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Airpower for Strategic Effect: by Colin S. GrayAirpower for Strategic Effect is intended to contribute to the understanding of airpower—what it is, what it does, why it does it, and what the consequences are. This is the plot: airpower generates strategic effect. |
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Air Force Leadeship StudyOn 23 November 2010, the Air Force chief of staff tasked the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) to review current Air Force leader development, focusing on the preparation of Airmen for the evolving security challenges in the joint and service environments. This study identifies the characteristics desired for successful senior leaders over the next generation, reviews current Air Force officer development, and recommends changes as indicated... |
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New Online Only ASPJ is OutIn this issue The Combined Bomber Offensive’s Destruction of Germany’s Refined-Fuels Industry Building Global Partnerships: 112 Gripes about the French Revisited The Australian Factor in the... |
AFRI BOOK REVIEWS
Armchair Warriors: Private Citizens, Popular Press, and the Rise of American Power
Strategists are often accused of being unreceptive to new ideas, especially those coming from laymen. Would you release a herd of pigs with water wings and explosives strapped to them to go ashore first to clear the way through the minefields for the troops when planning an amphibious landing? Would you consider dropping conducting material across enemy high tension wires to short out their electrical systems at crucial times? Armchair Warriors is a collection of ideas from the public to the decision makers from the 1870s to Desert Storm, properly placed in the context of their times by an expert historian.
Joel Davidson is a serious scholar who combines exhaustive research with considerable writing skill to produce a curious book. He has both a law degree and a Ph.D. i...
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