Winged Defense
Author: William Mitchell
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 330
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Author: William Mitchell
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 330
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Mitchell
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010-03-03
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0817356053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMitchell antagonized many people in the army with his arguments and criticism and in 1925 was demoted to colonel, and later that year, he was court-martialed for insubordination after accusing army and navy leaders of an "almost treasonable administration of the national defense." He resigned from the service shortly afterward. Following his death, however, Mitchell received many honors, including a commission as major general. He is the only individual after whom a type of American military aircraft is named: the B-25 "Mitchell" bomber.
Author: William Mitchell
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-02-18
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1009038281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Billy Mitchell, Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, Henry Eccles, Joseph Wiley, Harry Summers, John Boyd, William Lind, and John Warden, he uncovers the logic that underpinned each theorist's critical concepts, core principles, and basic assumptions about the nature and character of war. In so doing, he identifies four paradigms of war's nature - traditional, modern, political, and materialist - that have shaped American strategic thought. If war's logic is political, as Carl von Clausewitz said, then so too is thinking about war.
Author: Stephen Lee McFarland
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcept 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.
Author: James J. Cooke
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781588260826
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Author: William Carrington Sherman
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 334
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wingedpower
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-04-11
Total Pages: 89
ISBN-13: 1435715934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed introduction into psionic combat by psions and other energy workers, who is involved in psionics. This book covers, in detail, the core skills involved in psionic combat, the construction of shields, constructs, thought forms, and guardians/golems/sentinels. Included are exercises and online resources for the improvement of one's combat ability.
Author: Geoffrey F. Weiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13: 1108943810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of war's lethal failures are attributable to ignorance caused by a dearth of contemporary, accessible theory to inform warfighting, strategy, and policy. To remedy this problem, Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious new survey of war's nature, character, and future in the tradition of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. He begins by melding philosophical and military concepts to reveal war's origins and to analyze war theory's foundational ideas. Then, leveraging science, philosophy, and the wisdom of war's master theorists, Colonel Weiss presents a genuinely original framework and lexicon that characterizes and clarifies the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat; explains how and why war changes form; offers a methodology for forecasting future war; and ponders the permanence of war as a human activity. The New Art of War is an indispensable guide for understanding human conflict that will change how we think and communicate about war.
Author: Michael Spirtas
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2020-03-13
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1977404103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the United States creates the Space Force as a service within the Department of the Air Force, RAND assessed which units to bring into the Space Force, analyzed career field sustainability, and drew lessons from other defense organizations. The report focuses on implications for effectiveness, efficiency, independence, and sense of identity for the new service.