Thomas C. Hone, Mark D. Mandeles, Sanford S. Terry

Managing Command and Control in the Persian Gulf War (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

During Desert Shield, the Air Force built a very complicated organizational architecture to control large numbers of air sorties. During the air campaign itself, officers at each level of the Central Command Air Forces believed they were managing the chaos of war. Yet, when the activities of the many significant participants are pieced together, it appears that neither the planners nor Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner, the Joint Force Air Component Commander, knew the details of what was happening in the air campaign or how well the campaign was going. There was little appreciation of the implications of complex organizational architectures for military command and control. Against a smarter and more aggressive foe, the system may well have failed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313023354
• Artikelnr.: 37812317

Autorenporträt

MARK D. MANDELES is President of the J. de Bloch Group.

THOMAS C. HONE is a member of the faculty of the George C. Marshall Center.

SANFORD S. TERRY is Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Introduction The Black Hole and Its Impact in Desert Shield
The TACC and GAT in Desert Storm Bomb Damage Assessment and Command and
Control of the Air Campaign Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner as the First Joint
Force Air Component Commander Conclusion Appendix: "Black Hole" Strategic
Air Campaign Planners Notes on Sources Index