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The Icarus Syndrome - The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force (Paperback, New edition)
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The Icarus Syndrome - The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force (Paperback, New edition)
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At the end of the Reagan era, many in the U.S. Air Force began to
express their concerns about the health of their institution. They
questioned whether the Air Force had lost its sense of direction,
its confidence, its values, even its future. For some, these
concerns reflected nothing more than the maturation of the most
youthful of America's military institutions. For others it was a
crisis of spirit that threatened the hard-won independence of the
Air Force. Although the diagnoses for this malaise are as numerous
as its symptoms, "The Icarus Syndrome" points a finger at the
abandonment of air power theory sometime in the late 1950s to early
1960s as the single, taproot cause of the problems. That
provocative diagnosis is followed by an equally provocative
prescription the Air Force must follow to regain its institutional
health. Author Carl H. Builder begins with an overview of this
crisis of values within the Air Force, along with a litany of
concerns about what seems to have gone wrong within that
institution. The history of the U.S. Air Force, along with the role
played in it by air power theory, is explored and is used to
support Builder's thesis. The remainder of the book is an analysis
of what went wrong and when, how these wrongs might be corrected,
and the challenges for Air Force leadership in the future. Now
available in paperback, "The Icarus Syndrome" will be of great
interest to U.S. Air Force professionals, military and aviation
historians, and institutional psychologists.
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