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Author: Major Beau G. Rollie Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1782895159 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
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Includes 3 maps and more than 10 illustrations The preponderance of conflicts fought over the last seventy years have included or been centered on irregular warfare and counter-insurgency. Indeed, the helicopter’s first significant trials in combat took place during the Algerian War 1954-1962, the Vietnam War 1955-1975, and the Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989. During these wars, French, U.S., and Soviet militaries used significant numbers of helicopters to fight insurgents and guerrillas, and each country lost their respective conflict. As conventional organizations, these militaries used helicopters to seek military dominance, often blind to or in spite of politico-strategic goals like legitimacy. The helicopter’s firepower and mobility tactically decimated insurgents, but the nature of irregular warfare rendered tactical dominance indecisive. Helicopters were indecisive or bad at enabling legitimacy, population control, and isolation, key tenets of successful COIN. Convinced that helicopter enabled military dominance could win, the French, U.S., and Soviet militaries were unable to balance the pursuit of military and politically objectives. Airmobility distracted leaders from focusing on the political aspects of counter-insurgency.
Author: Major Beau G. Rollie Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1782895159 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 209
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Includes 3 maps and more than 10 illustrations The preponderance of conflicts fought over the last seventy years have included or been centered on irregular warfare and counter-insurgency. Indeed, the helicopter’s first significant trials in combat took place during the Algerian War 1954-1962, the Vietnam War 1955-1975, and the Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989. During these wars, French, U.S., and Soviet militaries used significant numbers of helicopters to fight insurgents and guerrillas, and each country lost their respective conflict. As conventional organizations, these militaries used helicopters to seek military dominance, often blind to or in spite of politico-strategic goals like legitimacy. The helicopter’s firepower and mobility tactically decimated insurgents, but the nature of irregular warfare rendered tactical dominance indecisive. Helicopters were indecisive or bad at enabling legitimacy, population control, and isolation, key tenets of successful COIN. Convinced that helicopter enabled military dominance could win, the French, U.S., and Soviet militaries were unable to balance the pursuit of military and politically objectives. Airmobility distracted leaders from focusing on the political aspects of counter-insurgency.
Author: Adam M. Pastor Publisher: ISBN: Category : Airmobile operations (Military science) Languages : en Pages : 19
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"The use of helicopters in irregular warfare (IW) has a history as long as the helicopter itself. Combat and combat support roles for helicopters conducting missions as diverse as attack, insertion/extraction, supply, medical evacuation, reconnaissance, command and control, and tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel exceeded the capabilities of light fixed-wing aircraft, eventually replacing them in U.S. service. The author seeks to illustrate the use of helicopters in IW through studying historical employment during conflicts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The best employment of helicopters in IW requires appreciation of the limitations of and threats to helicopters, the lack of doctrine for their employment in IW, their limited numbers (relative to demand), and the dangers of the over-use of helicopters in IW. The author proposes that highly effective tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for tactical mobility in execution have been ignored by U.S. regular forces, with the exception of the U.S. Marine Corps' Aero Scout program in Iraq (2006-2008). The successful TTPs of this program have not been captured in formal doctrine, however, and are unlikely to be repeated in future conflicts. This omission ignores the lessons of history and unnecessarily displaces risk onto ground forces."--Abstract.
Author: U. S. Military Publisher: ISBN: 9781549789045 Category : Languages : en Pages : 115
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The preponderance of conflicts fought over the last seventy years have included or been centered on irregular warfare and counter-insurgency. Indeed, the helicopter's first significant trials in combat took place during the Algerian War 1954-1962, the Vietnam War 1955-1975, and the Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989. During these wars, French, U.S., and Soviet militaries used significant numbers of helicopters to fight insurgents and guerrillas, and each country lost their respective conflict. As conventional organizations, these militaries used helicopters to seek military dominance, often blind to or in spite of politico-strategic goals like legitimacy. The helicopter's firepower and mobility tactically decimated insurgents, but the nature of irregular warfare rendered tactical dominance indecisive. Helicopters were indecisive or bad at enabling legitimacy, population control, and isolation, key tenets of successful COIN. Convinced that helicopter enabled military dominance could win, the French, U.S., and Soviet militaries were unable to balance the pursuit of military and politically objectives. Airmobility distracted leaders from focusing on the political aspects of counter-insurgency. CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION * Warfare Terms Defined * Literature Review * Algeria Sources * Vietnam Sources * Afghanistan Sources * The Problem * CHAPTER 2 - FRENCH HELICOPTERS VERSUS THE ALN * French and Algerian History * French Rotary Wing History Prior to 1955 * Algeria's Operational Environment * French Rotary Wing Organizational Structure in Algeria * French Use of Helicopters in the Utility and Assault Roles * French Use of Helicopters in the Reconnaissance and Attack Roles * Tactical Case Study: Air Assaults at Dgebels Ergou, el Aloui, and el Azega * Conclusions from Algeria * CHAPTER 3 - AIRMOBILITY VERSUS THE VIET CONG AND PAVN * History of the Twentieth Century Indochina Wars * United States Rotary Wing History Prior to Vietnam * Vietnam's Operational Environment * United States Rotary Wing Organizational Structure in Vietnam * United States Use of Helicopters in the Utility and Assault Roles * United States Use of Helicopters in the Reconnaissance and Attack Roles * Tactical Case Study: Air Assault at Quang Tri City * Conclusions from Vietnam * CHAPTER 4 - SOVIET HELICOPTERS VERSUS THE MUJAHIDEEN * History of Soviet Involvement in Afghanistan * Soviet Rotary Wing History Prior to Afghanistan * Afghan Operational Environment * Soviet Rotary Wing Aircraft and Frontal Aviation Organization * Soviet Use of Helicopters in the Utility and Assault Roles * Soviet Use of Helicopters in the Reconnaissance and Attack Roles * Tactical Case Study: Air Assault at Islam-Dara Canyon * Conclusions from Afghanistan * CHAPTER 5 - CONCLUSION * Algerian War Lessons * Vietnam War Lessons * Soviet-Afghan War Lessons * The Lie of Military Success in Expeditionary COIN * Lack of Rotary Wing COIN Doctrine * For Further Study: Revised Doctrine
