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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
From the foreword: WHEN JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR on December 7,
1941, and Germany and Italy joined Japan four days later in
declaring war against the United States, intelligence essential for
the Army Air Forces to conduct effective warfare in the European
and Pacific theaters did not exist. Piercing the Fog tells the
intriguing story of how airmen built intelligence organizations to
collect and process information about the enemy and to produce and
disseminate intelligence to decisionmakers and warfighters in the
bloody, horrific crucible of war. Because the problems confronting
and confounding air intelligence officers, planners, and operators
fifty years ago still resonate, Piercing the Fog is particularly
valuable for intelligence officers, planners, and operators today
and for anyone concerned with acquiring and exploiting intelligence
for successful air warfare. More than organizational history, this
book reveals the indispensable and necessarily secret role
intelligence plays in effectively waging war. It examines how World
War II was a watershed period for Air Force Intelligence and for
the acquisition and use of signals intelligence, photo
reconnaissance intelligence, human resources intelligence, and
scientific and technical intelligence. Piercing the Fog discusses
the development of new sources and methods of intelligence
collection; requirements for intelligence at the strategic,
operational, and tactical levels of warfare; intelligence to
support missions for air superiority, interdiction, strategic
bombardment, and air defense; the sharing of intelligence in a
coalition and joint service environment; the acquisition of
intelligence to assess bomb damage on a target-by-target basis and
to measure progress in achieving campaign and war objecti ves; and
the ability of military leaders to understand the intentions and
capabilities of the enemy and to appreciate the pressures on
intelligence officers to sometimes tell commanders what they think
the commanders want to hear instead of what the intelligence
discloses. The complex problems associated with intelligence to
support strategic bombardment in the 1940s will strike some readers
as uncannily prescient to global Air Force operations in the 1990s.
Airpower 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. Airpower's product is strategic effect on the
course of strategic history. Everything about military airpower is
instrumental to the purpose of securing strategic effect.
First published in 2002. From the foreword: "This insightful work
by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground
operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service
doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove
army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution
of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the
combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton and the XIX Tactical Air Command led by Brig. Gen. Otto P.
Weyland proved to be the most effective allied air-ground team of
World War II. The great success of Patton's drive across France,
ultimately crossing the Rhine, and then racing across southern
Germany, owed a great deal to Weyland's airmen of the XIX Tactical
Air Command. This deft cooperation paved the way for allied victory
in Westren Europe and today remains a classic example of air-ground
effectiveness. It forever highlighted the importance of air-ground
commanders working closely together on the battlefield. The Air
Force is indebted to David N. Spires for chronicling this landmark
story of air-ground cooperation."
This book addresses the links between climate change and the
threats it poses to sustainable development, from a distance
education perspective. Discussing current trends and challenges in
sustainable development education, climate literacy and innovations
in climate change education, it contributes to the global debate on
the implementation of education for sustainability. It also
assesses the role that e-learning can play in this process,
addressing pedagogical concepts as well as the wide range of
technological options now available.
Christian Anrig examines the responses of France, Germany, the
Netherlands, and Sweden to the challenges of air power in the last
two decades, His examination is both instructive and disheartening.
Anyone who is detailed to work alongside these air forces will
benefit considerably from understanding how and why they do what
they do. Sadly, the author has only too clearly identified the
national features which, with one or two exceptions, are likely to
inhibit the creation of European air power in the foreseeable
future. The author brings deep scholarship to his study, reinforced
by his national objectivity. It is a unique and indispensable
contribution to international awareness of twenty-first-century air
power. This is an extended edition of the original 2011 release
with an extended update covering Libya and other relevant air power
developments. Includes 67 full colour illustrations.
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