Carl H Builder

The Icarus Syndrome

The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force

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Produktbeschreibung

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 confi dence, its values, even its future. For some, these concerns refl ected 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Seitenzahl: 299
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781560001416
• ISBN-10: 1560001410
• Artikelnr.: 26189399

Autorenporträt

Carl H. Builder

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I. Taking Bearings 1. A View of the Air Force Today 2. Is
There a Problem? 3. The Icarus Syndrome Part II. Creation 4. The Precursors
5. The Prophets 6. The Theory 7. Prophesy Part III. Exploitation 8. The
Apostles 9. Founding the Church 10. The Test of Fire 11. The Practitioners
12. Breaking Free 13. Realization Part IV. Erosion 14. The Technology Janus
15. New Dimensions 16. Slow Fall from Grace Part V. Failure Analysis 17.
Picking Up the Pieces 18. Crash Analysis Part VI. The Weather Ahead 19.
Making Painful Choices 20. A Changing World 21. The New Security
Environment Part VII. Setting the Compass 22. Mission Desiderata 23. From
Mission to Vision 24. A Theory to Fly By