The Yom Kippur War and the Shaping of the United States Air Force
Author: Joseph S. Doyle
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This study assesses the influence of the Yom Kippur War of October 1973 on the development of the United States Air Force. The author demonstrates how vicarious lessons based on Israeli combat experience interacted with American lessons from Vietnam. The Air Force participated in varied post-conflict analyses and identified lessons with relevance for equipment, training, tactics and doctrine. Many subsequent developments can be traced back through the war, which catalyzed existing or nascent trends. In some cases, however, the origins of capabilities and concepts can be traced back to the conflict. Key individuals contributed to -- and were in turn influenced by -- these organizational processes. The study concludes that the Yom Kippur War reinforced a conventional paradigm of 'war as battle' and also encouraged a long-term trend of American-Israeli parallelism. These developmental vectors help to explain the capabilities and outlook of the Air Force today"--Abstract.