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Short of War - Major Us Contingency Operations 1947-1997 (Paperback)
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Short of War - Major Us Contingency Operations 1947-1997 (Paperback)
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First published in 2000. From the foreword: "Since the fall of the
Berlin Wall, a series of geographically localized crises caused by
political, religious, or ethnic unrest; outright military
aggression; and natural disasters has replaced the relative
stability that characterized international relations for more than
fifty years of the Cold War. For the United States Air Force
(USAF), this has meant short-notice deployments, airlifts, and
other operational missions conducted in reaction to local crises.
Such missions-once of secondary importance to nuclear deterrence or
preparations for theater war-have come to dominate Air Force
operations. The result has been recognition that global aerospace
power and mobility are central to effective American crisis
intervention in the post-Cold War world. This recognition has led
the U.S. Air Force to restructure itself as an Expeditionary
Aerospace Force, exploiting diverse core competencies consisting of
global air and space superiority, rapid global mobility, precision
engagement, global attack, information superiority, and agile
combat support. Via rapid-response air expeditionary forces, the
U.S. Air Force can furnish global power and presence for
humanitarian or combat purposes-"bombs or bread or both"-in hours
to any spot on Earth. A traditional precept of USAF doctrine has
been that the service must always be prepared to assess its roles
and missions in light of new and ever-changing national policy and
strategy. Recognizing that doctrine is largely a distillation of
knowledge gained from historical experience, the Air Force
Historical Research Agency has compiled this record of USAF
contingency operations covering the last half-century. This book is
an effort to meet the needs of Air Force commanders and other
decision makers for a useful reference work on contingencies. One
of an ongoing series of reference works, it is organized in the
style of the recently published The United States Air Force and
Humanitarian Airlift Operations, 1947-1994. It adds to the history
of the Air Force by providing statistics and narrative descriptions
of the Air Force's most significant contingency operations over the
last fifty years."
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