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...Essays Introduction: The Protraction and Prolongation of Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Karl P. Magyar Iran-Iraq: Protracted Conflict, Prolonged War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17...

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...oulos, PhDLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataProlonged wars: the post-nuclear challenge / editors, Karl P. Magyar, Constantine P. Dan... ...inting July 2001 DisclaimerThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic fr... ...ary Sociology. Christopher Gregory was senior public affairs officer, Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa. Previously, he taughtAfrican politic... ... his doctorate and mastersdegrees from Harvard’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Benjamin Kline h o l d s a m a s t e r ’ s d e g r e e i n m o ... ...ches Middle Eastern politics atVillanova University. She has worked for the American FriendsService Committee in Jerusalem and the Ford Foundation inC... ... Studies at the University of Kansas from 1974 xito 1989. During 1989–90 he was visiting professor of LatinAmerican Studies at the A... ...objective, and strategies. Iran and Iraqalso fought a long war of attrition during the 1980s, employingfull-conventional weapons and tactics in their ... ...sed with Clausewitz’s teachings, which describe thecontemporary third world revolutionary environment: “Whenpolitics has developed to a certain stage ... ...The communist doctrine of protractedconflict integrates war, politics, law, diplomacy, psychology,science, and economics in the conduct of foreign pol...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...written permission from:Lidija Rangelovska – write to:palma@unet.com.mkVisit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review":http://ww... ... REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 2 C O N T E N T SI. The AuthorII. About "After the Rain" Containing the United State... ...fter the Rain" Containing the United StatesI. The Roots of Anti-AmericanismII. Containing the United StatesIII. Islam and Liberal... ...e Democratic Ideal and New ColonialismVI. Add Me to the ListVII. The American HostelVIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...-Atlantic DivideIII. Russia Straddles the DivideIV. Russia’s Stealth DiplomacyV. Losing the Iraq WarVI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies... ...rust Why America is Hated The Iraqi and the Madman God's Diplomacy and Human ConflictsEuropean intellectuals yearn for the mutuall... ... author quotes James Jerome Hill, the Americanrailway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-SpanishWar, that "If you review the commercial history, you... ...height ofan international crisis pitting China against it - is nothingif not revolutionary.American history is re-cast as an inevitable progression of... ... Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of theexpansion of the United States during the 19th century.Later, Rome claimed to be "liberating" Greek citi...

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...gies and resources on those defects in our way of doing politics which make otherwise sane human beings vote against their interests and convictions. The struggle against deep-seated structural flaws in our political system must precede the struggles against their terribly important surface manifestations. For the time being, such actions as civil disobedience, militancy, ...

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...Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 /  China and Tibet: 1950-1991 /  Sparta and the City States of Ancient Greece)...

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... Lives in the Balance The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 ... ... Lives in the Balance The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 Moti ... ...nd American Politics, 1945-1991 Moti NissaniNote: Page numbers in the Contents and Index refer to the paperback version of th... ...War, Lives in the Balance throws newlight on subjects as diverse as the nature of freedom, American Third World policies, roots of collectivemisbehavi... ...of the Arms Race 185 • Summary 193Chapter 8: BRINKMANSHIP AND IMPERIALISM? 195 • Nuclear Diplomacy 195 • American Intervention in the Third World 2... ...ems are blurry, these principles are thoroughly applied only in atotalitarian system. Rome during Caligula's reign is a classical example of pure dict... ...he totalitarian insights mentioned earlier were superimposed on thisdictatorial framework. During Stalin's long reign, especially, the system came fai... ...dical political, cultural, social, and economictransformations. By December 25, 1991, this revolutionary period culminated in the formalresignation of... ...dent in which nuclear weapons were used as instruments of coercion (see Chapter 8).Nuclear diplomacy has been employed by the world's powers on more t...

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...In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush declared the dawn of a new kind of war. He has repeatedly emphasized that means and measures of success in this new war will differ greatly from wars past. However, if this “war...

