...ur shores, or air operations might be directed against our vitalindustrial establishments. Such action might be attempted, with thehostile navy refusi...

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...ION AND SPREAD OF MOBILE BALLISTIC MISSILES. . . 5 3 THE AMERICAN COLD WAR RESPONSE . . . . . . . . . 21 4 RESPONDING TO MOBILE BALLISTIC MISSILES IN THE POST–COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT. . . . . . . 37 5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . 51...

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... Attacking the Mobile Ballistic Missile Threat in the Post–Cold War Environment ... .../06 2:15:36 PM This School of Advanced Air and Space Studies thesis and others in this series are available electronical... ..., this journey takes us back to the last days of Hitler’s Third Reich. It was out of Germany’s des- peration that the mobile ballist... ...e ballistic missile was first deployed. The V-2: An Asymmetric Solution for Germany As his empire began to crumble around... ... divided into an eastern section, where the Army worked on ballistic missiles, and a western sec- tion, where the Luftwaffe was devo... ...mountable edge. Even after the Soviets detonated their first atomic bomb on 29 August 1949, they lacked a viable means to deliver it ... ... possession of “the bomb” nor massive conventional forces poised to stream into Western Europe could guarantee strategic success. The So... ...es in World War II, vol. 2, Europe: Argument to V-E Day, Janu- ary 1944 to May 1945 (1949; Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1951),... ... with intensive efforts to match the Soviet KGB in infiltrating foreign de- fense establishments, incredible air-breathing systems such as...

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