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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Air War"”.
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Command in air war : centralized vs. decentralized control of combat airpower
… been the impact of the Information Age on the Air Force's doctrinal tenet of "centralized control and decentralized execution?" It traces the evolution of command and control of airpower through operations Desert Storm, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom and compares its practice …
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By Air Power Alone: America's Strategic Air War in China, 1941-1945
During World War II, the Army Air Force waged three strategic air offensives in and from China against Japan. At first, the Flying Tigers and 10th Air Force constituted the whole of American aid to China, but the effort soon expanded. Supported by Chiang Kai-shek, Claire Chennault and his 14th Air …
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A City Amputated, A Community Regenerated: Munich During and After the Allied Air War, 1939-1948
… system that bind them together make a city work. Warfare, especially strategic bombing, disrupts these connections, having huge impacts on citizens' lives. Urbanites are forced to confront their dependence on natural resources and vulnerability to natural forces such as weather. The subject of …
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"Of the sky above you must beware": Airspace and airpower in twentieth century literature
… the tension between the military discourse of air war in the twentieth century and the literature that challenged that discourse. Situated within the broader study of war literature, the project moves beyond traditional studies of soldiers fighting ground wars, to explore instead the dynamics …
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AWPD-1: America's Pre-World War II Plan for Bombing Germany
This thesis shows how the first plan of the Air War Plans Division (AWPD-1) became the most important document in the development of American strategic bombing doctrine in World War II. This plan was not only the first in the Air War Plans Division. but it was the first of its kind in the world. …
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The effect of bioxidation on the coagulation of dispersed color
This thesis shows how the first plan of the Air War Plans Division (AWPD-l) became the most important document in the development of American strategic bombing doctrine in World War II. This plan was not only the first in the Air War Plans Division. but it was the first of its kind in the world. …
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Scuds and Patriots: A Content Analysis of Letters to the Editor in The Tennessean and The Washington Post During the Persian Gulf War
… of this study was to examine the content of 186 war related letters to the editor written to TheTennessean and The Washington Post during three time periods during the Persian Gulf War. The time periods included the week before, of, and after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the beginning of the air …
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A critical analysis of the Royal Air Force air superiority campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945
… is occasionally referred to as the “Forgotten War” in Britain and this description extends to the way the campaign’s air war has been analysed. However, the role of air power in Burma was vitally important to the campaign, in particular the attainment of air superiority in order to facilitate …
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A history of the United States Air Force.
… aspects in the development of the United States Air Force as a major military force, charged with the vital task of helping safeguard the security of the nation. Secondly, to acquaint those not familiar with the history of the United States Air Force with that history in order that they might …
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Communication and the Body Politic: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign in Philadelphia’s Latino Community
… hired a large staff to design and execute an "air war" (i.e., radio and TV ads and journalistic coverage), a digital campaign (i.e., distribution of information through websites, blogs, social media, newsletters and text messages), and a "ground game" (i.e., canvassing, phone banking, and …
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Luftschutz in Großbritannien und Deutschland 1923 - 1939
Auf der Basis der Herrschaftstypologie von Max Weber werden die staats- und gesellschaftspolitischen Grundstrukturen von Demokratie und Diktatur am Beispiel von zivilen Kriegsvorbereitungen (Luftschutz) in Großbritannien und Deutschland exemplarisch untersucht. Die drei Bereiche Ideologie, …