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...ORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 THREATS FROM WITHOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 THREATS FROM WITHIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4 REDEFINING WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33...

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...Malignants in the Body Politic Redefining War through Metaphor DOUGLAS R. STICKLE, MAJOR, USAF School ... ...F School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, MAXWEL... ...e Studies thesis and others in this series are available electronically at the Air University Research Web site http://research. maxwell.af.mil and th... ... this war? We will direct every resource at our com- mand—every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcemen... ... Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat. Our response involves far more than instant ... ...esponse involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy cam- paign, unlike ... ...s time, perhaps four to seven days, and the pathogen maycause much illness during that delay. Immune memory is irrelevant to thatfirst encounter; it m... ...nthe lymph nodes and secrete large quantities of antibodies into the blood.During the immune response, these “antibody molecules are altered sothey ca... ...ins that lead to tumorgrowth. By selectively attacking cancer cells, these revolutionary agentspromise to be less toxic and more effective than curren...

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...For the author, this book holds special significance. It brings together three out of many books about the USA. These three books were written over the past fifteen years, with intervals of approximately five years each. They rep...

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...n whoworked as a correspondent of Izvestia in New York fromthe end of 1961 to the middle of 1968 and who was usedto reporting on newspaper pages. They... ...re notoriouslycramped, and I have accumulated a lot of impressions, aswell as the desire to tell more about them. Now thenewspaper gives me the opport... ...s" rumble, sometimes dramatically andmenacingly. In sum, this is a book about Americansagainst the backdrop of their country, their society, theirprob... ...ansagainst the backdrop of their country, their society, theirproblems. About Americans in America.3 4FACETS OF... ...ent of the United States.6FACETS OF CHARACTER 7 During the night the body of the deceased was at Bethesda NavalHospital.... ...merce is inescapable. Theatres on Broadway did not want to cancelperformances during the days of mourning, because the late president was atheatre-goe... ...tisfying operation "Peace on Earth". The Portsmouth people simply,without diplomacy, want to prove to the Soviet family from Moscow how theidea of... ...th visiting journalists, assuringthem that Anaconda has become malleable. His diplomacy, however, doesn'ttake away from the Byut copper-ore land. - "... ... plan a war against each other.” He has a grudge against the intelligentsia, revolutionary and liberal, thesecausative agents of public discontent, a...

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...In his book The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, Charles Griffith makes a major contribution in detailing the role played by General Hansell from his early days as an instructor at the Air Corps Tact...

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...1 THE PROBLEMS OF AIRPOWER . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2 THE EARLY YEARS: EDUCATION AND ACTS .23 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 3 PLANNING . . . . . . . . ....

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... The QuestHaywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II CHAR... ... The QuestHaywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II CHARLES GRIFFITH Air University Pre... ...ptember 1999Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataGriffith, Charles, 1957– The quest : Haywood Hansell and American strategic bombing in W... ...Cataloging-in-Publication DataGriffith, Charles, 1957– The quest : Haywood Hansell and American strategic bombing in World War II /Charles Griffith. ... ...essed or implied within are solely those of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force,the De... ...ritain, and Harold George and Laurence Kuterwere both assigned to duties in the States during most of thewar. It was up to Hansell, the only one of th... ...operations, to seethat their doctrine of daylight precision bombardment wascarried out during World War II. xii In Europe the fricti... ...opriate level and type ofviolence against him. The Air War Plans Division had planneda revolutionary method of achieving that objective, but theideas ... ...ts and batteries. On 13 December he got achance to perform a service he always enjoyed—diplomacy. Hepaid a social call on Lady Elveden and the Duke an...

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...When the Cold War set off a prolonged arms race and space competition with the Soviet Union, this well-educated cadre of the greatest generation was ready to provide the technical and managerial expertise needed to meet the Soviet...

