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Category : Airborne warning and control systems
Languages : en
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National Security Implications of Airborne Early Warning (AEC Aircraft
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Category : Airborne warning and control systems
Languages : en
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National Security Implications of Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft
Author: Christopher C. BolkcomPublisher:
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Category : Airborne warning and control systems
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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AWACS and Hawkeyes
Author: Leigh ArmisteadPublisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 9780760311400
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This book features a complete history of airborne early warning aircraft (AWACs) and includes photographs and diagrams detailing airborne radar technology.
A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force
Author: Stephen Lee McFarlandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Except in a few instances, since World War II no American soldier or sailor has been attacked by enemy air power. Conversely, no enemy soldier orsailor has acted in combat without being attacked or at least threatened by American air power. Aviators have brought the air weapon to bear against enemies while denying them the same prerogative. This is the legacy of the U.S. AirForce, purchased at great cost in both human and material resources.More often than not, aerial pioneers had to fight technological ignorance, bureaucratic opposition, public apathy, and disagreement over purpose.Every step in the evolution of air power led into new and untrodden territory, driven by humanitarian impulses; by the search for higher, faster, and farther flight; or by the conviction that the air way was the best way. Warriors have always coveted the high ground. If technology permitted them to reach it, men, women andan air force held and exploited it-from Thomas Selfridge, first among so many who gave that "last full measure of devotion"; to Women's Airforce Service Pilot Ann Baumgartner, who broke social barriers to become the first Americanwoman to pilot a jet; to Benjamin Davis, who broke racial barriers to become the first African American to command a flying group; to Chuck Yeager, a one-time non-commissioned flight officer who was the first to exceed the speed of sound; to John Levitow, who earned the Medal of Honor by throwing himself over a live flare to save his gunship crew; to John Warden, who began a revolution in air power thought and strategy that was put to spectacular use in the Gulf War.Industrialization has brought total war and air power has brought the means to overfly an enemy's defenses and attack its sources of power directly. Americans have perceived air power from the start as a more efficient means of waging war and as a symbol of the nation's commitment to technology to master challenges, minimize casualties, and defeat adversaries.
Fulcrum of power : essays on the United States Air Force and national security
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428990089
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
N THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE IMPACT OF FLIGHT REACHED INTO EVERY CORNER OF American society. However, nowhere has its impact been more dramatic than in the realm of military affairs. Over the past one hundred years, the evolution of military aviation technology has altered the way Americans have looked at national security. The development of military aviation has had an enormous impact upon the battlefield which, in turn, has transformed international politics and the crafting of national security policy. The question of how best to protect the United States against external military threats has come to involve the projection of military power abroad. With the passage of time and accelerated advancement of military aviation technology, the organization and development of air forces have assumed greater urgency and significance. In 1934, James H. Jimmy Doolittle noted that the future security of our nation is dependent upon an adequate air force AND this will become increasingly important as the science of aviation advances. I.
The Cold War: National security policy planning from Truman to Reagan and from Stalin to Gorbachev
Author: Lori Lyn BoglePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815332398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
The National Security : Its Theory and Practice, 1945-1960
Author: Norman A. GraebnerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198021038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Based on a conference at West Point, this volume explores the national security policies developed by the Truman and Eisenhower administrations in response to the threat of Soviet expansionism. More pointed and analytic than any other book on the subject, it shows clearly that the makers of Cold War policy were motivated by fear. It also examines the nature of U.S. security policy and points to the growing gap between the ends and the means of global security policy--to protect Western democracy from the "Red Menace" by using a nuclear strategy with limited applications. The contributors, including David Alan Rosenberg, Lloyd C. Gardner, Martin J. Sherwin and Gary W. Reichard, explore such issues as how dependence on nuclear weapons became the central doctrine of American foreign policy, the bureaucratic and political context of U.S. security, Eisenhower's ongoing disputes with Army and Navy leaders over the security issue, the objections of Democrats to the evolving security strategy, and the limits of Cold War policy, particularly how the viewing of the Third World through a U.S.-Soviet prism impeded the U.S. from developing a truly global security policy. Written in an accessible, journalistic style, The National Security makes available a wealth of information on the Cold War period and offers insights into fears that dominate political thinking to this day.
Shooting Down a "Star": Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and Present-Day Copycat Killers
Author: Clayton K. S. ChunTechnology and the Air Force
Author: Jacob NeufeldPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437912877
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Proceedings of a symposium co-sponsored by the Air Force Historical Foundation and the Air Force History and Museums Program. The symposium covered relevant Air Force technologies ranging from the turbo-jet revolution of the 1930s to the stealth revolution of the 1990s. Illustrations.
American Defense Policy
Author: Peter L. HaysPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801854736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
defense policies, reviewing excerpts from key defense policy statements and assessing the likely challenges for future policy makers.--Brent Scowcroft "International Affairs"