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Endgame in the Pacific - Complexity, Strategy, and the B-29: Fairchild Paper (Paperback)
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Endgame in the Pacific - Complexity, Strategy, and the B-29: Fairchild Paper (Paperback)
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Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski's "Expeditionary Air Operations in
Africa: Challenges and Solutions" details air operations challenges
in Africa. She discusses how the USAF currently meets or avoids
these challenges. She contends that Africa is like the "western
frontier" of America's history - undeveloped, brimming with
opportunity as well as danger, and that it is a place where
standard assumptions often do not apply. Africa has not been, and
is not today, a US geostrategic interest area. However, as the dawn
of the twenty-first century breaks over a planet made both intimate
and manageable by CNN and DHL Air Express, Colonel Kwiatkowski
believes that the winners will be those who understand Africa and
can meet the challenges of air operations on the continent first.
Air operations whether commercial or military, are critical to a
continent that has a limited overland transportation infrastructure
of roads, rail, and waterways. Sea and river access to most of the
major population areas of Africa is possible and well used. But
from a US military perspective, water transportation does not
always provide the desired speed or flexibility for contingency or
humanitarian response. Africa is a continent connected
overwhelmingly via airways, and the USAF will continue to use
African airspace and air infrastructures. There are multiple
perspectives on the numerous air and transportation challenges in
Africa. The problems - whether air safety, navigation, ground
transportation network and airport infrastructure immaturity,
security, geography, culture, governmental mismanagement - are
often presented as insurmountable. Ironically, the air transport
situation is often seen as a problem that must be solved
collectively by the 53 very different and very burdened states of
Africa; and for this reason, unsatisfactory air operation
infrastructures are accepted as a permanent handicap. A portion of
Colonel Kwiatkowski's study is dedicated to illustrating how USAF
air transport is really done in Africa on a daily basis. In hopes
of shedding light on lessons the leadership of the world's most
powerful air force may have missed. She recommends ways to improve
our ability to conduct expeditionary air operations on the
continent.
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