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...Reflections of a Technocrat Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs during the Cold War DR. JOHN L. MCLUCAS wi... ...ections of a Technocrat Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs during the Cold War DR. JOHN L. MCLUCAS with ... .... Reflections of a technocrat : managing defense, air, and space programs during the Cold War / John L. McLucas with Kenneth J. Alnwick and Lawrence... ...ctions of a technocrat : managing defense, air, and space programs during the Cold War / John L. McLucas with Kenneth J. Alnwick and Lawrence R. Bens... ...urope and the Middle East . . . . 229 The Air Force and American Society . . . . . . . . 234 My Farewell to Arms... ...war in Viet-nam, which was proving difficult to end on favorable terms,with Americans in uniform being ostracized by many of theirfellow citizens, and ... ...edge of physics that impressed me more than most of my ship-mates with the revolutionary significance of this magnificentbut terrible invention. Under ... ...d if it would be compatible with other systems. While consid-ered somewhat revolutionary at the time, one would be hard-pressed today to find a request... ...deploying overseas as veritable “elec-tronic gunboats” to support American diplomacy in various in-ternational crises. Aptly named the Sentry, the E-3...

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...This study defines the nature of the war on terrorism by assessing the changing nature of terrorism itself and develops an analytical framework within which to assess the strategies of terrorist groups. It compares the strategies of old terrori...

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... The New TerrorismThe Nature of the War on Terrorism MICHAEL W. KOMETER, Major, USAF Sc... ...ajor, USAF School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, M... ...on the AC-130H Spectre gunship. His tour of duty with 16 SOS in-cluded operations during conflicts in Panama, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. Whileflying w... ... this carefully worded epigraph by 60 intellectualssummed up a position that most Americans could support. The letter thatcontained the statement ackn... ...acks. It deftly pointed out the moraldifferences among the beliefs of terrorists, Americans, and mainstreamIslamics. It represented a well-thought-out... ... 6When the bankers struck in 1969, he militarized them.11 In 1970, duringone month alone, he ordered extensive searches of more than 20... ...t and win this war? We will direct every resource at our command—every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enf... ...ts used to come up with their overall strategy,leading to three classes: coercive-diplomacy, war, and new world. 3. White, 11. 4. Bard O’Neill, Insurg... ...en farther to the left. In Marxist-Leninist style, the PFLP believed it wouldbe a revolutionary party that could ignite a revolution (the liberation o...

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... ........ .. ......... .... .. ......... .. .... ........... ............. .. ii ABOUT THE AUTHOR ........ ...... ......... ............ .... .. .... ........... ............. .. ......... ...... ........... .... ............. . x1 THE ARAB AIR WARFARE EXPERIENCE. ......... ...... ...y are not convinced that general rules forairpower employment are not essentially universal. But as one American analystnoted: We had a tendency to ... ...ce in the use oftactical airpower. The IIAF had less actual combat experiencehaving only fired in anger during periodic border problems with Iraq. Mor... ...erations in Dhofar, the western portion of Oman. Incontrast, the IQAF had experienced combat operations during wars with Israel in1948, 1967, and 1973... ... theirreality. Becausethe United States and the Arabs often read from totally different sheets of music.Americans sometimes misread Arab actions. Whi... ... and in the sensitive state offices, with the most advanced and modern knowledge and studies on the revolutionary [read Baath] view of the concept... ...es of Middle Eastern war termination of Janice Gross Stein, "ProxyWars : How Superpowers End Them : The Diplomacy of War Termination in the Middle Eas... ...lysis 4, no. 3 (June 1980): 107-11 .Stein, Janice Gross. "Proxy Wars : How Superpowers End Them : The Diplomacy of WarTermination in the Middle Ea...

