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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Air power"”.
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Land based air power or aircraft carriers? The British debate about maritime air power in the 1960s
… as the TSR.2 and F.111, prospective VTOL aircraft and not least the CVA-01 fleet carrier, but most of all it focuses on the issue of military strategy. The rivalry between the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force was largely about the questions of carrier aviation versus land-based air power …
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Information and the Limits of Air Power
Combat air power, the portion of air power that takes a direct role in warfare, has a fundamental problem in gathering information. This paper compares the information gathering abilities of air power in World War Two and Desert Storm, two wars widely separated by time, by technology, and by other …
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The Changing Face of Conventional Air Power
Prior to the Gulf War, American air power strategy was based on the AirLand Battle doctrine, which supported ground forces by concentrating on theater targets and objectives. Since the Gulf War the focus of air power has shifted from supporting ground forces to attacking national strategic assets, …
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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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Strategic Theory, Methodology, Air Power, and Coercion in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War
This thesis analyzes the air power, coercion, strategic theory, and strategic methodology in the 2006 Israel/Hezbollah War. In state versus non-state actor conflicts, air power's utility is different from state versus state conflicts. The dynamics of coercion also differ greatly from state versus …
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Command and Control in the Information Age: A Case Study of a Representative Air Power Command and Control Node
… is to conduct an analysis of a representative Air Power Operational C2 node, create and use a repeatable method, and present the results as a case study to elicit fundamental understanding. I posit that there is a recognizable (and discoverable) relationship between the social (human) network …
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Plans and planes: United States Army aviation in American colour-coded war plans, 1920-1939
The use of airplanes and rigid airships during the First World War forever transformed the way the nations around the world would wage war. By the time the Americans joined the fray, air power had become an integral element of modern warfare. During the interwar period, United States Army war …
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The Strategic Bomber in the Nuclear Age
… the advent of the cruise missile, on strategic air power. With the end of the Cold War the utility of strategic air power is again being reexamined and adapted to the changes that are occurring.
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A critical analysis of the Royal Air Force air superiority campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945
… 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 supply and close support operations. The foundation of these operations …
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Safe havens in Syria : missions and requirements for an air campaign
… so through open-source analysis of a U.S.-led air campaign designed to mitigate the country's humanitarian crisis. The model of intervention analyzed -- broadly conceived as the establishment of safe havens around major Syrian population areas defended from the air -- offers a template for …
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OPERATION DESERT STORM: AN EXAMINATION OE THE STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN
… and political validity of the strategic air campaign part of Operation Desert Storm. Prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, American military attention focused on winning wars on the battlefield with air power in a supportive role, but this war reintroduced the idea of …
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The Royal Air Force, Combined Operations Doctrine and the Raid on Dieppe, 19 August 1942
This thesis seeks to examine the use of air power during Operation JUBILEE. In recent revisionist accounts, the role of the Royal Air Force has come in for criticism. Therefore, this thesis seeks to examine why the RAF fought the battle in the manner that it did. It examines both the doctrinal and …
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Miniature HCCI Engine Compressor
… electric batteries, and are thus a desirable power supply for portable devices. A reliable lightweight long lasting power supply will be an enabler for human assist devices and miniature robotics. A prototype miniature free-piston engine compressor runs for up to 30 s. New pistons and cylinder …
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Emissions and operational aspects of methanol as an alternative fuel in a stationary gas turbine
… must then extend into the secondary dilution air zone. Start-up at idle and even at low bleed air power levels, proved to be impossible on methanol. At these low power levels, engine flame-out was experienced during fuel change over from aviation kerosene to methanol. (Abstract shortened by …
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Lessons learned and unlearned, the theory and practice of employing airpower in small wars, the RAF, 1910 – 2010.
Since the end of The First World War, airpower has been used extensively by some states in unconventional operations. Surprisingly, very little has been written about this role of airpower in comparison to conventional operations, both by historians and theorists, and even more surprisingly by air …
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Operational flexibility on complex enterprises : case studies from recent military operations
… flexibility via these methods. Within DoD the Air Force is a uniquely flexible combat arm, but it has proven particularly difficult to integrate air power at the level of inter-service (Joint) military operations in order to leverage this flexibility. Kometer (ESD Ph.D., 2005) used a complex, …
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In Harm's Way: The Continued Relevance of the U.S. Navy's Forward Presence Mission in the Post-Cold War World
… presence" through space surveillance and global air power can replace the physical presence of naval forces. Still others have advocated a return to an isolationist policy, forgoing military presence altogether. Although U.S. naval forces are no longer required to counter the threat of Soviet …
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Conceiving systems
… part are: MOSAIC: Concepts for the Deployment of Air Power in Europe and The Human Element in C3 I: The first of these presents a highly-survivable alternative to the present force and C2 deployment approaches which have evolved little since World War IT; the second considers the human and his …
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