Author: Beau G. Rollie Publisher: ISBN: Category : Afghanistan Languages : en Pages : 151
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"The preponderance of conflicts fought over the last seventy years have included or been centered on irregular warfare and counter-insurgency. Indeed, the helicopter's first significant trials in combat took place during the Algerian War 1954-1962, the Vietnam War 1955-1975, and the Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989. During these wars, French, U.S., and Soviet militaries used significant numbers of helicopters to fight insurgents and guerrillas, and each country lost their respective conflict. As conventional organizations, these militaries used helicopters to seek military dominance, often blind to or in spite of politico-strategic goals like legitimacy. The helicopter’s firepower and mobility tactically decimated insurgents, but the nature of irregular warfare rendered tactical dominance indecisive. Helicopters were indecisive or bad at enabling legitimacy, population control, and isolation, key tenets of successful COIN. Convinced that helicopter enabled military dominance could win, the French, U.S., and Soviet militaries were unable to balance the pursuit of military and politically objectives. Airmobility distracted leaders from focusing on the political aspects of counter-insurgency."--Abstract.
Author: Ian Horwood Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437923828 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 210
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Explores the rivalry between the armed services of the U.S. relating to the employment of tactical airpower during the Vietnam War. Not being an American, Horwood is able to put a fresh perspective on this complex issue. This study focuses on tactical airpower in S. Vietnam between 1961 and 1968. Horwood avoids a lengthy discussion of the air war over N. Vietnam, focusing instead on the combat operations in the South. He examines a number of issues which are relevant to the use of airpower in irregular warfare: command and control of airpower, the use of airpower at the tactical and the operational-strategic level of war, the role of helicopters, and different service understandings of the proper role of airpower in a counterinsurgency.
Author: Richard D. Newton Publisher: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700628711 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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In light of technological advances and multiplying irregular conflicts, conventional wisdom suggests airpower as the ideal, low-cost means of conducting modern warfare—and the air control method adopted by the British between the two world wars seems to back this up. Swift and precise targeting from above was considered more humane, after all, sparing civilians as well as British soldiers during punitive expeditions in unruly colonial regions. But what conventional wisdom misses, and this book makes clear, is how the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) innovative approach actually worked—relying on British airmen on the ground at least as much as on airborne technology to control restive tribes and villages. The RAF and Tribal Control tells the story of these forgotten airmen, the RAF special service officers who, embedded among local populations and indigenous tribes, collected vital intelligence, developed targets, directed air strikes when necessary, and, perhaps most important, provided personal assessments of airpower’s qualitative effects against primarily guerrilla forces. Airpower is a highly technological endeavor. But in wars where the human dimension takes primacy, Richard Newton reminds us that measuring the effectiveness of air actions requires a qualitative approach that is nearly impossible via overhead sensors. And this is where the RAF special service officers came in—airmen who understood the local cultures and peoples, they served as conduits for information and communication between the colonial administration and the tribes and villages. It was their ground-level contributions that made the integration of airpower into the civilian administration of colonies and mandates possible. This first in-depth account of the RAF special service officers’ role brings to light previously unpublished insights. The RAF and Tribal Control fills a significant gap in the history of air warfare. In doing so, the book dispels the notion that airpower alone is effective in small wars and irregular conflicts—and reveals the importance of the “boots-on-the-ground” human component in waging unconventional air warfare, both in the days of the RAF’s vaunted air control and in our own time.
Author: Thomas K. Adams Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0714647950 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 398
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This work argues for a shift in expectations for "unconventional warfare" with a greater willingness to accept lengthy commitments and incremental progress.
Author: Malcolm Atkin Publisher: Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1526766019 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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Covert operations and ingenious weapons for irregular warfare were developed rapidly, and with great success, by the British during the Second World War, and the story of the most famous organizations involved like SOE, the SAS and Section D of SIS is now well known, but Military Intelligence (Research), the smallest but one of the most influential of these units is relatively unknown. Malcolm Atkin’s intriguing and meticulously researched account describes their role at the heart of the War Office in trying to develop a ‘respectable’ arm of irregular warfare and their innovations ranging from the early Commandos, sticky bombs, limpet mines, booby traps, and even helicopters to the creation of the MI9 escape organization. They were an ‘ideas factory’ rather than an operational body but the book describes their worldwide operations including Finland, Norway, Romania, the Middle East and Central Africa. This is also a story of conflicting personalities between Jo Holland, the visionary but self-effacing head of MI(R) and his ambitious deputy, Colin Gubbins (later head of SOE), and the latter’s private war with SIS.
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