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...988Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMrozek, Donald J.Air Power and the Ground War in Vietnam.Includes bibliographies and index.1 . Vi... ...udes bibliographies and index.1 . Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975-Aerial Operations, American. I.Title.DS558.8.M79 1988 959.704'348 87-3193... ... Third Printing September 2002 DisclaimerThis study represents the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the offic... .... . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Managing War and Waging Diplomacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... PhD degrees at RutgersUniversity, and his dissertation study on defense policy during the presidency ofHarry Truman yielded articles in publi... ...entary volumes. Dr Mrozek has also engaged in research, published, and taught Americanculture. Some of his publications have fused the areas o... ...orce Base. I shall always remember the friendliness and courtesy of the people Imet during these past two years . Special fondness is reserved for the... ... and character of warfare (which may be compared to thebehavior of the insurgent or revolutionary) depend on the objective character of forces relativ... ...more devastatingthan any specific material failure. Managing War and Waging Diplomacy Many benefits were expected from military action, but t...

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...A Kurt Vonnegut's fictional character once wrote a book titled "What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" The book itself is rather short, consisting of one word and a period: "Nothing."4 Given indeed this experience, given the ever-growing number of technological threats and potential b...

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...CONTENTS Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 / China and Tibet: 1950-1991 / Sparta and the City States of Ancient Greece) • The So...

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...DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii 1 THE COLD WARRIORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Strategic Flexibility . . . ...

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...ibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataAdams, Chris, 1930– Inside the Cold War : a cold warrior’s reflections / Chris Adams. p. cm. I... ...implied within are solely those of theauthor and do not necessarily represent the views of Air University, the United States Air Force, theDepartment ... ...decades of delicate coexistence between two nations known asthe “superpowers” during the international conflict known asthe “Cold War.” Publication of... ...s in the original manuscript; that is, to paytribute to that special breed of American heroes known as the“Cold Warriors”—the men and women who served... ...he“Cold Warriors”—the men and women who served in thestrategic nuclear forces during the Cold War. Another purposeis to provide a brief parallel view ... ...aithfully during those critical years of roller coasterpolitics, inconsistent diplomacy, and occasional lunacy. The Cold Warriors were the centerpiece... ... attempts toprovide a reasonably comprehensive essay on the ColdWarriors—both American and Soviet—their commitments,their weapon systems, their missio... ...gress weredelighted with a US industry sharing the new technology andcreating revolutionary business potential. Meanwhile, Captain Rickover continued ... ...f mass destruction wereever used. The “superpowers” engaged in roller coaster diplomacythrough numerous changes in political persuasion within bothgov...

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...Lt Col Thomas D. Torkelson claims that the inability of the United States to achieve its stated political objectives in its global war on terror (GWOT) reflects its flawed kinetic-centric military strategy. This study erects a framework of effectiveness utilizing...

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...1 THE TIMELINESS OF TIMELESSNESS . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 2 CLAUSEWITZIAN EFFECTIVENESS . . . . . . .9 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 3 THE KINE...

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... AIR UNIVERSITY AIR foRcE RESEARcH INSTITUTE Ideas in Arms The Relationship of Kinetic and Ideologic... ...airchild Research Information center cataloging Data Torkelson, Thomas D. Ideas in arms : the relationship of kinetic and ideologic... ...provincial reconstruction team (PRT) concept need to be preserved, while significant national public diplomacy reform must occur. ... ...- creases in computing capability enraptures America’s national security community. Emerging during a time when the United Sta... ...hieve desired political objectives. Drawn by the information revolution’s timely appeal, the American military seems to have forgotten... ...uivocal political outcomes. This stance has served the United States well over the centuries; but as American con- ventional proficien... ... ence of physical and moral spheres within warfare, each re- quiring equitable consideration during the formulation of militar... ... nego- tiation during its military ventures also finds its underpinnings during the nation’s revolutionary birth.13 Largely m... ...ip. This bifurcation of US strategic thought yields “two separate spheres of responsibility, one for diplomacy and one for combat.”29 ...

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...Factors Reshaping Strategies and Missions Maj Gen Charles D. Link, USAF Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Air Power in the New Security Environment . . .9 Secretary of the Air Force Donald B . Rice Air Power in US Military Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Dr EdwardN. Luttwak The...

