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...io 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 ratio. This is also the reason evolving technology often produced the only observable change in the kill ratio...

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...I COMBAT OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sun Tzu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Objectives of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Civil-Military Relationships . . . . . . . . . . 2 Principles of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Tactical Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Carl von Clausewitz . ...

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...By the end of the Vietnam War, advances in technology allowed these FACs to control strikes against targets at night, in bad weather, and with improved precision. Laser-guided weapons systems, new computer navigation equipment, and advanced ground rad...

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...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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... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of ... ...use he needed to assemble a council of his leaders to approve his call to war. His decision to cross the Gobi and invade the Jurched territory unle... ...bility of the Mongol Empire he had created. The victor in the family civil war was a grandson able and powerful enough to take that empire to even gr... ...er adapted the tribal battle tactics of his mounted nomad hunters to wage war against civilized nations:  Each warrior carried only what he need... ...ast proudly: ―The sun never sets on the British Empire.‖ After both World War I and World War II, occupation troops of America and its English-speak... ...n in 1837 on a farm near Xenia, Ohio, so distinguished himself as a Civil War correspondent that Horace Greeley, legendary editor of the New York Tri... ...e, a thousand Linotypes had been installed nationwide. The labor union‘s war with the Tribune lasted six years, ending when Reid accepted a union s... ...nal torrent unleashed by the Linotype gained maximum momentum after World War II with passage of the GI Bill of Rights. Its benefits for returning s... ...computer to calculate ballistic firing tables that would be used in World War II. Those seeds rapidly took root, sprouted, and continue to send out ...

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...The study reviews each force’s combat glider experience and analyzes it in light of the glider doctrine, or lack thereof, with which each began the war. While military cargo gliders have seen their day, recent technological advances in gliders make them a viable platform for certain missions requiring stealth and silence....

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...ABSTRACT ii INTRODUCTION 1 PRE-WAR DEVELOPMENT 3 The Early Years in Germany 3 Early Gliders in the US 4 A US Military Glider? For What Purpose? 4 Gliders Head Into Combat. 5 Come Join the Glider pilot Corps! 8 Glider pilot Training Shortfalls 9 Mili...

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...The study reviews each force’s combat glider experience and analyzes it in light of the glider doctrine, or lack thereof, with which each began the war. While military cargo gliders have seen their day, recent technological advances in gliders make them a viable platform for certain missions requiring stealth and silence....

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...ABSTRACT ii INTRODUCTION 1 PRE-WAR DEVELOPMENT 3 The Early Years in Germany 3 Early Gliders in the US 4 A US Military Glider? For What Purpose? 4 Gliders Head Into Combat. 5 Come Join the Glider pilot Corps! 8 Glider pilot Training Shortfalls 9 Mili...

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... PART II Air Power as an Element of US Power Projection Page Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Air Power since World War II: Consistent with Doctrine? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Dr Williamson Murray Aerospace Forces and Power Projection . . . 115 Lt Gen Michael A . Nelson, USAF The Relevance of High-Intensity Op...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 SAC Missiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Nuclear Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Cold War Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Cold War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 They Also Served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 5 BEYOND THE CALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 6 THE SOVIET C...

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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 challeng...

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...The United States Air Force has long favored attacking electrical power systems.Electric power has been considered a critical target in every war since World War II,and will likely be nominated in the future. Historically, there have been four basic strategies behind attacks on national electrical systems: to cause a decline in civilian morale; to inflict costs on ...

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... Distribution . . . . . . 8 Control . . . . 8 Effects . . . . . 10 Notes . . . . . 12 3 ELECTRICAL POWER TARGETING IN THE PAST— ATTACKS IN TOTAL WAR . . . . . . 15 World War II—Germany . . . 17 World War II—Japan . . . . . 22 United States Strategic Bombing Survey . . . . . . 25 Notes . . . . . 28 4 ELECTRICAL POWER TARGETING IN THE PAST— ATTACKS IN LIMITED WAR ...

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................................... 7 2 THE HISTORIC PRECEDENT: A REQUIREMENT FOR FLEXIBILITY........................................ 9 The Lessons of War.................................... 9 The Nuclear Imperative............................. 15 Notes.................................................. 21 3 THE EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGY.................. 25 Real Smarts in Sm...

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...) and its component technologies to the battle management of an air campaign. It presumes a large-scale air campaign on the order to that in the Gulf War where air operations were continuous, prolonged, and intense. The research concludes by assessing the viability and implication of a military decision to invest in a VR-enhanced air battle management system. Recommendatio...

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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 TECHNOLOGICAL DE...

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...rnment requires a new and disciplined export control process—not the current mosaic of rules, regulations, and perspectives that came out of the cold war, but a process that provides a revamped, systemic approach with consistent implementation. Colonel Johnson explores the problem of defining which technologies the United States is willing to transfer(military or dual-use)...