De-Ranged : Global Power and Air Mobility for the New Millennium

By Robert A. Colella

Book Id: WPLBN0002170274
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Reproduction Date: 10/12/2012

Title:	De-Ranged : Global Power and Air Mobility for the New Millennium
Author:	Robert A. Colella
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Military Science, Airpower
Collections:	Authors Community, History
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Publisher:	Air University Press

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Citation APA MLA Chicago A. Colell, B. R. (n.d.). De-Ranged : Global Power and Air Mobility for the New Millennium. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
This is a story of long-range airpower, from Gen Henry H. “Hap” Arnold’s vision of a global mission to the Global Strike Task Force and expeditionary air forces of the year 2001. It examines global power from its origins as Strategic Air Command built a fleet of bombers and tankers to meet the needs of the global nuclear-deterrent policy of the Cold War. This evolution is traced through the studies and commissions of the 1990s established to determine the force structure for the twenty-first century. The assumptions that were made to develop a force focused on expeditionary short-range airpower to project global power are established and then examined with four case studies in the application of airpower over long range.

Table of Contents
1 GLOBAL POWER FOR AMERICA . . . . . . . . . 1 2 WORLD WAR II ORIGINS AND COLD WAR MATURITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 3 GLOBAL POWER––POST–COLD WAR: ASSUMPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE . . . . . . . . .21 4 CASE STUDIES IN GLOBAL POWER . . . . . . 45 5 EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . .75 6 CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89