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... The Future of Air Powerin the Aftermath of the Gulf War Edited by Richard ... ... Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. International Security Studies Program The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University ... ...Jr. International Security Studies Program The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University Air University Press ... ...ed States. AirForce-Congresses . 3. Persian Gulf War. 1991-Aerial operations,American-Congresses . I. Pfaltzgraff, Robert L. II. Shultz, Richard ... ...ternational Security Studies Program of the Fletcher School of Lawand Diplomacy at Tufts University in sponsoring the April 1991c... ...e military, government, business, and the media,these essays examine American national security policy and Air Forceissues from ... ...ity arena of vastly different dimensions from thatwhich they faced during the cold war. The likely complexion of thefuture inter... ...o crucial to success suggests toSecretary Rice that we must exploit revolutionary concepts of airpower to give the US Air Forc... ...Storm, Dr Luttwak argues that, unlike the mixed performanceof air power during the strategic bombing campaigns of World WarII, the a...

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...s fighting Al-Qaeda in Africa and ISIS in France. Al-Qaeda was supported by Iran and Sudan while ISIS was supported by Turkey. This essay explains the economic underpinnings of these wars. ...

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...akovos Alhadeff Table of Contents Introduction Sudan and Iran The Franco-Iranian War in CAR The Franco-Iranian War in MaliThe Fran... ...CAR The Franco-Iranian War in MaliThe Franco-Iranian Rapprochement France and the Islamic State Articles Introduction... ...nomic cooperation between France and Iran. Moreover, Sudan, a strongIranian ally during the previous decades, and a strong supporter ofinternational t... ...a different organization from Al-Qaeda of Asia. In Asia Al-Qaeda is fighting the Americans who are trying to bring the oil and naturalgas of Kazakhsta... ... too. ISIS consists of the ex-people of Saddam Hussein whowere overturned by the Americans with the Iraq War of 2003. SaddamHussein was a soviet ally ... ... Sudan and IranAt the following map you can see how important Sudan was for Iran duringthe previous decades. Iran and Hezbollah used Sudan as an entra... ...e size of the cash stockpile al-Qaeda has made from the stones minedillegally by Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone.'Given that the att... ...ns?”, January 2015http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/01/iran-morocco-diplomacy-economy-sunni-shiite-islam-jihadist.html“Sudan's President ... ...d-1980saccelerated the country‘s diminished global aspirations and refocused its diplomacy onits immediate neighborhood.[8]The collapse of the Soviet ...

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...DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v ABOUT THE AUTHORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . .xvii Essays Airpower in World War I, 1914–1918 . . . . . . .1 Robin H...

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...The War in the Air 1914–1994 American Edition Edited by Alan Stephens RAAF Aerospace Centre I... ... Edited by Alan Stephens RAAF Aerospace Centre In cooperation with the RAAF Aerospace Centre Air University PressMaxwell Air Force Base, A... ...ary 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataThe war in the air, 1914-1994 / edited by Alan Stephens ; in cooperation with theRAAF ... ...d by Alan Stephens ; in cooperation with theRAAF Air Power Studies Centre––American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I... ...e in1992 after 28 years duty, including war service in Vietnamand Thailand during 1966–67. He was an intercontinental xballistic mis... ...S Central Command AirForces, in command of all US and Coalition air assets duringOperations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. xiiDr. Ri... ...First,sea power is constrained by coasts, whereas airpower—tech-nology and diplomacy permitting—can operate over land orsea. Second, naval vessels can... ...ry limited terms, was not possible. Second, the high command, in a time of revolutionary tech-nological change, faced a daunting challenge. To exercis... ...ert John O’Neill, Australia in the Korean War 1950–53, vol. 1,Strategy and Diplomacy (Canberra: Australian War Memorial and AGPS,1981), 149–51. 39. 77...

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...Escalation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2 Hezbollah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 The War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 4 By the Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 5 Civilian Damage in Lebanon . . . . . . .75 6 Targeting for Effect . . . . . . . . . . .105...

