USAF Statistical Digest 1991
USAF Statistical Digest 1991

Author: Office of Air Force History and U S Air

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-04-03

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781511567541

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The United States Air Force Statistical Digest has been published each year since 1948. Over the years, while the Digest has had several changes in format, the original purpose for publishing it has not changed. The purpose has been, and will continue to be, to compile each fiscal year a single authoritative archival document providing a statistical description of the Air Force in terms of resources, organizations, and major activity parameters. Public affairs officials, scholarly researchers, planners, and many other persons who require a historical description of each year of the Air Force's existence have found the Digest to be an invaluable addition to their information reference sources. This FY1991 Statistical Digest returns to an earlier format containing only actuals and no projections for the future that most always in the past when included in the Digest changed soon after publication. We have also completely reformatted most of the tabular and graphic presentations of data.

The Cold War Defense of the United States
The Cold War Defense of the United States

Author: John E Bronson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-04-26

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1476635811

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During the Cold War, as part of its defense strategy against the Soviet Union, the U.S. was forced to establish means of massive long-range attack in response to Soviet advancements in weaponry. These defenses detected and tracked manned bomber aircraft, hostile submarines and missiles launched from the other side of the world. This book shows how these defenses evolved from fledgling stop-gap measures into a complex fabric of interconnected combinations of high-tech equipment over 40 years. Maps illustrate the extent of the geographic coverage required for these warning and response systems and charts display the time frames and vast numbers of both people and equipment that made up these forces.

Storm Over Iraq
Storm Over Iraq

Author: Richard Hallion

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2015-05-26

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 158834519X

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An incisive account of the Persian Gulf War, Storm Over Iraq shows how the success of Operation Desert Storm was the product of two decades of profound changes in the American approach to defense, military doctrine, and combat operations. The first detailed analysis of why the Gulf War could be fought the way it was, the book examines the planning and preparation for war. Richard P. Hallion argues that the ascendancy of precision air power in warfare—which fulfilled the promise that air power had held for more than seventy-five years—reflects the revolutionary adaptation of a war strategy that targets things rather than people, allowing one to control an opposing nation without destroying it.