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... Divining Victory Airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War ... ...ing Data Arkin, William M. Divining victory : airpower in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war / William M. Arkin. p. cm. ... ... from 1998 to 2003) and is a longtime NBC News mili- tary analyst. During the writing of this study in early 2007, he was National Sec... ...d Greenpeace International’s war response team in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and co- authored On Impact—Modern Wa... ...aeli soldiers, seemingly choosing as well to disregard the central American tenet of precision—that fewer weapons and less physical de... ...upation.3 Hezbollah was founded with the assistance of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and, over the years, received most of its exte... ...s. Also situated in these districts are the offices of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which support Hezbollah.”11 The sout... ...ts forces, given that “all the weapons were in the right place.”33 American experts seem to agree, observing that: “Enough weapons and... ...f the Israeli predicament.” Blair supports Israel in not pursuing “diplomacy” to fight Hezbollah, saying that Israel did what any nati...

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...This study analyzes the air war plans in World War II and the Persian Gulf War. The goal of this study is to ascertain whether there is a continuity of thought reflected in American air planning over the years. This study assesses Air War Plans...

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...AWPD-42 to Instant ThunderConsistent, Evolutionary Thought or Revolutionary Change? JAMES R. CODY, Major, USAF School ... ... School of Advanced Airpower Studies THESIS PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIRPOWER STUDIES, MAXW... ...e Studies thesis and others in this series are available electronically at the Air University Research Web site http://research. maxwell.af.mil and th... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN AIRPOWER THEORY . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 ... ...study is to ascertain whether there is a continuity ofthought reflected in American air planning over the years. This study assessesAir War Plans Divi... ...enee, andour children, Matthew and Jamie. Their patience and understanding during themany hours that I was “in a daze” while working on this project w... ...heorists elaborated their theory of precision, industrial bombard- ment during the 1930s. 2. Both ACTS bombardment doctrine and deterrence theory... ...dinate to it.14 Frederick the Great summed the idea up when he statedthat “diplomacy without arms is music without instruments.”15 Takingthe time and ... ...t, against its personnel costs.” Anthony Lake, “American Power andAmerican Diplomacy,” Fletcher Forum (summer/fall 1995): 89. 8. Hallion, 253. 9. Meil...

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...The Fairchild Papers are monograph-length essays of value to theAir Force. The series is named in honor of Muir S. Fairchild, thefirst commander of Ai... ...ed in honor of Muir S. Fairchild, thefirst commander of Air University and the university’s conceptualfather. General Fairchild was part visionary, pa... .... AIR UNIVERSITY LIBRARYWAR FROM ABOVE THE CLOUDS B-52 Operations during the Second Indochina War and the Effects of the Air War on Theor... ...ng DataHead, William P., 1949- War from above the clouds : B-52 operations during the Second Indochina War andthe effects of the air war on theory and... ... ISBN 1-58566-107-4 1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 — Aerial operations, American. 2. B-52 bomber.3. United States. Air Force — History. 4. Air warf... ...He has published more than 24 arti­cles and book reviews in the Journal of American History, Jour­nal of Military History, and Air Power History journ... ...ixon seemed no closer toa settlement than his predecessor, in spite of the diplomacy ofDr. Kissinger and the withdrawal of nearly 500,000 US troopsfro... ... aspect of a much larger struggle. In that regard, theimpact of superpower diplomacy was as important as Amer­ica’s military power.235 Air Force ... ...cy was still a topic for analy­sis. These authors stressed that protracted revolutionary war-fare, insurgency, or low intensity conflict should concer...

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...ts – Presidential Election 2020 – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions : Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama , Cambridge Analytica ,Robert Mueller …. The Future of USA 2018 – 2030 … Published April 5, 2018 By Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova #2 - Media Confirmation : “Jeff Bezos announces divorce from MacKenzie Bezos after 25...

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